Here is the latest Mid-America sports news from The Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Dakota Hudson tossed six effective innings, Jedd Gyorko hit a two-run homer and the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Philadelphia Phillies 5-3. Marcell Ozuna, Matt Wieters and Matt Carpenter also went deep for the Cardinals, who avoided their first sweep against Philadelphia since 2006.

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Jorge Soler and Adalberto Mondesi homered and Jakob Junis allowed two runs in six innings as the Kansas City Royals snapped a three-game losing streak with a 4-2 win over Texas Rangers on Thursday night. Ian Kennedy worked a perfect ninth inning for his third save, and the first for Kansas City since May 1.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The NCAA baseball tournament opens Friday with play at 16 regional sites. The regional winners advance to super regionals next week and the final eight go to the College World Series beginning June 15. Central Michigan has won 18 straight games and is the hottest team entering the tournament. No. 1 national seed UCLA has won 10 in a row. The last top seed to win the championship was Miami in 1999.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Tom Lehman won the PGA Tour Champions event in Iowa last year without swinging a club on Sunday. Lehman will look to repeat at Wakonda Club in Des Moines after finding out he’d won in 2018 while waiting out a weather delay. The 60-year-old Lehman shot a 13-under 131 total last year in Iowa, two shots better than Bernhard Langer, before the final round was canceled.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The Bruins’ top line of Brad Marchad, Patrice Bergeron and David Pastrnak has no even-strength goals through two games of the Stanley Cup Final against the Blues. That line combined for 23 of Boston’s 32 goals in the first three rounds. St. Louis has neutralized the trio so far, but they expect to adjust going into Game 3.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Blues forward Oskar Sundqvist has been suspended for Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final for delivering an elbow to the head of Bruins defenseman Matt Grzelcyk. The NHL’s department of player safety announced the suspension after a hearing with Sundqvist, who was assessed only a two-minute minor penalty for boarding for the hit that knocked Grzelcyk out of the game and possibly longer.