TENNIS

Naomi Osaka won her 22nd match in a row, beating Ajla Tomljanovic 7-6 (3), 6-4 in the second round of the Miami Open on Friday.

Osaka hasn’t lost in more than a year, and her winning streak includes her third and fourth Grand Slam titles at the U.S. Open last September and at the Australian Open in February.

Daniil Medvedev, seeded No. 1 on the men’s side, needed less than an hour to beat 37-year-old Yen-hsun Lu, 6-2, 6-2.

Three seeded men lost – No. 8 David Goffin, No. 9 Grigor Dimitrov and No. 30 Reilly Opelka.

COLLEGES

MEN’S HOCKEY: Michigan became the second team knocked out of the NCAA Tournament because of positive COVID-19 test results.

The Wolverines were scheduled to meet Minnesota Duluth, the two-time defending national champion, in a Midwest Regional semifinal Friday. The game will be ruled a no-contest and Minnesota Duluth will advance to the regional final Saturday against North Dakota or American International.

Michigan joins Notre Dame, which had to bow out of the tournament Thursday for the same reason.

FIELD HOCKEY: Chloe Walton broke a scoreless tie in the third quarter and Poppy Lambert added a fourth-quarter goal off a penalty corner as Maine (3-2, 3-0 America East) won its first home game since the fall of 2019, earning a 2-0 victory over Vermont (0-5, 0-3) in a game that took almost four hours because of multiple weather delays.

MEN’S BASKETBALL: Scott Lewis had 19 points and 14 rebounds for Husson (9-0) in a 92-75 win over St. Joseph’s (2-3) at Bangor.

Jack Casale, Nick Curtis and Griffin Foley each scored 20 points for St. Joseph’s.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL: Cassandra Stapelfeld scored 16 points to lead St. Joseph’s (5-0) to a 61-31 victory over Husson (5-1) in Standish.

Alyson Fillion added 10 points, and Jordan Jabar grabbed 12 rebounds. The Monks held Husson to 16 percent shooting.

FIGURE SKATING

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS: Russia extended its dominance at the world championships in Stockholm, Sweden, as Victoria Sinitsina and Nikita Katsalapov won the rhythm dance.

Already, the Russians have won pairs and have the lead in the women’s event. Sinitsina and Katsalapov are in front of U.S. champions Madison Hubbell and Zach Donohue by 2.10 points, with the other American team, Madison Chock and Evan Bates, exactly three points behind the leaders.

AUTO RACING

FORMULA ONE: Max Verstappen clocked the fastest times in the first two practice sessions for the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix.

The Red Bull driver was .095 seconds ahead of McLaren’s Lando Norris and .235 clear of world champion Lewis Hamilton’s Mercedes under the floodlights at the desert track in Sakhir.

Verstappen won the final race last season with a commanding drive at the Abu Dhabi GP. The 23-year-old Dutch driver also did well in preseason testing this month, offering hope that Red Bull can challenge Mercedes much more strongly this year.

SOCCER

UEFA: A Croatian soccer official sentenced to prison in a corruption case linked to player transfers was removed from a committee overseeing the European Championship, UEFA said.

Damir Vrbanović lost an appeal last week against his conviction and a three-year sentence in a ruling by the supreme court of Croatia.

Vrbanović, a former executive at Dinamo Zagreb and the Croatia soccer federation, had been reappointed by UEFA to its National Team Competitions Committee in 2019 while awaiting his appeal against the conviction the previous year.

UEFA also removed former Serbia soccer president Slavisa Kozeka from its committee overseeing the 55 European member federations.

Kozeka resigned as head of Serbian soccer on Monday after being linked to a fan group with alleged ties to organized crime.

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