In brief: Vernon Adams leads West to Shrine victory
COLLEGE FOOTBALL: Oregon’s Vernon Adams Jr. threw for 191 yards and three touchdowns in less than a half, leading the West to a 29-9 victory in the 91st East-West Shrine game at St. Petersburg, Florida, on Saturday.
The former Eastern Washington star, who transferred to Oregon to finish his college career, tossed scoring passes of 93 yards to Purdue’s Danny Anthrop, 11 yards to Colorado State’s Kivon Cartwright and 10 yards to Illinois’ Geronimo Allison as the West built a 23-9 halftime lead.
Adams came to St. Petersburg in hopes of improving his draft prospects, too. He completed nearly 65 percent of his passes for 2,643 yards, 26 touchdowns and six interceptions at Oregon.
The 5-foot-11, 200-pound quarterback entered after West starter Brandon Doughty threw a pair of interceptions, one of which Florida’s Brian Poole returned to give the East an early 9-0 lead. Poole’s Florida teammate, linebacker Anthony Harrell, had the first interception off the Western Kentucky quarterback, setting up a field goal.
Adams completed 6 of 9 passes for 191 yards in the opening half alone.
Baggett’s winner with 13:48 remaining came three plays after Kyle Kragen of California recovered Travis Wilson’s fumble on the American 10-yard line. For Kragen, it was his third sack of the game.
Baggett, who kicked four years at Missouri and finished just eight points shy of the school scoring record, also connected from 36, 50, 42, 39 and 24 yards before kicking the winner. He missed a 54-yard attempt.
Collins passed for 936 yards and six touchdowns with four interceptions. He led the Beavers in rushing with 380 yards and eight touchdowns.
Six Giant-Alpecin cyclists hospitalized
CYCLING: John Degenkolb and Warren Barguil were among six Giant-Alpecin cyclists hospitalized after being hit by a car while training in Spain, the German team said.
The emergency services for the Mediterranean region of Valencia said on their Twitter account that an “English woman driving a car ran over six cyclists” of Giant-Alpecin after allegedly “driving into on-coming traffic.”
All the riders are in stable condition after being taken to two local hospitals, Giant-Alpecin said.
The other four riders involved in the incident near the Spanish town of Calpe were German Max Walscheid, American Chad Haga, Swede Fredrik Ludvigsson and Ramon Sinkeldam of the Netherlands.
McIlroy, Fowler join quintet of leaders
GOLF: Rory McIlroy and Rickie Fowler were part of a five-way tie for the lead at 10-under-par at the Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates) Championship after Andy Sullivan made a triple-bogey in fading light to relinquish a two-shot advantage late in a fog-affected third round.
There are 21 players within three shots of the lead – and Jordan Spieth is among them.
Spieth started the third round seven shots back and finished it in the gathering gloom and in a six-ball – a career-first – after barely beating the horn on the ninth tee.
Dufner finished with an 8-under 64 to reach 23-under 193 with one round left at PGA West’s TPC Stadium Course.
The 53-year-old Waldorf shot a 6-under 66 to finish at 18-under 198 at Hualalai Golf Course in his first appearance in the event.
Nishikori, Sharapova advance at Australian
TENNIS: Kei Nishikori is the first male player through to the quarterfinals of the Australian Open at Melbourne Park, defeating Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6-4, 6-2, 6-4.
Maria Sharapova is the first woman through to the quarterfinals after a 7-5, 7-5 win over Belinda Bencic of Switzerland.
Devils’ expect Tlusty to miss 3-4 months
NHL: New Jersey Devils announced that forward Jiri Tlusty has undergone surgery on his right wrist to repair a torn ligament and is expected to be out three to four months.
Semyon Varlamov made 42 saves for the Avalanche, outshot 43-15. Mikhail Grigorenko added Colorado’s final goal with 5:51 remaining.
Garcia wins WBC welterweight title
MISCELLANY: Danny Garcia won the vacant WBC welterweight belt in Los Angeles with a resourceful performance in a unanimous-decision victory over Robert Guerrero.
Garcia (32-0, 18 KOs) recovered from a slow start and largely controlled the later rounds to win a world title in just his second bout at 147 pounds. The Philadelphia fighter took charge with a dominant right hand, out-boxing and punishing Guerrero (33-4-1) before a frantic 12th round.
Carli Lloyd scored three goals to help the U.S. defeat Ireland 5-0 in an international friendly at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego. It was the Americans’ final match before next month’s CONCACAF Olympic qualifying tournament for the Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro.
Alex Morgan and Mallory Pugh also scored.
Hope Solo was in goal for the shutout and didn’t make her first save until the 66th minute.
The NHL postponed the Philadelphia Flyers’ game at the New York Islanders, which had been scheduled for Saturday night. It also postponed Sunday’s game between Pittsburgh and Washington. The Duquesne men’s basketball team and Temple women’s gymnastics team were stuck overnight on the Pennsylvania Turnpike as traffic stretched for miles.