The Denver Post

Air Force- Wyoming game canceled due to virus cases Schwab Cup headed to Monday finish after 6 playoff holes.

- — The Associated Press

COLORADO SPRINGS » Air Force’s scheduled game at Wyoming this Saturday has been canceled due to an “upward trend” of COVID- 19 cases at the Air Force Academy, the Mountain West Conference announced Sunday.

The league said in a statement there was no plan to reschedule the game.

Air Force was slated to travel to Army this weekend before that game was postponed because of the virus. The service academies are trying to find a date to make up the contest.

“We are disappoint­ed to lose a second consecutiv­e game, but the health and safety of our cadets, staff and community is our No. 1 priority at the Academy,” said Nathan Pine, the director of athletics at Air Force. “We have seen continued increase in our COVID numbers within the football program and have again eclipsed our threshold for safe competitio­n.

“We will pause football practices for now and work with our sports medicine staff to determine when it will be safe to restart again.”

Both Air Force and Wyoming are 1- 2 overall this season.

• The Pac- 12 Conference has moved Utah’s game at UCLA from Friday to Saturday. Utah has had a rise in positive COVID- 19 cases. The game will now begin at 8: 30 p. m. MT.

PHOENIX » Kevin Sutherland and Paul Broadhurst traded missed birdie putts as the sun raced toward the horizon, each time agreeing to keep playing despite the decreasing visibility.

After six playoff holes, it was just too dark to see the ball anymore.

Now the PGA Tour Champions season will last at least another day.

The final round of the season- ending Charles Schwab Cup Championsh­ip will be played on Monday after Sutherland and Broadhurst kept making pars as darkness fell.

“As quick as I’ve ever played six holes,” Broadhurst said. “I didn’t dream we’d get six holes in. I thought a couple holes ( about stopping).”

Broadhurst played a superb final round on Sunday, erasing a six- shot deficit with a bogey- free 63 in the season finale for the over- 50 tour, which won’t crown a champion until next year due to the coronaviru­s pandemic.

Sutherland stumbled through the early part of the round to lose an overnight five- shot lead over Wes Short Jr., but closed with a birdie on the par- 5 18th hole to shoot a 2- under 69.

Broadhurst and Sutherland finished at 15- under 198.

After all those birdies, neither could get anything to fall in the playoff. The darker it got, the quicker Sutherland and Broadhurst seemed to play as they tried to avoid the tournament getting pushed into Monday. They even rode in carts to their second shots to speed up the process.

MacIntyre wins Cyprus Showdown.

PAPHOS, CYPRUS » Scotland’s Robert MacIntyre produced a brilliant finish to claim his first European Tour title in the Cyprus Showdown on Sunday. MacIntyre birdied four of his last six holes at Aphrodite Hills Resort to card a 7- under 64 and finish a shot ahead of Japan’s Masahiro Kawamura.

Mir wins 1st MotoGP race to extend championsh­ip lead.

CHESTE, SPAIN » Joan Mir won the Grand Prix of Europe for his first MotoGP victory on Sunday, extending his points lead with two races to go in the championsh­ip.

Medvedev beats Zverev to win Paris Masters final.

Daniil Medvedev won the Paris Masters for the first time by beating Alexander Zverev 5- 7, 6- 4, 6- 1 Sunday for his eighth career title and third at a Masters tennis event.

Roglic seals 2nd consecutiv­e Spanish Vuelta victory. MADRID » Primoz Roglic clinched his second consecutiv­e Spanish Vuelta victory with an uneventful final ride into Madrid on Sunday.

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