Statesmen No. 2 in football regional

The Gulf South Conference champion Delta State football team received the No. 2 seed and a first-round bye in Super Region 2 in the NCAA Division 2 Football Championship.

The Statesmen (9-1), who won the 2000 national title and were 2010 national runners-up, are making their eighth appearance in the postseason and are 14- 6 alltime in NCAA play.

“Our guys battled all year to get where we are today and I could not be more proud of them,” DSU coach Todd Cooley said.

On Nov. 29, the Statesmen will host the winner of Saturday’s game between third-seeded Tuskegee (9-2) and sixth-seeded West Georgia (9-2).

Golf

At Playa del Carmen, Mexico, Charley Hoffman rallied from a three-shot deficit Sunday by closing with a 5-under 66 for a one-shot victory over Shawn Stefani in the OHL Classic at Mayakoba. Hoffman finished at 17-under 267. ... American Christina Kim won the Lorena Ochoa Invitational on Sunday for her first LPGA Tour title in nine years, beating China’s Shanshan Feng in a playoff after blowing a five-stroke lead at Mexico City. Kim won with a par on the par-4 18th on the second extra hole. Kim and Feng finished regulation at 15-under 273 at Club de Golf Mexico. Feng shot 66.

ColleGes

Claudia Haywood, a volleyball middle blocker at Xavier University (New Orleans) and a 2012 graduate of Cordova, was voted to the All-Gulf Coast Athletic Conference team, then was chosen to the all-tournament team Saturday after helping the NAIA school win its fourth consecutive GCAC title. Haywood, a junior, had nine kills and four blocks in the Gold Nuggets’ 3-0 victory against Southern University at New Orleans in the championship.