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Ducks find power-play success, edge Golden Knights to even series
May 10, 2026; Anaheim, California, USA; Anaheim Ducks right wing Beckett Sennecke (45) skates with the puck against Vegas Golden Knights during the second period in game four of the second round of the 2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs at Honda Center. Mandatory Credit: Corinne Votaw-Imagn Images Beckett Sennecke and Alex Killorn both netted one goal and one assist to pace the host Anaheim Ducks to a 4-3 victory over the Vegas Golden Knights on Sunday night and even their Stanley Cup playoff series.
Mikael Granlund and Ian Moore also scored for Anaheim, which tied the best-of-seven Western Conference semifinal at 2-2.
Goaltender Lukas Dostal made 18 saves and Cutter Gauthier collected three assists.
Pavel Dorofeyev, Brett Howden and Tomas Hertl replied for the Golden Knights, who will host Game 5 on Tuesday.
Goalie Carter Hart stopped 19 shots and Mitch Marner collected three assists.
The score was tied 2-2 late in the second period when Killorn gave Anaheim its third lead with its second power-play tally of the tilt. Killorn gained the puck at the bottom of the right circle and squeezed a shot into the net with 2:02 remaining in the second period.
The Ducks failed to score on the power play in the first three games of the series, blanked during 11 opportunities.
Moore extended the Anaheim lead with his first career playoff goal. Shortly after Anaheim killed a penalty, Moore found the twine with a point shot at 3:43 of the third period.
Hertl snapped a 29-game goal drought dating back to early March by tucking into the cage a loose puck with 64 seconds remaining in regulation to make it a one-goal game, but the Golden Knights could not complete the comeback.
After losing the last game, the Ducks were looking to have a strong early pushback and were rewarded when Sennecke opened the scoring by unloading a shot from the top of the right circle for the power-play goal at the 8:43 mark.
Dorofeyev responded with a power-play goal of his own just past the period’s midway point. Dostal could not catch the point shot and Dorofeyev pounced on the loose puck.
Granlund made it a 2-1 game five minutes later when a turnover resulted in him gaining the puck in the slot and his shot ricocheted off a defender’s stick and bounded past Hart.
Vegas tied the game again when William Karlsson slipped a nifty pass to the front of the net for Howden, and it was easily converted at 4:04 of the second period.
The Golden Knights were without captain Mark Stone, who suffered an undisclosed injury late in the first period of Game 3. Brandon Saad drew into the lineup.
–Field Level Media
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Boo Weekley snaps 13-year win drought at Insperity Invitational
Boo Weekley tees off on the first hole during the first round of the Galleri Classic at Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, Calif., March 29, 2024. Boo Weekley delivered a bogey-free 3-under-par 69 to comfortably win his first Champions Tour event at the Insperity Invitational on Sunday in The Woodlands, Texas.
Weekley didn’t live up to the 6-under scores he posted in each of the first two rounds. But he still finished the event with no bogeys in 54 holes, finishing three strokes clear at 15-under-par 201 at The Woodlands Country Club.
For Weekley, who joined the Champions Tour in 2023, it was his first win of any kind since the PGA Tour’s Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial in 2013.
“I really hadn’t even thought about (how long since I had won); you know what I mean? I probably will when I get home later on tonight or whenever I get back home, to sit down and think about it, just kind of go back through play by play and what really happened all this week,” Weekley reflected. “Because you never can soak it all in at one time and just understand what’s really going on with the fans and your family and, you know, just how I actually really played and, you know, how I can improve on how I played.
“It’s (an) awesome feeling again to be a winner again but at the same time thank the Good Lord for giving me the talent to be able to do this.”
With his victory, he jumped 16 spots to third in the Charles Schwab Cup standings.
Weekley largely treaded water in his final round, following an opening par with a birdie on the par-4 second hole before rattling off 12 straight pars. But he finished well, converting a tap-in birdie on the par-4 15th and pouring in a distant birdie at No. 17 to take command.
“This game’s hard enough as it is, and it’s hard to not play a round of golf without making a bogey, you know? And to do it three days in a row at a Champions Tour course, to me that’s a feat,” Weekley said. “It’s just another something I can mark off on my scorecard back at home that I’ve done for myself.”
South Africa’s Ernie Els, who entered the day a stroke back in second place, birdied the final hole to finish 1 under on the day and alone in second at 12 under. However, his pursuit of Weekley was undone by a double-bogey 6 on the 17th hole after he put his second shot in the water.
“On 17, I never had the right club off the tee all week,” Els said. “And I tried to just ease up on the 3-iron, I hit it dead right, and the second shot was pretty bad. So that was the end of my tournament.”
