Saturday, May 31, 2014
Champion’s Zigmont tosses one-hitter
CAMPBELL
Brittany Allen had three hits and two RBIs to help lead the Champion High softball team to Friday’s 15-0 victory over Campbell.
McKenzie Zigmont tossed a five-inning one-hitter, striking out six and walking one.
Also for the Golden Flashes (18-6-1, 8-4 All-American Conference Blue Tier), Amber Ricci tripled and doubled. Skylar Jones and Toni Cameron each had two hits. Lexy Gruver doubled and drove in three runs. Cameron also had three RBIs.
For Campbell (0-12), Tatyana Nelko singled.
Keselowski wins pole at Dover
DOVER, Del.
Brad Keselowski turned a track-record lap of 164.444 mph to win the pole at Dover International Speedway.
Keselowski won his second pole of the season on Friday and fifth of his career. Kyle Busch, Joey Logano, Jimmie Johnson and Kyle Larson round out the top five for Sunday’s race. Series points leader Jeff Gordon was sixth, followed by Denny Hamlin, Kevin Harvick, Brian Vickers and Clint Bowyer.
Bowyer turned 35 on Friday.
IndyCar drivers in for a shift at Detroit
DETROIT
IndyCar drivers are in for quite a shift.
The Detroit Grand Prix will feature racing at speeds up to 165 mph on bumpy streets with 13 turns on an island between the United States and Canada.
Less than a week ago, many of those same drivers were going about 70 mph faster on a smooth surface around an oval at the Indianapolis 500.
Marco Andretti says the races are as different as baseball and basketball.
Simon Pagenaud and Mike Conway hope the Detroit Grand Prix is a lot like it was in 2013.
Pagenaud and Conway each won once last year on Belle Isle’s street circuit. And they had the fastest cars during a pair of practice sessions Friday. Pagenaud turned a lap of 108.950 mph, just slightly faster than Conway.
Djokovic, Federer advance
PARIS
Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer both needed four sets to reach the fourth round of the French Open on Friday.
The second-seeded Serb won 6-3, 6-2, 6-7 (2), 6-4 against Marin Cilic, improving to 9-0 in their head-to-head meetings, but looked sluggish at times.
Federer, meanwhile, was in total control before wasting four set points in the second set on his way to a 7-5, 6-7 (7), 6-2, 6-4 win against Dmitry Tursunov.
“He played really well and went for big shots,” Federer said. “It was difficult to finish the match, so obviously I’m relieved.”
Djokovic dropped serve early to trail 3-1, made sloppy unforced errors in the tiebreaker, and was broken back in the fourth set after leading 4-2. He sealed the victory on his first match point when the 25th-seeded Croat double-faulted.
The six-time Grand Slam champion next plays either 13th-seeded Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France or No. 22 Jerzy Janowicz of Poland, who played later Thursday.
Djokovic is looking to win the French Open for the first time and lost to eight-time champion Rafael Nadal in the semifinals last year.
Federer, who had won his opening two matches in straight sets, converted only four of his 21 break-point opportunities against the 31st-seeded Russian.
Packers sign Ha Ha Clinton-Dix
GREEN BAY, Wis.
The Green Bay Packers signed first-round pick Ha Ha Clinton-Dix on Friday.
Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.
Green Bay took the former Alabama safety with the 21st pick in the draft. He had 51 tackles and two interceptions as a junior in 2013, his first season as a full-time starter for Alabama.
In 38 career games, he had 100 tackles and seven interceptions.
Staff/wire reports