


Kentucky Derby runner-up and Preakness winner Journalism opened as the 8-5 favorite in the Belmont Stakes when post positions were drawn Monday for the final leg of the Triple Crown.
Derby winner Sovereignty was set as the second choice on the morning line at odds of 2-1 and drew the No. 2 post. Journalism, near the outside with the No. 7 post, is the only horse running in all three Triple Crown races.
Sovereignty is back after owners and trainer Bill Mott opted to skip the Preakness and run the Belmont on five weeks of rest.
Sovereignty and Journalism in the field set up Saturday’s Belmont, the second at Saratoga Race Course while renovations are made to its usual home on Long Island, to be a rematch between the first two Triple Crown winners who were also first and second the Derby.
There are a total of eight horses in the Belmont field.
Colleges: Katie Stewart hit a HR, Mac Morgan and Teagan Kavan combined on a three-hitter, and Texas beat Tennessee 2-0 to reach the Women’s College World Series championship series for the third time in four years. Texas (54-11) will play either Oklahoma or Texas Tech in the best-of-three series, which starts Wednesday. Oklahoma-Texas Tech squared off in Monday night’s other semifinal in Oklahoma City, but that game ended too late for this edition.
Golf: Maja Stark of Sweden shot an even-par 72 to finish at 7-under 281 and win the U.S. Women’s Open at Erin Hills on Sunday in Wisconsin. Stark, 25, finished two strokes ahead of top-ranked Nelly Korda (71) of the U.S. and Japan’s Rio Takeda (72). Stark became the sixth Swede to win a women’s major.