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Maui, HI - Brandon Ashley and Rondae Hollis-Jefferson each had 15 points as second-ranked Arizona won its Maui Invitational opener with a 72-53 decision over Missouri. Hollis-Jefferson went 5-for-6 from the field and added six rebounds, while Stanley Jefferson contributed 14 points for the Wildcats, who used their trademark tough defense to dominate the games final 24 minutes and advance to Tuesdays winners bracket matchup with Kansas State. That first game (of a tournament) is always the most difficult, Wildcats head coach Sean Miller. I think we feel good about the fact that weve won. There are a number of things that I know and I think we know we can do better. Arizona (4-0) scored 24 points off 17 Missouri turnovers and held the Tigers to 36.4 percent shooting to overcome a slow offensive start. Their defense was good. It put pressure on us. It forced us to be uncomfortable, said Tigers head coach Kim Anderson. You look at the stats, they had 24 points off turnovers, and basically that was the difference in the game. Montaque Gill-Caesar paced Missouri (2-2) with 13 points and Johnathan Williams III and Keith Shamburger each finished with 11 in the loss. The Tigers will next take on Purdue, which fell to Kansas State in Mondays first game, in the consolation round. The Wildcats struggled to hit shots for most of the first half and found themselves in a 21-21 deadlock with four minutes to go in the period, with Missouri drawing even on an 8-2 run led by six points from Gill-Caesar. Arizona took control from then on, however. Johnson buried a corner trey -- ending an 0-for-8 start for the Wildcats from beyond the arc -- and T.J. McConnell came through with a pair of baskets, part of an 11-4 run that sent the Pac-12 powerhouse into the break owning a 32-25 lead. Hollis-Jefferson then deposited five straight points to open the second half, and Missouri never got closer than eight points down the rest of the way. Coming into the game with the energy I always have is a great feeling for our team, said Hollis-Jefferson, who started the second half after serving as the Wildcats sixth man throughout the season. We need that spark sometimes off the bench or sometimes we may need it to start with, and Coach (Miller) knows that. Arizona put the game out of reach with a 14-4 flurry that began midway through the final frame. The Wildcats held Missouri without a basket for the first three-plus minutes of the stretch, which was capped by Kaleb Tarczewskis hook shot that increased the lead to 63-44 with 4:47 remaining. The Wildcats were up by as many as 21 points in the final minute. Game Notes The win extended Arizonas non-conference win streak to 31 games, the longest active run in the nation ... 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Yoenis Cespedes proved he can play through a hurting right heel, giving Scott Kazmir and the As a spark with a pair of RBIs that helped spoil the Minnesota Twins home opener with an 8-3 victory on Monday. Buy Air Max Ireland . The 49ers, 6-2 and riding a five-game winning streak following the bye week, also waived cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha and activated cornerback Eric Wright from the reserve/non-football injury list. Manningham made 42 receptions for 449 yards and one touchdown in 12 games and 10 starts last season before injuring his left knee in a loss at Seattle Dec.San Jose, CA (SportsNetwork.com) - T.J. Oshie recorded his second career hat trick and the St. Louis Blues scored a season-high seven goals in a 7-2 rout of the San Jose Sharks on Saturday. Oshie added an assist in the onslaught, and Alexander Steen and Kevin Shattenkirk posted their own four-point performances with a goal and three assists apiece. Its nice to get them, its even better just to get the two points, said Oshie. Brian Elliott, making his second start since returning from a knee injury, made 18 saves for St. Louis, which had dropped five straight on the road coming in. Antti Niemi followed up his shutout of the Ducks on Wednesday by surrendering six goals on 27 shots before being lifted in the third period. Oshies first goal came off a bouncing puck at the 11:49 mark, and the Sharks answered with two goals in a 40-second span later in the opening period. Melker Karlsson scored a similar goal to Oshies, and Joe Pavelski wristed one into the right corner from a sharp angle with 1:38 remaining. Effort just wasnt there, said Pavelski. Its disappointing, thats the biggest thing. St.dddddddddddd Louis countered definitively with six unanswered goals. Steen matched Pavelskis sharp-angle tally on a blistering slap shot with 43.1 seconds left before the first intermission. Oshie stickhandled through the entire defense and beat Niemi with a wrister at the 5:32 mark of the second, and another goal in the final minute of the period gave the Blues a 4-2 cushion. Jaden Schwartzs stellar no-look pass from behind the net found the stick of Shattenkirk for a tap-in with 8.6 seconds on the clock. Schwartz scored during a power-play 1:17 into the third period, and Dmitrij Jaskins spinning goal less than four minutes later ended Niemis night. Oshie capped his hat trick by banking one in off backup goaltender Alex Stalocks stick and a Sharks defender with 10:44 remaining during a power play. Game Notes Oshies previous hat trick came against the Wild on Mar. 27, 2014 ... Sharks center Joe Thornton sat out with an upper-body injury, ending his consecutive games played streak at 319 games ... San Jose had won four straight meetings. ' ' '