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2nd over: Australia 11-0 (Healy 9, Litchfield 2)

Kashvee opens the bowling from the other end – she was certainly the pick of the bowlers for India on Friday. However, Litchfield is keen to get going and finds a gap in the infield immediately, driving it through cover for a single. And that has inspired Healy into action as well, she cuts it well for four – the first boundary of the match. Litchfield chases after a wide delivery and cuts it into the deep late in the over – she picks up a single, but it might provide India some hope that they can lure her into more risky shots and pick up a boundary. Healy finishes the over with another four.

The South Bay Lakers are on a roll. They just went undefeated on a four-game road trip, and they took a five-game winning streak into their game on Saturday against the Stockton Kings at UCLA Health Training Center in El Segundo.

The first half of this game was close after South Bay overcame an early 16-6 deficit, and it ended with South Bay ahead 55-52. It then turned things up a notch and won the third quarter by nine points, and the team maintained enough momentum to come away with a 115-100 victory.

The Lakers shot 50% from the field and held the Kings to 37.2% shooting overall and 30.4% from 3-point range while holding a massive 66-20 advantage in points in the paint. Big man Drew Timme led them in scoring with 22 points on 9-of-14 shooting while also turning in eight rebounds, six assists and one steal.

Nick Smith Jr. scored 20 points off the bench and added five rebounds and seven assists. Rookie forward Adou Thiero played 16 minutes and contributed eight points, three rebounds, one assist, two steals and one block, while Bronny James shot 5-of-11 from the field and logged 12 points, one rebound, one assist and two steals.

With a 16-8 record, South Bay is now in first place in the G League's Western Conference.

This article originally appeared on LeBron Wire: South Bay Lakers recap: G League Lakers win sixth game in a row

NEW YORK — Rick Pitino didn’t downplay it.

Ahead of Saturday night’s crucial meeting with Villanova at Madison Square Garden, Pitino declared it “the most important game” in his three years at St. John’s.

That’s because three days earlier, St. John’s suffered a sobering 32-point loss to UConn that complicated its pursuit of a Big East title.

Pitino knew St. John’s needed a strong response.

And boy, did the Red Storm deliver.

No. 15 St. John’s bounced back with a commanding 89-57 victory over Villanova at Madison Square Garden to keep pace in the Big East race.

Zuby Ejiofor recorded his first-ever triple-double, erupting for 16 points, 12 rebounds, a career-high 10 assists and three blocks.

It was an emphatic return to form by Ejiofor, who managed only six points on 2-of-5 shooting and four rebounds in Wednesday’s loss.

“The response was everything,” Ejiofor said in his on-court postgame interview.

The Red Storm (23-6, 16-2 Big East) opened Saturday’s game on an 11-2 run and never looked back, leading by as many as 30 points in the first half alone.

After missing its final 24 shots in Wednesday’s 72-40 loss to UConn, St. John’s made 14 of its first 22 shots Saturday.

Ian Jackson scored a team-high 19 points with a career-high five assists off the bench, fueling a St. John’s defense that forced 16 turnovers.

The victory completed a regular-season sweep of third-place Villanova (22-7, 13-5) and ensured St. John’s will be no lower than the No. 2 seed in the Big East Tournament.

St. John’s is still a half-game behind No. 6 UConn for first place in the Big East but, more importantly, remains tied with the Huskies in the loss column. UConn improved to 17-2 in conference play Saturday by eking out a 71-67 victory over Seton Hall.

Pitino gave a sellout crowd of 19,812 a pregame jolt when he emerged from the Garden tunnel in a new, custom white suit he had tailored for Saturday night’s “white out” game.

Following Wednesday’s lopsided loss, Pitino contemplated wearing something more traditional, reasoning that a white suit should be “a celebratory thing, and right now, I’m not in a celebratory mood.”

But Pitino’s commitment to the garish get-up seemed to signal St. John’s wouldn’t panic after the UConn rout.

And indeed, St. John’s looked much more like the team that had won 13 games in a row going into Wednesday than the one that had no answers for Dan Hurley’s Huskies.

St. John’s point guard Dylan Darling made his first start since Dec. 6, filling a role normally occupied by Jackson, who recently returned from an ankle injury.

Darling gave St. John’s an early spark, scoring or assisting on each of the Red Storm’s first four baskets as they jumped out to an 11-2 advantage.

Jackson then gave the Johnnies a boost off the bench with a team-high 11 points in the first half, including a windmill dunk after a steal that put St. John’s up, 28-14.

Ejiofor got going later in the half, at one point drilling a 3-pointer and finishing an alley-oop dunk — both on assists from Oziyah Sellers — on back-to-back possessions.

St. John’s shot 19 of 33 (57.6%) in the first half and took a 48-23 lead into the break.

Villanova opened the second half on a 15-7 run, but coming out of a timeout, Sellers nailed a 3-pointer to put St. John’s back up by 20.

Sellers finished with 14 points on 6-of-8 shooting.

With the outcome all but decided, Ejiofor picked up his final two assists late in the second half, first on a jumper by Sadiku Ibine Ayo, and then on another by Joson Sanon.

When Sanon’s shot went through the net with 3:12 remaining, a rowdy crowd gave Ejiofor a hearty cheer.

It was the second triple-double by a St. John’s player in the last 25 years, with the other coming from Kadary Richmond last season.

“We know that people want to see how we respond to [the UConn loss]; if we’re able to respond to this or if we crumble,” Sellers said before Saturday’s game. “I feel like none of us have that personality. I feel like we’ll be able to bounce back in the right way.”

St. John’s has two games remaining: Tuesday night against last-place Georgetown (13-16, 5-13) at the Garden, and Friday night against Seton Hall (19-10, 9-9) in Newark, N.J.

UConn has only one game left, with a road meeting with Marquette (10-18, 5-12) set for Saturday.

All of that sets up a very big week to decide the Big East.

Capitals almost have Cole Hutson — they just have to cut ties with this veteran first originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here.

The Washington Capitals are getting close to a very exciting move.

Cole Hutson is likely to join the Caps very soon.

Hutson, the immensely talented defenseman at Boston University, just needs the collegiate season to end to come to the NHL.

Since BU doesn't seem likely to make the postseason, that ending should come sooner rather than later.

The Capitals will need to clear a roster spot for Hutson, though, and the easiest way to do that might be before the March 6 NHL trade deadline.

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NHL insider Frank Seravalli suggests that Trevor van Riemsdyk is the guy to go.

The veteran defenseman is set to be an unrestricted free agent after the season, so he'd be a logical player for Washington to trade, even if it's for a relatively minimal return.

The reality here is that the trade return really also involves the fact that Hutson gets to play in the NHL now.

The Capitals have played van Riemsdyk about 15-and-a-half minutes per game this season, and he hasn't been in uniform for every game.

He's 34 years old now, and he has just eight points in 47 games.

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For a time, van Riemsdyk was quite reliable for Washington, and he's still just fine in that regard.

But with the chance to bring aboard Hutson coming soon, it might be time running out for van Riemsdyk with the Capitals.

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