Mitty alum leads Oklahoma win

Mitty alum Keilani Ricketts struck out 12 in a five-hitter and Oklahoma beat Alabama 4-1 in Game 1 of the Women’s College World Series finals in Oklahoma City.

Jessica Shults drove in two runs, and tied the game 1-1 with a sacrifice fly in the fifth. The Sooners went ahead to stay later in the inning on Brianna Turang’s run-scoring grounder.

The fourth-seeded Sooners had 11 hits, the second-most allowed by Jackie Traina (40-3) this season, to win their 12th straight game and snap an 11-game win streak for the Crimson Tide. Obituary: Pedro Borbon, who pitched 10 years for the Reds and helped the Big Red Machine win titles in 1975 and ’76, died of cancer. He was 65. He also pitched for the Angels, Giants and Cardinals. Jurisprudence: The judge in the Roger Clemens trial ruled that defense lawyers can’t call Rep. Darrell Issa as a witness. Issa criticized the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee for holding hearings on drugs in baseball in 2008, and he is now the chair of that committee.

Jury selection is set to begin Tuesday in the case against Jerry Sandusky, the 68-yearold former assistant Penn State football coach accused of sexual abuse. College football: Big Ten administrators said they prefer a plus-one system over a fourteam playoff to determine a national champion, if the status quo can’t be maintained. In the plus-one format, the bowl games would be played, and then the top two teams would meet for the national title. Motor sports: NASCAR suspended Kurt Busch one week for verbally abusing a media member after Saturday’s Nationwide series race. Soccer: The United States’ match against Guatemala in the final semifinal of World Cup qualifying was scheduled for Oct. 16 in Kansas City. Boxing: “Sugar” Shane Mosley, 40, announced his retirement on Twitter, ending a career in which he won titles in three different weight classes, beat Oscar De La Hoya twice and was not knocked out. Mosley lost three of his last four fights.