Northern Ireland’s Darren Clarke (68) and South Korea’s Charlie Wi (70) landed in a tie for third at 11 under. Stewart Cink and Zach Johnson, the top two players on the Charles Schwab Cup leaderboard, each carded 70 in the final round to finish tied for fifth at 10 under.
Australia’s Rod Pampling posted the best round of the day at 6 under to rally to even-par.
Round 1 leader Ben Crane scored a 79 — tied for the second-worst round Sunday — to fall to a tie for 43rd.
–Field Level Media
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Aces bounce back from rough opener, steamroll Sparks
May 10, 2026; Los Angeles, California, USA; Las Vegas Aces center A’ja Wilson (22) blocks a shot by Los Angeles Sparks forward Dearica Hamby (5) during the second quarter at Crypto.com Arena. Mandatory Credit: Kiyoshi Mio-Imagn Images The Las Vegas Aces salvaged a split of their regular-season opening weekend, responding to a first-half comeback by the host Los Angeles Sparks and cruising in the second half of a 105-78 victory Sunday.
The Aces (1-1) came out playing inspired basketball after Saturday’s 99-66 loss at home to Phoenix, pouncing on the Sparks with a 29-14 first quarter.
Los Angeles (0-1), playing its opener of the 2026 WNBA season, rebounded from the sluggish start behind Nneka Ogwumike and former Ace Kelsey Plum. The duo scored 28 of the Sparks’ 41 first-half points, as Los Angeles stormed back from down as many 16 points in the second quarter to pull within one by intermission.
Las Vegas locked down in the third quarter for good, breaking the game open with a 21-11 run in the latter portion of the period.
Chennedy Carter, a member of the Sparks in 2022, keyed the decisive spurt with seven of her team-high 22 points off the bench coming during the run. She capped the quarter with a jumper just before the buzzer.
The Aces carried over the deluge in the fourth quarter thanks to a stifling defense. Las Vegas held Los Angeles to just 29-of-78 shooting from the floor (37.2%) and forced 19 turnovers.
Carter and Brianna Turner each swiped a pair of steals, while Stephanie Talbot came away with three takeaways to go with eight points.
Jackie Young went for 20 points, A’ja Wilson finished with 19 points, Chelsea Gray had 16 and NaLyssa Smith scored 12. Young’s nine assists powered an efficient Las Vegas offense that scored 28 of its 43 made field goals off of assists. Gray had five and Wilson and Talbot each doled out three.
The ball movement helped the Aces to a 62.3% effort from the floor, including a torrid 36-of-49 from inside the arc.
The Sparks’ Plum led all scorers with 27 points, shooting 10-of-18 from the floor. Ogwumike, making her return to Los Angeles — where she played from 2012-23 — scored 19 points on 7-of-15 shooting.
The rest of the Sparks combined for only 12 made field goals.
–Field Level Media
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Spurs C Victor Wembanyama throws elbow, ejected from Game 4
May 8, 2026; Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; San Antonio Spurs forward Victor Wembanyama (1) in the second half against the Minnesota Timberwolves during game three of the second round of the 2026 NBA Playoffs at Target Center. Mandatory Credit: Jesse Johnson-Imagn Images San Antonio Spurs star center Victor Wembanyama was ejected from Sunday night’s playoff game against the Timberwolves in the second quarter after throwing an elbow into the face of Minnesota’s Naz Reid.
Wembanyama grabbed a rebound and was trying to protect the ball from two Timberwolves during Game 4 of the Western Conference second-round series. Then he turned and unleashed a vicious right elbow into the chin of Reid and was called for a foul with 8:39 left in the first half.
The officiating crew studied views of the play before upgrading the foul to a flagrant 2, which is an automatic ejection.
“After review, there was windup, impact and follow-through above the neck of an opponent,” head official Zach Zarba announced. “It was unnecessary and excessive contact by Wembanyama and it meets all the criteria and it has been upgraded to a flagrant foul penalty 2. Wembanyama has been ejected.”
The Spurs trailed 36-34 at the time of the ejection, and Reid proceeded to make both his foul shots for a four-point lead. Wembanyama had four points, four rebounds and no blocks in 12-plus minutes.
Wembanyama had an epic performance in Game 3 when he recorded 39 points, 15 rebounds and five blocked shots in the 115-108 road victory on Friday. He became the fourth different player in NBA history to produce at least 35 points, 15 rebounds and five blocks in a playoff game.
San Antonio leads the series two games to one.
–Field Level Media
