LIVERPOOL NIPS CHELSEA FOR FA CUP, QUAD ALIVE

Add the FA Cup to the collection. Jurgen Klopp has now won every major title for Liverpool.

A 6-5 victory over Chelsea on penalties in Saturday’s final produced Liverpool’s first FA Cup triumph since 2006 and kept it in contention for, potentially if unlikely, a quadruple of trophies.

Just like in the League Cup final in February, the FA Cup showpiece ended 0-0 through 120 minutes before Liverpool prevailed again. This time, the Reds were helped by Chelsea midfielder Mason Mason’s penalty being saved before Konstantinos Tsimikas clinched the shootout win with his first-ever goal for the club.

“The small margins are again the difference and I cannot be more proud of my boys,” said Klopp, who has emulated Alex Ferguson with Manchester United and become only the second manager to win the European Cup, Premier League, League Cup and FA Cup with the same English club.

In two weeks, Liverpool will be hoping to win the Champions League final against Real Madrid. Before then, Klopp has to hope Manchester City slips up in the final two rounds of the Premier League and Liverpool takes advantage to regain that trophy.

More soccer

Gyasi Zardes and Diego Rubio scored firsthalf goals on penalty kicks and the Colorado Rapids (5-4-3) extended their home unbeaten streak to 22 matches with a 2-0 victory over Western Conference-leading LAFC in MLS play.

Bundesliga top-scorer Robert Lewandowski, 33, wants to leave Bayern Munich. Bayern sporting director Hasan Salihamidzic says the Polish star has turned down the club’s offer of a contract extension and “he would like to do something else.”

Tennis

This is just what Novak Djokovic needed a week before the French Open. The top-ranked Serb beat Casper Ruud 6-4, 6-3 at the Italian Open to reach his biggest final of the year. Djokovic will attempt to extend his five-match winning streak over Stefanos Tsitsipas in today’s final. Tsitsipas reached his first Rome final by rallying past Alexander Zverev 4-6, 6-3, 6-3.

Top-ranked Iga Swiatek routed Aryna Sabalenka 6-2, 6-1 for her 27th straight win and will face another player on a hot streak in the women’s final. Ons Jabeur beat Daria Kasatkina 6-4, 1-6, 7-5 for her 11th consecutive victory.

Locally

The San Diego Strike Force (2-6) couldn’t find an answer for Vegas quarterback Jerod Evans, who threw five first-half touchdowns in a 68-23 Knight Hawks’ victory at Pechanga Arena.

The San Diego Seals dropped the opening game of the best-of-3 National Lacrosse League Western Conference final playoff series against Colorado, losing 14-12 to the Mammoth at Pechanga Arena on Friday night. Tre Leclaire tied the game in the fourth quarter, but the Mammoth scored the final two goals. The teams meet in Game 2 on Saturday at Colorado.

Local colleges

After losing the first game of the double-elimination NCAA Division II West 1 Regional, the topseeded Cal State San Marcos softball team came back to win a doubleheader Friday and swept a doubleheader from Sonoma State on Saturday to win the regional. The Cougars (44-12) won Saturday’s first game 4-3 in 10 innings on a walk-off sacrifice fly by Madison Waymire. Zoe Ballen allowed one unearned run in the second game, a 3-1 win.

Having already clinched the automatic bid to the NCAA tournament and the outright Mountain West softball title, San Diego State was edged at New Mexico, 4-3, in the regular-season finale. Now, the Aztecs (37-14, 20-4 MW) will find out their NCAA Tournament destination on the “NCAA Softball Championship Selection Special,” which will air live on ESPN2 beginning at 4 p.m.

WNBA

Alyssa Thomas had 23 points, 12 rebounds and five assists and the Connecticut Sun (1-1) routed the Los Angeles Sparks (2-2) 77-60.

Diana Taurasi made six 3-pointers and scored 24 points and the Phoenix Mercury beat the Seattle Storm 69-64 to sweep the home-andhome series.

Also

Jermell Charlo became the first undisputed super welterweight champion in the four-belt era when he stopped Argentina’s Brian Castano in the 10th round of their rematch at Carson.

Former Philadelphia Phillies pitcher David West died at age 57, the team confirmed. West, a member of the 1993 National League championship team, had been battling brain cancer. West is the sixth former Phillie to die of brain cancer since 2003.