HIGH SCHOOLS

Four-goal third period carries Greely girls to win

Mary Morrison had a hat trick and Monica Howland added two goals for Greely, which used a third-period outburst to beat Winslow 5-1 at Family Ice in Falmouth on Saturday.

Morrison gave the Rangers (7-2) the lead with an unassisted goal in the final minute of the first period. Sarah Fowler of Winslow (4-4) scored on a power play two minutes into the second period.

The score was tied until 4:46 of the third, when Morrison notched her second goal, from Meg Finley and Shannon Donovan. The Rangers scored three more goals over the next six minutes to clinch it.

Finley finished with three assists.

SKIING

CROSS COUNTRY: Justyna Kowalczyk of Poland, the defending champion, won her third race in three days at Oberstdorf, Germany, in the Tour de Ski, a nine-event cross-country series over 11 days in Germany and Italy.

Kowalczyk captured the sprint ahead of Marit Bjoergen of Norway. Kowalczyk improved her chances of winning the series for the third time by finishing the seven-tenths of a mile in 2 minutes, 45.3 seconds.

TENNIS

LENDL HIRED: Andy Murray hired Ivan Lendl, an eight-time Grand Slam winner, as his coach in a bid to finally win a major title.

Murray, the fourth-ranked Scot, will begin working with the Czech-born Lendl as he prepares for the Australian Open that starts Jan. 16.

AUTO RALLY

DAKAR RALLY: The Dakar Rally began with a processional ride, the symbolic start to a 15-day race that will take competitors from Argentina through Chile to the finish in Peru.

This is the fourth straight year the event is in South America. After three years of racing on a course that started and ended in Buenos Aires, the race now begins in the Atlantic coastal city of Mar Del Plata, with the finish 5,500 miles away on the Pacific coast in Peru.

SOCCER

ENGLISH LEAGUE: Visiting Blackburn pulled off the biggest surprise of the Premier League season by stunning Manchester United 3-2, ruining Manager Alex Ferguson’s 70th birthday.

United erased a 2-0 deficit through two second-half goals by Dimitar Berbatov, but Grant Hanley took advantage of a mistake by goalkeeper David de Gea to score the winner from a corner in the 80th minute.

• Alex Ferguson, 70, pledged to stay as Manchester United’s manager for at least three more years.

MIXED MARTIAL ARTS

LESNAR RETIRES: Brock Lesnar retired from the UFC after Alistair Overeem stopped him with one vicious kick to the body at 2:26 of the first round Friday night.

“I had no idea he would do that, (but) am I surprised? No,” said the UFC president, Dana White. “Brock Lesnar has made a lot of money in his career and has achieved a lot of things. … He brought a lot of excitement to the heavyweight division. But I get it. It doesn’t shock me.”

— From staff and news services