This Day In Sports 1900 — The second modern Numbers Game Olympic games open in Paris. C4 Antelope Valley Press, Monday, May 20, 2019 Morning rush Valley Press news services Koepka wins PGA Championship By DOUG FERGUSON BACK- wrong kind of career Grand Slam. UCLA moves on to Super Regionals Associated Press “I gave it a run,” he said. LOS ANGELES — Junior Bubba Nickles re- TO-BACK “That’s all you can ask for.” corded her second five-RBI game of the Los Angeles FARMINGDALE, N.Y. — CHAMP Brooks Koepka took his place in Koepka returned to No. 1 in Regional in Sunday’s nightcap, while redshirt ju- Brooks Koepka nior Rachel Garcia, a Highland High grad, struck PGA Championship history with the world with a performance out 12 in 10.2 innings of softball, as No. 2 UCLA a wire-to-wire victory, minus the holds up the that defines his dominance in bounced back from a 5-1 setback to Missouri with style points. Wanamaker golf’s biggest events. a 13-1, five-inning triumph in game two at Easton In a raging wind that turned Trophy after He becomes the first player Stadium. Bethpage Black into a beast, winning the PGA to hold back-to-back titles in two The Bruins (49-6) advance to next weekend’s Koepka lost all but one shot of Championship majors at the same time, having Super Regional round, where they will await the his record seven-shot lead Sun- golf tournament, won a second straight U.S. Open winner of the Regional Championship between day. He lost the brutal Long Is- Sunday at last summer 60 miles down the Michigan and James Madison, which will be played land crowd, which began chant- Bethpage Black road at Shinnecock Hills. He was on Monday morning. UCLA will host at Easton Sta- ing “DJ!” for Dustin Johnson in Farmingdale, the first wire-to-wire winner in dium, with days, times, and television and ticket as Koepka was on his way to a New York. the PGA Championship since information available on Monday. fourth straight bogey. Associated Press Hal Sutton at Riviera in 1983. UCLA had nine hits in game two from six differ- But he delivered the key And what stakes his claim as ent players, as Nickles posted three and sophomore shots over the closing stretch as back in my hands.” DJ!” as Koepka was playing the one of the best in his generation Kinsley Washington added two. Garcia (23-1) Johnson faded with two straight Koepka appeared to wrap it up hole. Ahead of him, Johnson made was a third straight year win- struck out four in five innings, allowing a run, two with a gap wedge from 156 yards birdie on the 15th — the toughest ning a major. Only Woods, Phil hits and one walk. She had a 1-2-3 inning in the bogeys, and Koepka closed with a 4-over 74 for a two-shot victo- to 2 feet on the 10th hole for a bird- hole at Bethpage Black all week Mickelson, Tom Watson, Jack third and two strikeouts in the fourth. ie, as Johnson made his first bogey — and the lead was down to one. Missouri (35-25) got a run in the fourth, but ry and joined Tiger Woods as the Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, Peter only back-to-back winners of the of the round up ahead on the 11th. That was as close as Johnson Thomson and Ralph Guldahl UCLA answered with five in the bottom half. That restored the lead to six shots, got. In game one, the Bruins had just five hits in the PGA Championship since it went have done that since the Masters and the coronation was on. His 5-iron pierced through a 5-1 loss, as Briana Perez notched three of them. to stroke play in 1958. began in 1934. All three pitchers saw time in the circle, with Garcia Koepka said at the start of the And then it all changed in a wind that gusted close to 25 mph, He now has four majors in his striking out eight in 5.2 innings. week that majors are sometimes New York minute. over the green and into a buried last eight, a streak not seen since The lone run for UCLA came in the fifth on an the easiest to win. Koepka missed three straight lie. He missed the 7-foot par putt, Woods won seven out of 11 when RBI single by Taylor Pack to score Perez. Missouri This one should have been. It fairways and made three straight went long of the green on the par- he captured the 2002 U.S. Open scored twice in the first, once in the fifth and twice wasn’t. bogeys, having to make a 6-foot 3 17th for another