Red Wings Give Sketchy Details About Yzerman

The status of Steve Yzerman, the Detroit Red Wings’ captain who has torn cartilage in his right knee, was left up in the air, with team officials releasing little information.

Yzerman suffered the injury during the Red Wings’ 6-2 victory over the San Jose Sharks on Saturday night. On Sunday, team physician David Collin told the Detroit News Yzerman was expected to have arthroscopic surgery.

But a terse news release put out by the team on Monday only said, “It was determined that the team captain would be able to rejoin the lineup within two weeks. No further details are available.”

Team spokesman Bill Jamieson declined further comment.

The Red Wings open the Western Conference finals Thursday at home against the Chicago Blackhawks.

Golf

Bernhard Langer sank a three-foot putt to par the final hole and win the European PGA Championship at Virginia Water, England.

The German, in winning the title for the third time, shot a final-round 71 for a nine-under-par total of 279. He needed to make the final putt to avoid a playoff with New Zealand’s Michael Campbell and Sweden’s Per-Ulrik Johansson.

Colleges

Rancho Santiago won its second state community college baseball title in three seasons with a 12-2 victory over Cerritos at Fresno City College. Rancho Santiago beat Sacramento for the title in 1993, and the Dons finished second in the state to Cypress last season.

Matt Montgomery (4-0) got the win for Rancho Santiago (42-9). Cerritos was 39-14.

Syracuse defeated Maryland, 13-9, at College Park, Md., to win the NCAA lacrosse national championship. It was the sixth title for Syracuse Coach Roy Simmons Jr., whose father, Roy Sr., coached lacrosse at Syracuse from 1931 to 1970. Roy Sr. died last August at the age of 93.

Cal Poly San Luis Obispo named Kentucky assistant Karen Booker head women’s basketball coach. Booker was an All-American as a senior at Vanderbilt in 1987.

Miscellany

Josphat Machuka of Kenya won the 17th Bolder Boulder 10-kilometer road race at Boulder, Colo., with a record time of 27 minutes 52 seconds. The old mark was 28:40 by Thomas Osano in 1992. Kenyan Delillah Asiago won the women’s race in 32:13, bettering the previous course record of 33:14 set by Rosa Mota in 1990.

Wayne Taylor led his Ferrari team to victory in the IMSA World Sports Car Series race at Lime Rock Park in Lakeville, Conn., and Dorsey Schroeder held off a hard-charging Tommy Kendall to win the SCCA Trans-Am race.