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SPORTS Tuesday 11 June 2019

Lexi Thompson celebrates with the trophy after wining the LPGA
Classic golf tournament, Sunday, June 9, 2019, in Galloway, NJ.
Associated Press
Thompson rallies for

2-stroke win at

ShopRite LPGA Classic

Joey Logano stands with the trophy after winning a NASCAR Cup Series auto race at Michigan
GALLOWAY, N.J. (AP) — After 3-putting from off the green International Speedway, Monday, June 10, 2019, in Brooklyn, Mich. Associated Press
on the 15th hole to fall two shots off the lead in the final
round of the ShopRite LPGA Classic, Lexi Thompson made Logano edges Kurt Busch,
it a point not to stress out over it.
The calm demeanor paid off as Thompson finished birdie- Martin Truex in overtime
par-eagle on her last three holes Sunday, and made a
20-foot putt for the eagle at the 18th to win the $1.75 mil- By NOAH TRISTER Logano, not surprisingly, arez and Kyle Busch.
lion event on the Bay Course at Seaview by one stroke AP Sports Writer had a different view. “You don’t have days like
over Jeongeun Lee6. BROOKLYN, Mich. (AP) — “I was able to see it right that, that are so close to
“I just really tried to find the positives in it because I knew Joey Logano won the pole in front of me. I hit it when perfect. That doesn’t hap-
coming in there were birdie holes,” Thompson said. “If I in qualifying and then led I got there,” Logano said. pen very often in our sport,”
let it affect me, I wouldn’t have finished the way I did. At for more than three-quar- “I had a good start though, said Logano, the defend-
that point I didn’t know where I was, position-wise. I kind ters of the actual race. wasn’t it? That was a good ing series champion. “I’m
of thought I was behind for sure . a few back.” It was an impressive dis- one. That one felt good.” very proud of the effort
Playing in winds that blew steadily from 20 to 30 miles per play, but all that could NASCAR said it reviews all that we’ve had really the
hour, Thompson had a 4-under-par 67 for a 54-hole score have gone for naught if he restarts and did not find last few weeks, from the
of 12-under 201. She posted her 11th career LPGA Tour hadn’t been sharp on one anything problematic with execution side. But this time
victory — first since last year’s season-ending CME Group final restart. Logano won this one. It was the third we had the speed and had
Tour Championship. It extended her streak to seven his second NASCAR Cup win in a row for Ford at MIS. the execution going along
straight years with at least one win on the tour. Series race of the season, This was the 100th race at with it.”
Thompson, who made her professional debut in this event holding off Kurt Busch and Michigan for NASCAR’s top WHO’S HOT
in 2010 at the age of 15, set up her eagle at the 18th by Martin Truex Jr. in overtime series. The race was held Logano earned Team Pen-
needing to hit a 190-yard second shot with the wind at Monday at Michigan Inter- Monday after being rained ske’s fifth Cup victory of
her back, to get it to the front of the green. national Speedway. Loga- out Sunday. Logano won the season. Owner Roger
“With a jumper lie and the wind, I ended up hitting a no was trying to hold on to the first stage but had to pit Penske was in Washing-
pitching wedge, which is my 135 club,” she said. “It end- a dwindling lead over Truex toward the end of the sec- ton, where Simon Pagen-
ed up landing 50 yards short and rolling up there.” and Busch with five laps re- ond. Austin Dillon won that aud was welcomed to the
On the putt, she said, “I got chills, like my hair on my arms maining, but around that stage. It was a dominant White House in recognition
was sticking up once I made it.” time, Erik Jones went onto visit to MIS for Logano, who of his Indianapolis 500 vic-
Lee6, the champion of last week’s U.S. Women’s Open the grass, bringing out the led a track-record 163 laps tory. Joe Gibbs Racing has
who was playing two groups behind Thompson, lost caution flag that forced in the race. The previous nine Cup wins this year and
her lead with three consecutive bogeys from holes 13 overtime. mark of 162 was set in 1989 put two cars in the top five
through 15 before bouncing back with a birdie at No. 16 “As the leader, you’re like, by Rusty Wallace — al- at Michigan: Truex and Kyle
to tie Thompson. ‘Ohhhh.’ Right?” Logano though Logano’s race was Busch.
However, needing an eagle to force a playoff after said. “But the race fan part extended by the overtime. WHO’S NOT
reaching the green in two, she just missed a 45-foot putt of me is like, ‘Heck yeah, this The race was scheduled for Clint Bowyer and Kevin Har-
to tie and had to settle for a birdie, giving her a 70 and is going to be a great race 200 laps and 400 miles. Af- vick, who won the two MIS
second place at 202. for everyone to watch.’” ter lap 191, Logano had a races last year, remained
“The way I’m playing the ShopRite tournament, it’s amaz- Logano and Truex were up lead of 1.302 seconds. Truex winless this season. Bowyer
ing, and I’m pretty satisfied with finishing in second place,” front on the restart, along had cut that to 0.153 after was out of it after he went
Lee6 said through an interpreter. with Kurt and Kyle Busch, lap 195, and Kurt Busch was into the wall early in the fi-
Ally McDonald, seeking her first career LPGA Tour victory, and Logano pulled ahead right there too — but that nal stage. Harvick had to pit
challenged on the back nine and took third place at 204 in his No. 22 Ford. all became moot because toward the end of the first
following a 70. Two-time ShopRite LPGA champion Anna “He jumped the restart by of the last caution. stage with a loose wheel.
Nordqvist had a 69 for fourth place at 206. over a car length,” Truex Logano won for the 23rd He worked his way back
Mariah Stackhouse, who began the day one stroke off said. “I don’t know. I guess time in his career and took into contention but finished
the lead, fell back with a double bogey at the fifth hole they don’t enforce those over the points lead from seventh. “We had a really
and couldn’t come back. Her round of 74 left her in a rules anymore. We’ll have Kyle Busch. Kurt Busch fin- fast Busch Light Ford and
three-way tie for fifth at 207 with Ariya Jutanugarn (68) to remember that for next ished second Monday, fol- just made a lot of mistakes
and Yu Liu (72).q time.” lowed by Truex, Daniel Su- today,” Harvick said.q