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NASCAR: Kyle Busch wins at Bristol

BRISTOL, Tenn. — Kyle Busch was all smiles and Kyle Larson was all scowls. Busch passed Larson with five laps remaining at Bristol Motor Speedway on Monday to win his

CCDHS softball squad rallies to beat Sidney 7-6

An amazing rally carried the Custer County District High School softball team to victory Saturday at Bender Park. The Cowgirls trailed by three runs going into the final inning, but

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PBR: Lockwood finishes tied for 11th at Tacoma Invitational

18-U Outlaws off to solid start

The baseball season for the Miles City Outlaws 18-U team got under way in fine fashion over the weekend.

The Outlaws went 3-1 in their four-game series Saturday and Sunday at Lovell, Wyoming.

They won the first three games — 9-4 and 14-2 on Saturday and 8-3 in Sunday's opener of the second doubleheader before falling 18-8 in the second game.

The 2018 edition of the Outlaws won Saturday's opener when they snapped a 4-all tie with a five-run seventh inning. Miles City never trailed in the season opener, leading 3-0 after one inning.

CCDHS track teams 4th at Billings Invite

The Custer County District High School track and field teams each finished in fourth place at the 14-team Billings Invitational on Saturday at Billings West High School. The Cowboys, who got a victory from Kip Krebsbach in the 200 meters and a second from Jess Bellows in the high jump, finished with 49 points. That was well behind the top two teams — Billings West with 106.5 and Billings Senior with 106 — and seven behind Forsyth (56). Krebsbach, who is out for track for the first time since ninth grade, also was fourth in the 100 and ran a leg on the 4x100 relay, which placed third.

College baseball: Pioneers swept on Sunday

After two days of waiting through bad weather to play Lamar Junior College in a six-game series, Miles Community College fell twice to the Lamar Junior College Runnin' Lopes on Sunday.

The Pioneers had a 2-0 lead before falling 6-2 in the opener and then fell behind 11-2 before rallying with eight runs in the final two innings only to come up short by a 12-10 margin in Game 2.

Desmond homers in 9th inning to lead Rockies over Nats 6-5

WASHINGTON — Stuck in a 2-for-39 slump that sent his average below .200, Ian Desmond stood in left field on a soggy, windy day at Nationals Park feeling good about himself. Even though he was 0 for 3 to that point, he was feeling comfortable at the plate again.

Desmond carried those good vibes into the ninth inning and hit a tiebreaking, two-out homer against his former team as the Colorado Rockies rallied to beat the Washington Nationals 6-5 on Sunday.

NHL: Wild ground Jets 6-2

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The Minnesota Wild returned home from Winnipeg and regrouped to roar back in their first-round playoff series.

The Jets were a late arrival for Game 3 in more ways than one.

Mikael Granlund and Zach Parise had power-play goals in the first period for the spark that was missing on the road, and the Wild scored four times in the second to beat the Jets 6-2 on Sunday night.

"We're here to play," goalie Devan Dubnyk said, "and we're fully capable of pushing hard."

NBA: Timberwolves, Trail Blazers lose playoff openers

HOUSTON (AP) — James Harden scored 44 points and powered a big fourth-quarter run that allowed Houston to outlast Minnesota 104-101 on Sunday in Game 1 of the first-round playoff series.

Minnesota scored four straight points to get within 3 with about 30 seconds left. Chris Paul added two free throws after that for Houston, but a tip-in by Karl-Anthony Towns got Minnesota back within 3. After a bad pass by Paul gave Minnesota a chance to tie with 1.5 seconds left, Jimmy Butler's shot was short.

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PGA: Kodaira rallies from 6 back to win RBC Heritage