ARAB TIMES, FRIDAY-SATURDAY, MAY 7-8, 2021 SPORTS 15 Monterrey down Columbus to advance Club America eliminate Portland in CONCACAF Champions League MEXICO CITY, May 6, (AP): Federico Vinas scored Earlier Wednesday Monterrey defeated the de- rey after a 2-all draw with the Crew in Columbus last twice and Club America advanced to the CON- fending MLS Cup champion Columbus Crew 3-0 in week. CACAF Champions League semifi nals with a 4-2 Monterrey to advance 5-2 on aggregate. Meza scored both his goals in the opening half at aggregate victory over the Portland Timbers. Monterrey will face Cruz Azul, quarterfi nal win- the Liga MX team’s home stadium, in the third and Vinas scored in the 21st minute before adding a ners over Toronto FC, in the semifi nals. 26th minutes. Miguel Layun added a goal in the 71st penalty kick in the 59th in the 3-1 fi nal at the historic Club America has won the Champions League minute. Azteca stadium. The two sides played to a 1-1 draw twice in the last decade. Monterrey will face Cruz Azul in the two-legged last week in Portland. semifi nals, which start in August. Cruz Azul, which Diego Valeri scored on a penalty kick to keep the sits atop the Liga MX standings, eliminated Toronto Timbers’ hopes to advance alive in the 64th minute, SOCCER FC 4-1 in the quarter-fi nals. fooling Club America goalkeeper Guillermo Ochoa. Monterrey has won four Champions League titles But Leonardo Suarez scored for Club America in the Meanwhile, Maximiliano Meza scored twice and in the past decade. 70th. Monterrey advanced to the semifi nals of the CON- The Crew were among fi ve Major League Soccer Club America will face the Philadelphia Union in CACAF Champions League with a 5-2 aggregate vic- teams in the quarter-fi nals of the tournament for club the semifi nals set to start in August. The Union elimi- tory over the Columbus Crew on Wednesday night. teams in CONCACAF, the confederation for the North nated Atlanta United 4-1 on aggregate. Monterrey claimed the second leg 3-0 in Monter- America, Central America, and the Caribbean region. Oshie scores hat trick as Capitals Sebastian Vegas of Mexico’s Monterrey, left, and Jonathan Mensah of United States’ Columbus Crew battle for the ball during a Concacaf Cham- pions League soccer game in Monterrey, Mexico, on May 5. (AP) beat Rangers in fi ght-fi lled game Pfzier, BioNTech to donate vaccines Anti-Oly petition gains tens of thousands of signatures TOKYO, May 6, (AP): An online medial specialists, and in an edito- petition calling for the Tokyo rial last month in the British Olympics to be canceled has Medical Journal. It said mass gained tens of thousands of signa- events like the Olympics are “nei- tures since being launched in Japan ther safe nor secure.” only days ago. Organizers say they will need The rollout of the petition comes 10,000 health workers to support with Tokyo, Osaka and several the Olympics. They have also other areas under a state of emer- requested 500 additional nurses - a gency with coronavirus infections nurses’ federation balked at the rising - particularly new variants. request - and 200 sports medicine The state of emergency is to expire specialists. on May 11, but some reports in The petition was organized by Japan say it is likely to be extended. Kenji Utsunomiya, a lawyer who The postponed Olympics are to has run several times for Tokyo open in just under three months on governor. It registered about July 23. 50,000 signatures in the first 24 The petition is addressed to hours after being launched. International Olympic Committee “Government policies are being President Thomas Bach, who has set with the Olympics in mind, and tentative plans to visit Japan later measures to curb the coronavirus this month. He is expected to meet pandemic are being neglected,” the Olympic torch relay on May 17 Utsunomiya told The Associated in Hiroshima, and perhaps also Press. “Hospital are stretched thin, Washington Capitals’ T.J. Oshie (77) is thwarted by the New York Rangers defense during the third period of an NHL hockey game, on May 5, in travel to Tokyo where small anti- and some people are dying at Olympic are protests being home.” New York. (AP) planned. Also: Switzerland: Vaccine develop- Jets clinch playoff spot, blank Flames 4-0 to end skid OLYMPICS ers Pfi zer and BioNTech will do- nate doses to inoculate athletes and Although 70-80% of Japanese offi cials preparing for the Tokyo NEW YORK, May 6, (AP): citizens