golf
Scott survives several challengers to win Barclays
JERSEY CITY, N.J. – Masters champion Adam Scott won The Barclays on Sunday after everyone around him did their best to lose it.
Scott played bogey-free and closed with a 5-under 66. He finished an hour before the final group and watched from the locker room at Liberty National.
Kevin Chappell had a two-shot lead through 10 holes and went 7 over the rest of the way. Justin Rose three-putted the 18th. Tiger Woods dropped to his knees after a back spasm on the 13th hole when he hooked his approach into the water, leading to a bogey. Woods birdied the 16th and 17th to get within one, and his 25-foot birdie off the 18th green stopped just short.
Gary Woodland had three consecutive birdie attempts inside 10 feet and missed them all.
Little League Baseball
Japan seizes Little League World Series with late rally
SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. – Ryusei Hirooka lined a decisive two-run double in the bottom of the fifth inning, Shunpei Takagi hit two solo home runs, and Tokyo beat Chula Vista, Calif., 6-4 on Sunday to win the Little League World Series.
It was the 14th championship game for Japan, which was making its fourth consecutive appearance in the title game, and ninth championship.
Giancarlo Cortez had a two-run single and Grant Holman an RBI single for Chula Vista.
Trailing 4-3 after Cortez’s clutch single in the fourth, Japan tied it on Takagi’s second homer and won it when Hirooka lined a 2-2 pitch down the left-field line for a double.
Auto Racing
Power takes third Sonoma championship in four years
SONOMA, Calif. – Will Power won at Sonoma Raceway for the third time in four years Sunday, earning his first victory of the IndyCar season when he took advantage of a late penalty to Scott Dixon for injuring three members of Power’s pit crew.
Dixon led until he received a drive-through penalty with 15 laps to go for clipping a tire in the left hand of Power’s tire holder while Dixon drove out of his pit directly behind Power’s spot.
The tire holder went flying into another crew member, and a third member was injured by an air gun.
Dixon thought Power’s crew got in his way on purpose.
Dixon finished 15th and lost ground on overall IndyCar leader Helio Castroneves, who finished seventh.
Justin Wilson was second, and pole winner Dario Franchitti was third.
Vettel cruises to a victory at the Belgian Grand Prix
SPA, Belgium – Sebastian Vettel overtook Lewis Hamilton on the first lap and comfortably held on to win the Belgian Grand Prix on Sunday and extend his overall championship lead.
It was Vettel’s fifth win of the season, the second from three GPs, and 31st of his career.
Fernando Alonso drove brilliantly from ninth on the grid to take second place ahead of Hamilton and move back into second overall in the title race.
Speculation heading into Spa was of Hamilton emerging as the biggest threat to Vettel’s bid for a fourth consecutive title, but within one minute Vettel dismissed that talk with a slick passing move inside Hamilton’s left. The German wasn’t troubled after that.
Cycling
Ireland’s Roche claims Stage 2 at Spanish Vuelta
PONTEVEDRA, Spain – Nicolas Roche of Ireland won the second stage of the Spanish Vuelta on Sunday, while Vicenzo Nibali took the red overall leader’s jersey as the Italian aims for his second grand tour of the year.
SaxoBank-Tinkoff rider Roche broke away with three others on the final climb and used a furious finish to claim the 110-mile ride, which started in Pontevedra and finished at the Alto Do Monte Da Groba summit.
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