



Sharks coach Ryan Warsofsky led the United States to its first ice hockey world championship in decades as Tage Thompson scored the golden goal in a 1-0 overtime win over Switzerland on Sunday.
Thompson wristed a shot past goaltender Leonardo Genoni from the top of the right circle for the winner 2:02 into overtime of the final with the 40th shot on goal. It was his sixth goal at the tournament.
Logan Cooley and Brady Skjei provided the assists and goaltender Jeremy Swayman shut out the Swiss with 25 saves.
USA Hockey says it is only the second trophy won at the tournament by the Americans after beating Canada in 1933, and it welcomed the triumph by saying “Golden For First Time in 92 Years.”
“What an absolutely amazing feeling,” Warsofsky, the U.S. head coach, said. “Everyone in our group contributed to winning the gold medal. We beat an excellent team in Switzerland tonight and full credit to them for the tournament they had ... We’ll remember this for a long, long time.”
In addition to Warsofsky, the Sharks were also represented on the national squad by rookie Will Smith, while goalie coach Thomas Speer and video coach Nick Gialdini were on the U.S. staff.
While the Americans had not won a world championship tournament in which they competed since 1933, the International Ice Hockey Federation says the U.S. was also formally awarded the title in 1960, when they won the Olympic tournament and the worlds did not take place.
USA Hockey does not count that 1960 title.
The tightly contested game was scoreless in regulation with both goaltenders holding firm.
Conor Garland wasted a penalty shot 5:38 into the middle period.
The U.S. began to mount pressure in the middle period, outshooting the Swiss 17-9, and went on with 11 shots on goal against four in the third.
Swayman had a perfect record 7-0 at the worlds.
“We did it, the wait is over,” Swayman said in a post on social media. “Thanks for sticking along with us. It’s going to be a great summer.”
Golf
Ben Griffin earned his first individual PGA Tour victory a month after winning a team event, shooting 1-over 71 to finish at 12-under 268 in the Charles Schwab Challenge, one shot ahead of Matti Schmid as both struggled on a warm day with wind gusts around 30 mph at Hogan’s Alley.
Schmid entered the day tied for the lead but fell five shots back within the first five holes. He forced Griffin to make a 4-foot par putt on the 72nd hole after his chip from the deep rough behind the green went in for birdie. Griffin saved par from the rough, standing in a bunker while choking way down on the club with the ball well above his feet on his chip. Schmid shot 72.
Angel Cabrera won his second senior major in a week, shooting a 3-under 69 on Sunday and rallying for a one-stroke victory in the Senior PGA Championship.
Cabrera, the 2007 U.S. Open and 2009 Masters champion, won the rain-delayed Regions Tradition on Monday in Alabama, which was the Argentine’s first senior major. Six days later at Congressional, he trailed Padraig Harrington by two strokes after Harrington rolled in a long birdie putt on No. 14.
But Harrington double bogeyed No. 15, and Cabrera birdied the hole a short while later to take the lead. After a bogey by Harrington on the par-4 18th, Cabrera needed only a closing bogey — and got it.
Cabrera finished at 8-under 280. Harrington (68) and Thomas Bjorn (68) tied for second, with Retief Goosen (71), Jason Caron (71) and Stewart Cink (70) another stroke back.
Tennis
Ben Shelton beat Lorenzo Sonego for the second straight time at a Grand Slam this year, winning 6-4, 4-6, 3-6, 6-2, 6-3 under floodlights to reach the second round of the French Open on Sunday.
Shelton beat Sonego in the quarterfinals of the Australian Open. Sonego was going well this time, but Shelton broke to lead 2-1 in the fourth set and turned the match around.
Shelton took a medical timeout at the end of that set for treatment on his left ankle. He clinched victory with a sliced backhand that a full-stretch Sonego patted into the net.
Earlier Sunday, Lorenzo Musetti and Aryna Sabalenka eased into the second round without dropping a set.
The eighth-seeded Musetti won 7-5, 6-2, 6-0 against qualifier Yannick Hanfmann of Germany, after the top-ranked Sabalenka earlier beat Kamilla Rakhimova 6-1, 6-0.
Jasmine Paolini, last year’s runner-up at Roland-Garros and Wimbledon, had a tougher first-round match. The fourth-seeded Italian dropped serve five times in a 6-1, 4-6, 6-3 win against Yuan Yue on Court Suzanne-Lenglen.
Three-time defending champion Iga Swiatek begins her bid for a fifth title at Roland-Garros when she faces Rebecca Sramkova of Slovakia today.