Dynamo fall to 6th in West after loss at San Jose
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Danny Hoesen scored in the 33rd minute to lead San Jose to a 1-0 victory over the Dynamo on Saturday night.
Hoesen pulled down Kofi Sarkodie’s cross and slotted home a turnaround left-footed finish from the middle of the area.
The Earthquakes (11-12-6) moved up to fifth place in the MLS Western Conference standings; the Dynamo (10-10-8) dropped into a sixth-place tie with Real Salt Lake. In other soccer news: • In front of the largest crowd to attend a standalone MLS match, Josef Martinez had his second consecutive hat trick and his third of the season to help Atlanta United hold on for a 3-3 draw against visiting Orlando City. United (12-8-7) set the record with 70,425 on hand at Mercedes-Benz Stadium, which opened last month. The old record was held by the Los Angeles Galaxy and the 69,255 who attended the team’s first match at the Rose Bowl in 1996.
BOXING Golovkin draws with Alvarez
Gennady Golovkin retained his middleweight titles at Las Vegas, fighting to a draw with Canelo Alvarez in a brutal battle that ended with both fighters holding their hands aloft in victory.
The middleweight showdown lived up to its hype as the two fighters traded huge punches and went after each other for 12 rounds. Neither fighter was down, and neither appeared seriously hurt but both landed some huge punches to the head that had the crowd screaming in excitement.
Golovkin was the aggressor throughout and landed punches that had put other fighters to the canvas. But he couldn’t put Alvarez down, and the Mexican star more than stood his own in exchanges with Triple G. The two were still brawling as the final seconds ticked down, and the fight went to the scorecards.
Alvarez was leading after the first three rounds, then Golovkin dominated the middle rounds. After a pep talk from his corner, Alvarez came out more aggressive in the 10th round and won the last three rounds on all the judges’ scorecards.
One judge had Alvarez winning 118-110, a second had it 115-113 in Golovkin’s favor, while the third had it 114-114. The Associated Press scored it 114-114.
TENNIS France, Australia point from final
Two-time Grand Slam champions Nicolas Mahut and Pierre-Hugues Herbert beat Filip Krajinovic and Nenad Zimonjic 6-1, 6-2, 7-6 (3) to give France a 2-1 lead over Serbia in the Davis Cup semifinals at Lille, France.
In the other semifinal at Brussels, Australia also needs just one more point to reach the final for the first time since it won the title in 2003 after John Peers and Jordan Thompson breezed past Arthur de Greef and Ruben Bemelmans of Belgium 6-3, 6-4, 6-0.
GOLF Leishman pads margin in BMW
Marc Leishman finished with a birdie for a 3-under-par 68 to extend his lead to five strokes over Jason Day and Rickie Fowler going into the final round of the BMW Championship at Lake Forest, Ill.
Leishman is at 19-under 194.
Fowler and Day failed to take advantage of the scoring holes on the back nine at Conway Farms, and both settled for a 70. In other golf news: • Moriya Jutanugarn of Thailand shot a 3-under 68 to lead the Evian Championship at Evian-les-Bains, France, after the second round and could join her younger sister Ariya in the golf majors record book. Seeking to be the first sisters to both win majors, Jutanugarn’s 9-under total was four shots clear of three players in the clubhouse, including Jennifer Song of the United States, whose 65 was best among the morning starters. China’s Shanshan Feng and American Angela Stanford also were 5 under after 68s. A victory Sunday for the 23-year-old Moriya would make the Jutanugarns the first sisters to win majors since the LPGA was founded 67 years ago. Ariya Jutanugarn, 21, won the 2016 Women’s British Open.
MOTOR SPORTS Allgaier earns 2nd Xfinity win
Justin Allgaier pulled away off the final restart and won the NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Chicagoland Speedway in Joliet, Ill. Allgaier won for the second time this season in NASCAR’s second-tier series, which opens its postseason next week at Kentucky Speedway. Regular-season champion Elliott Sadler and Allgaier were locked into the playoff field along with Jeremy Clements, Cole Custer, Matt Tifft, William Byron, Ryan Reed, Brennan Poole, Daniel Hemric, Michael Annett, Blake Koch and Brendan Gaughan. In other news: • Josef Newgarden led a Team Penske parade in qualifying for the IndyCar season finale in northern California. Newgarden three times broke the track record, including on his final qualifying run at Sonoma Raceway. He powered his Penske Chevrolet through the 12 turns at 1 minute, 15.5205 seconds.
PRO BASEBALL Benson, Gillespie spark Skeeters
Joe Benson’s two-run triple and Cole Gillespie’s two-run double in the seventh inning powered the Skeeters to a 5-4 Atlantic League victory over Long Island at Constellation Field in Sugar Land.
Mitch Talbot struck out eight and walked one while allowing five hits and one earned run in six innings but did not get the decision.
From staff and wire reports