U.S.’S HUMPHRIES WINS THIRD WOMEN’S BOBSLED CROWN

Kaillie Humphries of the U.S. is a bobsled champion again, winning her third world title Saturday to put an emphatic cap on her comeback season.

Humphries teamed with Lauren Gibbs to finish four runs over two days in Altenberg, Germany with a time of 3 minutes, 45.49 seconds.

Germany’s junior world champion Kim Kalicki and Kira Lipperheide were second in 3:45.86, and Christine de Bruin and Kristen Bujnowski of Canada were third in 3:46.55.

Humphries finished it off by posting the fastest time in the final heat, wrapped her arms around the front of her sled once it came to a stop, then hopped out and hoisted a U.S. flag.

Her first two world titles, along with both of her Olympic gold medals, were won for Canada.

But Humphries — the wife of an American, but still a Canadian citizen — came to USA Bobsled and Skeleton last fall, after sitting out last season amid allegations of verbal and mental abuse with the Canadian program.

And in the end, she proved she was still the world’s best. Humphries joined Germany’s Sandra Kirasis as the only threetime women’s bobsled world champion pilots.

Local colleges

The UC San Diego basketball teams swept a pair of games at Cal State Monterey Bay.

The men’s team (26-1, 20-1 CCAA), ranked fourth in Division II, beat the Otters (10-16, 7-13) 84-64 for its 18th straight victory. Meanwhile, the Tritons women (22-4, 18-3), ranked No. 18, captured at least a tie for its fifth straight conference crown with a 73-41 victory.

• The San Diego State baseball team topped Nebraska 4-2 in the Tony Gwynn Legacy tournament at SDSU. The Aztecs (5-1) scored all four runs in the sixth inning after the Cornhuskers (1-4) tallied two in the top of the frame. Casey Schmitt was 3-for-3 and Wyatt Hendrie knocked in two runs. Troy Melton earned his second victory.

• The USD baseball team (3-3) defeated visiting Seattle (4-2) in the Gwynn Legacy. Adam Lopez had two hits and scored twice, and Thomas Leuvano had two hits and scored once. Carter Rustad went five innings for the victory, allowing one run.

• The SDSU women’s basketball team (12-16, 7-9 Mountain West) dropped a 72-67 decision at UNLV (1314, 9-7).

• The USD softball team (6-6) scored a 6-5 win over New Mexico in the Mary Nutter Classic at Cathedral City.

• The Toreros women’s basketball team (17-10, 11-5) couldn’t overcome a thirdquarter surge by host Santa

Clara (10-17, 4-12) and dropped a 78-66 WCC game to the Broncos.

Tennis

Top-seeded Simona Halep won her 20th singles title after prevailing in a third-set tiebreaker to beat Elena Rybakina 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (5) in the Dubai Championships final.

• Top-seeded Dominic Thiem of Austria was eliminated by qualifier Gianluca Mager of Italy in their rainaffected, two-day Rio Open quarterfinal at Rio de Janeiro. Mager led 7-6 (4), 2-1 when rain forced the match to be suspended on Friday. He won the second set 7-5 on Saturday to reach the semifinals.

Also

The San Diego Seals (4-6), behind Casey Jackson’s career-high-tying five goals, beat visiting Vancouver (4-7) 15-10 in an NLL match.

• Corinne Suter won the season-long World Cup downhill title by finishing race runner-up to Lara Gutbehrami for the second straight day at Crans-montana, Switzerland. Gutbehrami edged her Swiss teammate Suter by 0.02 seconds.

• David Forney, a star lineman for Navy’s recordbreaking offense, was found dead in his dormitory, the cause of death undisclosed. He was 22.