Jason Day hangs on for first win on PGA Tour

Jason Day nearly dropped out of the Byron Nelson Championship before it began. He wound up winning the tournament — even though most folks probably will remember Jordan Spieth as the big winner at Irving, Texas.

Day fought through a rocky final round for a two-over-par 72, but it was good enough to give the 22-year-old Australian his first PGA Tour win.

Still, the 2010 Nelson will be remembered for the remarkable Tour debut by Spieth, a 16-year-old junior at a Dallas high school.

Spieth, the reigning U.S. Junior Amateur champion, was within three shots of the lead on the final nine holes but dropped back into a tie for 16th. He shot a two-over 72 in the final round, his highest score of the tournament. His four-under 276 was six strokes behind Day.

Sun Young Yoo won the Sybase Match Play Championship for her first LPGA Tour victory, beating Angela Stanford, 3 and 1, at Hamilton Farm in Gladstone, N.J.

Yoo, the 23-year-old South Korean player in her fifth LPGA Tour season, won the 13th and 14th holes with pars and took a 2-up lead with a 15-foot putt for her first birdie of the match on the par-three 16th.

MOTOR RACING

Kanaan qualifies for Indy 500

Tony Kanaan overcame a second crash to qualify for this year’s Indianapolis 500.

The former IndyCar Series champion made it onto the starting grid, posting a four-lap average of 224.072 mph with 30 minutes left in qualifying. Kanaan will start 32nd.

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Reigning NHRA world champions Tony Schumacher, Robert Hight and Mike Edwards earned victories in the O’Reilly Auto Parts Summer Nationals at Topeka, Kan.

Schumacher narrowly beat Cory McClenathan in top fuel, Hight was the winner in funny car and Edwards was victorious in pro stock.

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The inaugural five members of NASCAR’s Hall of Fame were inducted at Charlotte, N.C. They are Bill France, Bill France Jr., Richard Petty, Junior Johnson and Dale Earnhardt.

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Monica Harrison hit a three-run home run in the sixth inning and Samantha Camuso hit a two-run home run earlier in the game for No. 5-seeded UCLA, which defeated Fresno State, 7-2, to win the NCAA tournament’s Los Angeles Regional and advance to a super regional next weekend.

UCLA (43-11) will play host to Louisiana Lafayette in a best-of-three series. The winner will advance to the College Softball World Series.

—Eric Sondheimer

Fifth-seeded USC secured a spot in the semifinals of the NCAA men’s tennis tournament, defeating fourth-seeded Ohio State, 4-0, at Athens, Ga. The Trojans (23-3) will face top-seeded Virginia at 1 p.m. PDT Monday. The Cavaliers (39-1) beat ninth-seeded UCLA, 4-2. The Bruins end their season at 17-7.

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Hollywood Park will not offer live racing on Wednesday because of a limited number of entries. The track will be open for simulcasting beginning at 10:15 a.m.

Live racing will resume on Thursday with free general admission, a policy that will continue every Thursday until the end of June.

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The Czech Republic won the ice hockey world championship by ending Russia’s 27-game winning streak at the tournament with a 2-1 victory in the final at Cologne, Germany.