COLLEGES
St. Joseph’s College scored three goals in the final quarter to top Colby-Sawyer 4-2 Wednesday in its regular-season field hockey finale at New London, New Hampshire.
Colby-Sawyer (8-9, 4-4 GNAC) struck first when Sarah Morin fed Alie Jones for a goal 2:16 into the game.
Maddy Beaulieu scored the first goal for St. Joseph’s (16-3, 8-0), which got fourth-quarter goals from Sophia Jacques, Alexandra Belaire and Emma Rutledge.
• Georgie Coetzer scored in overtime as Bowdoin (14-1, 9-1 NESCAC) beat Tufts (12-3, 8-2) 2-1 at Medford, Massachusetts.
Beth Krikorian scored Tufts’ goal 1:35 into the game. Goalkeeper Andie Stallman made four saves.
Peyton Jackson evened the score in the third quarter for Bowdoin. Maddie Ferrucci stopped seven shots.
WOMEN’S SOCCER: Lasell scored a pair of goals late in the second quarter to beat St. Joseph’s 2-1 at Waltham, Massachusetts.
McKenzie Murphy scored for the Monks (13-2-2, 9-2-1 GNAC).
Korynne Provenzano and Bobbi O’Guin scored for the Lasers (8-10-0, 8-4-0).
Adia Grogan recorded 11 saves for the Monks.
MEN’S SOCCER: Niko DeCola scored 3:23 into the match as St. Joseph’s beat Anna Maria 4-0 at Standish in its regular-season finale.
Justin Umbehr and Austin Ward also scored for the Monks (14-1-3, 9-0-2 GNAC). Their final goal was an own goal by the AmCats (4-16, 1-10).
Jeffre Donahue stopped 13 shots for Anna Maria.
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL: Oregon is No. 1 for the first time in school history while Tennessee’s streak of 42 straight appearances in The Associated Press preseason Top 25 is over.
The Ducks, led by sensational guard Sabrina Ionescu, garnered 25 of the 28 first-place votes from the national media panel to earn the top ranking in the poll. With many players back from last season’s team that reached the Final Four, expectations are high for Coach Kelly Graves and his team.
No. 2 Baylor, the defending national champion, received the other three first-place votes. Stanford, Maryland and UConn round out the top five. The Huskies have been in the top five for 239 consecutive weeks, since January 2007.
TENNIS
PARIS MASTERS: Four-time champion Novak Djokovic overcame a first-set wobble against unheralded Corentin Moutet, beating the 97th-ranked Frenchman 7-6 (2), 6-4 to reach the third round at Paris.
U.S. Open champion Rafael Nadal, who is battling with his old rival Djokovic for the year-end No. 1 ranking, won 7-5, 6-4 win against unseeded Frenchman Adrian Mannarino.
WTA FINALS: Defending champion Elina Svitolina qualified for the semifinals by beating Simona Halep 7-5, 6-3 at Shenzhen, China.
Svitolina, the only competitor in the eight-player field not to win a title this season, last won a tournament at last year’s WTA Finals.
In the late match, Bianca Andreescu retired with a left knee injury after losing the first set to Karolina Pliskova 6-3.
HOCKEY
USA: USA Hockey has increased the punishment for racial or derogatory slurs from a game misconduct to a match penalty.
The directive from USA Hockey President Jim Smith means any player caught using a slur will be penalized five minutes, thrown out of the game and suspended from further action until the matter is reviewed. Currently, it is just an ejection.
SOCCER
MLS: Nick DeLeon scored the tie-breaking goal in the 78th minute, Quentin Westberg stuffed a penalty kick and Toronto FC advanced to the MLS Cup title game with a 2-1 victory over defending champion Atlanta United in the Eastern Conference final at Atlanta.
Nicolas Benezet also scored for Toronto, which knocked off the top teams in the East – New York City FC and Atlanta – to earn a shot at the championship Nov. 10 at Seattle. The Sounders upset Supporters’ Shield winner Los Angeles FC 3-1 in the Western final Tuesday night.
AUTO RACING
INDYCAR: The new Arrow McLaren SP team officially named Pato O’Ward and Oliver Askew as its drivers for 2020 and confirmed the Indy Lights champions will replace popular IndyCar veteran James Hinchcliffe.
Hinchcliffe began driving for Sam Schmidt in 2015, the year he nearly bled to death when a part on his car broken in a crash at Indianapolis Motor Speedway pierced his leg. He is under contract to the team but being replaced by 2018 Lights champion O’Ward. Askew sealed a deal to replace Marcus Ericsson in the second seat after wrapping up this year’s Lights title.
BASEBALL
OBIT: Ron Fairly, a former USC standout who played his first 11-plus years in the big leagues with the Los Angeles Dodgers and closed his 21-year career with the California Angels in 1978, died in Indian Wells, California, because of cancer. He was 81.
ARREST: Former All-Star slugger Josh Hamilton has been charged with injury to a child after his 14-year-old daughter told his ex-wife that he had struck her on Sept. 30.
Hamilton, 38, surrendered to the Tarrant County Jail in Fort Worth, Texas, and was released on $35,000 bond. If convicted, he could be sentenced to 2 to 10 years in prison.
According to an affidavit by a Keller Police Department detective, Hamilton’s daughter told police that he went on a rampage. She says she made a comment to Hamilton that upset him, so he threw a full bottle overhand at her, hitting her in the chest, then cursed and shouted at her. He pulled away the chair on which she rested her feet and threw it, breaking the chair. It didn’t hit her, but he then grabbed her by the shoulders and lifted her from the chair on which she sat. She fell to the floor, and he lifted her up, threw her over his shoulder and carried her to her bedroom.
The girl said at this point she was telling Hamilton, “I’m sorry.” Upon reaching her bedroom door, he tossed the teen onto her bed, pressed her face onto the mattress and began hitting her legs with an open hand and closed fist.
The Dallas Morning News reports that Hamilton’s ex-wife Katie Hamilton, the mother of the children, had sought a protective order for the girl against Hamilton earlier this month.
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