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SPORTS Thursday 6 sepTember 2018
Lloyd scores twice, U.S. women beat Chile 4-0

By JANIE McCAULEY nal tuneup ahead of the
AP Sports Writer start of World Cup qualify-
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — The ing next month and drew
Americans scored goals in a crowd of 14,340. These
so many ways over the past were the first two matchups
week. Now it's time to do it between Chile and the U.S.
on the big stage of World The Americans had anoth-
Cup qualifying. er first-half chance in the
Carli Lloyd entered in the ninth minute, when Mor-
second half and imme- gan's cross to Pugh led to a
diately scored on a div- one-touch shot from a few
ing header before scoring yards out that sailed high
again in the 93rd minute over the crossbar.
after a dazzling dribbling U.S. midfielder McCall Zer-
sequence for her 102nd boni went down in the
career goal, and the U.S. opening minute with a left
women's national team ran elbow injury and trainers
its unbeaten streak to 21 took her off the field be-
matches by beating Chile fore she was replaced by
4-0 on Tuesday night in the Morgan Brian in the fifth
second exhibition between minute. Zerboni will be re-
the countries in five days. evaluated soon.
"I think Chile was a good op- The U.S. team played again
ponent for us going into the United States' Tobin Heath, bottom, scores a goal in front of Chile's Geraldine Leyton during the first without midfielder Megan
CONCACAF qualifying. I half of an international friendly soccer match in San Jose, Calif., Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2018. Rapinoe, who is nursing a
think that they're pretty sim- Associated Press rib injury but is expected to
ilar to the teams that we're be healthy for World Cup
now going to face that we 34th minute on a pass from lis, who was thrilled to see Pugh scored from a couple qualifying. Rapinoe has
know of," Lloyd said. "So Heath before Heath scored a balanced effort by her of yards out. Chile defend- worked to raise more than
two good matches, a lot of her 21st career goal four players as "we shared the er Camila Saez tackled $150,000 to aid victims of
players got time, we scored minutes later. load, which was important Pugh for the penalty kick. the devastating Carr Fire in
some great goals. I think Lloyd headed in a goal to me." Tierna Davidson, a 19-year- her native Redding, Califor-
we can go into qualifying from just outside the 6-yard Pugh got the Americans old star from the Bay Area nia, area, and at least 65
confident and ready." box in the 47th minute off on the board with her 12th who is a junior playing people from Redding at-
Tobin Heath scored a goal Heath's free kick. With her career goal in a whirlwind at Stanford, assisted on tended the game in a joint
and assisted on two oth- 101st goal for the national sequence after Alex Mor- Heath's goal after scoring effort with U.S. Soccer and
ers as U.S. coach Jill Ellis team, Lloyd moved into gan's penalty kick was her first career goal in a 3-0 the Shasta Regional Com-
used the friendlies against fifth place on the Ameri- stopped by Chilean goal- win against Chile on Friday munity Foundation, which
Chile to mix and match cans' all-time list, passing keeper Christiane Endler. night at Carson, California, organized buses to trans-
with a variety of veterans Tiffeny Milbrett. The ball deflected to in her 11th appearance port the fans.
and young players. Mal- "She came in and was a Endler's right, where Heath with the national team. "It's so great, it's amazing,"
lory Pugh scored in the game-changer," said El- secured it and crossed as This was the Americans' fi- Rapinoe said.q

De Marchi wins longest stage of Spanish Vuelta

LUINTRA, Spain (AP) — Ales- said. "Sometimes you feel relaxed."
sandro De Marchi broke like you've lost it. There was little change
away with five kilometers Now I feel like I'm back at overall, with Yates stay-
(3.1 miles) left to win the my best." ing one second ahead of
longest stage of the Span- The BMC Racing Team Valverde and 14 in front of
ish Vuelta on Wednesday, rider, who had also won Nairo Quintana.
while Simon Yates kept his stages in this year's Tour "I never thought I would
slim lead over Alejandro de Suisse and the Volta a lose the red jersey," Yates
Valverde in the overall la Comunitat Valenciana, said. "The first 100 kilome-
standings. was 28 seconds ahead of ters (62.1 miles) were very
De Marchi was in a group Jhonatan Restrepo, and intense and chaotic. We
of 19 riders who escaped nearly a minute in front of expected a lot of attacks
from the peloton about third-place Franco Pellizot- ... we had to take some
halfway into the 207.8-ki- ti. risks and in the end I'm still in
lometer (129.1-mile) 11th "I knew there was this up- the red. The legs felt good,
stage in northwestern hill section. I only had one without any problem, and
Spain. He then jumped into shot, the legs were empty. now I'm looking forward to
a solo lead in heavy rain It was all in the mind," the the real mountain stages."
on the final climb to secure 32-year-old Italian rider Thursday's 12th stage will In this Saturday, Sept. 5, 2015 file photo, BMC'S Alessandro De
his third career stage vic- said. "Now I can take it a be a hilly 181.1-kilometer Marchi of Italy, celebrates after winning the 14th stage be-
tory in the Vuelta. bit easier in the peloton (112.5-mile) route from tween Vitoria and Alto Campoo Fuente del Chivo, 215 kilome-
ters (133 miles), of the Spanish Vuelta cycling race that finishes
"This victory is special. I had in the next few days and Mondonedo to Estaca de in Alto Campoo, northern Spain.
been chasing it for quite I want to try again in the Bares, the northernmost Associated Press
some time," De Marchi last week, but I'll be more point in Spain.q