Colonials women defeat Syracuse
Lexi Templeman scored the first goal for Robert Morris (13-82, 7-2-0 CHA) in the first period and Michaela Boyle scored twice to help the Colonials put away visiting Syracuse (6-15-1, 5-3-1), 51, in Game 1 of a weekend series.
Robert Morris opened scoring midway through the first period when Templeman shoved a loose puck past senior goaltender Ady Cohen on a scramble in the crease. Syracuse sent in 15 shots from there, but the Colonials defense brushed away the danger and went into the first intermission up 1-0.
RMU went up, 2-0, just five minutes into the second when Kyleigh Hanzlik scooped up a loose puck to Cohen’s right and sent it top shelf. The Orange responded 40 seconds later with a goal.
Abby Moloughney gathered the puck in front of the crease to score glove-side on Raygan Kirk. The Orange weren’t celebrating for long, though, as Boyle lifted one over Cohen to put Robert Morris up, 3-1, with nine minutes to play.
Boyle added an insurance goal just two minutes into the third, her second of the night. Jaycee Gebhard capped off the night with a power-play goal in the final two minutes, her score coming on a deflection from the point that bounced past Cohen’s mitt.
More college hockey
Justin Addamo scored on a power play at 7:35 of the third period for Robert Morris (8-10-3, 8-63 AHA), but that was as close as the Colonials could get in a 2-1 loss at Mercyhurst (5-15-1, 3-11-1). Paul Maust and Jonathan Bendorf scored the goals for the Lakers.
Tennis
World No. 1 Ash Barty came from a set down to beat American Danielle Collins, 3-6, 6-1, 7-6 (5), in the Adelaide International semifinals in Australia. Barty will meet world No. 24 Dayana Yastremska Saturday in the final after the 19-year-old Ukrainian beat Aryna Sabalenka, 6-4 7-6 (4). Collins was bothered by a back injury in the final set.
• Elena Rybakina twice received on-court treatment late in the third set but still beat British qualifier Heather Watso, 6-3, 4-6, 6-4, in the semifinals of the Hobart International in Australia. Rybakina, 20, said she pulled a muscle. Rybakina will play fourth-seeded Zhang Shuai in the final. Zhang, 30, beat Veronika Kudermetova, 6-3, 6-4.
• Unseeded Ugo Humbert will play fifth-seeded Benoit Paire in an all-French final of the ASB Classic in Auckland, New Zealand. Humbert beat fourth -seeded and two-time champion John Isner, 7-6 (5), 6-4, to reach his first career final. Paire later held on to beat sixth-seeded Hubert Hurkacz of Poland, 6-4, 67 (0), 6-2.
Skiing
Taking advantage of a new race rule, Matthias Mayer scored a rare win for a downhill specialist in a World Cup combined event in Wengen, Switzerland. A new format this season gave Mayer first use of the slalom course as leader after the morning downhill. In previous seasons, the slalom order was flipped and the fastest downhiller was 30th to go on a typically rough surface. The 2014 Olympic downhill champion from Austria put down a solid slalom run on smooth snow to set a target no one could match. Pre-race favorite Alexis Pinturault was second, only 0.07 seconds behind Mayer after posting the best slalom time. Another French technical race specialist, Victor Muffat-Jeandet, was third, 0.67 behind.
Auto racing
Carlos Sainz confirmed his third Dakar Rally triumph in Qiddiya, Saudi Arabia, after ensuring defending champion Nasser Al-Attiyah didn’t escape in the Saudi desert. Sainz stayed within minutes of Al-Attiyah’s dust on the 12th and final stage, a 167-kilometer route from Haradh to Qiddiya.
Al-Attiyah, second overall, earned his first stage win of this Dakar but Sainz finished four minutes back in sixth to secure the car title beside his victories in 2010 and 2018. Sainz won by six minutes against Al-Attiyah, and 10 minutes on Mini teammate Stephane Peterhansel. The trio of racers, who share 19 Dakar wins between them, had been vying for the lead among themselves since Stage 4. Sainz led from Stage 3.
Olympics
The Olympic rings arrived in Tokyo. They sailed into Tokyo Bay on a barge and will stay there until the Olympics open July 24 and close on Aug. 9. The blue, black, red, yellow, and green rings will be replaced after that by the symbol for the Paralympics Games, which open on Aug. 25. The five Olympic rings are gigantic. They stand 15.3 meters high — about 50 feet tall — and are 32.6 meters from end to end — about 100 feet in length.
Baseball
Former Walmart Inc. chief executive David Glass, who owned the Kansas City Royals for nearly two decades before selling the franchise in the fall, died recently of complications from pneumonia. He was 84. The Glass family said the businessman died Jan. 9. Glass dealt with health issues for some time.