HOCKEY
Portland U19 girls win national title at Tier II level
The Portland Junior Pirates U19 girls won USA Hockey’s Tier II national championship Monday, beating the East Coast Wizards of Massachusetts 2-1 in the championship game at East Lansing, Michigan.
The Pirates won all six of their games in the five-day tournament, outscoring opponents by a combined margin of 33-4. After going 3-0 in pool play, they posted a 9-1 win over the Big Sky Wildcats of Montana in the quarterfinals and a 6-1 victory over Marquette, Michigan, in the semifinals.
Aimely Michaud-Nolan of Wells and Danita Storey of Cumberland scored in the championship game, and Paige Fontaine of Lewiston made 21 saves.
Alyssa Hulst of Scarborough was the tournament’s leading scorer with three goals and 14 assists. Storey, Elizabeth Gross of Scarborough and Mary Morrison of Cumberland finished with five goals apiece.
TENNIS
MIAMI OPEN: A resurgent Venus Williams defeated Caroline Wozniacki 6-3, 7-6 (1) to reach the quarterfinals at Key Biscayne, Florida.
Seeded 16th, Williams is a three-time Key Biscayne champion, but her most recent title here came in 2001. She’s into the quarterfinals at the tournament for the first time since 2012.
Williams could meet her sister Serena in the final. Serena, who has won the tournament a record seven times, defeated 2006 champion Svetlana Kuznetsova 6-2, 6-3.
• In men’s third-round play, No. 4 Kei Nishikori beat No. 32 Viktor Troicki 6-2, 6-2. No. 5 Milos Raonic hit 20 aces and edged No. 31 Jeremy Chardy 6-1, 5-7, 7-6 (3).
GOLF
PGA: For the first time since 1996, Tiger Woods is not among the top 100 golfers in the world ranking.
Woods, who hasn’t played since he withdrew from the Farmers Insurance Open on Feb. 6, falls to No. 104 this week. The last time he was out of the top 100 was on Sept. 29, 1996, when he was at No. 225. The following week, Woods won the Las Vegas Invitational as a 20-year-old for the first of his 79 PGA Tour victories.
It is not clear when Woods will return. He said in February that his scores were not acceptable and he would not play until his game was in tournament shape.
• Steve Stricker will make his return from back surgery at the Masters next week.
He has not played since the Hero World Challenge in early December.
COLLEGES
BASEBALL: Aaron Rosen homered in the top of the first inning to stake Bowdoin to an early lead, but the Polar Bears fell to Tufts 10-1 at Medford, Massachusetts.
The Jumbos (11-4, 2-1 NESCAC) answered with a two-run single by Bryan Egan in the bottom of the first to take the lead they never surrendered as all nine starters record at least one hit.
Cole DiRoberto and Evann Dumont-LaPointe both were 1 for 4 for Bowdoin (6-10, 1-2).
Erik Jacobson took the loss for the Polar Bears, going 52/3 innings, allowing five runs on six hits and striking out four.
AUTO RACING
FORMULA ONE: Driver Franck Montagny received a two-year suspension after testing positive for a metabolite of cocaine.
The Frenchman failed a test last November at a Formula E race in Malaysia and was provisionally suspended on Dec. 23.
– From staff and news services
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