Stanford’s McGorty wins 5,000 meters

Stanford senior Sean McGorty won the men’s 5,000 meters in 13:54.81 at the NCAA championships on Friday, and junior teammate Grant Fisher was third in 13:55.04.

The result gave Stanford 16 of its 28 points, which enabled the Cardinal to finish in a tie for eighth in the men’s team scoring at the event held at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon. It was Stanford’s highest finish since 2011 and it comes with the Cardinal women going into their final day of competition with the lead after six of 21 events.

McGorty was runnerup in this race on the same Hayward Field track in 2016.

McGorty finished his collegiate career as a 10-time All-American. He becomes Stanford’s fifth NCAA outdoor 5,000 champ, following Brad Hauser (2000), Jonathon Riley (2001), Ryan Hall (2003), and Fisher (2017).

Junior Steven Fahy placed third in the 3,000 steeplechase. Fahy ran a lifetime best 8:34.52 — the second-fastest time in school history — to tie Ian Dobson (2003) for the highest NCAA placing in that event by a Stanford runner.

The Stanford quartet of Frank Kurtz, Julian Body, Gabriel Navarro, and Isaiah Brandt-Sims placed eighth in 3:05.50 in the 4x400 relay.

• USF distance runner Charlotte Taylor earned first-team All-America honors, crossing the finish line in fifth place in the women’s 10,000 meters with a time of 32:17.95. Teammate Weronika Pyzik captured 10th place, giving the Dons two runners in the top-10.

Taylor will return to the track tonight to compete in the 5,000 meters.

• Cal discus thrower McKay Johnson and triple jumper Tuomas Kaukolahti both finished in 18th place on day three of the championships.

Baseball

MORE HONORS FOR LITTLE, Stanford VAUGHN >> reliever Jack Little and Cal first baseman were named District 9 players of the year by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association. District 9 includes California, Oregon, Washington, Hawaii, Arizona and Alaska.

Little tied the singleseason school record with 16 saves and limited opponents to a .167 batting average. Vaughn, the Pac-12 player of the year, started all 54 games at first base and hit .402. His 23 home runs tied the single-season record, and his slugging percentage of .819 is the best in school history.

Soccer

QUAKES ENTERTAIN LAFC >> The San Jose Earthquakes (2-8-3, 9 points) try to snap a four-match MLS winless streak tonight as they take on Los Angeles FC (6-4-3, 21 points) at Avaya Stadium. The Quakes have lost three in a row and have not lost four straight in league play since July 2015.