in polls say they want the Olympics, the IOC said Thursday. T.J. Oshie had a hat-trick, Olympics canceled or postponed, Delivery of doses is set to begin Vitek Vanecek made 19 PGA Tour Champions set for 1st major of year there is no indication this will hap- this month to give Olympic dele- pen. Japanese Prime Minister gations time to be fully vaccinated saves and the Washington BIRMINGHAM, Ala., May 6, (AP): second PGA Tour Champions ma- year, his fi rst on the PGA Tour Yoshihide Suga, Tokyo organizing with a second shot before arriving Capitals beat the depleted Steve Stricker fared well in the last jor some six weeks later at the U.S. Champions. “So I think we’re in for a committee president Seiko in Tokyo for the games, which New York Rangers 4-2 in a Regions Tradition, rain and all. Senior Open, and won the Chubb good week. It’s still going to be very open on July 23. Stricker has returned to the Classic in April. soft. We’re probably going to have Hashimoto, and Bach have repeat- Greystone Golf & Country Club That 2019 win was a milestone of the ball in hand probably the fi rst edly said the games will go on as It’s the second major vacci- fi ght-fi lled game. nation deal for the International Oshie beat Alexandar Georgiev impressed with how the course sorts for Stricker, who has 12 PGA maybe two rounds and then see scheduled. has held up through the latest rain Tour victories but had never won a how it goes. Really happy to see the Organizers and the IOC unveiled Olympic Committee. An agree- 12 seconds into the middle period heading into the fi rst of fi ve PGA major, fi nishing second at the 1998 course being playable.” so-called Playbooks last week, ment was announced in March with a shot from the right circle Tour Champions majors. The Ryder PGA Championship to Vijay Singh. A two-time winner of the U.S. explaining rules for athletes and between the IOC and Olympic with Rangers forward Pavel Buch- Cup captain will try to defend his He has six wins already on the Open and the British Open, Els was others to show how the Olympics offi cials in China to buy and dis- nevich in the penalty box. 2019 title in the 72-hole tournament 50-and-over circuit. also happy to see fans out on the can be held in the middle of a pan- tribute Chinese vaccines ahead of Oshie scored again at 8:26 of the starting Thursday. course. It didn’t hurt that he was demic. Several test events have the Tokyo Games and next year’s second – again with Buchnevich “This course is in great shape,” paired Wednesday with Alabama been conducted in the last few Beijing Winter Games. penalized for a high-sticking major – he said after Wednesday’s pro-am GOLF coach Nick Saban, who has won days, and organizers have reported The new Pfi zer offer gives the his 20th goal of the season. round. “Surprisingly, it wasn’t that a record seven national champion- few problems. IOC greater coverage worldwide Nic Dowd also scored for wet out there. It drains great. The The Regions Tradition was ships. The Olympic torch relay has ahead of Tokyo with most coun- Washington at 14:48 of the second greens were in great shape. canceled last year because of the Els has attended a game between been crisscrossing Japan for a tries yet to authorize emergency with assists to defenseman John “So you’ve got to kind of prepare pandemic. World Golf Hall of Fam- the Crimson Tide and rival Auburn, month. Organizers say that eight use of Chinese vaccines. yourself that someone’s going to go er Ernie Els will make his debut in where his nephew attended. Carlson and Dmitri Orlov, his second low and you’ve got to be ready to do the Tradition. Mike Weir is coming off his fi rst people working on the relay have “We are inviting the athletes and of the game. tested positive for the virus. participating delegations of the up- the same.” Els wasn’t sure the pro-am would win on the 50-and-over circuit, Oshie, whose father died this week, Two years ago, Stricker pulled be able to go on after Tuesday’s thanks in part to John Daly’s costly The Tokyo Olympics have coming Olympic and Paralympic completed his hat trick with an empty Games to lead by example and ac- away with a closing 4-under 68, rain. Like Stricker, the South African mistake on the fi nal hole in Hou- become a face-saving exercise for net goal at 18:20 of the third. Japan, which has officially spent cept the vaccine where and when turning a two-stroke lead into a six- was pleased with how the course ston.