AP Sportlight--May 5

AP Sportlight--May 5
1904 -- Cy Young of the Red Sox pitches a perfect game against the Philadelphia Athletics, beating Rube Waddell 3-0.
1966 -- The Montreal Canadiens beat the Detroit Red Wings 3-2 to win the Stanley Cup in six games.
1969 -- TheCeltics beat the L.A. Lakers in the seventh game to win the NBA championship for the 10th time in 11 years. Player-coach Bill Russell retires as a player.
1973 -- Secretariat, ridden by Ron Turcotte, wins the Kentucky Derby with a record time of 1:59.2. Secretariat beats Sham by 2 1/2 lengths and goes on to win the Triple Crown.
1978 -- Pete Rose of the Reds becomes the 14th player with 3,000 hits, singling in the fifth inning against Montreal's Steve Rogers at Cincinnati's Riverfront Stadium.
1990 -- Unbridled, ridden by Craig Perret, takes the lead from Summer Squall at the top of the stretch and runs away with the Kentucky Derby by 3 1/2 lengths.
1993 -- Canisius beats Niagara 11-1 in softball to set an NCAA Division I record with 34 straight wins.
1999 -- Colorado becomes the first team in 35 years and only the third this century to score in every inning in a 13-6 win over the Chicago Cubs.
2001 -- Monarchos wins the Kentucky Derby carrying Jorge Chavez across the finish line in 1:59 4-5, only two-fifths of a second off the track record set by Secretariat en route to the Triple Crown in 1973. Monarchos finishes a dominating 4 3/4 lengths over Invisible Ink.
2004 -- Mike Piazza sets a major league mark for homers as a catcher, hitting No. 352, in the New York Mets' 8-2 victory over the San Francisco Giants.
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