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a 15-footer for par after hitting his tee shot far left on the stadium hole.

Scheffler birdied the par4 17th with a 5-foot putt and closed with a par to finish at 19-under 265. He earned $3.6 million from the $20 million purse in the second of the PGA Tour’s new designated events, created to bring the top players together more often.

Scheffler became the seventh player to successfully defend a title in the tournament, following Ben Hogan (1946-47), Jimmy Demaret (1949-50), Lloyd Mangrum (1952-53), Arnold Palmer (three straight from 1961-63), Johnny Miller (1974-75) and Hideki Matsuyama (2016-17).

Taylor also finished with a 65. The Canadian bogeyed the 16th, missing a 7-footer after Scheffler holed his par putt.

Jon Rahm, the former Arizona State star who opened the year with consecutive victories in Hawaii and the California desert, was third at 14 under after a 68. He also was in position to take the No. 1 spot with a victory.

Justin Thomas was fourth at 13 under after a 65. Jason Day (68) followed at 12 under, and Jordan Speith (70) was another stroke back with Sam Burns (68), Sungjae Im (69) and Tyrrell Hatton (69)

Rickie Fowler was in the group at 10 under. The 2019 winner had a hole-in-one on the par-3 seventh, using a 6-iron in the 216-yard hole.

McIlroy closed with a 70 to tie for 32nd at 4 under.

LOS ANGELES — Emily Bessoir hit four 3-pointers and finished with 20 points, Londynn Jones scored 17 points and UCLA held on to beat Oregon.

UCLA (19-6 Pac-12, 8-5) has won three games in a row following a three-game skid. Charisma Osborne added 13 points, six assists, five rebounds and three steals.

Oregon (14-11, 5-9) has lost five straight, six of its last seven games and is in the midst of its longest skid since the 2015-16 campaign. Endiya Rogers led Oregon with 19 points, and Grace VanSlooten and Chance Gray added 13 points apiece.

Taylor lifts Oregon State men to 61-58 victory over USC

CORVALLIS, Ore. — Glenn Taylor Jr. scored 18 points, including the go-ahead bucket in the final minute, Jordan Pope added 16 points, and Oregon State defeated USC 61-58 on Saturday.

After trailing by 11 points early in the second half, the Trojans got within one point when Vincent Iwuchukwu converted a three-point play with 4:09 remaining. USC cut its deficit to one point twice more before Iwuchukwu hit two free throws for a 58-57 lead with 1:09 to go.

Iwuchukwu blocked a layup by Taylor, but Taylor got the rebound and converted the putback for a 59-58 OSU lead with 35 seconds left. After a USC miss, the Trojans fouled Pope, who made both ends of the one-and-one for a three-point lead with 19 seconds left.

USC called timeout with six seconds left and Boogie Ellis missed a 3-pointer as time ran out.

Taylor added 10 rebounds for his third-career double-double and second this season. He and Pope scored all of Oregon State’s 10 points in the final five minutes.

Iwuchukwu had 19 points, seven rebounds and three blocked shots for the Trojans and he made all nine of his freethrow attempts. He scored nine of USC’s final 11 points. Drew Peterson added 11 points.

No. 7 UCLA men pull away in the 2nd half to beat Oregon 70-63

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Jaime Jaquez Jr. had 25 points and 12 rebounds and No. 7 UCLA won in Eugene for the first time since 2019 with a 70-63 victory over Oregon on Saturday night.

UCLA (21-4, 12-2 Pac-12) has won four straight after losing a pair to Arizona and rival USC at the end of January. Those are the Bruins’ only two conference losses.

UCLA sits atop the Pac-12 standings, ahead of No. 4 Arizona, which fell 88-79 at Stanford earlier in the day.

Jaquez dunked to put the Bruins up 66-48 with just over five minutes left in the game, but Keeshawn Barthelemy hit a 3-pointer with 3:15 left that narrowed the gap to 66-54. Tyger Campbell answered with a 3-pointer for the Bruins.

Quincy Guerrier’s 3-pointer got Oregon within 69-63 with 17 seconds left, but the Ducks couldn’t catch up.

Jermaine Couisnard had 19 points for the Ducks (15-11, 9-6), who had won the last three against UCLA in Eugene.

The loss snapped a twogame winning streak for the Ducks, who still have hopes for a berth in the NCAA Tournament. The Ducks beat visiting USC 78-60 on Thursday.

Derek Jeter joining Fox Sports’ baseball studio team

GLENDALE, Ariz. — Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez have been reunited.

Fox Sports announced Sunday during its Super Bowl pregame show that Jeter will be part of the network’s studio coverage for the coming season.

Rodriguez hugged Jeter as he came on stage and presented him with a Fox Sports baseball jersey. Jeter, who was elected to baseball’s Hall of Fame in 2020, also joins fellow Hall of Famer David Ortiz and host Kevin Burkhardt as part of the studio team.