Cal's rally falls just short in season-ending loss at home
The Cal women's basketball team's season came to an end Sunday with a 63-61 loss to Saint Joseph's in the second round of the WBIT at Haas Pavilion.
Trailing by 10 with 2:54 remaining, the Golden Bears got back into the game with a late 9-0 run and were down 63-61 with 12 seconds left in the fourth quarter. But a threepoint attempt by Marta Suárez was blocked as time expired.
Suárez led the Golden Bears (19-15) picked up her seventh double-double of the season with 20 points and a career-high 13 rebounds against the Hawks (28-5). Leilani McIntosh and Ioanna Krimili added 10 points each for Cal. Laura Ziegler and Chloe Welch had 19 points each to lead Saint Joseph's.
BRONCOS SEASON ENDS >> Santa Clara's season ended in the second round of the WBIT with a 73-47 loss to top-seeded Washington State (1912). Santa Clara finished at 25-8, the second-most wins in team history.
Golf
MALNATI WINS >> Peter Malnati made a late birdie on his way to a 4-under 67 to win the Valspar Championship and earn his first trip to the Masters. It was Malnati's second PGA Tour victory as he won by two over Cameron Young, who now has seven runner-up finishes without a win.
On the par-3 17th into wind, Malnati hit a laser to 6 feet for birdie. Up ahead, Young hit his drive well left, got it on the green and three-putted from 50 feet for bogey.
KORDA BACK TO NO. 1 >> Nelly Korda made bogey on her final two holes to fall into a playoff and atoned for it quickly, making a 12-foot birdie putt to beat Ryann O'Toole in the Fir Hills Seri Pak Championship at Palos Verdes Estates to return to No. 1 in the world.
The 25-year-old Korda, who closed with a 2-under 69, won for the second time this year.
HARRINGTON REBOUNDS >> Padraig Harrington won the Hoag Classic at windy Newport Beach Country Club for his seventh PGA Tour Champions victory, rebounding from a double bogey with birdies on the final two holes for a one-stroke victory over Thongchai Jaidee. Harrington shot a 2-under 69 to finish at 14-under 199.
Motorsports
BYRON WINS AT COTA >> William Bryon started on pole and delivered a dominant drive to win NASCAR's first road course race of the season at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Tex. The Daytona 500 winner snatched his second win of the season and delivered the fourth in six races for Chevrolet.
Byron led 42 of 68 laps and held off a hard-charging run from Joe Gibbs Racing's Christopher Bell over the final two laps.
PALOU DOMINATES >> Alex Palou, the two-time and reigning IndyCar champion, won the Thermal $1 Million Challenge in a total rout to complete a dominating three-day weekend. Palou was among the fastest drivers in practice sessions and led every lap of anything that counted while winning his qualifying group, his heat race and all 20 laps of IndyCar's first non-points race since 2008. SAINZ WINS >> Ferrari's Carlos Sainz ended Red Bull's Formula 1 winning streak Sunday when the Spaniard took advantage of Max Verstappen's early exit to win the Australian Grand Prix just two weeks after missing the previous race in Saudi Arabia due to an emergency appendectomy.
Sainz started on the front row alongside Verstappen but passed the Dutchman on lap two at turn nine for the lead and took control once his rival retired two laps later with a fiery mechanical failure. Verstappen was on a nine-race winning streak.
College hockey
BUCKEYES WIN TITLE >> Joy Dunne scored the only goal of the match with 7:12 remaining to spark top-seeded Ohio State to a 1-0 victory over defending-champion and second-seeded Wisconsin in the final of the women's Frozen Four at the Whittemore Center Arena in Durham, N.H.
College football
GEORGIA PLAYER ARRESTED >> Georgia running back Trevor Etienne was arrested early Sunday on drunken driving, reckless driving and other charges, jail records show. Etienne, the Bulldogs' projected starting running back, was booked into the Athens-Clark County Jail at 4:35 a.m. and released less than an hour later on bonds totaling about $1,800.
The university said in a statement it was aware of the arrest but would not have further comment. Etienne, 19, is a transfer from Florida.
Tennis
GAUFF ADVANCES >> Third-ranked Coco Gauff came from behind in the first set to beat Océane Dodin 6-4, 6-0 and advance to the fourth round of the Miami Open for the second time in her career. Gauff won 10 straight games after Dodin took a 4-2 lead in the opening set, thanks partly to nine double-faults by Dodin.
Gauff has just one loss in her past 23 matches in the United States. That defeat came against Maria Sakkari at Indian Wells earlier this month.
Gauff, 20, is the youngest American player to hold a top three seed at Miami.