IN BRIEF

SOCCER

Donovan's penalty kick gives Galaxy 2-1 win over D.C. United

Landon Donovan came back from the World Cup and kept scoring key goals.

Donovan scored on a penalty in the second half gave the Los Angeles Galaxy a 2-1 win over D.C. United on Sunday night.

It was Donovan's first goal since the World Cup, where he led the United States with three, including a penalty in their knockout-stage match against Ghana. He also scored a stoppage-time winner against Algeria that put the USA atop its group for the first time in 80 years.

"Every team he's on, he makes a difference," said Galaxy coach Bruce Arena, who also coached Donovan in the 2002 and 2006 World Cups.

TENNIS

Almagro upsets Soderling
to claim Swedish Open title

Fourth-seeded Nicolas Almagro of Spain beat defending champion Robin Soderling 7-5, 3-6, 6-2 to win the clay-court Swedish Open final in Bastad, Sweden.

The 20th-ranked Almagro earned his first title of the year and the sixth of his career.

After losing the opening set, the top-seeded Soderling recovered to break Almagro early in the second and establish a 3-1 lead.

The fifth-ranked Swede clinched that set to force a third, but Almagro broke the two-time French Open finalist twice in a row to ease to victory.

Also: Albert Montanes of Spain earned his second ATP title of the season after Gael Monfils retired from the Mercedes Cup final with an ankle injury.

The fifth-seeded Montanes was leading 6-2, 1-2 in Stuttgart, Germany, when the third-seeded Frenchman withdrew. Monfils turned his right ankle in the final game of the first set.

The 17th-ranked Monfils had the ankle taped up and continued to play in the second set, but conceded defeat after taking a 2-1 lead.

MISCELLANEOUS

Marlang wins Sunset Handicap to close Hollywood Park meet

Marlang led from gate to wire in Sunday's $100,000 Sunset Handicap, the closing-day feature at Hollywood Park in Inglewood, Calif.

Marlang and jockey Joel Rosario, the leading rider for the third consecutive Hollywood meeting, went straight to the front of the field of six older horses in the Grade 3 Sunset. Marlang led by as many as 3½ lengths and beat Champ Pegasus by a length, covering 1½ miles on turf in 2 minutes, 25.45 seconds.

Rosario's 79 victories for the meet left him four ahead of runner-up Rafael Bejarano.

Also: Caster Semenya resumed her low-key return to competition, winning a second straight 800-meter race in a time far slower than her world title run last August.

The South Africa cruised to victory at the Savo Games in Lapinlahti, Finland, in her second race since she was cleared to continue competing as a woman.

Marshall defensive back DeQuan Bembry was kicked off the football team, three months after his arrest outside a West Virginia bar on charges of assaulting a police officer and underage consumption.

Olympic beach volleyball gold medalists Phil Dalhausser and Todd Rogers won the AVP Hermosa Beach Open at Hermosa Beach, Calif., for the fifth year in a row.