Earthquakes shut out by Whitecaps as Schöpf ends drought
Alessandro Schöpf scored his first MLS goal in more than a year to help the Vancouver Whitecaps beat the San Jose Earthquakes 2-0 Saturday night at San Jose.
Schöpf opened the scoring in the 74th minute when he beat goalkeeper Daniel De Sousa Britto — known as “Daniel” — with a low shot from just outside the penalty area. Ryan Gauld’s corner kick was re-directed on a clearance attempt but went straight to Schöpf, whose onetouch shot bounced off the outstretched arm of a diving Daniel into the net.
Schöpf scored for the first time since March 4, 2023 when he had a goal at San Jose.
Ali Ahmed scored in the 86th to give Vancouver (1-0-1) a 2-0 lead.
San Jose (0-3-0) has a minus-6 goal differential this season.
ELSEWHERE Newgarden takes IndyCar opener
Team Penske silenced recent criticism aimed at series leadership by dominating the IndyCar season-opening race with a Josef Newgarden win from the pole Sunday on the downtown streets of St. Petersburg, Fla..
Pato O’Ward of Arrow McLaren Racing broke up the Penske rout with a second-place finish, but Penske drivers Scott McLaughlin and Will Power finished third and fourth.
College basketball: Duke star big man Kyle Filipowski said he didn’t intend to trip North Carolina forward Harrison Ingram during the first half of Saturday night’s rivalry game after the two got tangled as Filipowski defended a shot by Ingram.
“I’m not really too sure how that whole situation happened, to be honest,” Filipowski said after the seventh-ranked Tar Heels’ 84-79 win against the Blue Devils. “I was really just getting up. My foot slipped. I don’t know how I caught him.”
Golf: Scottie Scheffler, the No. 1 player in the world, made every important putt to build a threeshot lead at the turn and then poured it on with a game so complete he closed with a bogey-free, 6-under 66 — the lowest score by two shots at Bay Hill in the final round to win the Arnold Palmer Invitational by five shots jover Wyndham Clark on Sunday at Bay Hill in Orlando, Fla.. Scheffler now has seven PGA Tour titles. He picked up $4 million after finishing at 15-under 273.
Soccer: Lecce coach Roberto D’Aversa appeared to head butt Hellas Verona striker Thomas Henry following a heated matchup between two teams just above the relegation zone in Serie A on Sunday. Henry was arguing with Lecce defender Marin Pongracic after the final whistle when D’Aversa went over to intervene and instead ended up knocking Henry over with an apparent head butt.
“I didn’t want my players to be banned,” D’Aversa said. “So I went out to try and separate them and then the incident with Henry happened. I’ve already apologized to Verona’s management.”
Skiing: Mikaela Shiffrin has made a triumphant return to the Alpine skiing World Cup after a six-week injury layoff. The American star dominated the season’s penultimate slalom for career win 96 and locked up her record-equaling eighth season title in the discipline.