— Brice Estep homered for No. 9 Coastal Carolina in a 6-2 Sun Belt Conference series-opening baseball win Friday night over visiting Texas State.
— No. 2 UNC was dealt a 3-1 loss at Duke.
— Wake Forest was topped, 6-5, at No. 3 Georgia Tech.
— Host Virginia Tech won, 4-0, over N.C. State.
— East Carolina downed South Florida, 11-1, in seven innings in Greenville as Davin Whitaker went 4-for-4 with home runs measuring 416 and 410 feet.
— Connor Norby (ECU) hit a 3-run homer for Miami in a 9-4 win at San Francisco.
— UNC Wilmington took a 9-8 win at Elon.
— San Antonio hit 16 of 33 on 3-pointers in a 120-108 win at Portland on Friday night for a 2-1 series lead.
— The Los Angeles Lakers took a 3-0 lead with a 112-108 overtime win at Houston as LeBron James hit a tying three with 14 seconds left on an assist by Luke Kennard (Duke).
— Boston won, 108-100, at Philadelphia for a 2-1 series lead as Jayson Tatum (Duke) had 25 points for the Celtics.
— Cameron Boozer of Duke and Henri Veesaar of UNC reportedly have declared for the NBA draft.
— The Carolina Hurricanes look to close out their series at Ottawa in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs today (TBS, 3 p.m.).
— In NBA playoff games today, Detroit and Orlando are tied, 1-1, going into today’s game hosted by the Magic (Peacock, 1 p.m.). Oklahoma City takes a 2-0 lead to Phoenix (NBC, 3:30 p.m.). New York plays at Atlanta, trailing 1-2 (NBC, 6 p.m.). Denver is down 1-2, going into tonight’s matchup at Minnesota (ABC, 8:30 p.m.).
— Alex Smalley and Hayden Springer have a 1-shot lead at 16-under par in the PGA Tour team event in New Orleans going into the third round today (CBS, 3 p.m.).