bogey and had at Bethpage Black. in the sixth. His 74 was the highest final putt on No. 11 to keep it from to settle for 69. Next up is the U.S. Open at round by a PGA champion since being worse. The wind was so “Hit the shot I wanted to Pebble Beach, where Koepka de- Florida shuts out Boise State, moves on Vijay Singh won in a playoff in fickle that it died as he hit 7-iron right at the flag,” Johnson said of fends his title for the second time. GAINESVILLE, Fla. — No. 5-seed Florida 2004 at Whistling Straits. to the par-3 14th that sailed over his 5-iron from 194 yards on the No one has won the U.S. Open topped Boise State 5-0 on Sunday afternoon to ad- “I’m just glad I don’t have to the green, leading to a fourth 16th. “I don’t know how it flew three straight years since Willie vance to the 12th Super Regional in program his- tory. play any more holes,” Koepka straight bogey. 200 yards into the wind like that.” Anderson in 1905. No one will The Gators move to 44-19 in regional play, in- said. “That was a stressful round The crowd sensed a collapse, Johnson now has runner-up fin- doubt whether Koepka is capable cluding 29 shutouts in 44 games since 2006. of golf. I’m glad to have this thing and began chanting, “DJ! DJ! ishes in all four of the majors, the the way he is playing. For the second time in the regional, the Gators (47-15) jumped out in front the Broncos (36-16), 2-0, in the first inning with a pair of runs. In the previous COLLEGE SOFTBALL MLB SPORTS ODDS NHL NBA game Saturday, UF scored six runs in the top of the NCAA Division I Softball American League Glance Major League Baseball NHL Playoff Glance NBA Playoff Glance first inning of Saturday’s against Boise State. West Division Today CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS FIRST ROUND Regionals Glance W L Pct GB National League (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) WESTERN CONFERENCE Florida extended its lead to 3-0 in the third. (Double elimination; x-if necessary) FAVORITE LINE UNDERDOG LINE Stillwater (Okla.) Regional Houston 31 16 .660 — EASTERN CONFERENCE Golden State 4, L.A. Clippers 2 at NEW YORK OFF Washington OFF Denver 4, San Antonio 3 Amanda Lorenz led off the inning with a double in Friday, May 17 Angels 22 24 .478 8½ at CHICAGO -126 Philadelphia +116 Boston 4, Columbus 2 the left-center field gap and moved around to third Oklahoma State 13, Tulsa 10 Texas 21 23 .477 8½ at SAN FRAN OFF Atlanta OFF Thursday, April 25: Boston 3, Columbus Portland 4, Oklahoma City 1 BYU 6, Arkansas 3, Arkansas elminated Seattle 23 26 .469 9 at SAN DIEGO -141 Arizona +131 2, OT Houston 4, Utah 1 when Kendyl Lindaman followed up with a sin- Oakland 22 25 .468 9 EASTERN CONFERENCE gle down the left field line. Lily Mann entered the Tulsa 6, BYU 4, BYU eliminated American League Saturday, April 27: Columbus 3, Boston Saturday, May 18 East Division Boston -200 at TORONTO +180 2, 2OT Milwaukee 4, Detroit 0 game to pinch-run for Lindaman and worked her Oklahoma State 2, Tulsa 1, OK St. advances W L Pct GB at CLEVELAND -155 Oakland +145 Tuesday, April 30: Columbus 2, Boston 1 Toronto 4, Orlando 1 New York -185 at BALTIMORE +170 way into scoring position with a stolen base. Tallahassee (Fla.) Regional New York 28 17 .622 — Thursday, May 2: Boston 4, Columbus 1 Philadelphia 4, Brooklyn 1, Tampa Bay 27 17 .614 ½ at TEXAS -162 Seattle +152 Saturday, May 4: Boston 4, Columbus 3 Boston 4, Indiana 0 With one out on the board, Jordan Roberts Saturday, May 18 at HOUSTON OFF Chicago OFF Florida State 12, South Florida 1 Boston 24 22 .522 4½ Monday, May 6: Boston 3, Columbus 0 CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS notched her third sacrifice fly of year when she Toronto 19 27 .413 9½ at ANGELS OFF Minnesota OFF Carolina 4, N.Y. Islanders 0 Eastern Conference South Carolina 10, Bethune-Cookman 0, NBA drove in Mann on a deep fly to left field. B-C eliminated Baltimore 15 31 .326 13½ Friday, April 26: Carolina 1, N.Y. Islanders Milwaukee 4, Boston 1 Central Division Today Sunday, April 28: Boston 112, Milwaukee 90 S. Carolina 2, S. Florida 1, USF eliminated FAVORITE LINE O/U UNDERDOG 0, OT The first home run of the regional for the Gators W L Pct GB Sunday, May 19 Golden State 3½ (220) at PORTLAND Sunday, April 28: Carolina 2, N.Y.