Penn State’s season ends in regional final
The No. 8 seed Penn State women’s volleyball team fell to No. 1 seeded Stanford, 18-25, 25-23, 25-20, 25-16, to end the Nittany Lions season late Saturday night in the NCAA Stanford regional final in Maples Pavilion in Stanford, Calif.
Junior Kendall White and freshman Jonni Parker were named to the alltournament team for Penn State (26-8).
After winning the first set, Penn State jumped out to an early lead in the second, but the Cardinal was able to get the set within one point at 20-19 and switched the match momentum.
Soccer
Amar Sejdic scored a penalty kick in the 57th minute and Maryland (13-64) held off Akron (15-7-2), 1-0, in Santa Barbara, Calif. to win its fourth NCAA men’s soccer title. Akron’s Colin Biros kicked Johaness Bergmann in the face while pursuing the ball inside the 18-yard box, resulting in the penalty. Dayne St. Clair made two saves in Maryland’s fifth consecutive shutout. The Terrapins did not allow a single goal in the NCAA tournament.
• One of the most anticipated matches in South American soccer came to a conclusion in Madrid, with River Plate celebrating a victory against Argentine rival Boca Juniors in the twice-suspended final of the Copa Libertadores. After the first leg was played in Argentina, River came back to win, 3-1, in the second leg after extra time to win South America’s equivalent of the Champions League, 5-3 on aggregate. The game was played in Madrid after violence in Buenos Aires two weeks ago.
Baseball
ESPN plans to move up the start time of its televised Sunday game by an hour, with first pitch planned for shortly after 7 p.m.
• Closer Lee Smith and smooth-swinging Harold Baines were elected to the baseball Hall of Fame by the Today’s Game Era Committee. Former outfielder and manager Lou Piniella fell a vote short. It took 12 votes for election.
Winter sports
Mikaela Shiffrin won a World Cup event for the third time in eight days, beating Petra Vlhova in the head-to-head final of parallel slalom in St. Moritz, Switzerland. Shiffrin beat her Slovakian opponent by 0.11 seconds. The American’s 48th career World Cup win — fourth on the women’s all-time list — was her third in a row.
• A men’s World Cup slalom race scheduled for the French resort of Val d’Isere was canceled due to wind. The International Ski Federation did not immediately announce if the race would be made up.
Elsewhere
Humboldt Broncos survivor Ryan Straschnitzki, 19, was a passenger on a bus that was rear-ended by a truck on his way home from physiotherapy in Calgary, Alberta. Straschnitzki was paralyzed from the chest down in the April 6 tragedy when the team bus was hit by a semitrailer north of Tisdale, Saskatchewan. Sixteen people died in the accident.