Bay FC closed the first half of the NWSL season Saturday night with a 2-1 loss to Gotham FC in Harrison, N.J.

Gotham (5-5-3) snapped a 1-1 tie when Geyse scored in the 55th minute from center of the box from an assist from Nealy Martin. It was Geyse’s second goal of the season.

Penelope Hocking gave Bay FC a 1-0 lead just 11 minutes into the match when she slammed in a shot from close range. Hannah Bebar assisted on the play. It was Hocking’s fourth goal in her last five games.

Gotham FC tied it at 1-1 when the NWSL’s leading scorer, Esther Gonzalez, got her 10th goal in 13 games this season.

Bay FC (4-6-3), which dropped its second straight league match, falls into 10th place in the standings, three points behind both Gotham and North Carolina, which are in an eighth-place tie for the eighth and final playoff spot.

U.S. forward Haji Wright will miss the rest of the CONCACAF Gold Cup because of an injured left Achilles.

A 27-year-old from Los Angeles, Wright scored in the 84th minute of last weekend’s opening 5-0 win over Trinidad and Tobago in San Jose, 11 minutes after entering. He did not play in Thursday’s 1-0 victory over Saudi Arabia and the U.S. Soccer Federation said Saturday he will return to Coventry City for evaluation and treatment.

The U.S., which already has clinched a quarterfinals berth, plays Haiti today in the Americans’ group stage finale in Arlington, Texas.

GOLF

Two-time major champion Minjee Lee took over the lead with the first bogey-free round for anyone during a windy week in Frisco, Texas, at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, a 3-under 69 in the third round to move four strokes ahead of Jeeno Thitikul.

Lee got to 6-under 210 after beginning the round three strokes behind Thitikul, the world’s No. 2-ranked player who led alone at the end of each of the first two days.

Lee, the Australian who lives in nearby Irving, went in front with a 2-foot par at the 405-yard 12th hole when Thitikul had her second consecutive bogey, and fourth of the day on way to a round of 76.

Nelly Korda, the world’s top-ranked player, described the conditions as “just brutal” after her round of 72 that began with back-to-back bogeys. She is tied for sixth at 2-over 218.

Lee and Thitikul were the only players still under par. Lexi Thompson (75), after a triple-bogey start, was tied for third at 1 over with Hye Jin Choi (72) and Miyu Yamashita (73).

Tommy Fleetwood avoided the blunders by Scottie Scheffler and Justin Thomas, never missing a fairway and seizing on the good scoring conditions for a 7-under 63 for a three-shot lead going into the final round of the Travelers Championship in Cromwel, Conn.

At stake for Fleetwood is a chance to add a PGA Tour title to a resume that includes seven European titles, three Ryder Cup appearances and a regular fixture among the top 25 for the last two years.

The immediate challengers at steamy TPC River Highlands are New England’s favorite son and Ryder Cup captain Keegan Bradley (63) and Russell Henley, who had a 61 one day after calling a penalty on himself when he wasn’t entirely sure it was one.

Missing are Scheffler and Thomas, both tied for the 36-hole lead with Fleetwood.

Scheffler had a 29th birthday to forget. Thousands of spectators around the first tee serenaded him. He responded with a triple bogey, the first time he has done that to start a round in his PGA Tour career. The world’s No. 1 player never quite recovered, posting a 72, the fifth time in 55 rounds this year he was over par.

Scheffler was nine shots behind.

Thomas, already a winner at Hilton Head this year, was still in range of Fleetwood when he hit his tee shot onto the railroad tracks left of the par-5 13th, the club slipping out his hand. And then it got worse. He twice watched chips up a slope to a green that ran away from him come up short and roll back down the hill.

He missed a 6-foot putt and took a quadruple-bogey 9. Thomas shot 73 and was 10 behind.

Miguel Angel Jimenez shot a 4-under 66 for a share of the lead with Steven Alker in the Kaulig Companies Championship in Akron, Ohio, the third major of the year on the PGA Tour Champions.

Alker, tied for the second-round lead, had a 67 to match Jimenez at 8-under 202.

Michael Wright (66) and Freddie Jacobson (67) were tied for third at 6 under. Richard Green (67) was 5 under.

Former Cal golfer Ethan Fang held off a late charge with a 5-foot birdie putt on the final hole for a 1-up victory over Gavin Tiernan of Ireland, becoming the first American in 18 years to win the British Amateur.

Fang, an Oklahoma State junior who grew up near Dallas and played his freshman year at Cal, earned a trip to the British Open next month and gets into the Masters at Augusta National next year.

COLLEGE BASEBALL

Kade Anderson pitched a three-hitter in his second straight dominant start, and LSU moved within a win of its second national championship in three years with a 1-0 victory over Coastal Carolina in Game 1 of the College World Series finals in Omaha, Neb.

The Chanticleers (56-12) lost for the first time in 27 games and must win today force a third and deciding game Monday night.

LSU (52-15) made Steve Milam’s RBI single in the first inning stand up with Anderson getting stronger as the game progressed against a Coastal Carolina team that had won its first three CWS games by a combined 24-9.

The lefty, a projected top-three pick in next month’s MLB draft, was just as good as he was in LSU’s CWS opener against Arkansas last weekend. He has allowed one run and six hits and struck out 17 in 16 innings in Omaha.

TENNIS

Marketa Vondrousova upset top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka 6-2, 6-4 in their semifinal to set up a showdown with Chinese qualifier Wang Xinyu in the final of the Berlin Open.

Sabalenka staged a comeback Friday by saving four match points against Elena Rybakina in the quarterfinals. today’s final will be Vondrousova’s first since she won at Wimbledon. Wang beat Liudmila Samsonova 6-4, 6-1 in their semifinal earlier Saturday to move into her first final.

Daniil Medvedev ended home favorite Alexander Zverev’s hopes of grass-court glory with a 7-6 (3), 6-7 (1), 6-4 win in their Halle (Germany) Open semifinal.

The Russian player will face Alexander Bublik in today’s final.

MOTORSPORTS

Dale Earnhardt Jr. might already be NASCAR’s most popular crew chief. He’s certainly an undefeated one.

Pressed into unexpected service, Earnhardt called the shots for 18-year-old prospect Connor Zilisch in the No. 88 Chevrolet and they landed in victory lane in the second-tier Xfinity Series race at Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pa.

“We had a lot of things going our way,” Earnhardt said.

Earnhardt — who won NASCAR’s most-popular driver award 15 times — made a pit stop from his day job as team owner at JR Motorsports with normal crew chief Mardy Lindley suspended one race because of a lug nut infraction this month at Nashville.

NHL

The Chicago Blackhawks acquired Andre Burakovsky from the Seattle Kraken in exchange for fellow forward Joe Veleno.

Chicago also placed defenseman T.J. Brodie on unconditional waivers for purposes of buying out his contract.

Burakovsky, 30, had 10 goals and 27 assists in 79 games with Seattle last season. A Stanley Cup champion with Washington in 2018 and Colorado in 2022, he has 153 goals and 234 assists over 11 NHL seasons.

FIGURE SKATING

Kaori Sakamoto, the three-time figure skating world champion, said she will retire after next year’s 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan-Cortina.

The 25-year-old Japanese star won an Olympic bronze medal in the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing and took the silver medal in the world championships in March with gold to Richmond’s Alysa Liu.