Cal discus thrower Mykolas Alekna finished second to Oklahoma’s Ralford Mullings, who set a new meet record at the NCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field championships on Friday in Eugene, Oregon.

Mullings took the lead in the third round with a throw of 67.70 meters, breaking the 33-year-old meet record of 67.06 set by Kamy Keshmiri of the University of Nevada in 1992.

Mullings, who is from Jamaica, also threw 67.48 meters in the fifth round before finishing with a mark of 69.31 meters.

Alekna, who is from Lithuania, only had two legal throws, one of 66.44 meters in the first round and 66.77 meters in the fifth round. In April, Alekna, 22, threw 75.56 meters to set both the collegiate and world records.

Coastal Carolina broke open a tied game with three runs in the eighth inning, Dominick Carbone shut down a threat by Arizona in the ninth and the Chanticleers opened the College World Series with a 7-4 victory on Friday. The Chanticleers (54-11) will play Sunday against No. 8 national seed Oregon State, which beat Louisville 4-3.

Arizona (44-20), in the CWS for the first time since 2021, will play Louisville on Sunday.

Florida State shortstop Alex Lodise was awarded the Dick Howser Trophy as the national player of the year. Lodise ranked among the national leaders with a .394 batting average, 17 home runs, 18 doubles, 68 RBIs and .705 slugging percentage. He committed only five errors on 216 fielding chances (.977) and was part of 34 double plays.

WNBA

Las Vegas Aces star A’ja Wilson was placed in concussion protocol and missed Friday night’s home game against the Dallas Wings. The three-time WNBA MVP was injured in Wednesday’s 97-89 loss to the Los Angeles Sparks. Wilson, who has averaged 20.9 points, 9.6 rebounds and 4.0 assists this season, also could miss Sunday’s home game against Phoenix.

ION Television reached a multiyear agreement on Friday to extend its broadcasting partnership with the WNBA.

ION did not reveal the length or value of the contract, which extends the network’s original deal reached in 2023 to broadcast regular-season games and host a weekly studio show.

Motorsports

Formula 1’s governing body suspended a driver steward for this weekend’s Canadian Grand Prix over comments he made regarding a penalty Max Verstappen received two weeks ago.

The FIA said Friday that Derek Warwick’s comments were not authorized and he will be replaced by Enrique Bernoldi, who will officiate from the Remote Operations Centre in Geneva for the remainder of the weekend.

Verstappen received a three-point penalty for running George Russell off track at the Spanish Grand Prix. Warwick did an interview with a gambling publication in which he defended the penalty levied to Verstappen as the “perfect” punishment because the Dutchman was “absolutely wrong” in the contact with Russell.

Horse racing

The Belmont Stakes is set to be run at Saratoga Race Course in upstate New York for a third consecutive year in 2026.

Gov. Kathy Hochul and the New York Racing Association announced Friday that it will be the third and last time the Triple Crown finale is held there before returning to Belmont Park on Long Island in 2027.

Miscellaneous

Two-time Olympic all-around champion Simone Biles apologized for getting personal in a heated online exchange with former collegiate swimmer turned anti-trans athlete activist Riley Gaines.

Biles initially responded to a post by Gaines on the social media platform X after Gaines called a player on a Minnesota high school softball team “a boy.” Biles wrote that Gaines was “truly sick” and a “straight up sore loser,” comments Biles later retracted.

Biles wrote that the current system in sports doesn’t adequately address the balance between competitive equity and inclusivity and the discussion of the topic can lead to “frustration and heated exchanges.”

“It didn’t help for me to get personal with Riley,” Biles wrote.