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Storm topple Mercury 82-75 Lee wins Scottish Open title, McCowan drops 21 points as Fever rally past Dream Glover ends 10-year drought COLLEGE PARK, Ga., July 12, and eight assists to help Las Vegas (AP): Teaira McCowan had 21 beat Dallas 95-79 in the teams fi nal points and 14 rebounds to help game before the Olympic break. the Indiana Fever beat the Atlanta Dearica Hamby also had 22 Dream 79-68. points and 12 boards for the Aces The Fever (4-16) won their third (15-6), who were missing Liz in a row after 12 straight losses. Cambage. The 6-foot-8 Australian Tiffany Mitchell added 14 is training with her country to get points, Danielle Robinson scored ready for the Tokyo Games. 12, Kelsey Mitchell 11 and Jessica The Aces used a 33-point second Breland 10. quarter to rally from a fi ve-point Indiana pulled away with 14 defi cit and take a 48-42 lead into straight points for a 77-61 lead on halftime. Kelsey Plum was huge Robinson’s basket with 3:53 left. in that second quarter and fi nished Crystal Bradford stopped the run the game with 16 points. Jackie with 1 of 2 free throws and Aari Young had 17 for Las Vegas also, McDonald’s 3-pointer with 2:08 which put the game away in the left was the fi rst third quarter. of the game by Jones’ double-double leads the Dream (6- Sun 71, Liberty 54 13). Atlanta In New York, Jonquel Jones had fi nished 1 of 13 from 3-point range. Odys- sey Sims had 20 points and Bradford added 17 points, 17 rebounds and fi ve as- 14 for Atlanta, sists as the routed which opened McCowan the New York Liberty 71-54. the game on a It was Jones’ 10th double-dou- 12-2 run. ble of the season for the Sun (14- Storm 82, Mercury 75 6), who go into the Olympic break In Everett, Washington, sitting in third place in the stand- Epiphanny Prince scored 15 points, ings. Jasmine Thomas added 12 matched her points and Briann January 10. career high with 14, and the Seattle Connecticut played stellar de- Storm beat the Phoenix Mercury fense, holding the Liberty to just 82-75. 30% shooting from the fi eld. Ky- Lucas Glover hits off the 17th tee during the fi nal round of the John Deere Classic golf tournament, on July 11, at TPC Deere Run in Silvis, Illinois. (Inset): Jewell Loyd’s 3-pointer with lee Shook made a career-high four Australia’s Min Woo Lee holds the trophy after winning the Scottish Open at The Renaissance Club, North Berwick, Scotland, on July 11. (AP) 1:48 left gave the Storm (16-5) a 3-pointers and scored 16 points to six-point lead and Sue Bird’s run- lead New York (10-11). She made ning bank shot was the dagger, six of her eight shots while the rest Furyk holds off Goosen, Weir to win US Senior Open making it 80-72 at 43.9 seconds. of the team was just 11 for 48 from Kia Nurse scored 28 points and the fi eld. NORTH BERWICK, Scot- He was among two dozen players In Omaha, Neb., Jim Furyk recov- closed with a 4-under 68, made birdie had a career high seven 3-point- The Sun led 22-12 after the fi rst land, July 12, (AP): Min separated by three shots on the rain- ered from a rough start in the fi nal in a playoff to stay live and then won ers for the Mercury (9-10). Skylar quarter and pulled away for good softened TPC Deere Run when the round of the U.S. Senior Open to hold with a par on the second extra hole in Diggins-Smith added 17 points in the third quarter with 16 straight Woo Lee of Australia made former U.S. Open champion went on a off Retief Goosen and Mike Weir and the TPC Colorado Championship at and scored 16. points. Michaela Onyenwere add- tear. It started with a 15-foot birdie putt win by three strokes. Heron Lakes. a 10-foot birdie putt on the Lynx 86, Sparks 61 ed 12 points and Jazmine Jones 10 on the par-3 12th hole. He hit his ap- Making his debut in the event, Furyk It was his fi rst victory in 19 years, for New York. fi rst extra hole to win a proach into 4 feet and 7 feet on the next closed with a 1-over 71 to become the back when the PGA Tour’s feeder cir- In Los Angeles, Napheesa Col- three-way playoff against two holes, and then fl ushed a 7-iron to eighth player to win both the U.S. Open cuit was called the Buy.com Tour. And lier matched her career-high with Matt Fitzpatrick and 3 feet on the 15th hole to take the lead. and Senior Open, joining the likes of it featured a wild fi nish in the thin air 27 points and the Thomas Detry at the Scot- Glover fi nished his run with a 12- Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, Lee of Colorado. won their seventh straight with an foot birdie on the par-5 17th, and a Trevino, Billy Casper and Gary Player. David Skinns (65) and Kevin Yu 86-61 win over the Los Angeles tish Open for his second Furyk fi nished at 7-under 273 at (67) fi nished at 16-under 272, and Rid- 6-foot putt to save par from the bunker Sparks. European Tour title. on the 18th that he fi gured would come Omaha Country Club. ings had to play the fi nal four holes in 1 in handy. He won the U.S. Open in 2003 at under just to join them. The Lynx (12-7) shot 56% from Lee closed with a 7-under 64 the fi eld, solidifying their fourth- and was the fi rst to fi nish at 18-un- It never got to that. No one could Olympia Fields south of Chicago, is a 17- Taylor Pendrith made bogey on the catch him. time winner on the PGA Tour and won 18th to miss the playoff by one shot, place standing in the WNBA