San Francisco Chronicle - (Sunday)
Laney tops Ventura to win football title
Defense sent Oakland’s Laney College to a 23-0 firstquarter lead and the Eagles held off Ventura College 40-35 to win their first California Community College Athletic Association football championship Saturday at Sacramento City College’s Hughes Stadium. John McDonald rushed for 217 yards on 38 carries for Laney (11-2). Quarterback Jordon Brookshire threw three touchdown passes and ran for two scores.
Ventura (11-2) tallied the game’s final touchdown with 6:18 left on a 6-yard pass from Brock Domann to Dominic Benson and then had to wait for one final chance. McDonald and Brookshire ran off more than five minutes on the ensuing Laney drive before turning the ball back to the Pirates with 58 seconds left. Ventura was able to advance 48 yards to the Laney 13 but time expired after a 17-yard run by Domann.
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Shiffrin wins again
Mikaela Shiffrin won a World Cup super-G on Saturday in St. Moritz, Switzerland, confirming the slalom champion’s arrival as a pure speed racer and all-round threat.
Shiffrin, who got her first career super-G win last weekend, was 0.28 of a second faster than Lara Gut-Behrami and 0.42 clear of third-place finisher Tina Weirather on the Engiadina course.
Saturday’s race was just Shiffrin’s 10th super-G start in her nine seasons on the World Cup circuit, and the win days earlier at Lake Louise, Canada, had been her first podium finish in the discipline.
“I did not expect to win today,” Shiffrin said, acknowledging the confidence boost she brought from Canada to Switzerland. “Something is working right now and I’m enjoying it. Coming into this race I thought, ‘Yeah, now I have no excuses.’ ”
Her victory was a 47th on the World Cup tour for the 23-year-old American. Her fourth victory in eight races this season gave her a big lead in defense of her overall World Cup title.
With a maximum 200 points from the two super-G races this season, Shiffrin can afford to avoid some speed races.
Shiffrin plans to skip the next World Cup stop — rescheduled downhill and super-G races on Dec. 18-19 at Val Gardena, Italy — to focus on preparing for her specialist technical events of slalom and giant slalom.
鉔 Marcel Hirscher dominated again in the World Cup, winning a giant slalom by 1.18 seconds in Val d’Isere, France. The seven-time defending overall champion protected his first-run lead in steadily falling snow to leave Henrik Kristoffersen as the runner-up.
Hirscher has finished on the podium in every giant slalom race since October 2016.