The News Herald (Willoughby, OH)
Monsters to hold Cup celebration
The Lake Erie Monsters will hold a championship celebration at 6 p.m. June 14 at Gateway Plaza, between Quicken Loans Arena and Progressive Field, the team announced.
The Monsters won the AHL Calder Cup with a sweep of the Hershey Bears. The 1-0, Cupclinching victory came in overtime on June 11.
The event will feature appearances by players and coaches, live music and food trucks. Fans will be able to take photos with the Calder Cup.
The event is free and open to the public.
Auto racing
LOGANO WINS NASCAR RACE IN MICHIGAN » Joey Logano pulled away from the pack to win the FireKeepers Casino 400, becoming the 10th driver to win a NASCAR race this season.
The pole-setter moved past rookie Chase Elliott on lap 153 and stayed ahead for the 15th Sprint Cup series victory of his career in the 15th race of the year.
Elliott finished a career-best second, followed by Kyle Larson, Brad Keselowski and Kevin Harvick at Michigan International Speedway.
Dale Earnhardt Jr., who finished 39th out of 40, is the only winner from 2015 that is winless this year.
NASCAR’s latest aerodynamic package made its debut, hoping to create more competitive racing. The setup included, for the first time in more than a decade, reducing the downforce to 1,500 pounds and shortening the spoiler to 2.5 inches. INDYCAR RAINED OUT AGAIN » After another soggy day in Texas, the IndyCar Series will wait 2½ months before a third try to race.
Only 71 of the scheduled 248 laps were completed June 12 before rain in an approaching thunderstorm hit the track. That was 54 laps short of what was needed to make it an official race after the Firestone 600 had initially been postponed June 11.
With a 50 percent chance of more rain June 13, IndyCar decided to resume the race Aug. 27, which is during what had been an open weekend for the series.
College baseball
SANTA BARBARA IN CWS ON WALKOFF GRAND SLAM » UC Santa Barbara, Miami, Oklahoma State and Texas Tech won their best-of-three super regionals to join Arizona in reaching the College World Series.
Santa Barbara will make its first CWS trip to Omaha, Nebraska, after a dramatic road sweep over No. 2 national seed Louisville. Sam Cohen’s walkoff pinch grand slam off star closer Zack Burdi in the bottom of the ninth inning for a 4-3 victory stands as the biggest hit in the history of a program that had made nine previous NCAA Tournament appearances but never got out of regionals.
Golf
HENDERSON WINS WOMEN’S PGA CHAMPIONSHIP» Brooke Henderson beat top-ranked Lydia Ko with a birdie on the first hole of a playoff Sunday in the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship after overcoming a three-shot deficit on the back nine.
The 18-year-old Canadian, ranked No. 4 in the world, closed with a bogey-free 6-under 65 — the best round of the week at Sahalee — to match Ko at 6-under 278. Ko finished with a 67.
In the playoff on the par-4 18th, Henderson hit her second shot from 155 yards to 3 feet, while Ko’s second from farther back in the fairway left her with 20 feet.