College basketball
Skyawks won’t tango in this year’s Division II Big Dance
The Fort Lewis College women’s basketball team saw its season officially come to a close Sunday.
The FLC Skyhawks (16-11) were not selected to the NCAA Division II women’s basketball tournament. The Skyhawks hoped to finish in the top eight of the South Central Regional standings to earn a place in the bracket, but St. Edward’s won the Heartland Conference Tournament to earn an automatic bid, and that was all it took to knock the Skyhawks off the bubble.
No shock: Wichita State will enter the tourney undefeated
ST. LOUIS – Fred VanVleet scored 22 points, including several key baskets late, to lead another strong ensemble effort, and No. 2 Wichita State remained the nation’s lone unbeaten after defeating Indiana State 83-69 on Sunday in the Missouri Valley Conference tournament final.
Tekele Cotton added 20 points – with four 3-pointers – and Ron Baker had 14 points for the Shockers (34-0), who got tested in the second half before putting the title game out of reach with a 13-0 run capped by two 3-pointers from VanVleet that put them up by 18 points with 5 minutes, 38 seconds to go.
Golf
Chesson Hadley holds off Danny Lee for first PGA win
RIO GRANDE, Puerto Rico – Chesson Hadley won the Puerto Rico Open for his first PGA Tour victory, holding off Danny Lee by two strokes in wind gusting to 25 mph.
Making his 13th PGA Tour start, the 26-year-old Hadley birdied the final two holes at Trump International for a 5-under 67. He’s the first rookie winner since Jordan Spieth in July in the John Deere Classic.
Hadley finished at 21-under 267 and earned $630,000, a two-year tour exemption and spots in The Players Championship, PGA Championship and Tournament of Champions.
NFL
Lions owner, auto pioneer William Clay Ford dies at 88
DETROIT – William Clay Ford, the last surviving grandchild of automotive pioneer Henry Ford and owner of the Detroit Lions, has died. He was 88.
Ford Motor Co. said in a statement Sunday that Ford died of pneumonia at his home in Grosse Pointe, Mich. Ford helped steer the family business for more than five decades. He bought one of his own, the NFL franchise in the Motor City, a half-century ago.
He served as an employee and board member of the automaker for more than half of its 100-year history.
Soccer
Wigan bests City again to reach the FA Cup semifinals
Second-tier Wigan stunned Manchester City for the second consecutive year in the FA Cup, beating the Premier League giants 2-1 to reach the semifinals and stay on course to retain the trophy.
Seven days after winning the League Cup final at Wembley Stadium, City was looking to return to the “Home of Football” for the last four of the FA Cup and avenge last season’s surprise defeat to Wigan in the final in May.
“People kept saying we were lucky last year,” Wigan captain Emmerson Boyce said, “but we’re going back to Wembley and we’re making history again.”
World Cup Ski Racing
Neureuther leads German 1-2 finish in slalom
KRANJSKA GORA, Slovenia – Felix Neureuther beat Fritz Dopfer for a German 1-2 finish at a men’s World Cup slalom on Sunday, while Marcel Hirscher finished fifth to take the lead in the overall standings by four points.
Neureuther finished in a two-run combined time of 1 minute, 45.50 seconds to lead Dopfer by 0.59. Norwegian teenager Henrik Kristoffersen took third, 0.79 back.
Associated Press
