Wake Forest tops Ohio State for national title

Zack Schilawski scored the winning goal in his return to his hometown of Cary, N.C., lifting Wake Forest to a 2-1 victory over Ohio State in the NCAA College Cup championship Sunday.

Schilawski snapped a 1-1 tie in the 77th minute and his team won the first NCAA men’s soccer title in school history.

The second-seeded Demon Deacons (22-2-2), who had been 0-2-1 when trailing at halftime this season, rallied from a 1-0 halftime deficit.

Schilawski, who assisted on a goal by Marcus Tracy in Wake Forest’s 2-0 victory over Virginia Tech in the semifinals, scored the winning goal on a feed from Tracy.

Tracy powered his way through two defenders on the right flank, then juked past Doug Verhoff before crossing a pass to the middle of the field. Schilawski, a prep star at Cary High School, beat Ohio State goalkeeper Casey Latchem with a one-hop shot just inside the right post.

Fifth-seeded Ohio State (17-4-5) was playing in the College Cup for the first time in school history and riding a 15-game unbeaten streak.

Winter sports

American wins XC title

Kikkan Randall became the first U.S. woman and second American to win a World Cup cross country race when she defeated world sprint champion Astrid Jacobsen of Norway in the final meters of a 1.2-kilometer freestyle at Demino, Russia.

Randall, an Anchorage, Alaska, native, is the first American to win a World Cup cross country race since Bill Koch in 1983.

In the men’s race, Anders Gloersen led a Norwegian sweep of the first five places.

•Alexandr Zubkov of Russia drove his sled to victory in the four-man World Cup bobsled race a year after crashing on the course at the Olympic Sports Complex at Lake Placid, N.Y.

•Olympic slalom champion Anja Paerson of Sweden won a women’s World Cup super-G at St. Moritz, Switzerland.

•Finland’s Kalle Palander got his third career giant slalom victory on the Gran Risa course at Alta Badia, India, and American Ted Ligety skied the fastest second run to finish fifth.

•German speedskater Jenny Wolf broke her own world record in the women’s 100 meters with a time of 10.22 seconds at a World Cup race at Erfurt, Germany.

•Italy’s Armin Zoeggeler won a luge World Cup race at Igls, Austria.

Miscellany

‘Star’ wins Hollywood

Country Star beat Grace and Power by 2 3/4 lengths Saturday in the $431,500 Hollywood Starlet at Hollywood Park in Inglewood, Calif.

Ridden by Rafael Bejarano, Country Star covered 1 1/16 miles in a stakes-record 1:40.54, bettering the 1994 mark of 1:41.80 by Serena’s Song.

•World No. 9 David Nalbandian beat compatriot Juan Monaco 6-4, 7-5 to win the Copa Argentina tennis final at Buenos Aires.

•Sweden set a world record of 1 minute, 24.19 seconds in the men’s 4x50-meter freestyle relay at the European Short Course Swimming Championships at Debrecen, Hungary.

•Australian Danny Green scored a unanimous decision over Stipe Drews to take away the Croatian’s WBA light heavyweight title at Perth, Australia.