Golf
Playoff putt puts away Park, as Lee claimed first win
BELMONT, Mich. – Mirim Lee won the Meijer LPGA Classic on Sunday for her first LPGA Tour victory, beating fellow South Korean player Inbee Park with a birdie on the second hole of a playoff.
The long-hitting Lee drove into greenside bunker on the second extra hole – the short par-4 17th – and blasted out to 5 feet. After Park’s 15-foot birdie try lipped out, Lee holed her putt for the victory.
They each parred the 18th to open the playoff. Park’s approach shot hit the cup on the way past, and she missed a 15-foot birdie try. Lee two-putted from 35 feet.
Lee, a rookie on the LPGA Tour, closed with a 2-under 69 to match Park at 14-under 270. Park, a 10-time tour winner, finished with a 70.
NCAA
No backing down: Emmert begins the appeal process
INDIANAPOLIS – Mark Emmert said Sunday that college sports’ largest governing body will appeal Friday’s federal court decision that gives athletes a right to some of the millions of dollars they help generate.
U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken ruled Friday the NCAA must allow football players in FBS schools and Division I men’s basketball players at least $5,000 a year for rights to their images, likenesses and names, money that would be put in a trust fund and given to them when they leave school
In his first public comments since the ruling, Emmert said on ABC’s “This Week With George Stephanopoulos” that the NCAA would appeal “at least in part” the decision.
Swimming
Lochte locks down a title by beating his rival Phelps
IRVINE, Calif. – Ryan Lochte beat Michael Phelps to win the 200-meter individual medley at the U.S. national championships, keeping Phelps winless in four races.
Lochte, the world champion, led all the way and touched in 1 minute, 56.50 seconds Sunday night. Phelps, the three-time Olympic champion in the event, chased Lochte throughout and pulled into the wall second in 1:56.55. Lochte’s time was second-fastest in the world this year; Phelps’ was third-quickest.
It was Lochte’s first victory of the five-day meet after finishing second in the 100 freestyle and third in the 200 backstroke.
Four months into his comeback, Phelps came up empty. He finished second in the 100 butterfly, sixth in the 100 back and seventh in the 100 free.
Tennis
Tsonga tames the best in the sport en route to Rogers Cup
TORONTO – Jo-Wilfried Tsonga won the Rogers Cup on Sunday, beating second-seeded Roger Federer 7-5, 7-6 (3) for his fourth consecutive victory over a higher-seeded opponent.
The 13th-seeded Frenchman won his first ATP Tour title of the season and 11th overall. He beat top-ranked Novak Djokovic on Thursday, eighth-seeded Andy Murray on Friday and seventh-seeded Grigor Dimitrov on Saturday.
Federer dropped to 2-5 in finals this season, with his victories coming in Dubai and Halle.
Radwanska beats Williams to claim Rogers Cup title
MONTREAL – Agnieszka Radwanska beat Venus Williams 6-4, 6-2 on Sunday to win the Rogers Cup title.
The third-seeded Radwanska, the first Rogers Cup champion from Poland, picked up her first tournament victory of the year and the $441,000 winner’s prize. The 34-year-old Williams earned $220,000.
The 25-year-old Radwanska used her relentless baseline game to dominate a tired-looking Williams, who was coming off an emotional, three-set victory over her top-ranked sister Serena Williams in a semifinal on Saturday.
Radwanska, ranked fifth in the world to Williams’ 26th, posted her first Rogers Cup win after twice reaching the semifinals. It was her first tournament victory since 2013 at Seoul.
Associated Press
