HOCKEY
Connor Doherty and Tim Doherty scored third-period goals as the Maine Mariners swept a three-game weekend series with the Adirondack Thunder with a 4-1 ECHL win Sunday at the Cross Insurance Arena.
Maine had won at Glens Falls, New York, 4-1 and 4-3 on Friday and Saturday.
Curtis Hall and Reid Stefanson also scored for the Mariners.
Goalie Michael DiPietro made 35 saves.
BASKETBALL
G LEAGUE: The College Park Skyhawks closed the half on a 30-11 run to beat the Maine Celtics 127-106 at College Park, Georgia.
Maine (8-4) has one game remaining on a 2-3 trip – Tuesday night at College Park.
Marial Shayok led Maine with 25 points, seven rebounds and three assists. Luka Šamanić finished with 16 points and seven rebounds. Two-Way player Mfiondu Kabengele added 15 points, nine rebounds, five assists and two steals in his return to the lineup..
Brandon Williams and Jared Rhoden led College Park (8-4) with 28 and 27 points.
LUGE
WORLD CUP: Falmouth native Emily Sweeney finished second in the women’s sprint to match her showing in the women’s singles race on Saturday at Igls, Austria.
Madeleine Egle won her second race of the weekend, taking the sprint after winning the women’s singles race Saturday. Egle’s time was 29.908 seconds, a mere 0.019 seconds better than Sweeney. Julia Taubitz of Germany (29.937) was third.
I’m just really excited to start the season off this way. … We have some good momentum,” Sweeney said.
SKIING
WORLD CUP: Corinne Suter picked up her first Lake Louise victory by winning a World Cup super-G race in Alberta, and Sofia Goggia’s winning streak on the mountain ended with a fifth-place finish.
Suter, a 28-year-old from Switzerland who won the gold medal in the downhill at the Beijing Olympics in February, covered the course in 1 minute, 20.75 seconds. She edged Cornelia Huetter of Austria by just 0.02 seconds.
• Aleksander Aamodt Kilde again shook off whatever after-effects he might have been feeling from a bout with the flu and again beat reigning overall World Cup champion Marco Odermatt, claiming victory in a super-G at Beaver Creek, Colorado.
Following up on a win in a downhill on the same mountain Saturday, Kilde finished the Birds of Prey super-G course in 1 minute, 10.73 seconds by showcasing smooth, clean skiing, never off-balance, never out of control. He blew a kiss to the crowd after his run.
Kilde, a 30-year-old from Norway who is dating American ski racer Mikaela Shiffrin, finished 0.20 seconds ahead of Odermatt, who is Swiss.
Alexis Pinturault of France was another 10th of a second back in third place Sunday.
GOLF
SOUTH AFRICAN OPEN: Thriston Lawrence held on to win his home tournament by one shot despite a final-round 2-over 74 at the Blair Atholl course at Johannesburg.
Lawrence started the day with a two-shot lead over Clement Sordet of France and despite extending his advantage to five strokes early on the back nine, the South African only just managed to hold off his playing partner to finish with an overall 16-under 272.
Jens Fahrbring of Sweden (70) finished third, two shots off the pace.
AUSTRALIAN OPEN: A superb 12-meter putt off the back of the last green for eagle was Adrian Meronk’s spectacular signature to his triumph at Victoria Golf Club at Melbourne, Australia.
Meronk, allowed the luxury of strolling down the last hole with a three-shot lead, stretched the winning advantage to five shots to cap a superb 4-under 66.
South African Ashleigh Buhai fought off late challenges from young Australian Grace Kim and then playing partner, South Korea’s Jiyai Shin, to win the Australian Open women’s title by one shot. The women’s competition was held concurrently with the men’s tournament off alternate tees.
HERO WORLD CHALLENGE: Viktor Hovland won with more excitement than he needed, clinching it with a 20-foot bogey putt on the final hole for a 3-under 69 to join tournament host Tiger Woods as the only back-to-back winners at Nassau, Bahamas.
Hovland took a four-shot lead at the turn when Masters champion Scottie Scheffler made double bogey on the par-5 ninth. No one got closer than two shots the rest of the way.
It just didn’t feel that easy.
Hovland had a two-shot lead on the 18th when his 6-iron from the slope above a bunker turned hard left and into the water. He took a penalty drop and hit a full wedge to about 20 feet for a chance to save bogey.
Scheffler was in the sandy area right of the green, and his chip ran hard over the lip and settled 10 feet away, giving him a par putt to force a playoff if Hovland missed.
Hovland holed the bogey putt for another trophy presentation with Woods.
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