Ban wins; golf team second by one stroke

UNLV senior Shintaro Ban tied for medalist honors Sunday at the Thunderbird Invitational men’s golf tournament, helping the 23rdranked Rebels finish one stroke behind host Arizona State atop the leaderboard in Tempe, Arizona.

Ban, who finished at 11-underpar 202 to match Colorado’s Yannik Paul, won his third individual title of the season and fourth of his career.

No. 22 Arizona State shot 22-under 830, followed by UNLV (831), No. 8 Oklahoma (833) and No. 1 Oklahoma State (835) in a 17-team field featuring five teams ranked in Golfweek’s top 25 and three in the top 10.

UNLV freshman Jack Trent fired the tournament’s low round, an 8-under 63 on Sunday that moved him from a tie for 44th to a tie for eighth at 5-under 208 in the 85-player field.

Softball: At Boise, Idaho, Mackenzie Sullivan hit a two-out, three-run, walk-off homer to cap a four-run ninth inning by Boise State (28-13, 7-5 Mountain West) in its 12-11 victory over the Rebels (24-16, 6-9). Sullivan finished 3-for-5 with five RBIS. Janine Petmecky homered twice for

UNLV, which won the series’ first two games 1-0 and 2-1.

Football: Cornerback Tim Hough will play at Oregon as a graduate transfer, ESPN reported. The Desert Pines High School product started three games for the Rebels last season, making 19 tackles and breaking up three passes.

Men’s tennis: At Reno, Courtney Lock won in straight sets at No. 2 singles, the senior’s fifth victory in his past six matches for the Rebels (13-9, 3-4 Mountain West), who lost 4-1 to UNR (14-6, 3-3). from the pole.

Indycar: At Long Beach, Calif., native Californian Alexander Rossi led 71 of 85 laps in his Andretti Autosport Honda and pulled away after a restart with nine laps to go, winning the Grand Prix of Long Beach for his third career series victory. Will Power placed second, Ed Jones third and Zach Veach a career-best fourth.