Denise Jorge-Garcia and McKayla Harris each scored two goals for fifth-seeded host Hobbton in a 5-0 win over the Excelsior Classical Academy Flying Lions of Durham in a first round match in the NCISAA 1-A girls soccer playoffs on Tuesday night. The Wildcats (13-7-1) will be at home to take on visiting Vance Charter (15-4), the No. 11 seed, on Thursday at 6 p.m. … Nick Kurtz (Wake Forest) hit his first MLB homer and also had a double for the Athletics in an 11-1 win over the host Los Angeles Dodgers on Tuesday night. … Indiana closed out its second round NBA playoff series with a 114-105 win at Cleveland and host Oklahoma City topped Denver, 112-105, for a 3-2 series lead. … In second round NBA matchups tonight, Boston is down, 1-3, to visiting New York (TNT, 7 p.m.) and host Minnesota has a 3-1 lead over Golden State (TNT, 9:30 p.m.). … MLB has posthumously reinstated Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe Jackson making them eligible for the Hall of Fame.





