Sports shorts Yale tops three-time champ Duke for first NCAA lacrosse title

Jack Tigh scored 36 seconds into the game for his first of three goals in the opening half, and Matt Gaudet scored four goals as Yale beat Duke, 13-11, on May 28 to win its first NCAA lacrosse title.

The third-seeded Bulldogs (17-3) scored the first three goals of the game and struck first in all four quarters while holding off the threetime national champion Blue Devils.

Ben Reeves had a goal and three assists and Jack Starr made nine saves for Yale, which led, 10-5, midway through the third period and never let Duke (16-4) get closer than two.

The Bulldogs, who reached the final by routing top-seeded Albany, 20-11, on Saturday, are the first Ivy League school to win the title since Princeton in 2001.

Justin Guterding and Joey Manown had two goals and an assist each for Duke, which fell to 3-3 in the championship game. Celtics general manager Danny Ainge says point guard Kyrie Irving was unable to attend Game 7 of the Eastern Conference finals because he was recovering from nasal surgery.

Ainge said on Monday that Irving had a deviated septum. The injury occurred in November when he was hit in the face by teammate Aron Baynes. Irving wore a mask while healing from the facial fracture.

Irving has not played since March because of a knee injury. But his absence on the Boston bench was noted when the Celtics played his former team, the Cavaliers. Justin Verlander tamed the Yankees again, slowing down the highestscoring team in the majors and pitching the Astros past New York, 5-1, Monday.

Verlander exited in the seventh inning with a major league-best 1.11 ERA. J.D. Davis hit an early threerun homer and Jose Altuve had a solo drive, helping Houston win for the sixth time in eight games.

Closer Ken Giles, tagged Sunday as the Astros blew a five-run lead in the ninth at Cleveland, pitched the final inning and worked around a leadoff single.

Facing the only club in baseball that hasn’t been shut out this season, Verlander (7-2) blanked the Yankees until Greg Bird hit a leadoff home run in the seventh.

Earlier this month, Verlander pitched eight shutout innings against the Yankees and fanned 14. This time, Verlander allowed five hits in 6 2/3 innings, fanning five without a walk.

In 12 starts this year, the big righty has permitted only 10 earned runs.

Just hours after Daniel Ricciardo won the Monaco Formula One Grand Prix, his countryman Will Power won the Indianapolis 500, becoming the first Australian to win the “Greatest Spectacle in Racing” and sharing in a unique double.

Only two other countries Britain (1965, 1966) and Brazil (1989, 1993) had provided the winning driver at Monaco and Indianapolis Motor Speedway in the same year, but Australia became the first nation to win both races on the same day.

Australia has already had two world champions, Jack Brabham (1959, 1960 and 1966) and Alan Jones (1980). Ricciardo, 28, had won seven races before his maiden victory at Monaco and finished third in the championship in 2014 and 2016.

Power was crowned the 2014 IndyCar Series champion and has won 34 races in his career. Josh Sargent scored in his American debut, fellow 18-year-old Tim Weah added a goal in his second international match and a young United States team beat Bolivia, 3-0, in an exhibition May 28.

Walker Zimmerman put the Americans ahead in the 37th minute and Sargent doubled the lead in the 52nd. Weah, the son of former FIFA Player of the Year and current Liberia president George Weah, scored in the 59th.

Weah, born on Feb. 22, 2000, became the fourthyoungest American to score when he displaced Sargent, who was born two days earlier.

Interim U.S. coach Dave Sarachan gave six players their debuts, raising the total to 15 in four matches since the Americans were eliminated in World Cup qualifying. Erik Palmer-Brown, Antonee Robinson and Alex Bono joined Sargent as in the starting lineup, and Matt Olosune and Keatan Parks entered on the second half.