Tessa Janecke scored the winner as the United States prevailed in overtime over defending champion Canada 4-3 to win the women’s ice hockey world championship in the Czech Republic on Sunday.

Janecke struck with 2:54 left in overtime for the Americans to claim their 11th title at the worlds.

Taylor Heise set up the winning goal.

With Sarah Fillier going to the bench, Canadian defenseman Jocelyne Larocque was pressured behind the net and sent a pass up the boards, with Heise intercepting the pass at the right point inside the blue line and feeding Janecke to score into the open left side of the net.

Janecke immediately celebrated her third goal of the tournament by throwing her stick into the stands.

It was a bitter end for Larocque who became Sunday the first defender to play 200 career games for Canada, and the fifth Canadian overall.

Abbey Murphy and Heise scored a goal and had an assist, and Caroline Harvey also scored for the U.S.

“Shock and awe,” U.S. goalie Gwyneth Philips said after the drama. “I’m ecstatic.”

Golf

Thomas ends 3-year drought with playoff win >> Justin Thomas ended nearly three years without a victory by making a birdie putt from just outside 20 feet in a playoff at Harbour Town to beat Andrew Novak in the RBC Heritage at Hilton Head.

Thomas played bogey-free in dry, fast conditions for a 3-under 68, making a 25-foot birdie putt on the 16th that looked like it might be the winner until Novak, who grew up in South Carolina, matched him with a big birdie of his own for a 68.

Novak, who has had three good chances to win in his last 14 tournaments, had an 8-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole in regulation that was left all the way.

In the playoff, Novak missed from just inside 35 feet, setting the stage for Thomas. The putt was so pure that Thomas dropped his putter before the ball dropped, stooping over and clutching both arms to celebrate a win that felt long overdue.

Thomas and Novak were joined in a four-way tie at one point by 54-hole leader Si Woo Kim and Maverick McNealy of Stanford.

Daniel Berger closed with a 65 to tie for third with McNealy (70), Mackenzie Hughes (67) and Brian Harman (69).

Higgo gets PGA win in Dominican Republic >> Garrick Higgo took advantage of Joel Dahmen’s late meltdown to win the windy Corales Puntacana Championship for his second PGA Tour victory.

Higgo got an unexpected share of the lead when Dahmen missed a 1-foot par putt on the par-3 17th for his second straight bogey, and won when Dahmen couldn’t get an 8-foot par attempt to fall on the par-4 18th.

Dahmen shot 76 after leading after each of the first three rounds

Hockey

San Jose to face rival in AHL playoffs >> The San Jose Barracuda, the Sharks’ AHL affiliate, will begin its postseason in Los Angeles on Thursday.

The Barracuda lost 4-0 to the Calgary Wranglers at the Scotiabank Saddledome on Sunday to finish the regular season in sixth place in the AHL’s Pacific Division with 81 points. San Jose (36-27-5-4) entered the game in fifth place but fell behind Calgary with the regulation time loss.

The Barracuda begin the Calder Cup playoffs with a best-of-3 series against the Ontario Reign, with all games in Southern California. Games 1 and 2 will be at Crypto.com Arena, home of the Los Angeles Kings, on Thursday and Saturday, respectively, and Game 3, if necessary, will be at Toyota Arena in Ontario on Monday. The Reign is the Kings’ AHL affiliate.

To host a playoff game at Tech CU Arena in San Jose, the Barracuda would need to advance to the second round.

— Curtis Pashelka

Men’s gymnastics

Michigan slips past Stanford to win NCAA title >> Michigan’s Fred Richard and Paul Juda finished first and second in the all-around Saturday night and the Wolverines team total of 332.224 edged them past five-time defending champion Stanford (332.061) to win their first NCAA men’s gymnastics title since 2014.

Juda, the individual champion on the parallel bars with a score of 14.200 and host Michigan’s last competitor of the day, scored a 13.966 on the vault to clinch the program’s seventh national title. The Wolverines finished second, 5.635 points behind Stanford, at the 2024 championships.

Stanford’s Asher Hong took home the individual title in the floor exercise (14.600) and defended his crown with a score of 14.433 on the rings.

College football

Ex-Tennessee QB Iamaleava commits to UCLA >> Nico Iamaleava says he’s heading to UCLA, a week after Tennessee announced the quarterback who helped the Volunteers reach last season’s College Football Playoff was no longer with the program.

Iamaleava completed 63.8% of his passes for 2,616 yards with 19 TDs last year in his lone season as Tennessee’s starter.

Motorsports

Piastri wins F1’s Saudi Arabian Grand Prix >> Oscar Piastri went top of the Formula 1 standings with victory at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix. Piastri started second alongside Max Verstappen and took the lead after Verstappen had to serve a five-second penalty.

Verstappen was penalized for driving off the track when battling for the lead with Piastri at the very first corner. Piastri argued he had got in front of Verstappen on the inside of the corner.

Tennis

Rune upsets Alcaraz to win Barcelona Open >> Holger Rune upset home-crowd favorite Carlos Alcaraz in straight sets 7-6 (6), 6-2 to win the Barcelona Open for his first title since 2023.

Rune won his first title since winning in Munich two years ago.

Zverev collects Munich title >> Top-seeded Alexander Zverev beat second-seeded American Ben Shelton 6-2, 6-4 to win his third Munich title.