High School Football
Farmington defeats Goddard to win a N.M. state title
FARMINGTON – Farmington High School outlasted Goddard 7-0 on Saturday in Farmington to win the Class 4A football state championship.
Goddard drove for the tie all the way to the Scorpions’ 5-yard line but was turned away when its pass fell incomplete on fourth down with less than a minute to play.
Farmington got the only points of the game early in the fourth quarter on a touchdown pass from Jacob Lucas to Kyle Reynolds.
The Scorpions finished the year 11-1, with their only loss a 21-2 setback to Durango High School on Sept. 19 in Farmington.
Durango Herald
Golf
Phatlum scores a one-shot victory over Stacy Lewis
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – Thailand’s Pornanong Phatlum rallied to win the Dubai Ladies Masters on Saturday, hitting a 54-degree wedge to 2 feet on the par-5 final hole for a birdie and a one-stroke victory over American Stacy Lewis.
The 24-year-old Phatlum closed with a 6-under 66 to finish at 15-under 273 in the Ladies European Tour’s season-ending event.
World Cup Ski Racing
Kueng, not Svindal, is king of the Beaver Creek super-G
BEAVER CREEK – Patrick Kueng of Switzerland won a World Cup race for the first time, ending the dominance of Norway’s Aksel Lund Svindal in super-G on Saturday.
Kueng finished in 1 minute, 21.73 seconds, then withstood a late charge from Otmar Striedinger of Austria, beating him by 0.24 seconds. Hannes Reichelt of Austria and Peter Fill of Italy tied for third.
American Ted Ligety had an impressive run and finished fifth. Bode Miller, who took last year off, showed signs of returning to form with a stellar start to the super-G only to make a costly error and finish 14th.
Hoefl-Riesch goes 2-for-2 in Lake Louise downhills
LAKE LOUISE, Alberta – Maria Hoefl-Riesch of Germany won her second consecutive World Cup downhill Saturday to take the lead in the overall standings.
The double gold medalist at the Vancouver Olympics and 2011 overall World Cup champion covered the course in 1 minute, 55.09 seconds on an afternoon when the temperature at the finish was below minus-15 degrees. Hoefl-Riesch also won a downhill Friday.
Tina Weirather of Liechtenstein came in second Saturday in 1:55.43. Anna Fenninger of Austria was third in 1:55.56.
Lindsey Vonn of the U.S., the reigning Olympic downhill champion, finished 11th of 60 skiers in 1:56.35. It was the second race of her comeback after reconstructive knee surgery 10 months ago.
World Cup Soccer
FIFA switches its start times for seven World Cup games
COSTA DO SAUIPE, Brazil – FIFA switched the starting times of seven World Cup matches, including the United States-Portugal game June 22 in the Amazonian jungle city of Manaus.
The U.S.-Portugal game initially was set for 3 p.m. local time. Two other games in Manaus – England vs. Italy on June 14 and Cameroon vs. Croatia on June 18 – also were pushed back three hours to 6 p.m.
The England-Italy switch means Ivory Coast vs. Japan now will start at 10 p.m. local time in the tropical coastal climate of Recife.
On June 18, Cameroon-Croatia flips kickoff slots with Spain vs. Chile, which now will start at 4 p.m. in Rio de Janeiro. That means Spain’s appearance at the Maracana Stadium now will start in Spanish prime time instead of midnight back home.
The U.S.-Portugal move forced two other changes. Belgium vs. Russia will start at 1 p.m. local time in Rio de Janeiro, instead of 7 p.m., which would have required European viewers to stay up well beyond midnight.
South Korea vs. Algeria was moved to 4 p.m. local time in the coolest, most southern World Cup city of Porto Alegre from 1 p.m.
Associated Press
