IN BRIEF

COLLEGES

Iowa wrestlers claim NCAA championship

Iowa got individual titles from Brent Metcalf and Mark Perry to go with its runaway team title at the NCAA wrestling championships Saturday night in St. Louis.

The top-ranked Hawkeyes won their first championship since 2000 and 21st overall, finishing with 117.5 points and a 38.5-point victory margin. Ohio State also won two individual titles and finished a distant second, the school's best finish.

Also: Lacey Nymeyer won the 100 freestyle to help Arizona claim its first title at the NCAA women's swimming and diving championships in Columbus, Ohio.

The Wildcats, who finished second last season and in 1998 and 2000, used five relay titles and two individual champions over the three-day event to amass 484 points.

Two-time defending champion Auburn was second with 348. The Tigers won five of the previous six championships and also were second in 2005. Stanford was third with 343, followed by Texas A&M (315) and California (291).

Kim Martin stopped 28 shots to lead Minnesota Duluth past Wisconsin 4-0 in the NCAA women's hockey championship game at Duluth, Minn.

The win was the school's fourth championship in eight years and first since 2003. Wisconsin beat Minnesota Duluth 4-1 in the women's Frozen Four final last year for its second straight crown.

Haley Irwin, Emmanuelle Blais, Sara O'Toole and Karine Demeule scored for the Bulldogs (34-4-1), who beat Wisconsin (29-9-3) five of six times this season.

MISCELLANEOUS

World Cup champ Vonn skis to U.S. slalom title

Lindsey Vonn, the overall women's World Cup skiiing champion, and Jimmy Cochran won slalom titles at the U.S. Alpine Championships in Carrabassett Valley, Maine, in a competition delayed because of rain, snow and wind.

Vonn led both runs to win the event, which is not her strongest, with a combined time of 1 minute, 26.31 seconds for her first career win at Sugarloaf. Hailey Duke was second and Jenny Lathrop third.

Cochran successfully defended his title with a combined time of 1:26.69, with Cody Marshall second and Tim Jitloff third.

The only thing that could've made the win better would've been if Ted Ligety and Bode Miller had been competing, Cochran said. Miller was resting after winning the men's overall World Cup title, and Ligety, who holds the World Cup giant slalom title, has an injured thumb.

Also: French swimmer Alain Bernard broke the 100-meter freestyle world record for the second time in two days, setting a mark of 47.50 seconds in the final at the European swimming championships in Eindhoven, Netherlands.

Bernard, 24, took one-tenth of a second off his record of 47.60 in Friday's semifinals, which shattered Pieter Van den Hoogenband's mark set at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.

David Beckham remains on course to play his 100th game for England in next week's exhibition against France, after he was retained in coach Fabio Capello's final squad.

Capello left off six players for Wednesday's match at Stade de France from the provisional 30-man squad he announced last week, but Beckham remained on the roster.

Damian Harrell broke the Arena Football League record for touchdown receptions, catching his 303rd and 304th scoring passes in the Chicago Rush's 70-35 victory over the Colorado Crush in Rosemont, Ill.

In other action, host Orlando defeated Georgia, 50-45.