In brief: Park leads Meijer LPGA Classic
GOLF: Inbee Park made two long birdie putts on the back nine Saturday and finished with a 3-under 68 to remain a stroke ahead after the third round of the Meijer LPGA Classic in Belmont, Michigan.
The third-ranked South Korean player holed a 25-footer from the fringe on the par-3 14th, bogeyed the par-4 15th after missing a 3-foot par try and rebounded with a 35-foot birdie putt on the par-4 16th.
Park had a 13-under 200 total at Blythefield Country Club.
South Korean rookie Mirim Lee was second after a 67. Norway’s Suzann Pettersen was another stroke back after a 69.
• Gillman, Henderson reach amateur final: Kristen Gillman and Brooke Mackenzie Henderson won semifinal matches to advance to the 36-hole final in the U.S. Women’s Amateur at Nassau Country Club in Glen Cove, New York.
The 16-year-old Gillman beat 15-year-old Andrea Lee 4 and 3. Henderson, the 16-year-old Canadian who is No. 2 in the world amateur ranking, edged Hannah O’Sullivan 1 up.
Gillman is coming off an 11-stroke victory last week in the Junior PGA Championship.
Henderson, from Smith Falls, Ontario, is trying to become the third Canadian winner in tournament history, following Marlene Stewart in 1956 and Cathy Sherk in 1978.
Henderson lost the first two holes and pulled even par wins on Nos. 9 and 10. She took the lead with a 50-foot birdie chip on the par-4 14th and matched O’Sullivan with pars on the final four holes.
• Wie out with injury: Michelle Wie has a finger injury that forced her to withdraw from LPGA Championship next week at Monroe Golf Club and will sideline her at three to five weeks.
IMG Golf said that Wie has a stress reaction in a bone in her right index finger. The U.S. Women’s Open champion withdrew from the Meijer LPGA Classic on Thursday in Michigan after playing nine holes in the first round.
“I was looking forward to playing the next three weeks,” Wie said in the statement released by IMG. “It’s honestly one of my favorite stretches on tour. It’s extremely disappointing to miss these events, but I am relieved to have a proper diagnosis.”
Venus ousts Serena in semifinals
TENNIS: Venus beat Serena in an all-Williams semifinal in the Rogers Cup in Montreal.
Venus topped Serena 6-7 (2), 6-2, 6-3 in the hard-court event for her first victory over her sister since 2009 in Dubai.
The 32-year-old Serena, ranked No. 1 in the world for the 200th career week, leads the series 14-11 and had won the last five matches. The 34-year-old Venus is ranked 26th.
In the second semifinal, third-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska defeated Ekaterina Makarova 7-6, 7-6.
Unseeded Venus started the match strong on her serve and took a 3-1 lead, but Serena rallied to tie it at 3 and went on to take the set in a tiebreaker.
Venus dominated the second set, breaking Serena’s serve twice and taking advantage of unforced errors.
Serena made two errors and dropped serve to fall behind 4-2 in the third set. Venus, who dropped serve only once in the match, served for the win at 5-3.
Fryar faces decision in fraud case
MISCELLANY: A former NFL star and his mother are facing a deadline on whether to plead guilty or go to trial in a mortgage fraud case.
Irving Fryar faces a five-year sentence under a plea deal. His mother, Allene McGhee, has been offered a three-year sentence.
They’re charged with conspiring to steal money through a mortgage scam run by William Barksdale, who has been sentenced to 20 months in federal prison. They are due in court Aug. 21.
Fryar grew up in Burlington County and starred at the University of Nebraska before being drafted No. 1 in 1984 by the New England Patriots. He also played for the Miami Dolphins, Philadelphia Eagles and Washington Redskins.
• Chudinov stops Bouadla: Russian middleweight Dmitry Chudinov successfully defended his WBA interim title, stopping Mehdi Bouadla in three rounds in Moscow.
In front of a strongly nationalist crowd at a motorbike festival in the Russian-speaking Crimean peninsula, annexed by Russia in March, Chudinov knocked down his French opponent in every round before the referee stopped the bout.
Chudinov stayed unbeaten with 14 wins and two draws, while Bouadla dropped to a 30-6 career record.
The fight was part of a festival in Sevastopol organized by the Night Wolves, a Russian biker group with whom Russian President Vladimir Putin has ridden in the past.
• First Olympic test successful: Rio organizers say the sailing competition that marked the first test event for the 2016 Games was “a great success.”
Organizers said all objectives were “successfully reached” in the seven-day event that ended Saturday. Nearly 330 athletes from 35 countries participated in the regatta, the biggest ever held in Brazil.
In a statement, local organizers made no direct reference to water pollution at the bay, a topic that has attracted a lot of negative attention after officials admitted they will not be able to completely clean the site until 2016.
The sports director of the local organizing committee, Rodrigo Garcia, said the games’ first test came to a close “with a sense of mission accomplished.”
The regatta was the first in a series of 45 national and international test events.