SPORTS digest

YSU bowlers finish 7th at invitational

LIMERICK, PA.

The Youngstown State bowling team went 2-1 in bracket play on Sunday to finish seventh at the KU Invitational at Limerick Bowl.

The Penguins began the day seeded eighth, and their two wins moved them up to seventh. YSU finished ahead of three teams ranked in the top 10 and ahead of 14 teams in the top 25.

The Penguins swept No. 13 Delaware Stat e in four games for their sixth straight head-to-head win dating to Saturday when they won all five matches.

YSU had a 12-pin win in the first game and a 13-pin victory in the third, and YSU finished the win with a 243, its highest game score of the day.

The Penguins lost their second match to No. 3 Vanderbilt 4-1, and one of the losses was by five pins.

YSU finished the tournament by outlasting No. 5 Sam Houston State in seven games. The Penguins led the Bearkats 3-0, dropped their next three and took the seventh game 186-152.

Junior Nikki Mendez earned all-tournament team honors for her 12th-place individual finish on Saturday.

Long edges Mickelson at Desert Classic

LA QUINTA, Calif.

Adam Long bounced around golf’s backwoods for years, winning only a lone Hooters Tour event. Now, he’s headed to the Masters as a PGA Tour winner.

Long won the Desert Classic on Sunday at PGA West, beating Hall of Famer Phil Mickelson and Adam Hadwin by a stroke with a 14-foot birdie putt on the final hole after a 6-iron approach from an awkward stance.

Long closed with a 7-under 65 on the Stadium Course, holing the winning putt after Mickelson’s 40-foot birdie try curled left at the end.

Mickelson, the leader after each of the first three rounds, shot 69.

Warren JFK graduate Jason Kokrak tied for 18th after shooting a 2-under-par 70. His round included five birdies, a bogey and one 3+ bogey.

Pacquiao dominates against Broner

LAS VEGAS

Manny Pacquiao showed Saturday night he’s still got plenty of fight for a fighter on the wrong side of 40.

Whether Pacquiao’s dominating win over Adrien Broner gets him a rematch with Floyd Mayweather, though, is a question that will have to be answered another night.

With Mayweather watching from ringside, Pacquiao showed flashes of his old speed in winning a unanimous 12-round decision over Broner to easily defend his piece of the welterweight title. It was the 61st win of a remarkable career in which Pacquiao has won titles in eight weight classes.

And it put to rest any thoughts of retirement after 24 years as a pro.

“The Manny Pacquiao journey will still continue,” Pacquiao said.

Fighting for the first time at the age of 40, the senator from the Philippines won a lopsided decision that was never in doubt before a crowd that roared at every punch he landed.

Svitolina advances Down Under

MELBOURNE, Australia

For a quarter of an hour, Elina Svitolina served and served, and served again, tossing the ball into the sun, in a desperate bid to hold a game in the third set against Madison Keys.

The sixth-seeded Svitolina fended off five break points in game that went to deuce 11 times, contained 28 points, and was pivotal in a momentum-swinging 6-2, 1-6, 6-1 win that earned her a place in the Australian Open quarterfinals.

At her first opportunity in the next game she broke the 17th-seeded Keys, runner-up at the 2017 U.S. Open and a semifinalist or better at three of the last five majors. Svitolina is trying to emulate what Caroline Wozniacki did here last year — coming to the season-opening major as winner of the season-ending WTA Finals and winning a breakthrough major title.

She’s 0-3 in Grand Slam quarterfinals.

Staff/wire report