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No. 1 seed UM stunned by Providence, 5-4, in NCAA second round

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Johnson easily won a two-lap shootout after a caution came out when Ricky Stenhouse Jr. lost control. Kyle Larson was second and Kevin Harvick third. Joey Logano was the closest Chase finalist to Johnson, finishing fourth.

The race-defining moment came with 10 laps to go when Carl Edwards tried to block Logano on a restart, then got loose before his car went flying into the wall.

The incident knocked Edwards — who was in best position to win the title — out of the race, and left Logano’s Ford with right front damage and pushed back to eighth on the restart.

The race was redflagged, stopped immediatel­y regardless of the cars’ position on the track. The collision caused a delay of 31 minutes and came after a caution that came out with 15 laps to go when Dylan Luton’s car cut a tire.

Window of opportunit­y. Advantage, Johnson.

“I felt like something was going to happen,” he said, “and I was going to be OK with it.” Cameron Smith A top-ranked, top-seeded, undefeated men’s soccer team with 15 consecutiv­e victories led by three goals with about 20 minutes left at home Sunday against a typically low-scoring opponent … and lost. Providence 5, Maryland 4. “This one is hard to process,” Terps coach Sasho Cirovski said after the game at Ludwig Field. “It’s almost too unimaginab­le, too unbelievab­le to see it unfold before your own eyes.” Maryland (18-1-2) led the NCAA tournament second-round match 4-1 before conceding two goals in a 36-second span of the 70th minute, the equalizer in the 75th and the tiebreaker in the 82nd on a corner kick that looped over the head of goalkeeper Cody Niedermeie­r (Broadneck) and caromed in off the back post. Amar Sejdic scored twice and Gordon Wild and Eryk Williamson added a goal apiece for the Terps, who had not lost in regulation since October 2015. Novak Djokovic

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