Toronto FC extends streak
Laryea helps raise unbeaten run to 17
Richie Laryea scored in the 17th minute and host Toronto FC extended its regular-season unbeaten streak to 17 games with a 1-0 victory on Friday night against the Vancouver Whitecaps.
Toronto owns the fifth-longest unbeaten streak in Major League Soccer history and is two away from tying the 2004-05 Columbus Crew and 2010 Dallas FC for the record. Toronto ended last year’s regular season on a 10-game unbeaten streak and has gone 4-0-3 this year.
Laryea got his third goal of the season when he took a pass from Alejandro Pozuelo and beat Vancouver’s Thomas Hasal from just outside the box. Pozuelo picked up his league-leading seventh assist.
It is the second time in four days that Toronto has beaten the Whitecaps (2-5-0), who have dropped three of their past four.
More soccer
Bill Hamid made two saves to help D.C. United play host FC Cincinnati (2-3-1) to a scoreless draw. The teams combined for just three shots on goal, but both had attempts hit the goal bars. Donovan Pines headed a free kick off the crossbar in the eighth minute for D.C. United (1-2-3) . ... Gadi Kinda opened the scoring in the 12th minute and visiting Sporting Kansas City got an own goal in the second half for a 2-1 victory against Minnesota United. Kansas City (51-0) has won three games in a row, with its lone loss to the Loons. Minnesota (3-1-2) entered as one of four
unbeaten teams in the MLS.
Golf
Shane Bertsch eagled the first hole of a four-man playoff to win the Charles Schwab Series at Bass Pro Shops Big Cedar Lodge in Ridgedale, Mo., in his second PGA Tour Champions start. Bertsch hit an approach from the rough near the back edge of a bunker that took some big bounces in front of the green and rolled to 20 feet from the back pin on Buffalo Ridge’s par-5 first hole.
• Scottish golfer Connor Syme moved into a strong position to make up for last week’s near miss at Celtic Manor by taking a twoshot lead after the second round of the Wales Open in Newport, played at the same venue on the European Tour. Smith was in a tie for second place with five other players: Li Haotong (66), Liam Johnston (68), Nacho Elvira (67), Sihwan Kim (67) and Sebastian Soderberg (70).
Basketball
Arike Ogunbowale had 24 points and nine assists, and Dallas (5-8) held off Washington (4-8), 101-92, in overtime in the WNBA in Bradenton, Fla. Marina Mabrey gave Dallas a 65-42 lead with 7:23 remaining in the third quarter, but the Wings were outscored, 23-12, in the fourth, capped by Myisha Hines-Allen tying basket with 1:04 left . ... Chelsea Gray scored 20 points, Candace Parker tied it in regulation and drew a key charge in overtime as the Los Angeles Sparks (9-3) rallied to beat the Atlanta Dream (2-11), 9385.
High school
Here’s one for the strange but true WPIAL basketball coaching situations. A coach leads his team to a WPIAL championship appearance, but it’s not enough to stop the school from opening his position a few months later. Then the school goes out and hires a coach who was let go from his job in June, despite guiding his team to the WPIAL semifinals the past three years. This is the story of Sto-Rox boys basketball, Ryan Hughes and Dwight Hines. Sto-Rox hired Hines as its coach Thursday night. Hines was Aliquippa’s coach the past four years and had three WPIAL semifinal appearances. Hines takes over at Sto-Rox for Hughes, who guided the Vikings to the WPIAL Class 2A title game this past season. But Hughes’ job wasn’t the only one opened in June because the Sto-Rox school board opened all coaching positions except football coach. That was done at the same time Sto-Rox hired LaRoi Johnson as athletic director. Johnson is the school’s football coach. Hines wasn’t the only hire made by StoRox Thursday. Kerry Connolly was named the new girls basketball coach for the Vikings. Connolly is a former standout at Sto-Rox who had more than 1,000 career points.