Flooding washes out PGA event

Greenbrier Classic canceled after storms hit West Virginia

The PGA Tour canceled the Greenbrier Classic, scheduled for July 7-10, on Saturday because of devastating flooding in West Virginia.

The Greenbrier Resort in White Sulphur Springs was inundated with floodwater after heavy storms rolled into the state Thursday. Tour officials say the Old White TPC, the host course, suffered extensive damage and “is beyond reasonable repair to conduct the tournament.”

This is the first time a PGA Tour event has been washed out since the Viking Classic in Madison, Mississippi, in 2009. Unplayable conditions also led to the cancellation of the 1996 AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am.

The Greenbrier was supposed to be the final chance to qualify for the British Open at Royal Troon on July 14-17, with one spot available to the highest finisher who was not already eligible. One possibility is to award that spot to the Barracuda Championship, to be played next week opposite the World Golf Championship-Bridgestone.

Naval Academy graduate n Billy Hurley III shot a 4-under 67 to take a twostroke lead over Ernie Els into the final round of the Quicken Loans National in Bethesda, Maryland.

Hurley had four birdies in his bogey-free round at Congressional to reach 15 under.

Top-ranked Lydia Ko n eagled the par-5 18th to tie the course record at 9-under 62 and take a share of the second-round lead with Morgan Pressel at 14-under 128 in the LPGA Tour’s NW Arkansas Championship in Rogers, Arkansas.

Jean-Francois Remesy n had two eagles and finished with an 8-under 64 to take the second-round lead in the PGA Tour Champions’ inaugural American Family Insurance Championship in Madison, Wisconsin.

Gymnastics

Sam Mikulak, Jake Dalton and John Orozco are heading back to the Olympics. So are Alex Naddour and Chris Brooks. And this time, they won’t be watching from the stands.

Naddour and Brooks, alternates on the 2012 men’s gymnastics team, will join Mikulak, Dalton and Orozco in Rio de Janeiro in August after earning spots on the U.S. team at the U.S. Olympic gymnastics trials in St. Louis.

Soccer

Fabian Castillo finished Mauro Diaz’s sensational assist in the 58th to cap FC Dallas’ 2-0 victory over Real Salt Lake.

Dom Dwyer scored n twice to help Sporting Kansas City rally for a 2-2 tie with Montreal.

Andrew Jacobson, Kekuta n Manneh and Christian Bolanos scored and Vancouver beat Philadelphia 3-0, handing the Union its first home loss of the season.

The quarterfinal n lineup at the European Championship started to take shape as the start of the round of 16 saw Poland, Portugal and Wales make it through to the final eight.

College baseball

Bobby Dalbec pitched seven innings of four-hit ball and Zach Gibbons drove in three runs, leading Arizona to a 5-1 win over Oklahoma State and moving the Wildcats into the College World Series best-of-three finals.

Arizona (48-22), picked to finish ninth in the Pac-12 in the preseason, will face Coastal Carolina (53-17), a 7-5 winner over TCU, beginning Monday.

Football

Former Seattle Seahawks quarterback Tarvaris Jackson has been arrested in central Florida after authorities say he pulled a gun on his wife. Jackson, 33, was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and bonded out of jail later Friday.

Motor sports

Kalitta Motorsports’ Doug Kalitta and Del Worsham swept the No. 1 qualifying positions in the nitro categories in the NHRA Summit Racing Equipment Nationals in Norwalk, Ohio.

Greg Anderson topped the Pro Stock lineup, and Eddie Krawiec was the fastest in Pro Stock Motorcycle.

Track and field

The Russian sports minister says “up to 67 athletes” have applied to track and field’s world governing body to be exempted from the ban on the Russian team at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics.

Jamaican sprinter Kemar n Bailey-Cole says he has been infected with the Zika virus but will participate in his country’s Olympic trials next week.