SPORTS digest

YSU’s Reed named Newcomer of Week

YOUNGSTOWN

Youngstown State’s Justus Reed has been chosen as the Missouri Valley Football Conference’s Newcomer of the Week.

The defensive end had three sacks and three quarterback hurries in the Penguins’ 30-0 win over Robert Morris on Saturday at Stambaugh Stadium. He made five tackles.

Women’s soccer team falls to W. Michigan

Kalamazoo, Mich.

The Youngstown State women’s soccer team dropped its third straight match after falling to Western Michigan, 3-0, on Sunday at the WMU Soccer Complex.

Western Michigan (4-2) outshot the Penguins (4-4), 23-10, and had 10 shots on goal while the YSU tallied two.

Senior Marissa Martin led the offense with four shots and had both shots on goal. Sophomore Betty Anane also had two shots. Goalkeeper Brittany Hoskins had six saves.

The Broncos scored in the 26th, 58th and 75th minutes of the match.

Youngstown State opens Horizon League play at Wright State on Friday at 7 p.m.

Lynch, Gordon win at Sharon Speedway

HARTFORD

Sye Lynch, Andrew Gordon, Bob Warren, Dan Davies, Justin Shea, Brandon Blackshear and Wes Staley were winners during racing Saturday at Sharon Speedway.

Lynch led for all 30 laps for his first career win.

Gordon, a former Super Late Model racer, led all 25 laps of the Penn-Ohio Pro Stock Championship feature.

Staley charged from the seventh starting spot to win the 15-lap Mini Stock feature to close out the 2017 season.

USA wins back golf’s Walker Cup

LOS ANGELES

The United States won back the Walker Cup from Britain and Ireland on Sunday with decisive performances by three Southern Californians and the 2017 NCAA individual champion at Los Angeles Country Club’s North Course.

The United States went into the afternoon singles matches needing only 21/2 points to win the amateur biennial event. It got them quickly.

Collin Morikawa of La Canada Flintridge beat British Amateur champion Harry Ellis 2 and 1 to go 4-0 in the two-day competition. Norman Xiong of Canyon Lake came painfully close to also being perfect before halving his match with Scott Gregory.

Stewart Hagestad, a junior member at LACC who played at Southern California, won 2 and 1 against Jack Singh Brar. NCAA individual champion Braden Throneberry of Ole Miss, rolled past Paul McBride, 6 and 5.

Xiong had been up 2 with two holes to play before Gregory caught him.

The Americans clinched the cup with six singles matches still in progress.

Montgomerie wins Champions event

CHIBA, JAPAN

Colin Montgomerie made all the putts he needed on Narita Golf Club’s huge greens Sunday to win the Japan Airlines Championship — the first PGA Tour Champions event in Japan.

The 54-year-old Scot two-putted for par from 50 feet on the par-4 18th, hitting his first to 11/2 feet, for a 5-under 67 and a one-stroke victory over Billy Mayfair and second-round leader Scott McCarron.

Montgomerie finished at 14-under 202 and earned $400,000 for his fifth victory on the 50-and-over tour and first in nearly a year. He won 31 times on the European Tour and topped the tour’s money list a record eight times — seven in a row from 1993-99 and the last in 2005.

Mayfair shot a 66. His 6-foot birdie try on 18 missed on the left edge. McCarron, tied with Bernhard Langer for the tour victory lead with four after winning three of the previous six events, birdied the final two holes for a 71.

Montgomerie ran in a 60-footer on the par-4 13th in the middle of a three-hole birdie spree, and made two key 6-foot putts.

Staff/wire report