winnipeg juniors
bringing home medals
A PAIR of Winnipeg teams will return from the national junior curling championships in Quebec with medals.
Zoey Terrick of the Heather captured bronze at the under-21 female event, while Jordan McDonald of Deer Lodge won bronze in the under-21 men’s event in Rouyn-Noranda, Que.
Terrick beat Ontario’s Tori Zemmelink 8-6 in the third-place game Sunday. She is joined on the squad by her sisters, Jaycee and Tessa, along with Jensen Letham. The Terricks are from McCreary.
Alberta’s Myla Plett won gold with a 10-4 victory over Mackenzie Mitchell of Newfoundland-Labrador
McDonald, meanwhile, defeated Ontario’s Landon Rooney to finish third. McDonald guides a team of Cameron Olafson, Elias Huminicki and Reece Hamm.
Alberta’s Johnson Tao knocked off Dallas Burgess of Northern Ontario 7-4 to collect the gold.
team kurtz wins
manitoba mixed
THE Kyle Kurz team has won the 2023 Manitoba mixed curling championship.
His Fort Rouge crew, with Beth Peterson, Ian McMillan and Melissa Gordon, defeated Corey Chambers of Fort Garry 8-1 in Sunday’s final at Assiniboine-Memorial.
Kurz will represent the province at the Canadian playdowns in Swift Current, Sask., in the fall.
medvedev claims
fourth victory
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Daniil Medvedev captured his fourth ATP title of the year on Sunday, beating Jannik Sinner 7-5, 6-3 for the Miami Open men’s singles title and to move to 6-0 in their career matchup.
Medvedev is now the most sizzling player on the men’s tour, winning 24 of his last 25 matches after his 1-hour, 34-minute triumph. His only loss has come against world No. 1 Carlos Alcaraz in last week’s final at Indian Wells.
Sinner ran out of magic, with his three-hour win late Friday night over Alcaraz in the semifinals — when he had mild cramping in the second set — looking to have taken a toll on the 21-year-old Italian.
larson drives away
with nascar win
KYLE Larson pulled away on a restart with 14 laps to go and easily won the NASCAR Cup Series race at Richmond Raceway on Sunday.
Larson started the final green flag run with Hendrick Motorsports teammate Josh Berry to his outside and beat Berry into the first turn. Berry, who is filling in for the injured Chase Elliott, held on for second, followed by Ross Chastain, Christopher Bell and Kevin Harvick.
It’s the third victory of the season for the four-car Hendrick team and came less than a week after a 100-point penalty against each driver for using an illegal part was overturned by a NASCAR appeals panel. It also came with a fill-in crew chief because of the NASCAR penalties.
Chevrolet took the top three spots and has now won five of the seven races this season.
All the Hendrick cars except for Berry ran in contention all race, with William Byron, the only two-time winner this season, leading a race-high 117 laps and running fourth for a restart with 21 laps to go. The field bunched up heading into Turn 1, and Bell hit his left rear quarter panel, sending Byron spinning into the wall. He finished 24th.
yin second chinese
to win lpga event
PALOS VERDES ESTATES, Calif. — Ruoning Yin became the second Chinese winner in LPGA Tour history Sunday, holding off Georgia Hall in the DIO Implant LA Open.
The 20-year-old Yin closed with an eventful 1-under 70 for a one-stroke victory over Hall, the English player whose 5-foot birdie try on the 18th to force a playoff slid by the right side. Recently retired Shanshan Feng is the other only other Chinese champion, winning 10 times on the LPGA Tour.
Yin finished at 15-under 269 at Palos Verdes Golf Club, making six birdies and five bogeys in the final round. She had a nine-hole stretch without a par, making a birdie on No. 2, three straight bogeys, four straight birdies and a bogey on No. 10. After dropping a stroke on 13, she birdied 14 and parred the final four.
Hall closed with a 67, making four birdies in a bogey-free round. She also was second last week in Arizona, losing a playoff to Celine Boutier.
Patty Tavatanakit of Thailand and Hyo Joo Kim of South Korea tied for third at 12 under, with Tavatanakit shooting 65 and Kim 71.
— staff, news services
