Scottie Scheffler carded a 5-under 66 Saturday and increased his lead in the CJ Cup Byron Nelson to eight strokes heading into the final round on Sunday.

Former Gopher Erik van Rooyen and Adam Schenk each fired a 6-under 65 to shoot up the leaderboard into a second-place tie with Ricky Castillo at 15 under.

However, Scheffler remained in the driver’s seat at 23 under after the third round, as he had after the first two rounds at the TPC Craig Ranch in McKinney, Tex.

Ryu hangs on to 2-stroke lead at Black Desert

Hae Ran Ryu regained control of the Black Desert Championship by holing out for eagle on the 11th hole, sending her to a 4-under 68 to maintain her two-shot lead in the LPGA Tour’s return to Utah for the first time in more than 60 years.

Ryu will be trying to win a tournament for the seventh straight year, dating to when she was an 18-year-old on the Korea LPGA.

Her biggest challenge might be Ruoning Yin, the former Women’s PGA champion who ran off 10 birdies at Black Desert for a 62, the best score of the tournament to get within two shots.

MLB

Rangers activate star SS Seager off injured list

Corey Seager was activated from the injured list after the Texas Rangers lost eight of the 10 games the five-time All-Star shortstop missed because of a right hamstring strain.

Seager was hitting .286 with four homers and six RBIs when he got hurt. He had hit .370 with three of those homers over a 12-game span before straining his right hamstring while running to first base against the Athletics on April 22. The two-time World Series MVP missed minimal time.

Pirates fan awake, alert after fall at PNC Park

The man who fell from the top of a 21-foot-high wall onto the warning track at PNC Park during a game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Chicago Cubs on Wednesday night is awake and alert.

Kavan Markwood, the 20-year-old who slipped off a railing and onto the field during the seventh inning of Pittsburgh’s 4-3 win over the Cubs is improving and able to speak.

According to Jennifer Phillips, who is organizing the fundraiser, Markwood has made significant progress since being admitted to the trauma center at Allegheny General Hospital on Wednesday in critical condition.

Gophers TRACK & field

Mantzouranis makes historic hammer throw

Angelos Mantzouranis posted the third-best hammer throw mark in NCAA history at Hamline University’s “Meet of the UnSaintly.”

Mantzouranis’ throw of 257 feet, 11 inches most notably qualified the now-21-year-old sophomore for the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo, Japan, later this year.

hockey

U.S. takes bronze at IIHF U-18 World Championship

Benjamin Kevan (Fairfield, Calif.) netted the game-winning goal in overtime to help the U.S. Under-18 Men’s National Team defeat Slovakia, 4-3, and secure a bronze medal at the 2025 IIHF Under-18 Men’s World Championship in Frisco, Tex.

With the bronze medal, Team USA has earned 21 total medals in tournament history, the most of any competing country.

basketball

Garland questionable for Cavs’ 2nd-round opener

Darius Garland is listed as questionable for the Cleveland Cavaliers going into the first game of their Eastern Conference semifinal series against the Indiana Pacers on Sunday night.

The All-Star guard is dealing with a sprained left big toe. He missed the final two games of the Cavaliers’ first-round sweep of the Miami Heat after being out for the final two games of the regular season due to the same injury.

auto racing

Norris wins F1 sprint, Verstappen on pole

Lando Norris beat McLaren Racing teammate Oscar Piastri to win the waterlogged sprint race held ahead of qualifying for the Miami Grand Prix.

The 18-lap sprint was eventful even before it started as heavy rain drenched the course and Charles Leclerc crashed in the wet conditions driving his Ferrari out to the grid.

Later in the day under sunny skies, Max Verstappen celebrated the birth of his first child with a pole-winning run at the Miami Grand Prix.

He edged Norris of McLaren by .065 seconds in qualifying to take the top starting spot for Sunday’s race.

Kimi Antonelli qualified third for Mercedes, one spot ahead of Piastri, the current F1 points leader.

tennis

Sabalenka wins Madrid Open for third time

Aryna Sabalenka has beaten Coco Gauff in straight sets to win her record-tying third Madrid Open.

No. 1-ranked Sabalenka powered through the first set and edged the No. 4 American in a tiebreaker for 6-3, 7-6 (3) on the Caja Magica outdoor clay court.

Sabalenka added to titles in Madrid in 2021 and 2023 and equaled Petra Kvitova’s tournament record. It was her 20th career title and tour-leading third of the year.

curling

Thiesse, Dropkin earn Oympic doubles berth

Americans Cory Thiesse and Korey Dropkin clinched a berth in the 2026 Olympic mixed doubles curling competition when they beat Canada 8-4 at the world championships in Fredericton, New Brunswick, to earn a fifth-place finish that was enough for a spot in the Milan-Cortina games.

It will be the first Olympics for Dropkin, who was runner-up to five-time Olympian and 2018 gold medalist John Shuster at the U.S. men’s trials for each of the last two Winter Games.

Thiesse was an alternate for Nina Roth’s women’s team in Pyeongchang in 2018.

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softball >> Oklahoma pitcher Sam Landry was the overall No. 1 pick in the 12-player Athletes Unlimited Softball draft.

— From news services