Cockrell leads USC women to NCAA outdoor title
Cambrea Sturgis of North Carolina A&T swept the women’s 100 and 200 meters Saturday in the NCAA outdoor track and field championships in Eugene, Ore.
USC won its third outdoor women’s national title, with Texas A&M finishing second.
Sturgis won the 100 in a wind-aided 10.74 seconds, the fastest all-weather time in NCAA history. She then ran the 200 in 22.12, a personal best.
USC’s Anna Cockrell won the 100 and 400 hurdles, becoming just the second woman to pull off the double in those events in the NCAA meet.
“Ever since I came to college this was my dream honestly, to double. I know only one other person had done it before me,” Cockrell said. “I don’t think it has sunken all the way in yet, I finished my interview for 400 hurdles down there and then I burst into tears.”
North Carolina A&T was third in the 1,600 relay. The Aggies men also fared well at the meet, with Randolph Ross winning the 400 in 43.85 and a third-place team finish.
Texas A&M freshman Athing Mu won the 400 in 49.57, a national collegiate record.
BYU senior Anna Camp won the 1,500 in a personalbest 4:08.53 ahead of a strong field that included Colorado’s Sage Hurta, the the women’s indoor mile champion. Hurta finished second.
“I knew Sage was crazy fast, so my goal was to sit on her shoulder for a lot of the 1,500 and win,” Camp said. “My legs felt good, I was just hopeful that I could outrun her through that push,” Camp said.
On Friday, LSU won its first men’s team title since 2002.
Isaiah Jewett set the USC school record with a time of 1:44.68 to win the 800 title, the first ever won by a Trojan, leading the USC men to a fifth-place finish. stretch of the back nine to reach 14 under.
English was 10 under. Johnson, who was tied for the lead early in the round, dropped into a third-place tie with South Africa’s Garrick Higgo at 8 under. Higgo finished with a 68.
Hadley was holding a halfway lead for the first time in PGA Tour career. And paired with world No. 1 Johnson, Hadley seemed poised to fall — especially after his opening drive went left of the fairway and led to bogey. One hole later, Johnson’s birdie had them tied for the top.
But it was Johnson who faltered, looking more like the error-prone bal- striker who missed cuts at the Masters and the PGA Championships the past two months than the one who confidently took control of his home-state Congaree Golf Club in the two opening rounds.
Englishman Tyrrell Hatton, 11th in the world, and Bo Van Pelt were tied for fifth at 7 under. Hatton shot a 68 while Van Pelt had the day’s lowest score at 66.
Hadley, the PGA Tour’s rookie of the year in 2014 whose only victory came that same season, moved back on top with three straight birdies on the 12th, 13th and 14th holes.
• Min Lee made a 15-foot birdie putt on the par-5 18th for a 4-under 68 and twostroke lead in the LPGA MEDIHEAL Championship in Daly City.
Lee also birdied the par-5 15th and par-3 17th to pull away from former Stanford player Lauren Kim and Finland’s
Matilda Castren.
Lee, from Taiwan, is trying to win for the first time on the LPGA Tour. She had a 9-under 207 total at Lake Merced in the tour’s second straight event on the San Francisco Peninsula. Lee failed to qualify for the U.S. Women’s Open last week at nearby Olympic Club.
Castren shot a 69, and Kim had a 71.
Switzerland’s Albane Valenzuela, another former Stanford player, had a 68 to join 2000 U.S. Women’s Open champion A Lim Kim (69) at 6 under.
Second-round leader Danielle Kang closed with a double bogey for a 74 that left her at 5 under with Lindsey Weaver (69), Jenny Shin (70), Jennifer Kupcho (70) and Jenny Coleman (71).
• Miguel Angel Jimenez shot a 3-under 69 to take a one-stroke lead over Fred Couples into the final round of the PGA Tour Champions’ American Insurance Championship in Madison, Wis.
Jimenez, also the firstround leader after a 65, had a 10-under 134 at University Ridge.
The 57-year-old Spaniard has 10 victories on the 50-and-over tour after winning 21 times on the European Tour.
Couples, 61, followed an opening 68 with a 67. He won the 2017 tournament for the last of his 13 senior titles.
Hometown favorite Jerry Kelly, the winner in 2019 when the event was last played, was two strokes back with Jim Furyk and Retief Goosen. Kelly shot a 69, closing with a double bogey to lose a share of the lead. Goosen and Furyk each shot 68.
Kelly played the first 35 holes bogey-free.
Tournament host Steve Stricker was 2 under after a 72. The U.S. Ryder Cup captain, like Kelly, grew up and lives in Madison.
Hall of Fame pitcher John Smoltz, making his fifth tour start of the year on a sponsor exemption, was last among the 80 finishers after rounds of 80 and 78.
Landry says Beckham looks fully recovered
Odell Beckham Jr.’s knee looks fine for football. His softball swing needs work.
The Browns wide receiver, who suffered a season-ending knee injury last season, took part Saturday in teammate Jarvis Landy’s charity softball event in Eastlake, Ohio, which drew 7,000 fans and included Cleveland stars Myles Garrett and Baker Mayfield as well as Kansas City Chiefs All-Pro tight end Travis Kelce.
Beckham struggled in the home-run hitting contest, popping up several pitches and completely missing a few, but Landry reported that his speedy teammate looked fully recovered when they worked out together this past week in Austin, Texas.
“Man, he looked amazing,” Landry told reporters. “I can’t wait for you guys to see him. I can’t wait for him to get back out there. He’s in fantastic shape and he’s ready to go. He’s only what, 6½ months (beyond surgery), and he’s already doing some things that will blow your mind away.”
The Browns are counting on Beckham as they look to build off a playoff appearance and postseason win last season. Beckham missed out on the fun after suffering a torn right anterior cruciate ligament in the opening minutes of Oct. 25 game in Cincinnati.
Beckham underwent surgery a few weeks later and was unable to help the Browns end their long playoff drought and then beat rival Pittsburgh in the wildcard game.
• Multiple NFL teams have now canceled minicamps this offseason, with the 49ers and Texans joining the Eagles and Colts as teams officially giving those workouts a miss.
Each team made its decision public this week, citing slightly different reasons (though they came down to player health).
Texans head coach David Culley pointed at the team’s participation in voluntary workouts as a reason to remove mandatory minicamp from the schedule.
“We needed to make sure for at least four weeks during the offseason we had as many players here as possible,” Culley told USA Today.
The 49ers had more of a strict timetable in mind, seeking at least 40 days rest for their players.
“We kinda decided a while ago we weren’t gonna do minicamp,” head coach Kyle Shanahan said. “I like the guys to get away for 40 days, and we started a week later this year than usual.”