April 2007 in Sports - 1 April 2007 (Sunday)

1 April 2007 (Sunday)

• Golf
  • 2007 LPGA Tour
    • Morgan Pressel wins the 2007 Kraft Nabisco Championship for her first career victory and becomes the youngest woman to win an LPGA major event at 18 years, 313 days. The previous mark was held by Sandra Post who, at 20 years, 19 days, won the 1968 LPGA Championship. Suzann Pettersen dropped four strokes over three holes to finish one stroke behind Pressel.

• Auto racing:
  • IRL: Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg in St. Petersburg, Florida

  (1) Hélio Castroneves (2) Scott Dixon (3) Tony Kanaan

  • NASCAR Nextel Cup Goody's Cool Orange 500 at Martinsville, Virginia

  (1) Jimmie Johnson (2) Jeff Gordon (3) Denny Hamlin

• Baseball:
  • 2007 MLB Opening Night
    • New York Mets 6, St. Louis Cardinals 1

    In the 2007 season opener, the Mets turned four double plays behind Tom Glavine to defeat the team that denied them the National League pennant one year earlier.

• Basketball
  • NCAA Women's Final Four at Cleveland, Ohio:

    (#4 Greensboro) Rutgers 59, (#3 Fresno) Louisiana State 35

    (#1 Dayton) Tennessee 56, (#1 Dallas) North Carolina 50

    The Lady Vols outscored the Tar Heels 20–2 points in the final 8:08 of the game to advance to the title matchup.

• Cricket:
  • 2007 Cricket World Cup Super Eights
    • Sri Lanka 303/5 (50 ov.) beat West Indies 190 (44.3 ov.) by 113 runs

• Swimming:
  • Michael Phelps wins his seventh gold medal at the 2007 FINA World Aquatics Championships in Melbourne, Australia in the 400 meter individual medley race, in the process, setting his fifth world record. The seven gold medals ties Mark Spitz' total at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Münich, West Germany.

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