Briefly

Navy, Syracuse will meet in NCAA final

Syracuse advanced to the NCAA lacrosse championship game for the fifth time in six years, stunning top-seeded Johns Hopkins 15-9 Saturday at Baltimore, Md., behind a five-goal performance by Kevin Dougherty.

Brian Nee scored four goals for the fourth-seeded Orange (14-2), who lost their two previous games against Hopkins (13-2) by a combined 36-13 score.

Syracuse will play second-seeded Navy (15-2) for the title Monday. The Midshipmen earned a berth in the championship game for only the second time by defeating Princeton 8-7 earlier Saturday.

Attendance at the doubleheader was 46,923, a record for an NCAA lacrosse event.

Olympics

Voros takes modern pentathlon, again

At Moscow, Szuzsanna Voros of Hungary won her second straight world title in modern pentathlon and her third since 1999.

She finished with 5,624 points and was followed by Sydney Olympic bronze medalist Kate Allenby of Britain at 5,572.

• France won a spot in the men’s volleyball tournament at the Athens Olympics in Tokyo after defeating Japan in a qualifying tournament.

• Koby Holland and Adam Saathoff held the top two spots respectively after the second day of competition in the men’s running target at the U.S. shooting Olympic trials in Fort Benning, Ga.

Cycling

Australia wins third straight team pursuit

Russians Olga Slyusareva and Svetlana Grankovskaya successfully defended their points and sprint titles at Melbourne, Australia, while Australia won the team pursuit for the third straight year at cycling’s world track championships.

• Italy’s Damiano Cunego all but clinched the Giro d’Italia title at Presolana, Italy, by holding his overall lead with a fifth-place finish in the next-to-last stage.

Cunego is more than a minute ahead of Ukraine’s Sergy Honchar and Gilberto Simoni. The last stage finishes in Milan today.

Miscellany

Stanford’s Liu defends women’s singles title

Stanford’s Amber Liu won 12 of the final 16 points to beat Fresno State’s Jelena Pandzic and claim her second straight NCAA women’s singles championship at Athens, Ga.

Liu, a sophomore from La Mesa, Calif., defeated Pandzic 6-4, 0-6, 6-3 to avenge a 6-2, 6-2 loss in March. She became the fourth woman to win consecutive NCAA singles titles.

• The United States captured the women’s eights at the rowing World Cup in Munich, Germany.