In Brief

GOLF

Garcia routs Castello field
to break long winless drought

Sergio Garcia won his first title in almost three years on Sunday in Castellon, Spain, dominating for the third straight day at the Castello Masters while earning an 11-stroke victory that matched the third-largest margin of victory in European PGA Tour history.

The 31-year-old Garcia, playing on a course where he was club champion at the age of 12, shot 8-under 63 in the final round to finish at 27-under 257.

"That was for Seve," Garcia said, referring to golfing great Seve Ballesteros, who died of brain cancer in May.

Garcia had shot his best ever back-to-back rounds of 63 and 64 to lead the field since Friday, and he did not let up on the final day, recording nine birdies and just his fourth bogey in the event.

Fellow Spaniard Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano finished a distant second at 16-under 268, and Alexander Noren was third.

Also: Yani Tseng won the LPGA Taiwan Championship in Yang Mei, Taiwan, for her 10th worldwide victory of the year and third in front of her adoring home fans.

The 22-year-old Taiwanese star closed with a 6-under 66 for a 16-under 272 total and a five-stroke victory over Spain's Azahara Munoz and South Korea's Amy Yang.

Tseng earned $300,000 for her seventh LPGA Tour win of the year to increase her tour-leading total to $2,873,629.

UNLV

Men's soccer team notches
road victory over Seattle

The UNLV men's soccer team got goals early in each half on the way to a 3-2 victory over host Seattle in a Mountain Pacific Sports Federation game.

Salvador Bernal got his team-leading sixth goal of the year just 78 seconds into the game to put the Rebels (3-11, 2-5 MPSF) up 1-0. The Redhawks tied it in the 31st minute, but UNLV led 2-1 at halftime after a 40th-minute goal by Nick Marshall.

Then, just one minute into the second half, Zach Kupfer got what proved to be the winning score, with the Rebels holding on after Seattle got a 63rd-minute goal.

Ryan Harding had six saves for UNLV.

Also: The UNLV women's soccer team tied Wyoming 0-0, with neither team able to score in a double-overtime Mountain West Conference game at Laramie, Wyo.

Kylie Wassell had five saves as the Rebels (7-8-3, 3-1-1 MWC) posted their third straight shutout.

MISCELLANEOUS

Thunder's Durant paces victory
as host of NBA exhibition game

Kevin Durant had 42 points, 26 rebounds and 11 assists for a triple-double in his charity basketball game, leading his team to a 176-171 victory in overtime in Oklahoma City.

Durant and a star-studded White team including LeBron James and Oklahoma City Thunder teammate Russell Westbrook overcame a fourth-quarter deficit to beat a Blue team that featured Carmelo Anthony and Chris Paul.

It was the latest in a series of exhibition games across the country as NBA players stay in the spotlight while locked out by the league.

Also: Lance Armstrong crashed and hit his head with about a mile to go in the mountain-bike ride and faded from second to 23rd in the running leg of the XTERRA World Championship, with Austria's Michael Weiss finishing strong to win the off-road triathlon in Kapalua, Hawaii.

"I just crashed, crashed as we were coming back," the 40-year-old Armstrong said. "I hit it harder than I thought, because I stood there for a while taking inventory, trying to remember my name. That probably took a little out of me. ... I have never hit my head that hard before."

Weiss completed the mile ocean swim, 18.3-mile mountain-bike ride and 6.1-mile trail run in 2 hours, 27 minutes. Armstrong finished in 2:36:59.

Top-seeded Janko Tipsarevic beat defending champion Viktor Troicki 6-4, 6-2 in the first all-Serb ATP final to win the Kremlin Cup in Moscow.

In the women's final, Dominika Cibulkova of Slovakia won her first career WTA title, rallying to beat Kaia Kanepi of Estonia 3-6, 7-6 (1), 7-5 for the women's crown.

Top-seeded Gael Monfils beat Jarkko Nieminen 7-5, 3-6, 6-2 in the Stockholm Open final for his first title of the year. It was the 10th-ranked Monfils' fourth career ATP Tour crown.

Top-seeded and third-ranked Victoria Azarenka of Belarus won the Luxembourg Open, beating unheralded Monica Niculescu of Romania, 6-2, 6-2.

New Zealand won the Rugby World Cup, beating France 8-7 in Auckland, New Zealand, to become the third country to win the title twice. South Africa and Australia also are two-time winners.

World champion Ted Ligety completed an American double at the season-opening World Cup weekend in Soelden, Austria, by winning the giant slalom, a day after Lindsey Vonn took the women's race for her first ever GS title.