COLLEGES
Undefeated St. Joseph’s opened the contest with seven straight goals and rolled to a 19-4 victory over Regis in a women’s lacrosse game Thursday in Weston, Massachusetts.
Lydia Dexter fueled the attack with four goals and six assists, and Bridget Collins scored five goals. The Monks (13-0, 9-0 GNAC) also got three goals from Brianna Paul and two apiece from Shauna Clark and Cailyn Westley.
BASEBALL
EASTERN LEAGUE: Nick Sogard singled home pinch runner Wil Dalton in the top of the 10th inning, then scored on a single by Christian Koss as the Portland Sea Dogs rallied for a 4-3 win against the Harrisburg Senators in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Koss also drove in Sogard with a groundout in the third inning and scored a single by Kole Cottam in the sixth as the Sea Dogs erased an early 2-0 deficit.
Sea Dogs reliever Frank German earned the win by striking out four in two hitless innings, despite giving up a run in the bottom of the 10th when designated runner Justin Connell advanced on two groundouts.
Portland starter Chris Murphy allowed five hits and two runs in five innings, which six strikeouts and no walks.
SOCCER
WORLD CUP QUALIFYING: Ukraine’s bid to qualify for the Word Cup will resume on June 1 against Scotland after its playoff semifinal in Glasgow was postponed in March due to the country being invaded by Russia.
FIFA on Thursday also said the delayed playoff final in that bracket against Wales in Cardiff will be on June 5 to determine the final European team to qualify for the World Cup in Qatar.
The playoff winner will go into a group at the World Cup in November with England, the United States and Iran.
RINCON DIES: Freddy Rincon, a former captain of the Colombian national soccer team who played in three World Cups, died after being injured in a car crash. He was 55.
Rincon was injured Monday when his vehicle collided with a bus in Cali, Colombia.
Rincon played at the World Cup in 1990, 1994 and 1998. Besides playing for Colombian and Brazilian clubs, the midfielder also played for Real Madrid and Napoli.
TRACK AND FIELD
FELIX TO RETIRE: Allyson Felix, who closed the Tokyo Games last year with more Olympic medals than any U.S. track and field athlete in history, says she will retire after the 2022 season.
“This season isn’t about the time on the clock, it’s simply about joy,” Felix said in an Instagram post Wednesday. “If you see me on the track this year I hope to share a moment, a memory and my appreciation with you.”
At age 35, Felix won a bronze medal in the 400 meters last summer in Tokyo, then followed it up with a gold medal in the 1,600 relay. Those were her 10th and 11th Olympic medals, which helped her pass Carl Lewis in the U.S. record book and left her behind only one runner in history, Finland’s Paavo Nurmi, who won 12 medals between 1920 and 1928.
Her last major meets figure to be the U.S. championships from June 23-26, then the world championships, which take place in Eugene, Oregon, from July 15-24. Felix also has a record 13 gold medals and 18 overall from world championships.
GOLF
PGA: Cameron Young shot an 8-under 63 to take the first-round lead in his RBC Heritage debut at Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.
The 24-year-old PGA Tour rookie had eight birdies in a bogey-free round. He was two shots in front of Chile’s Joaquin Niemann and three ahead of seven others, including reigning FedEx Cup champion Patrick Cantlay, Ireland’s Shane Lowry – who tied for third at the Masters last week – and Canada’s Corey Conners – who was sixth at Augusta National.
• Bryson DeChambeau says he had surgery on his left wrist for a fracture hamate that has been bothering him for the last two months and likely will keep him out of the PGA Championship.
The PGA Championship starts May 19 at Southern Hills in Tulsa.
LPGA: Hannah Green shot a 6-under 66 late Wednesday to take the lead after the first round of the LPGA Lotte Championship in Ewa Beach, Hawaii.
Green had eight birdies, including five on the front nine, at breezy Hoakalei Country Club, a first-time venue in the 10th edition of the tournament. The Australian hit 11 of 14 fairways, 14 of 18 greens in regulation and needed just 26 putts.
Hyo Joo Kim, Jodi Ewart Shadoff, Aditi Ashok, Alison Lee and Gemma Dryburgh were a stroke back.
TENNIS
MONTE CARLO MASTERS: Third-ranked Alexander Zverev beat Pablo Carreno Busta 6-2, 7-5 to reach the quarterfinals of the clay-court season opener in Monaco.
Carreno Busta broke Zverev to open the second set and built a 3-1 lead before the German rallied, setting up a quarterfinal match against Jannik Sinner, who beat eighth-ranked Andrey Rublev 5-7, 6-1, 6-3.
Defending champion Stefanos Tsitsipas advanced by beating Laslo Djere 7-5, 7-6 (1). The fifth-ranked Greek will meet Diego Schwartzman of Argentina in the quarterfinals.
Indian Wells winner Taylor Fritz reached the quarterfinals by defeating doubles partner Sebastian Korda 7-6 (4), 7-5. Fritz will meet Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, who stunned top-ranked Novak Djokovic on Tuesday. The Spaniard defeated David Goffin 6-4, 6-1 on Thursday.
Grigor Dimitrov also advanced by upsetting seventh-ranked Casper Ruud, 6-3, 7-5.
AUTO RACING
FORMULA ONE: Formula One’s governing body dismissed criticisms of its safety car being too slow after drivers complained following the Australian Grand Prix last weekend.
The FIA said in a statement that the priority was not pleasing the drivers but ensuring safety on the track.
“The FIA would like to reiterate that the primary function of the safety car is, of course, not outright speed, but the safety of the drivers, marshals and officials,” the statement said. “The impact of the speed of the safety car on the performance of the cars following is a secondary consideration, as the impact is equal amongst all competitors.”
F1 safety car duties are shared by Mercedes and Aston Martin cars this season, and the Mercedes safety car is around five seconds per lap quicker. The Aston Martin car was twice deployed during the Australian GP, and world champion Max Verstappen of the Red Bull team compared it to “a turtle” because he thought it was too slow.
Drivers could not get enough heat into their tires as they drove behind it at lower speeds than they would have liked.
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