Kupcho, Salas win LPGA's team event

Jennifer Kupcho and Lizette Salas won the Great Lakes Bay Invitational on Saturday, closing with a 9-under 61 in best-ball play for a five-stroke victory in the LPGA Tour's lone team event.

The U.S. Solheim Cup partners finished at 26-under 254 at Midland (Mich.) Country Club. They opened Wednesday with a 68 in alternate shot, shot a bestball 61 on Thursday and took a four-stroke lead Friday with an alternateshot 64.

“It was amazing to be alongside Lizette,” Kupcho said. “I think I was a little nervous coming into today just because I didn't want to let her down. I'm sure she probably felt the same way.”

Kupcho won for the third time this year and in her career. Salas, a former USC star from Azusa, won her second tour title. Kupcho won the major Chevron Championship in early April in Rancho Mirage and the Meijer LPGA Classic last month in Belmont, Mich. Salas also won the 2014 Kingsmill Championship.

“It's been a long time,” Salas said. “I couldn't have done it without her. She's a great competitor, a great friend, and an mazing partner on the golf course. We played some amazing golf this week. My job was — or my goal was — to play well for her. We showcased how our games can complement each other.”

They were 2-0-1 as partners in the 2021 Solheim Cup.

“We were clicking all week,” Kupcho said. “I think we just have a lot of faith in each other. We make each other comfortable. So we just know that if we mess up the other person has got us. That has worked really well for us.”

Matilda Castren and Kelly Tan were second after a 62.

Former Arkansas players Stacy Lewis and Maria Fassi shot a 59 to finish third at 20 under.

Cheyenne Knight and Elizabeth Szokol had a 61 to match Tiffany Chan and Haeji Kang at 19 under Chan and Kang shot a 62.

Annika Sorenstam and Madelene Sagstrom, tied for the first-round lead, closed with a 66 to tie for 28th at 11 under.

Sorenstam, 51, made her second LPGA Tour start of the year and only her third since retiring after the 2008 season.

• Chez Reavie doubled his lead to six points in the Barracuda Championship, the PGA Tour's lone modified Stableford scoring event.

A day after a 19-point round, the 40-year-old Reavie scored nine points — making five birdies and a bogey — to reach 37 points on Tahoe Mountain Club's Old Greenwood layout.

Players get five points for eagle and two for birdie. A point is deducted for bogey and three taken away for double bogey or worse.

Martin Laird of Scotland was second. He birdied the last three holes in a 13-point round.

Alex Noren and Cam Davis were nine points back at 28 after 12-point days. Brice Garnett amd Henrik Norlander had 27 points.

Reavie is trying to win for the third time on the PGA Tour, following the 2008 Canadian Open and 2019 Travelers Championship.

Reavie birdied the par-5 sixth and par-3 seventh on the front nine. He added birdies on the par-4 11th, par-5 12th and par-4 14th, before dropping a point on the par-3 15th with his lone bogey in three rounds.

Barcelona to sign top striker Lewandowski

Barcelona is set to sign Poland striker Robert Lewandowski from Bayern Munich in a bold move by the debt-ridden club to acquire a world-class scorer who can finally help to fill the void left by Lionel Messi's exit.

The European clubs have reached an agreement in principle for Lewandowski's move to Camp Nou.

“We have come to a verbal agreement with Barcelona. It's good to have clarity for all parties,” Bayern president Herbert Hainer said on the club's Twitter account. “Robert is an incredible player and he won everything with us. We are incredibly grateful to him.”

Barcelona said the agreement is pending a medical exam and final signing.

Spanish media reports that the transfer would cost Barcelona some 50 million euros ($50.4 million).

Lewandowski, 33, one of soccer's most prolific scorers of the past decade, would greatly boost Barcelona's chances of rebuilding a competitive team after winning nothing last season following the departure of Messi, its alltime top scorer.

Lewandowski scored 312 goals in 384 Bundesliga games for Bayern Munich and previous club Borussia Dortmund. He tallied 35 goals in 34 appearances last season to become the Bundesliga's leading scorer for the seventh time overall. Barcelona's top scorers were Memphis Depay and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang with 13 goals each last campaign.

Barcelona also gets a proven winner. Lewandowski helped Bayern win the 2020 Champions League, after it humiliated Barcelona 8-2 in the quarterfinals. He also scooped up 10 Bundesliga titles, four German Cups, and a Club World Cup with the Bavarian powerhouse.

• Chelsea completed the signing of center back Kalidou Koulibaly from Napoli.

The Premier League club paid a fee reported to be 40 million euros ($40 million) for the 31-year-old Senegal international, who arrives at Stamford Bridge following the departures of defenders Antonio Rudiger and Andreas Christensen.

Koulibaly, who signed a four-year contract, joined his new teammates in Las Vegas for their preseason tour of the United States.

Koulibaly played eight seasons with the Italian club, making 317 appearances and scoring 14 goals. He began his career with Metz in France and moved to Belgian club Genk for two seasons before joining Napoli.

Cressy ends Isner's streak in Newport

Fourth-seeded Maxime Cressy ended John Isner's 10-match winning streak on Newport's grass courts, beating the fellow American 6-2, 4-6, 6-3 to advance to the Hall of Fame Open final.

Cressy will face No. 3 seed Alexander Bublik of Kazakhstan. Bublik beat Jason Kubler of Australia 6-3, 6-2 in the other semifinal.

The matches were played before former Australian player Lleyton Hewitt was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame during a ceremony on the side courts in Newport, R.I. Hewitt was elected into the Hall for the 2021 class, but due to travel restrictions because of the COVID-19 pandemic he was unable to travel for last year's ceremony. There was no class elected for 2022.

In a rematch of the opening round of the Australian Open when Cressy rallied from two sets down to beat the four-time Newport champ, Cressy broke twice in the opening set.

“I personally love to return big serves,” he said. “I love when the ball comes fast to my racket.”

But the strangest point came when Cressy broke to go up 5-3 in the final set.

Cressy hit a lob, Isner, 37, charged the net, but the ball bounced back over to Cressy's side before the 6-foot-10 Isner could reach it for the game's final point.

Second-seeded Isner seemed somewhat shocked by the result and there was a long buzz in the stands.

“It was definitely a strange feeling,” Cressy said. “I really did not believe that I broke him at the moment, that the ball did come back on my side. I was like: `Did I break?'” When I heard it was, I couldn't believe it. It was hard to move on and really be focused.”

Cressy fell behind 1540 in the final game before the 1 hour, 51-minute match ended when Isner barely got his racket on a forehand return as the ball bounced away.

Cressy is looking to win his first career ATP title after entering week ranked 41st in the world.

“My goal for this season was to be top 10,” he said. “I really believe the momentum is carrying me that way.”

In the other semifinal, Bublik, 25, a 2019 Newport finalist, is looking for his second career ATP title after winning at Montpellier this year.