7-0 USF pitcher wins WCC honor

USF sophomore Riley Ornido, who took a no-hitter into the eighth inning against St. Mary’s on Sunday, was named the WCC Pitcher of the Week. Ornido is 7-0 with a 1.50 ERA. College basketball: Forward Rui Hachimura has decided to return for his junior year at Gonzaga. The 6-foot-8 native of Japan was one of the Bulldogs’ most exciting players this season, despite coming off the bench. He averaged 11.6 points per game and led the Zags with 12.9 points in WCC play.

Miami sophomore guard Bruce Brown Jr. has decided to hire an agent and turn pro. Soccer: Competitive international play returns to Iraq on Tuesday less than a month after FIFA lifted a near three-decadelong ban.

In the group stage of the AFC Cup, Asia’s second-tier club competition, Lebanon’s Al Ahed will travel to the central Iraqi city of Karbala to take on Al Zawraa.

Soccer’s world governing body imposed the ban in 1990 after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. It was temporarily lifted in 2011 for a World Cup qualifier between Iraq and Jordan in the northern city of Irbil but was quickly reimposed after power outages.

Japan fired coach Vahid Halilhodzic two months before the World Cup and replaced him with Akira Nishino, the technical director of the Japanese soccer association.

Forward Fernando Torres will leave Atlético Madrid at the end of the season. The 34-yearold said he wants to keep playing but needed a change because he wasn’t getting many chances under coach Diego Simeone.

After a career spanning five countries and countless titles both as a player and a coach, Fabio Capello announced his retirement. Tennis: Gilles Simon beat Benoit Paire 6-2, 6-7 (1), 7-6 (5) in an erratic all-French match featuring 12 breaks of serve to reach the Grand Prix Hassan II second round in Marrakesh, Morocco.