RUNNING

Registration for Cape Elizabeth summer 10K scheduled for mid-March with later lottery

Online registration for the TD Beach to Beacon 10K road race will be held March 13 for Cape Elizabeth residents and March 14 for others interested in participating in the 17th edition of the event on Saturday, Aug. 2.

Six hundred entries are reserved for Cape Elizabeth residents, who can register at www.beach2beacon.org at 7 a.m., March 13. Registration for everyone else opens at 7 a.m. March 14, with 4,000 spots available.

The entry fee is $45.

Last year, registration for Cape Elizabeth residents closed after only nine minutes, and the 4,000 entries for the public were filled in 4 minutes, 58 seconds.

Those who don’t gain entry on March 13-14 can enter a lottery for 1,900 remaining slots. There’s a $5 fee to enter the lottery, and entries will be accepted from March 14-23. The lottery will be March 25.

Entry transfers will be allowed from May 1 through June 30 for a $5 fee. The 600 Cape Elizabeth entries can only be transferred to Cape residents.

GOLF

PGA: Patrick Reed ran off five straight birdies in the middle of his round on PGA West’s Arnold Palmer Private Course in La Quinta, Calif., and finished with a 9-under 63 for a one-stroke lead after one round in the Humana Challege.

MOTORSPORTS

FORMULA ONE: Ron Dennis regained control of McLaren’s Formula One team, returning as chief executive in a bid to revive the team’s flagging fortunes.

McLaren’s statement made no mention of team principal Martin Whitmarsh, creating uncertainty about his future after failing to deliver any titles during his five years.

• NASCAR team co-owner Gene Haas has applied to own a Formula One team.

Haas is co-owner with Tony Stewart of Stewart-Haas Racing. Formula One’s governing body said in December it would accept applications through Jan. 3 for new teams that would begin in either the 2015 or 2016 season.

MONTE CARLO RALLY: Robert Kubica showed his enduring class on the first day of the season-opening race, winning the first two stages and placing third overall ahead of defending world champion Sebastien Ogier.

OLYMPICS

WOMEN’S HOCKEY: The International Olympic Committee won’t allow American goalie Jesse Vetter to compete in a mask that contains the U.S. Constitution’s opening words, “We the People,” because uniforms may not include any “form of publicity or propaganda, commercial or otherwise.”

SNOWBOARDING: Two-time Olympic gold medalist Shaun White took a face-first fall during his first run in an Olympic slopestyle qualifier at Mammoth Lakes, Calif., and pulled up during his second, finishing last among 13 riders.

Jamie Anderson captured the women’s event to wrap up her spot on the Olympic team.

– From staff and news services