Sports briefs
Rohanna finishes 15th
Rachel Rohanna of Waynesburg shot a final round of even-par 72 and placed 15th Sunday in the Symetra Championship in Daytona beach, Fla. It is the final tournament of the season on the Symetra Tour.
Rohanna began the day in sixth place and birdied three of her first four holes to move to 11-under for the tournament. The defending champion, Rohanna played steady golf all weekend until the final four holes Sunday as she played them in 3-over and finished the tournament at 8-under 280 to earn $3,295.
Ruixin Liu of China was the winner of the tournament. She shot 18-under and won by seven strokes.
Tway wins PGA season opener
Kevin Tway made a 10-foot birdie putt on the third hole of a playoff Sunday to win the season-opening Safeway Open for his first PGA Tour title.
The son of eight-time PGA Tour winner Bob Tway, the 30-year-old former Oklahoma State player beat Ryan Moore on the par-4 10th after Brandt Snedeker dropped out on their second extra trip down the par-5 18th on Silverado’s North Course.
Tway birdied the final two holes in regulation for a 1-under 71, then birdied all three holes in the playoff.
Moore birdied three of the last four in a 67.
Snedeker, three strokes ahead entering the round and five in front with 11 to play, had a 74. He bogeyed the first three holes on the back nine, birdied the par-5 16th, bogeyed the par-4 17th and parred the 18th, missing from 9 feet.
In the NHL
The Florida Panthers put goaltender Roberto Luongo on injured reserve Sunday, one day after a right knee injury knocked the veteran out of his team’s season-opening loss at Tampa Bay.
The move will sideline Luongo for at least a week, and means that James Reimer will likely start Florida’s home opener Thursday against Columbus.
The Panthers did not update the severity of Luongo’s injury Sunday. Luongo got hurt when teammate Frank Vatrano fell into him during Saturday’s second period.
- Warren Foegele had two goals and an assist, Andrei Svechnikov got his first career goal to snap tie midway through the third period, and the Carolina Hurricanes rallied to beat the New York Rangers 8-5 Sunday.
Svechnikov, the No. 2 overall pick in June’s draft, deflected Justin Faulk’s shot in front of the net with 9:16 remaining to break a 5-5 tie and give the Hurricanes their first lead. Foegele followed with his second goal 47 seconds later to secure Carolina’s first home win under new coach Rod Brind’Amour.
Jordan Martinook, Jordan Staal, Micheal Ferland, Lucas Wallmark and Teuvo Teravainen all scored for the Hurricanes. Justin Williams had three assists.
Girls soccer
Beth-Center knocked off Chartiers-Houston 2-0 Saturday in a key Section 2-A match.
Sydney Urbine and Ella Boothe were the goal scorers for the Bulldogs (5-3, 6-5), who pulled to within 1 ½ games of of the second-place Bucs.
Chartiers-Houston (7-2, 8-6) dropped to two games behind section leader Bentworth. The Bucs and Bearcats play Wednesday night at Chartiers-Houston. Both Bentworth and C-H have clinched WPIAL playoff berths.
Field hockey
No. 19-ranked Washington & Jefferson earned its ninth shutout in 11 matches this season by defeating The Sage Colleges, 5-0, in Empire 8 action.
Senior Rachel Buyan scored a pair of goals to get to double digits for the third-straight season. In the process, the senior moved into third place on the W&J career goals list at 43 tallies.
W&J is 11-0 overall and 5-0 in the Empire 8.