HARVICK TAKES WIN IN XFINITY SERIES
GA.» Kevin Harvick led 137 of 163 laps Saturday for his fourth NASCAR Xfinity series victory in the last six years at Atlanta Motor Speedway.
Harvick finished ahead of Joey Logano and Christopher Bell. Logano started second and Bell was on the pole. They were the only other drivers to lead laps.
Harvick won each of the first two stages. He also won the 2013-15 Atlanta Xfinity races before Kyle Busch won the last two years.
Harvick served as Bell’s escort, guiding him around the 1.54-mile track through most of the second half of the race. Bell remained within a few seconds of Harvick’s Ford but couldn’t seriously challenge. Logano passed Bell for second with five laps remaining.
No. 1 St. Cloud beats No. 3 Pioneers. NCAA hockey top-ranked St. Cloud State beat No. 3 Denver 4-2 on Saturday night and clinched the National Collegiate Hockey Conference regular-season championship.
Ryan Poehling broke a 2-2 tie with 7:35 left in the third period. The Huskies added an empty-net goal.
“I thought we were a better hockey team than we were last night and St. Cloud State was too,” coach Jim Montgomery said in a news release. DU fell to 17-8-7, 11-6-5.
“They deserve the Penrose Cup, they were the best and most consistent team in the NCHC, so congratulations to them. We have to learn from this tonight and continue to get better. We can’t have bad results anymore. We know what the effort is going to take and we have to keep getting better. We have to play with more purpose and more determination like we did tonight and good things will happen for us.”
Utah players robbed. SALT LAKE
CITY» University of Utah basketball players Jake Connor, Tyler Rawson and Beau Rydalch don’t smoke, and Rydalch knew something was wrong when they returned to their house after a game and he saw cigarette butts on the floor and the back door open.
The players say their Salt Lake City-area home was burglarized Thursday night during the Utes’ Pac12 Conference game against UCLA.
KSL-TV reported that Connor’s SUV was stolen. Other missing items included cash, laptops and one player’s Social Security card, birth certificate and passport.
The players believe they were targeted because the thieves knew they would all be on campus for a game.
A thirst for goals? DUISBURG, GERMANY» A thirsty goalkeeper chose the wrong time to have a drink during a second-tier soccer game in Germany. Duisburg’s Dutch goalkeeper Mark Flekken had picked up a bottle behind his own goal line and was not even watching the game against Ingolstadt.
After host Duisburg saw a goal disallowed, Ingolstadt quickly moved the ball up the field. Duisburg defender Gerrit Nauber headed back to Flekken, who was still behind the line with his back to the ball. Stefan Kutschke ran in to score unchallenged.
Footnotes. Top-seeded Elina Svitolina retained her Dubai Championships title with a 6-4, 6-0 win over unseeded Daria Kasatkina, who was finally unable to make a comeback. It was the 11th singles title for the 23year-old Svitolina, who had won a tour-high five titles in 2017, and added Brisbane to that list earlier this year. The fourth-ranked Ukrainian improved to 14-2 for the year. … Peter Gojowczyk of Germany has beaten the last eight American opponents he’s faced in ATP tour-level matches and will have a chance to defeat another Sunday when he faces Frances Tiafoe in the Delray Beach Open final. … Spain’s Fernando Verdasco and Argentina’s Diego Schwartzman advanced to the Rio Open final in Rio de Janeiro. The eighth-seed Verdasco beat Italy’s Fabio Fognini 6-1, 7-5, and the sixth-seeded Schwartzman topped Chile’s Nicolas Jarry 7-5, 6-2.