of an 18-3 run that put the Tigers up 21.UT Rio Grande (0-2

MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- K.J. Lawson scored 25 points and had eight rebounds, and Dedric Lawson had 19 points and 15 rebounds as Memphis beat Texas Rio Grande Valley 94-75 Monday night.Mike Hoffman hit two jumpers and an early 3, and UT Rio Grande trailed just 27-21 with 10:30 left before the half.Memphis (1-0) then scored 13-straight as part of an 18-3 run that put the Tigers up 21.UT Rio Grande (0-2) got back in it with a 16-6 run to get within 51-40 just before halftime.But out of the break, Chad Ryhoeks dunk started a 20-4 Memphis spurt that ended with Jeremiah Martins dunk and Memphis led 71-46. The Vaqueros got to within 15 near the midway point of the second half, but Christian Kessees 3 ignited a 17-7 run for Memphis.Nick Dixon came off the bench to lead UT Rio Grande with 28 points and eight rebounds. TOKYO -- Former New York Yankees pitcher Hiroki Kuroda announced he will retire at the end of the Japan Series.Kuroda, 41, went 10-8 this season with a 3.09 ERA to help the Hiroshima Carp to its seventh Central League title in Japanese professional baseball.Kuroda turned down a lucrative contract with the Yankees to return in 2015 to the Carp, where he spent his entire career before his first season in Major League Baseball in 2008 with the Los Angeles Dodgers.ddddddddddddThe Carp last won the Japan Series championship in 1984 and face the Nippon Ham Fighters in the Oct. 22-30th Japan Series. ' ' '