There will be no gold medal for the U.S. at this World Cup. And for the second consecutive time in FIBA’s biggest tournament, there might not be any medal at all for the Americans.

Instead, it’s Germany on the cusp of a world title.

Andreas Obst scored 24 points, Franz Wagner added 22 and Germany scored more points than any team ever has against a USA Basketball team featuring NBA players — earning a 113-111 win in the World Cup semifinals on Friday night.

“This team is very worthy of winning a championship,” U.S. coach Steve Kerr of the Warriors said. “And we just didn’t get it done.”

No, it didn’t, and now questions will fly once again. USA Basketball has been talking for years about how the continuity of top international teams has closed what was once a sizable gap between the Americans and the rest of the world. The U.S. has won the last four Olympic titles, but now it’s two straight World Cups with no gold for the winningest program on the planet.

“Terrible,” U.S. guard and captain Jalen Brunson said. “Plain and simple.”

Germany — the last unbeaten team left in the tournament at 7-0 — will play Serbia on Sunday (5:40 a.m. PDT) for the World Cup title. Serbia beat Canada in the first semifinal, getting to its second World Cup final in the last three tournaments; it lost 129-92 to the U.S. in the 2014 championship game.

Canada will play the U.S. for bronze Sunday (1:40 a.m. PDT).

Obst hit the shot of the night, a 3-pointer with 1:15 left to put Germany up by four and just about snuff out a last-ditch U.S. rally.

The U.S., down by 10 midway through the fourth, nearly pulled off a comeback, getting within one point on two separate occasions in the final minutes. But the Americans never got the lead, and it was the Germans jumping and hugging as time expired.

“We knew the task at hand, and that was to go win,” U.S. guard Austin Reaves said. “And we didn’t do that.”

Anthony Edwards scored 23 points for the U.S. (5-2), which got 21 from Reaves, 17 from Mikal Bridges and 15 from Brunson.

Daniel Theis had 21 points for Germany.

“Obviously, a historic win for Germany,” Franz Wagner said. “We’ve got one more to go.”

Golf

Chien builds 4-shot lead in Cincinnati >> Peiyun Chien of Taiwan holed out for eagle on the sixth hole and played bogey-free for an 8-under 64 to build a four-shot lead in the Kroger Queen City Championship as she tries for her first LPGA Tour victory.

Ruoning Yin of China, who captured her first major this summer at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, also played bogey-free for a 66 that left her four shots behind with Morgane Metraux of Switzerland (66) and 18-hole leader Ruixin Liu of China (69).

Yin has a shot of raching No. 1 in the women’s world ranking, which would allow her to join Shanshan Feng as the only players from China to be atop the ranking.

Former U.S. Women’s Open champion Yuka Saso (66) and Charley Hull of England (68) were five shots behind.

Rose Zhang from Stanford had a 68 and was eight shots behind.

Soccer

Quakes to face C.D. Olimpia at PayPal Park >> The San Jose Earthquakes announced they will take on C.D. Olimpia in an international friendly at PayPal Park on Saturday, Oct. 14 at 6 p.m.

The match will be part of the 2023 SocioMX Tour.

Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Wednesday at 10 a.m. Tickets can be purchased by visiting sjearthquakes.com/tickets/.

Hockey

Brown, Langenbrunner make U.S. Hall of Fame >> Former NHL players Dustin Brown and Jamie Langenbrunner highlight the 2023 U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame class unveiled by USA Hockey.

Longtime executive Brian Burke, women’s star Katie King Crowley and official Brian Murphy also are being inducted into the hall at a ceremony Dec. 6 in Boston.

Brown in 2012 became the second American captain to hoist the Stanley Cup when the Los Angeles Kings won it for the first time, and he did it again in 2014. Earlier this year, the team put a statue of Brown outside of its arena and retired his No. 23 to the rafters.

Langenbrunner also won the Cup twice, in 1999 with Dallas and 2003 with New Jersey. He was a teammate of Brown’s at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics when the U.S. won the silver medal.