Ally Sentnor and Lynn Biyendolo each scored two goals and the United States beat Jamaica 4-0 on Tuesday night in St. Louis after the team honored longtime defender Becky Sauerbrunn.

Sentnor scored in the 19th minute, then formed a heart with her hands in celebration. She scored her second off a deflection 10 minutes later. The 21-year-old 2024 U.S. Soccer Young Player of the Year now has four international goals.

Biyendolo scored in the 60th minute, three minutes after coming into the game as a substitute. She added a second in the 88th minute off a cross from Avery Patterson. Biyendolo has 24 career goals.

Phallon Tullis-Joyce made her second consecutive start in goal for the United States as coach Emma Hayes looks for a successor to longtime goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher, who retired last year. It was her third straight clean sheet.

Jamaica, which has never beaten the U.S, started two sets of sisters — Allyson and Chantelle Swaby, and Kalyssa and Amelia Van Zanten.

Before the game, the United States honored Sauerbrunn, who retired from soccer late last year. The St. Louis native, whose international career spanned 16 years, is a two-time Women’s World Cup winner and an Olympic gold medalist. Fans, who received a bobblehead in her image, gave her a standing ovation and chanted her name in a pregame ceremony.

Sauerbrunn, who recently announced that she is expecting her first child with partner Zola Short, also served in her new role as a television commentator for the match.

The United States next plays a pair of matches against Ireland, the first on June 26 in Commerce City, Colorado, and the second on June 29 in Cincinnati. The U.S. will also play Canada on July 6 in Washington D.C.

swimming

Katie Ledecky nearly broke the 800-meter freestyle world record for the second time this spring, swimming the third-fastest time in history to open the U.S. Championships. Ledecky was under her own world record pace through 650 meters. She ultimately clocked 8 minutes, 5.76 seconds, winning comfortably by 13.91 seconds in Indianapolis to qualify for the World Championships in Singapore in July and August.

The only faster times in history are Ledecky’s — 8:04.12 from May 3 and 8:04.79 from the 2016 Olympics. She owns the 11 best times in history globally and the top 29 times in American history, plus is unbeaten in the event for 15 years.

Ledecky, 28, is in line to become the first American to swim at a seventh World Championships, according to Olympic historian Bill Mallon of the OlyMADMen. She can become the first swimmer to win a seventh world title in the same event.

In other events, Torri Huske took the women’s 100 free in 52.43, the fastest time ever in an American pool and the world’s best time this year. Huske earned silver at the Olympics in 52.29, her personal best.

Olympic champion and world record holder Bobby Finke won the 1500 free by 9.18 seconds. Finke hasn’t lost to an American in this event since the start of 2020.

In the men’s 100 free, Jack Alexy swam the second-fastest time in American history and world’s best time for 2025 in the prelims (46.99), then won the final in 47.17.

Luca Urlando captured the men’s 200 butterfly in 1:53.42, a time bettered by only one man globally in 2025: Urlando. Back in April, Urlando swam 1:52.37 to become the second-fastest American all-time in the event behind Michael Phelps. He’s the world’s fastest man this year by 1.33 seconds.

Rising Stanford junior Caroline Bricker upset Olympic silver medalist Regan Smith in the women’s 200 fly, overtaking her 2:05.80 to 2:05.85. Bricker lowered her personal best by 3.32 seconds over the prelims and final to supplant 2000 Olympic gold medalist Misty Hyman as the fifth-fastest American in history.

The 2028 U.S. Olympic swimming trials will return to Indianapolis’ Lucas Oil Stadium after drawing record-breaking crowds last year in the first event held inside a football stadium.

USA Swimming officials made the announcement in Indianapolis where this year’s national championships are being held this week. Dates for the event have not yet been announced.

Organizers intend to build three temporary pools on top of the NFL’s Colts’ home field — a 50-meter competition pool and two warm-up pools. The Indiana Convention Center, which is connected to the stadium, will host USA Swimming’s Toyota Aqua Zone.

Last year, more than 285,000 fans attended the nine-day trials. That was a 60% increase over previous events. Single session records also were shattered as television ratings increased 20% from the previous team trials in 2021. Organizers estimated the event helped generate $132 million in revenue for the city.

miscellany

Former Minnesota Vikings defensive end Jim Marshall, one of the four members of the famed Purple People Eaters front that formed the backbone of four Super Bowl teams, died after a long hospitalization for an undisclosed illness. He was 87.

The Vikings announced Marshall’s death on behalf of his wife, Susan. The native of Kentucky, who played at Ohio State and was drafted in 1960 by the Cleveland Browns, played 19 of his 20 seasons in the NFL with Minnesota. The two-time Pro Bowl pick set a league record for position players with 282 consecutive games played, a mark held by Marshall until quarterback Brett Favre broke it, coincidentally, with the Vikings in 2010.

Though sacks weren’t officially tracked by the NFL until 1982, Pro Football Reference recently completed a retroactive compilation of the primary pass-rushing statistic and credited Marshall with 130½ sacks, which is tied for 22nd all-time. Two other Purple People Eaters rank ahead of him: Alan Page (148½) is eighth, and Carl Eller (133½) is tied for 18th.

A Connecticut man was sentenced to 33 years in prison for the stray-bullet killing of a Puerto Rican Olympic athlete’s mother.

Jasper Greene, 23, of New Haven, was one of three men charged in the death of Mabel Martinez Antongiorgi on April 9, 2022. The 56-year-old woman was sewing in her home in Waterbury, about 30 miles southwest of Hartford, when a bullet flew through a wall and hit her in the head.

Martinez Antongiorgi’s daughter, Yarimar Mercado Martinez, competed for the family’s native Puerto Rico in rifle shooting at the Olympics in 2016, 2021 and 2024. She was in Brazil for another competition when her mother was killed.

Greene pleaded guilty to murder in February. His lawyer did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment after the sentencing in Waterbury Superior Court.

The president of World Boxing has apologized after Olympic champion Imane Khelif was singled out in the governing body’s announcement to make sex testing mandatory. Algerian boxer Khelif, who won gold at the Paris Games last summer amid scrutiny over her eligibility, was specifically mentioned when World Boxing released its new policy last Friday.

On Monday, its president Boris van der Vorst contacted the Algerian Boxing Federation to acknowledge that was wrong.

“I am writing to you all personally to offer a formal and sincere apology for this and acknowledge that her privacy should have been protected,” he wrote in a letter seen by The Associated Press.

Khelif and fellow gold medalist Lin Yu-ting from Taiwan were in the spotlight in Paris because the previous governing body for Olympic boxing, the International Boxing Association, disqualified both fighters from its 2023 world championships, claiming they failed an unspecified eligibility test. However, the International Olympic Committee applied sex eligibility rules used in previous Olympics and cleared Khelif and Lin to compete.