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Venus Williams gets to Indian Wells semis

INDIAN WELLS, Calif. — Venus Williams won her quarterfinal match on Thursday to advance to the semifinals of the BNP Paribas Open.

Williams defeated Carla Suarez Navarro 6-3, 6-2.

In the other women's quarterfinal played Thursday, Daria Kasatkina defeated Angelique Kerber 6-0, 6-2.

Unseeded Borna Coric upset seventh-seed Kevin Anderson 2-6, 6-4, 7-6 (3).

Roger Federer and Hyeon Chung played a later match.

College basketball: Mississippi has hired Middle Tennessee's Kermit Davis as its men's basketball coach. ... Georgia has hired former Indiana and Marquette coach Tom Crean.

Courts: The man convicted of manslaughter in the 2016 road rage shooting death of former NFL running back Joe McKnight was sentenced to 30 years in prison Thursday. Ronald Gasser, 56, had faced up to 40 years in prison. Defense lawyers argued that Gasser fired in self-defense when McKnight walked up to his car following a five-mile confrontation that began on a bridge spanning the Mississippi River in New Orleans and ended with gunfire in neighboring Jefferson Parish. ... Five-time world boxing champion Vinny Paz has pleaded no contest Thursday in Rhode Island to assaulting his girlfriend, and received a one-year suspended sentence and one year of probation.

Skiing: Vincent Kriechmayr took the final World Cup super-G of the season on Thursday in Are, Sweden. Kjetil Jansrud had already clinched the season-long discipline title. ... Earlier, Tina Weirather successfully defended her super-G title while Sofia Goggia won the final race of the season with Lindsey Vonn third.

Obituary: Augie Garrido, who won three national baseball championships at Cal State Fullerton and two more at Texas, has died. He was 79. He last coached the Longhorns in 2016 and his 1,975 career victories dating to 1969 rank first in college baseball. He was inducted into the College Baseball Hall of Fame in 2016.

— Wire reports