Dixon coasts to IndyCar win at Fort Worth
FORT WORTH — Scott Dixon led the last 119 laps at Texas Motor Speedway on Saturday night to win his second consecutive IndyCar Series race and break a tie for the third-most career victories in open-wheel racing.
Dixon got for his 43rd career victory a week after winning at Detroit to match Michael Andretti. Dixon trails only A.J. Foyt's 67 wins and Mario
Andretti's 52. Before separate late incidents involving Will
Power and Ed Carpenter, the top two finishers at the Indianapolis 500, Dixon was close to lapping the field. IndyCar said Power and Carpenter would be penalized for avoidable contact.
Power held the points lead coming into the race, but Dixon took over that with his 4.3-second victory over Simon Pagenaud.
In other motor sports news: Austin Dillon won the rain-shortened NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn. The race was delayed about three hours at the start because of the weather, and there had been a threat of more rain for a while before the race finally was called after 91 of the planned 125 laps. Dillon and Daniel Hemric battled for the lead on a restart on the 89th lap, but the race went under caution again almost immediately because of the weather. Sebastian Vettel claimed the pole position for the Formula One Canadian Grand Prix with the fastest lap on the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve. Vettel steered his Ferrari over the 2.71-mile track in 1 minute, 10.764 seconds to deprive Lewis Hamilton of a record seventh pole in Montreal.
SOCCER Youthful U.S., France draw
Julian Green scored in the 44th minute as a young United States team held on against tremendous pressure to tie World Cup-bound France 1-1 at Lyon.
Kylian Mbappe tied the score in the 78th minute for Les Bleus, who outshot the Americans 19-2. The French had been 3-0 against the U.S. in prior meetings, outscoring the Americans 10-0, but 23-year-old Zack Steffen made seven saves in his third international appearance — a standout performance that could help him in the competition to succeed Tim Howard as the team's No. 1 goalkeeper.
PRO FOOTBALL Manziel fares well in CFL tuneup
Johnny Manziel was 12-of-20 passing for 88 yards and a touchdown as the visiting Hamilton Tiger-Cats scored 30 consecutive points to beat the Montreal Alouettes 30-15 in the final Canadian Football League preseason game for both teams.
The 2012 Heisman Trophy winner at Texas A&M also ran for 19 yards.
Manziel, who is set to back up starter Jeremiah
Masoli next Saturday at Calgary in the regularseason opener, is making a comeback in the CFL after being released by the Cleveland Browns in March 2016.
GOLF Putnam, Johnson own St. Jude lead
Andrew Putnam matched the best round of his short PGA Tour career with a 6-under-par 64 and tied Dustin Johnson atop the St. Jude Classic at Memphis, Tenn.
Johnson, who is in position to reclaim the No. 1 ranking with a victory, had a 65 to match Putnam at 15-under 195. Putnam, a two-time winner on the Web.com Tour, birdied No. 18.
Stewart Cink, who had a hole-in-one on No. 8, matched his low round of the year with a 64 to get to 10 under. In other news:
Sei Young Kim birdied seven of her last 10 holes for a share of the lead with Celine Herbin in the suspended second round of the ShopRite LPGA at Galloway, N.J. Kim was 10 under for the tournament with three holes left when play was suspended because of darkness. Herbin had her second consecutive 5under 66. Hebrin birdied No. 18 after play resumed after a delay of nearly three hours because of lightning strikes in the area. Kim, a six-time LPGA Tour winner, was one of 36 players unable to complete the round
Tom Lehman shot a 7-under 65 to take a twoshot lead into the final round of the PGA Tour Champions' Principal Charity Classic in Des Moines, Iowa. Lehman eagled the par-5 eighth and played a 10-hole stretch in 7 under before dropping a stroke on the par-4 18th. He had a 13under 131 total. Firstround leader Bernhard Langer had a 69 to fall into a tie for second with Glen Day (68), Woody Austin (68) and Scott Parel (66).
Kristen Gillman won two more matches as the United States opened a 9-3 lead over Britain and Ireland in the Curtis Cup at Quaker Ridge in Scarsdale, N.Y. Gillman, a 20year-old University of Alabama golfer from Austin, improved to 4-0 and helped the Americans move within 1½ points of regaining the cup they lost in 2016 at Dun Laoghaire in Ireland.
BASEBALL Skeeters give up 3 in 9th to lose
Southern Maryland parlayed two hits, three errors and an intentional walk into three runs in the bottom of the ninth inning to defeat Sugar Land 7-6 in Atlantic League play at Waldorf, Md.
Matt Chavez had a two-run homer in a threerun third inning for the Skeeters, and Albert
Cordero drove in three runs with a double in the seventh.