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Sports briefs
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W&J’s LaDuca wins D-III Gold Glove
Washington & Jefferson College baseball sophomore Jacob LaDuca won a top defensive honor in baseball Wednesday when it was announced that he was the shortstop on the 2023 ABCA/Rawlings NCAA Division III Gold Glove Team. LaDuca was one of just nine players to receive a spot on the team.
LaDuca finished the 2023 season with 150 assists, 64 putouts and 18 double plays in 220 chances. Each of those statistics led the Presidents. He compiled a .973 fielding percentage at shortstop, where he started all 46 games.
LaDuca saved his best work for the postseason. A two-time All-PAC selection, he was recognized as the 2023 PAC Tournament Most Outstanding Player following his role inleading W&J to its fourth-straight title. LaDuca hit a walk-off home run to lift W&J past Grove City in the PAC Tournament’s winner’s bracket final game before adding five RBI in a title-round victory over Saint Vincent.
In the NBA
The NBA-champion Denver Nuggets traded into the first round of the draft by acquiring the 29th overall pick from the Indiana Pacers on Wednesday, a person with knowledge of the negotiations said.
As part of the deal, the Nuggets will also receive the 32nd pick from the Pacers in Thursday night’s draft. Indiana receives the 40th pick from Denver along with a first-round selection in 2024, according to the person who spoke to the Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the trade of picks hasn’t been announced.
In college basketball
An NCAA infractions panel handed a three-game suspension to Memphis coach Penny Hardaway for recruiting violations tied to two in-home visits with a prospect two years ago.
An assistant coach first visited the prospect from Dallas in September 2021 at his home, followed by Hardaway roughly two weeks later. NCAA rules prohibited in-home visits for juniors except for April of that year, with those visits supposed to take place at the prospect’s current school.
Hardaway will miss the first three games of the 2023-24 season. He had told the NCAA he was unaware of the rule.
In tennis
Venus Williams is set to make her 24th appearance in the singles draw at Wimbledon after the 43-year-old American was given a wild-card entry.
Williams is a five-time Wimbledon singles champion and was a finalist in 2017, two decades after her debut at the All England Club.
Ranked 697th, Williams beat 48th-ranked Camila Giorgi 7-6 (5), 4-6, 7-6 (6) on Monday at the Birmingham Classic. It was her first victory over a player in the top 50 in nearly four years.