In brief: Sender edges Horton for U.S. men’s title

David Sender looked skyward, clapped his hands, then leaned over and kissed the pommel horse.

He might want to consider having that piece of equipment bronzed.

The Stanford senior did just enough on pommel horse to edge Jonathan Horton for the title at the U.S. gymnastics championships Saturday night in Houston. His 13.75 on pommel horse gave Sender 180.7 points for the two-day meet, a mere 0.25 ahead of Horton, who was fourth in the world last year.

Joseph Hagerty was third and defending national champion David Durante was fourth.

Tennis

Sweden wins Team Cup

Sweden won the World Team Cup for the fourth time, capturing the doubles to beat Russia 2-1 in Duesseldorf, Germany.

With the best-of-3 series at 1-1, Robin Soderling and Robert Lindstedt edged Mikhail Youzhny and Dmitry Tursunov 4-6, 7-6 (5), 11-9 after saving a match point at 9-8 in the match tiebreaker.

Sweden also won the title in 1988, 1991 and 1995. Russia has never won it.

Soderling maintained his unbeaten record this week, winning all eight matches he played in singles and doubles.

“Top-seeded Nikolay Davydenko won the Hypo Group International for a third time, beating defending champion Juan Monaco 6-2, 2-6, 6-2 in Poertschach, Austria.

Davydenko won his 13th ATP Tour title overall and second of the season after winning the Masters Series event in Miami last month.

“Agnieszka Radwanska beat top-seeded Elena Dementieva of Russia 6-3, 6-2 to win the Istanbul Cup in Istanbul, Turkey, and become the first Polish woman to surpass $1 million in career earnings on the WTA Tour.

The No. 2-seeded Radwanska earned $30,500 for her third career title and gained momentum heading into the French Open after having been eliminated in the round of 16 at all four of her previous clay-court tournaments this year.

Miscellany

Lacrosse title game set

Kevin Huntley scored four goals and defending NCAA lacrosse champion Johns Hopkins beat top-seeded Duke 10-9 in Foxborough, Mass., to earn a spot in the national title game against Syracuse on Monday. The Orange beat Virginia 12-11 in double overtime in the other semifinal.

Both teams will be going for a 10th national title. Hopkins and Syracuse have met in the title game four times, with each team winning twice. The Orange won the regular-season matchup this year 14-13 in overtime on March 15.

“Jockey Robby Albarado won four races in one day, including edging out a win in the feature race at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky.

He rode Lattice to a 3/4-length win over Transduction Gold in the $170,000 feature. The 4-year-old colt ran 1 1/2 miles over a firm turf in 2:31.13.

“ Ricky Hatton prevailed in a lopsided decision over Juan Lazcano in Manchester, England, to retain his IBO light welterweight title and restart his career before a raucous home crowd.

Hatton won easily on all three judges scorecards at the Manchester City soccer ground: 120-110, 118-110, 120-108.