In brief: Virginia tops Florida to advance
College baseball: Kenny Towns drove in three runs, including the winner in the seventh, and Josh Sborz pitched four innings of shutout relief as Virginia defeated Florida 5-4 in Omaha, Nebraska, to set up a College World Series finals rematch against Vanderbilt.
Virginia (42-23), which lost 10-5 to Florida on Friday, took two of three CWS games against the Gators (52-18) and now has won eight of its nine NCAA Tournament games. The Cavaliers open the best-of-three finals against a Vanderbilt team that beat them in three games for the championship last year.
It will be the first CWS finals rematch since Oregon State beat North Carolina in 2006-07.
Sborz ran his shutout innings streak to 23 since May 15, getting Richie Martin to ground out after Harrison Bader reached on a two-out single in the ninth. Danny Lewis took the loss.
Serbia beats Brazil in U-20 World Cup final
Soccer: Nemanja Maksimovic scored in the 117th minute to give Serbia a surprise 2-1 win over Brazil in the final of the Under-20 World Cup in Auckland, New Zealand.
The match seemed destined for a penalty shootout but a late Serbia counter-attack bore fruit as Stefan Ilic and Andrija Zivkovic combined to put Maksimovic in behind the defense and he calmly slotted his low shot past goalkeeper Jean.
The victory, and Serbia’s first title as an independent nation, owed much to goalkeeper and captain Pedrag Rajkovic who pulled off a series of saves to repeatedly deny Brazil its longed-for victory.
• Brazil will appeal Neymar’s suspension: Brazil will appeal Neymar’s four-game suspension that rules him out of the rest of the Copa America.
Brazil coach Dunga said Saturday that his confederation’s “legal department will file a counterpoint to Neymar’s sanction.”
A CONMEBOL disciplinary panel on Friday also fined Neymar $100,000 for being sent off after the final whistle of Brazil’s 1-0 loss to Colombia on Wednesday. He was red-carded for kicking the ball at an opponent, appeared to head-butt another player, and confronted the referee.
Federer reaches 10th Gerry Weber final
Tennis: Seven-time champion Roger Federer defeated big-serving Ivo Karlovic 7-6 (3), 7-6 (4) to reach the Gerry Weber Open final for the 10th time in Halle, Germany.
Both players held serve until Federer made a mini-break to go 4-3 up in the first tiebreaker. The Swiss did it again and won the first set on Karlovic’s double-fault.
Federer saved the only break point he faced at 2-1 in the second.
Another mini-break put Federer 3-2 up in the second tiebreaker, but Karlovic answered for 3-3. Federer correctly challenged a call that would have put the eighth-seeded Croat ahead and secured another mini-break when Karlovic hit a return to the net.
• Anderson beats Simon to reach Queen’s Club final: Top-seeded Andy Murray’s bid to reach the final at Queen’s Club ended in frustration when his semifinal against Serbia’s Viktor Troicki was suspended in the first set due to rain in London.
Troicki fought off five break points at 3-3, and Murray earned a sixth when his opponent fell and injured his left shoulder on the grass court as he netted the ball. The 25th-ranked Troicki received treatment but rain prevented further points being played.
The match will resume this morning.
Awaiting the winner in today’s final is unseeded South African Kevin Anderson, who beat Gilles Simon of France 6-3, 6-7 (6), 6-3.
D-backs, Braves make three-player deal
Miscellany: In a money-saving move, the Arizona Diamondbacks have traded Bronson Arroyo and last year’s first-round draft pick, Touki Toussaint, to the Atlanta Braves for infielder Phil Gosselin.
The 38-year-old Arroyo has not pitched since undergoing Tommy John surgery last July 18. He signed with Arizona as a free agent before last season after eight years with the Cincinnati Reds.
The 19-year-old Toussaint was 2-2 with a 3.69 ERA in seven starts for Class A Kane County.
Gosselin, 26, has been on the 15-day disabled list since May 18 with a fractured left thumb. He was hitting .325 with four doubles and two RBIs in 20 games.
• Stellar Wind wins $200,000 Summertime Oaks: Stellar Wind won the $200,000 Summertime Oaks by a nose under Triple Crown-winning jockey Victor Espinoza at Santa Anita in Arcadia, California.
The 3-year-old daughter of Curlin ran 1 1/16 miles in 1:42.53 to remain undefeated in three starts at the track. Stellar Wind paid $2.80, $2.20 and $2.10 as the heavy 2-5 favorite. She was coming off a fourth-place finish in the Kentucky Oaks on May 1.
• Phelps wins the 200 fly in Santa Clara: Michael Phelps won the 200 butterfly at the Arena Pro Series in Santa Clara, California, and met his expectations.
Phelps last won a 200 fly race at the 2012 Olympic trials and declared he would not return to the event when he came out of retirement last year.
Still the world record holder in the event, Phelps seems determined to recapture the glory of the event that vaulted him into prominence at the 2000 Olympics.
He won on Saturday in 1:57.62, six seconds slower than his record time in Rome in 2009 but three seconds faster than last month. It was the time he targeted to continue working out for the event.
• Rain postpones XFINITY Series Race: NASCAR fans hoping to catch the XFINITY Series race at Chicagoland Speedway were forced to wait an extra day as heavy rainfall washed out the start, forcing a postponement until today at 11 a.m., in Joliet, Illinois.
Improved weather contitions are expected for the rescheduled fifth annual Owens Corning AttiCat 300.
Austin Dillon holds the pole position, narrowly edging Ross Kenseth in qualifying on Saturday.