as der 268 at The Renaissance Club, while Vince India bogeyed the last two the league heads into the Olympic which featured a 90-minute weath- Glover fi nished at 19-under 265. Kevin Na tried to make a run with to miss the playoff by two shots. break. er delay late in the fi nal round. three birdies in four holes until he was GOLF On the par-3 16th in a playoff, Rid- added 14 Detry (67) and Fitzpatrick (67) each slowed by a bogey on the 15th and ings and Skinns each made birdie to points and had 10. made par on the 18th to join him in the couldn’t make up enough ground. He advance. Skinns bogeyed the 16th on Minnesota had an 18-point lead in playoff. shot a 68. Ryan Moore also closed with his fi rst two PGA Tour Champions events the second extra hole, and Ridings won Lee and Detry also secured spots in the fi rst half and extended to 83- a 68 for a runner-up fi nish. upon turning 50 last year. This was the with a par. the British Open next week at Royal 55 on Bridget Carleton’s 3-pointer The victory at the 50th edition of the third senior major he’s played. He tied for In South Lake tahoe, Nev., Vinny St. George’s, along with Jack Senior of 16th in the Senior PGA and was sixth in Del Negro became the fi rst basketball late in the fourth quarter. England, who tied for 10th. John Deere Classic sends Glover back Erica Wheeler and Brittney to the Masters, the PGA Championship the Senior Players Championship. player to win the American Century Ian Poulter, Ryan Palmer and Irish The victory makes Furyk exempt Championship, rallying for an emo- Sykes had 14 points each, and Open winner Lucas Herbert fi nished a and allows him to start next year on Maui for the Tournament of Champi- into the U.S. Open next year at The tional victory four days after his father Amanda Zahui B added 10 for the Seattle Storm’s Katie Lou Samuel- shot behind, with U.S. Open champion Country Club outside Boston, where died. Sparks (6-13). son drives to the hoop during the Jon Rahm another stroke back in sev- ons, a place he hasn’t been in a decade. second half of a WNBA basketball in 1999 he won a key singles match Del Negro, the 54-year-old former Aces 95, Wings 79 enth. That meant Rahm lost his No. 1 against Sergio Garcia when the Ameri- NBA player and coach making his 20th game against the Phoenix Mercury, world ranking to Dustin Johnson. can rallied to win the Ryder Cup. appearance in the celebrity tournament, In Arlington, Texas, A’ja Wil- on July 11, in Everett, Washington. Rahm’s hopes effectively ended In Sylvania, Ohio, Nasa Hataoka of choked back tears after the victory son had 22 points, 13 rebounds (AP) when his second into the par-5 16th Japan was declared the winner of the thinking about father Vincent. He died was a bounce away from being tight, Marathon LPGA Classic when the fi - Wednesday in hospice at age 85. instead rolling off a mound away from nal round was washed out by relent- Del Negro birdied the 18th in regula- the green. He failed to get up-and- less, heavy rain. Hataoka had a six-shot tion to force a playoff with John Smoltz Kuwait’s female players prepare down and made par. lead over Elizabeth Szokol and Mina and won with another birdie on the fi rst Wade Ormsby of Australia narrow- Harigae. She won for the fourth time extra hole. for world handball cup qualifi ers ly missed out on a spot in the British on the LPGA Tour, and her fi rst LPGA Del Negro had a 20-point round at Open. His consolation prize was win- title in two years. Edgewood Tahoe in the modifi ed Sta- KUWAIT CITY, July 12, of women committee at Kuwait ning 204 bottles of whisky for making The fi nal round began at 7 a.m. with bleford scoring event to match Smoltz (KUNA): Kuwait’s female hand- Handball Association, told a hole-in-one on the 12th, one bottle for hopes of beating the rain. That lasted (18) with a three-day total of 69. ball players conducted their train- KUNA. each yard of the hole. only a few hours before Highland Del Negro had two birdies and two ing in preparation for the world The players will head to Bosnia In Silvis, Ill., Lucas Glover ended 10 Meadows was soaked, and soon be- bogeys for an even-par 72 in conven- handball cup qualifiers to be host- and Herzegovina next month for a years without a victory when he birdied came unplayable. tional scoring. Smoltz had four birdies fi ve of his last seven holes for a 7-un- The LPGA said the forecast was not and eight bogeys in a 76. ed by South Korea on September two-week training camp to help der 64 to win the John Deere Classic Jim Furyk holds up a trophy after favorable for a Monday fi nish, and it Other Tour: Marcel Siem birdied 15-25. the team be ready for the qualifi- by two shots. winning the U.S. Senior Open golf didn’t help that Evian Championship - two of his last three holes for a 4-un- In the upcoming period, a new ers, she added. Glover won for the fourth time in his tournament at Omaha Country the fourth LPGA major of the year - is der 67 and a one-shot victory at Le Va- coach will arrive to train the Spain will host the IHF Women’s career, the most recent in 2011 at Quail Club on July 11, in Omaha, Neb. scheduled to start on Wednesday. udreuil Golf Challenge, earning a spot national team to get the targeted World Championship by the end Hollow. (AP) In Berthoud, Colo., Tag Ridings in the British Open. results, Al-Jazi Al-Monis, head of this year, she noted.