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Sports Update
For Indiana
Sunday May 1, 2011

Baseball
Basketball
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Baseball

MLB: Kansas City 10, Minnesota 3

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (UPI) -- Mike Aviles went 3-for-4, homered and drove in four runs Sunday and the Kansas City Royals completed a three-game sweep of Minnesota with a 10-3 victory.

Aviles hit an RBI single in the sixth, making it 7-2 Royals, and added a three-run blast in the eighth to turn the game into a rout as Kansas City outscored the Twins 25-8 in the three-game set.

Mitch Maier added two hits and an RBI, scoring three times, and Brett Butler smacked a solo homer among his two hits in the victory.

Luke Hochevar (3-3) earned the win despite issuing four walks. He allowed three runs on five hits in a 6 1/3-inning performance.

Carl Pavano (2-3) was raked for seven runs (six earned) on 12 hits over 5 1/3 frames for the reeling Twins, who lost for the sixth straight time.

Justin Morneau hit a solo homer and Alexi Casilla added two hits with an RBI for Minnesota.

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Basketball

NBA: Miami 99, Boston 90

MIAMI (UPI) -- Dwyane Wade pumped in 38 points Sunday, powering the Miami Heat to a 99-90 win over Boston in the opening game of their conference semifinal series.

Wade displayed deadly accuracy, going 14-of-21 from the field and 8-of-9 from the free throw line.

James Jones came off the bench to pop in five 3-pointers en route to 25 points for the Heat.

LeBron James put in 22 points to go with six rebounds and five assists and Chris Bosh hauled down 12 boards as the second-seeded Heat grabbed the early advantage in their Eastern Conference semifinal series.

Ray Allen led third-seeded Boston with 25 points, connecting on five 3-pointers, and Paul Pierce contributed 19 points and seven rebounds.

The Celtics will try to even the series in Tuesday's Game 2.

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Golf

Westwood charges to title in South Korea

ICHEON, South Korea (UPI) -- Lee Westwood came from three strokes behind Sunday and won the European Tour's Ballantine's Championship in South Korea.

It was the 27th European Tour title for Westwood, who last week regained the world No. 1 ranking in men's golf. He had previously been on top of the rankings for 17 weeks beginning last fall.

Westwood had three birdies in his last five holes Sunday for a 5-under-par 67 and 72-hole total of 12-under 276. That was one stroke better than Miguel Angel Jimenez, who had a final round 1-under 71 and was 11-under for the tournament. Park Sang-hyun, 69 in the fourth round, was third at 10-under.

Rains Saturday meant all golfers had to finish through third rounds Sunday before final-round play. Jimenez, Alexander Noren and Rhys Davies ended up tied for the lead at 10-under-par going into the fourth round.

Westwood opened the fourth round in fifth place at 7-under and was 2-under after 13 holes. He pulled into the lead with back-to-back birdies at 14 and 15 and closed with a 4 at the par-5, 545-yard finishing hole.

Then he had to wait for the leaders to finish. Davies sagged to a 5-over 77, including taking an 8 at the par-4 12th hole, and Noren shot a final round of 2-over 74 after five bogeys to fall back.

Jimenez had two birdies and two bogeys in his first five holes and a birdie at the ninth got him to 11 under but he had nine consecutive birdies and couldn't catch Westwood.

Hockey

NHL: San Jose 2, Detroit 1

SAN JOSE, Calif. (UPI) -- Antti Niemi made 33 saves Sunday, helping the San Jose Sharks go up 2-0 in their conference semifinal series with a 2-1 victory over Detroit.

Niemi turned aside 12-of-13 shots in the third period, allowing only a power-play goal to Henrik Zetterberg as the second-seeded Sharks won their second straight home game to start their Western Conference semifinal series.

Ian White scored on a first-period power play and Niclas Wallin found the net 1:39 into the final frame for San Jose, which will have the momentum when the series switches to Detroit for Wednesday's Game 3.

San Jose ousted Detroit in five games in last year's conference semifinals.

Jimmy Howard stopped 35-of-37 shots in goal for the third-seeded Red Wings.

Racing

Rain postpones Sao Paulo IndyCar race

SAO PAULO (UPI) -- Rain forced the postponement of Sunday's Itaipava Sao Paulo 300 IndyCar race after 14 of its 75 laps.

The race will be resumed Monday at 1 p.m.

A series of crashes marked the first eight laps. In one, Dario Franchitti made contact with Helio Castroneves, which triggered a multicar pileup.

Another crash involved Tony Kanaan, Danica Patrick and Simona de Silvestro.

Ryan Hunter-Reay was also involved in an incident in which he was run off the street circuit and crashed into a tire barrier. He was able to continue.

Pole sitter and defending champion Will Power led when the race was called for the day, followed by Team Penske teammate Ryan Briscoe, Takuma Sato, Graham Rahal and Franchitti.

Tennis

Almagro, Wawrinka fall in Madrid upsets

MADRID (UPI) -- Seeded players Nicolas Almagro of Spain and Switzerland's Stanislas Wawrinka were ousted in upsets Sunday on the first day of the Madrid Open.

The 10th-seeded Almagro fell to France's Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6-1, 6-3, who fired eight aces en route to the victory on the red clay at the Magic Box.

Fourteenth-seeded Wawrinka, meanwhile, lasted 3 hours before succumbing to Spaniard Guillermo Garcia-Lopez 6-4, 5-7, 6-4.

In other Day 1 action, Colombian Santiago Giraldo downed Alexandr Dolgopolov of Ukraine 6-1, 7-5, and Argentina's Juan Monaco rallied to defeat Andrey Golubev of Kazakhstan 2-6, 6-2, 6-2.

World No. 1 Rafael Nadal holds the top seed in Madrid. He is the defending champion after defeated Roger Federer in last year's final.

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