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Last Update on May 24, 2013 14:44 GMT

MLB-SCHEDULE

UNDATED (AP) -- Cleveland's Justin Masterson and Washington's Jordan Zimmermann are going to the mound tonight in search of their eighth win of the season. Tampa's Matt Moore is the lone eight-game winning pitcher in big-league baseball.

Masterson and the Indians are back in Fenway Park for the second game of their weekend series against the Red Sox, while Zimmermann and the Nationals are home to the Phillies. Moore is back on the mound tomorrow when the Rays entertain the Yankees.

The Braves are currently the hottest team in baseball with a six-game winning streak. Tonight they are in New York facing the Mets. The longest losing streak is held by Minnesota with nine straight defeats. The Twins will attempt to get back in the win column tonight with a game in Detroit.

NBA PLAYOFFS

MIAMI (AP) -- Miami took the first game of its best-of-seven NBA Eastern Conference final with Indiana, in overtime, 103-102. LeBron James won the game with a last-second basket. The contest was marked by 35 ties or lead changes and neither team led by more than seven points.

Tonight, once again in Miami, the Heat and Pacers will square off with Indiana looking to get a win before the series heads to Indianapolis.

Game 3 will take place Sunday night on the Pacers home court.

By the way, if you have wondered just how dominating the Heat have been this season, they have won 46 of their last 49 games.

NHL PLAYOFFS

PITTSBURGH (AP) -- The fifth game of the Pittsburgh-Ottawa NHL Eastern Conference semifinal is being played tonight in the Steel City. The Penguins can eliminate the Senators and move on to the conference final with a win as they top the series 3-1.

After winning the first two games in Pittsburgh the Pens dropped the third in Ottawa before winning on the Senators' home ice two nights ago, 7-3.

If a sixth game is called for, the Sens will play host on Sunday.

FRENCH OPEN-DRAW

PARIS (AP) -- The seedings for next week's French Open have been announced with Novak Djokovic (NOH'-vak JOH'-kuh-vich) leading the way for the men and Serena Williams the women. Rounding out the top-three seeds for the men are Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal (rah-fay-ehl nah-DAHL'). Following Williams are Maria Sharapova (shah-rah-POH'-vah) and Victoria Azarenka (ah-zah-REN'-kuh).

The way things are set up, Nadal and Djokovic, the finalists last year, could meet in the semifinals.

PGA-COLONIAL

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) -- Josh Teater and Boo Weekley are off to good starts today in the PGA's Colonial. Each is 5-under for the day with Teater 10-under for the tournament and Weekley 8-under. Teater has completed nine holes and Weekley eight.

The first-round leader was Ryan Palmer at 8-under after a Thursday 62 and he starts play in the afternoon.

 

Last Update on May 24, 2013 09:52 GMT

Heat, Pacers say Game 2 should be even better

MIAMI (AP) -- For as intense and down-to-the-wire as Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals was, the Indiana Pacers and Miami Heat shared the same thought on Thursday.

In their minds, Game 2 will be better.

Sure, Wednesday's 103-102 Heat series-opening win in overtime, with LeBron James scoring the game-winner on a layup as time expired, was great theater. But the teams combined for 41 turnovers, and play was at times choppy thanks in part to 58 personal fouls called in the game's 53 minutes.

Heat center Chris Bosh says the Heat will "play a lot better" in Game 2. As for the Pacers, they say they're moving on from the questionable decision to not have Roy Hibbert on the floor to defend the rim on the final play of Game 1.

ACC-FLORIDA ST-VIRGINIA TECH

Zagunis HR in 9th leads Hokies past Seminoles

DURHAM, N.C. (AP) -- Mark Zagunis homered with one out in the bottom of the ninth inning to give Virginia Tech a 3-2 victory over Florida State in the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament Thursday.

Zagunis' shot over the left field wall against reliever Gage Smith improved the sixth-seeded Hokies (37-19) to 2-0 in Pool B while dropping the second-seeded Seminoles (44-15) to 0-2 in Durham.

The Hokies took a 2-0 lead in the seventh on an RBI-triple by Zagunis, who scored on Andrew Rash's sacrifice fly.

Stephen McGee's leadoff double in the ninth sparked a comeback for the Seminoles. Casey Smit's ground-rule double scored McGee from third. Pinch-hitter Josh Delph singled to right and pinch-runner Brett Knief beat the throw home.

Reliever Clark Labitan (2-5) earned the win. Smith (4-1) took the loss, allowing three hits, including Zagunis' blast.

The Hokies play seventh-seeded Georgia Tech on Friday. Florida State plays third-seeded Virginia on Saturday.

SEC-MISSISSIPPI ST-TEXAS A&M

Frazier leads Mississippi State past Texas A&M 6-4

(Mississippi State 6, Texas A&M 4. With AP Photos.)

HOOVER, Ala. (AP) -- Adam Frazier went 4 for 5 with an RBI and Mississippi State beat Texas A&M 6-4 Thursday night in the Southeastern Conference tournament.

The Bulldogs (43-16) advanced to Saturday's single-elimination semifinals while Texas A&M (32-26) plays an elimination game against Vanderbilt on Friday night.

Ross Mitchell (11-0) didn't allow a hit in 3-1/3 innings of relief and Jonathan Holder pitched a perfect ninth for his 16th save.

The Bulldogs scored three runs in the fifth, two of them unearned.

Brett Pirtle went 2 for 4 with two RBIs and two runs scored.

The Aggies' Blake Allemand had a two-run single in the fifth. Hunter Melton was 2 for 4 with an RBI single in the first.

Starter Rafael Pineda (5-5) allowed five runs but only two were earned in 4-2/3 innings.

ARKANSAS-LSU

Arkansas rallies past LSU 4-1 at SEC tournament

HOOVER, Ala. (AP) -- Arkansas scored the go-ahead run on a squeeze bunt by Tyler Spoon in the eighth inning and tacked on two more insurance runs in the ninth to beat LSU 4-1 at the Southeastern Conference tournament on Thursday.

Arkansas right-hander Ryne Stanek (9-2) earned the win, giving up just one unearned run on six hits over eight innings. LSU's Aaron Nola was nearly as good, giving up one run in seven innings.

Colby Suggs threw a scoreless ninth inning for his 12th save of the season.

Arkansas (37-19) outhit LSU (49-9) 12-6. The Razorbacks were led by Matt Vinson and Spoon, who each had three hits.

LSU reliever Joey Bourgeois (3-2) took the loss. The Tigers didn't have any extra-base hits off the Razorbacks' pitching staff, which came into the game with the lowest ERA in the country.

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