Stenson wins match play title

Henrik Stenson, who delivered the winning point for Europe in the Ryder Cup, won a big match for himself Sunday by surviving a roller-coaster round against Geoff Ogilvy to win the Accenture Match Play Championship at Marana, Ariz.

In a 36-hole final that featured five lead changes, Stenson closed out the defending champion with consecutive birdies for a 2-and-1 victory that moved the 30-year-old Swede among the elite in golf at No. 5 in the world rankings.

Ogilvy’s 11-match winning streak was still alive after he made two clutch pars to stay only one hole down. Stenson seized control for good with an eight-iron to two feet for birdie on the par-three 16th. Needing two putts from 60 feet on the par-five 17th, Stenson’s putt trickled within a few inches of the cup.

It was the 120th hole he played at the Gallery, but it was quite a payoff. Stenson earned $1.35 million for his first World Golf Championship win, and first victory that counts on the PGA Tour.

“I’m too tired to be happy,” he said.

Stenson became only the second European to win the Accenture Match Play Championship, joining Darren Clarke, who won in 2000.

Fred Funk came to Mexico aiming to show the young guys on the PGA Tour that he could still play championship golf at age 50.

And he managed to do it, despite a back problem that left him aching like an old-timer.

Funk overcame the pain and a rocky final round to win the Mayakoba Golf Classic at Playa del Carmen, Mexico, on the second hole of a playoff with Jose Coceres, making him only the second man to win on the regular tour after winning on the Champions Tour.

“It shows that the old guy has still got something,” Funk said. “It’s a very satisfying win.”

Craig Stadler was the first Champions Tour winner to claim a PGA Tour title, doing so in 2003 when he won the Senior Players and B.C. Open on consecutive weeks.

Bobby Wadkins won the ACE Group Classic at Naples, Fla., holing a 13-foot birdie putt on the final hole for a four-under 68 and a one-stroke victory over Allen Doyle in the Champions Tour event.

TENNIS

Haas defeats Roddick in final at Memphis

Tommy Haas beat Andy Roddick, 6-3, 6-2, to retain his title in the Regions Morgan Keegan Championships at Memphis, Tenn.

Haas won his sixth straight final and 11th title overall. He also won in Memphis in 1999 and is only the second three-time winner of this event. Jimmy Connors, now Roddick’s coach, won in 1978, 1979, 1983 and 1984.

Haas, ranked No. 9 entering the tournament, has not lost a final since Andre Agassi beat him in Rome in May 2002.

Unseeded Mikhail Youzhny easily beat third-seeded Ivan Ljubicic, 6-2, 6-4 to win the ABN Amro title at Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Youzhny, appearing in his fifth ATP final, beat Ljubicic for the first time in six tries. It was Youzhny’s third career title.

Roberta Vinci won the Copa Colsanitas at Bogota, Colombia, when top-seeded Tathiana Garbin retired in the third set because of a digestive problem.

Garbin led, 7-6 (5), 4-6, 3-0, when she withdrew on the advice of a doctor after her second medical consultation of the day.

Juan Monaco beat Alessio Di Mauro, 6-1, 6-2, at Buenos Aires, Argentina, for his first ATP title. The 22-year-old Monaco finished off the victory in 63 minutes.

MISCELLANY

Chelsea defeats Arsenal as Terry is injured

Chelsea won the League Cup final with a 2-1 victory over Arsenal at Cardiff, Wales, getting two goals from Didier Drogba and overcoming a frightening head injury to captain John Terry.

Terry, also the captain of the English national team, was taken off the field on a stretcher after Arsenal defender Abou Diaby accidentally kicked him in the head in the 58th minute.

Olympic wrestling champion Rulon Gardner and two Utah men were rescued by a fisherman Sunday after surviving a small plane crash near Lake Powell’s Good Hope Bay in Utah the day before.

Gardner was a passenger in the Cirrus SR 22 along with pilot Randy Brooks and his brother Leslie Brooks, according to a news release from Garfield County’s public information officer. The plane was flying low when it struck the water and all three men were able to get out of the plane before it sank.

The three men swam for more than an hour in 44-degree water before reaching shore and then spent the night without shelter, according to the release. None suffered life-threatening injuries, authorities said.

Steve Omischl won the World Cup men’s aerials title by finishing first with a score of 247.49 points in the Canada Post Freestyle Grand Prix at Penticton, Canada.

The Canadian beat out American Jeret Peterson for the overall title with 406 points to Peterson’s 368. Peterson finished third in the event with 231.53 points and Canadian Kyle Nissen was second with 238.07.

Tony Pedregon set a national elapsed time record at the Checker Schuck’s Kragen NHRA Nationals at Chandler, Ariz., en route to his 33rd career funny car victory.

Pedregon’s opening-round run of 4.701 seconds certified his 4.659-second qualifying time within the required 1%, making it an official NHRA record.

Rod Fuller raced to his second straight top-fuel victory at this event, and Kurt Johnson claimed his 36th pro stock win.

Quarterback A.J. Feeley and the Eagles agreed on a three-year contract extension through 2010, nearly eliminating the chance that Jeff Garcia will return to Philadelphia.