Miami Heat forward Jaime Jaquez Jr. will have a busy weekend travel schedule after he was excused by head coach Erik Spoelstra to watch his sister plan for a national championship on Sunday.

Jaquez, a UCLA alum, will travel to Phoenix to see his sister Gabriela play for the Bruins in the women’s championship game against South Carolina.

Jaquez is not expected to miss a Heat game, but his travel plans will be tight. The Heat play at home against Washington Wizards on Saturday then play on the road Tuesday against the Toronto Raptors.

That creates a 2,000-mile flight from Miami to Phoenix and a 1,900-mile flight from there to Toronto.

The elder Jaquez led UCLA to the men’s 2021 Final Four and was the 2023 Pac-12 Conference Player of the Year, while also earning second-team All-America honors that season. He was a first-round draft pick by the Heat in 2023.

Gabriela Jaquez is third on the Bruins with 13.3 points per game, and adds 5.4 rebounds with 2.0 assists. The senior has helped UCLA to a 36-1 record and a second consecutive Final Four appearance, while chasing the program’s first women’s basketball national title.

She scored 10 points with two assists and four rebounds in UCLA’s 51-44 national semifinal victory over Texas on Friday.

–Field Level Media

Ryan Hartman scored twice for the Minnesota Wild in a 4-1 win against the visiting Ottawa Senators on Saturday afternoon in Saint Paul, Minn.

Jonas Brodin and Jake Middleton also scored, Mats Zuccarello had two assists and Jesper Wallstedt made 33 saves for the Wild (43-21-12, 98 points), who have won two straight for the first time in a month. Minnesota clinched a playoff spot on Thursday.

Drake Batherson scored a late goal and Linus Ullmark made 19 saves for the Senators (39-27-10, 88 points), who entered the day in a four-way points tie for the final wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference.

Brodin was credited with the goal that gave the Wild a 1-0 lead at 9:45 of the first period.

Brodin took a shot from above the left faceoff circle off a rush. Ullmark made a pad save, but the rebound went off the skate of Ottawa defenseman Nikolas Matinpalo and into his own net.

The Wild extended their lead to 2-0 at 15:35 of the first after forcing a turnover by Senators defenseman Jordan Spence at his own blue line. That sprung a 2-on-1 rush and Hartman scored off the feed from Zuccarello.

The Senators outshot the Wild 14-8 in the first period, but still trailed by two entering the second.

Zuccarello set up the third goal as well, passing the puck from out of the corner to Hartman in the middle. He dragged the puck across the slot before shooting it past Ullmark from the left hash marks to make it 3-0 at 15:31 of the second.

It was Hartman’s sixth goal in the past four games.

Middleton made it 4-0 with a wrist shot from the left circle at 12:46 of the third.

Batherson prevented Wallstedt from notching his fifth shutout of the season when he batted in a rebound after falling to the ice in front of the crease to cut it to 4-1 at 16:43.

Batherson went to the locker room in discomfort after scoring the goal.

Ottawa defenseman Jake Sanderson returned after missing the previous 13 games with an upper-body injury and had three giveaways in a team-high 24:55.

–Field Level Media

The Toronto Blue Jays acquired infielder Tyler Fitzgerald from the San Francisco Giants on Saturday for cash considerations.

Fitzgerald was designated for assignment on Monday after opening the season at Triple-A Sacramento. The Giants signed infielder Luis Arraez in the offseason, pushing Fitzgerald down on the infield depth chart.

The Blue Jays optioned Fitzgerald to Triple-A Buffalo.

Fitzgerald, 28, did not have a hit in 12 at-bats at Sacramento to start the season. In parts of three seasons with the Giants, he batted .252 with 21 home runs and 53 RBIs in 178 games. He was designated for assignment this week after the Giants acquired reliever Dylan Smith from the Detroit Tigers.

–Field Level Media