In Brief: Top-ranked Ko takes lead at Women’s PGA
Golf: When Lydia Ko won the last two major championships, she was the one lurking behind.
On Sunday at Sahalee Country Club in Sammamish, Washington, the top-ranked Ko will take a one-stroke lead into the final round of the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship.
“I can’t control what the other girls are doing,” the 19-year-old Ko said. “So (I’ll) just try my best out there. We’ve still got a long 18 holes to go.”
Ko shot a 1-under 70 on Saturday to reach 2-under 211. She won the Evian Championship in September in France for her first major title and took the ANA Inspiration in April in California, giving her a chance to become the fifth player in tour history to win three straight majors.
Having Phil Mickelson and Steve Stricker just three strokes behind isn’t shaking his self-assurance either.
“If it was Tiger Woods behind me, I would have the same mentality,” Berger said Saturday after a 1-under 69 that left him with the same three-stroke lead he had after 36 holes. “It doesn’t matter. It’s golf. The golf course doesn’t know who is playing it, so I’m just going to go out there and be aggressive and have some fun, and that’s all I can do.”
The 58-year-old German star also was in position to win the Constellation Senior Players Championship for the third straight year, sitting at 2-under 208 for a three-stroke lead over Jay Don Blake with a round left.
After playing the first 11 holes in 2 over with two birdies and four bogeys, Langer birdied the par-4 12th to get back to even par for the tournament. He added birdies on the par-5 15th and par-3 16th and closed with two pars on the A.W. Tillinghast-designed Wissahickon Course.
Langer won in 2014 at Fox Chapel in Pittsburgh and last year at Belmont in Massachusetts.
Violence mars England-Russia draw
Soccer: Russia fans stormed a section of England supporters inside the stadium moments after a 1-1 draw between the countries at the European Championship on another day of violence and rioting in the southern French city of Marseille.
England and Russia fans clashed throughout the day at the Old Port district and briefly outside the nearby Stade Velodrome before the match. Police in the Mediterranean port city fired tear gas and water cannons at fighting supporters in a largely unsuccessful attempt to rein in trouble that authorities said left at least five people injured.
His scuffed shot from 12 meters in the 81st minute came 10 minutes after he had come on as substitute in the Group B match in Bordeaux.
Gareth Bale had given Wales the lead in the 10th minute when he curled in a free kick.
Lynx tie WNBA record for best start
WNBA: Seimone Augustus scored 21 points to help the Minnesota Lynx tie their own WNBA record for best start in league history with an 83-76 win over the Washington Mystics.
Minnesota (10-0) matched the 2012 which also won its first 10 games to set the league record.
Ogwumike was perfect on seven free-throw attempts and grabbed 10 rebounds for the Sparks.
Arizona first to reach CWS, ousts Bulldogs
College baseball: Arizona is headed to the College World Series after sweeping its super regional at No. 6 Mississippi State, and five other national seeds were on the brink of elimination.
Drew Carlton pitched a two-hitter and retired the last 19 Florida batters to help Florida State beat the No. 1 Gators 3-0 in a super regional opener in Gainesville.
Austin Bush hit his fourth homer of the postseason and UC Santa Barbara made its super regional debut with a 4-2 victory over No. 2 Louisville, the Cardinals’ second loss in 38 home games this season.
Boston College rode a four-run fourth inning to a 5-3 victory that squared its series with No. 3 national seed Miami at a game apiece in Coral Gables, Florida.
No. 5 Texas Tech forced a Game 3 against East Carolina, with Eric Gutierrez’s tiebreaking bases-loaded single in the top of the 13th inning keying a 3-1 victory in Lubbock, Texas.
In a matchup of unseeded teams, Oklahoma State got another strong performance from Big 12 pitcher of the year Thomas Hatch in a 5-1 win over South Carolina in Game 1 in Columbia.
The Cowboys have outscored their four NCAA Tournament opponents 32-5.
Thiem beats Federer to reach final
Miscellany: Roger Federer squandered two match points and lost to Dominic Thiem 3-6, 7-6 (7), 6-4 in a rain-interrupted Mercedes Cup semifinal.
Thiem will play seventh-seeded Philipp Kohlschreiber for the title. Kohlschreiber beat Juan Martin del Potro 6-3, 6-4 in a match that had a long rain delay in the second set.
Federer is still without a title this year. He’s ranked No. 3.
On the eve of Puerto Rico Day, two-time Olympic gold medalist Lomachenko was dominant. Scoring with vicious left-handed leads, he connected on four straight, including a precise uppercut in the fifth round. Lomachenko followed that with a stunning right that flattened Martinez, who remained on the canvas for several moments.