Varner uses 63 to surge into 1-shot Heritage lead
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. — Harold Varner III shot an 8under 63 to take a oneshot lead in the RBC Heritage on Saturday.
Patrick Cantlay (70), Shane Lowry (65) and Erik van Rooyen (67) are tied for second.
More golf: Hyo Joo Kim shot a 71 for a two-shot win in the LPGA Tour’s LOTTE Championship.
College basketball: Emoni Bates said that he is entering the transfer portal and will leave Memphis after one season.
College football: Alabama unveiled a plaque honoring John Jackson and Wilbur Mitchell more than 50 years after they broke the color barrier as the school’s first Black players.
College gymnastics: Oklahoma captured its fifth NCAA women’s gymnastics title, rallying from last after the first rotation to the top spot at the end behind a stellar performance from junior Ragan
Smith, who clinched the team championship with a 9.9625 on the balance beam.
Tennis: Defending champion Stefanos Tsitispas breezed into the Monte Carlo Masters final, where he will face Alejandro Davidovich Fokina . ... New No. 1 Iga Swiatek powered Poland into the Billie Jean King Cup finals for the first time and they were joined by other newcomers Italy and Kazakhstan. Other winners included Czech Republic and Spain.
WNBA: Former player Shoni Schimmel was arrested and pleaded not guilty to strangling a former romantic partner.
Horse racing: Zippy Chippy, the lovable loser for never winning in 100 races, has died at 31.
Soccer: The North Carolina Courage bolted to a 3-0 lead, then held off an Orlando Pride rally for a 4-2 victory in the NWSL Challenge Cup . ... Cristiano Ronaldo had a hat trick to lead Manchester United to a 3-2 victory over Norwich.
Judo: Ari Berliner of Jason Morris Judo Center won a bronze medal at the Pan AmericanOceania Judo Championships on Friday. Berliner’s third-place finish moved him up 14 spots to No. 39 in the world rankings.
— Staff, wire reports