Sports briefs
Eagle boosts Rohanna
Rachel Rohanna of Waynesburg played the final nine holes of the Symetra Tour Championship Friday in 5-under 31 to move up 17 spots on the leaderboard.
Rohanna shot 3-under 69 in the final round to finish tied for 29th place with a four-day total of 8-over 296.
Rohanna opened the fourth round on No. 10 and promptly had a bogey-bogey start to move to 13-over for the tournament.
She played the final seven holes of her front nine in even par with a birdie, bogey and five pars to go out in 2-over 38.
Rohanna had back-to-back birdies on her 11th and 12th holes, added another birdie on her 14th hole, and closed out her impressive run with an eagle-3 on the 15th hole of the final round.
Washington-Greene Hall elects officers
The Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame Washington-Greene Co. Chapter has elected its officers for 2021.
The officers are: John Sacco, president; Dan Alderson, vice president; B.J. Pustovrh, secretary; Ed Monaco, treasurer; Guy Montecalvo, executive committee chairman; Joe Maize, membership chairman; Tricia Fabian Alderson, student-athlete chairwoman; Tammy McIntire Mandich, banquet chairwoman; and Sacco, biography chairman.
Arizona-Utah canceled
The Pac-12 football season is getting off to a shaky start.
The opener between Utah and Arizona on Saturday in Salt Lake City was canceled due to a rise in positive COVID-19 cases within the Utes program.
Utah athletic director Mark Harlan said a number of positive coronavirus tests Friday morning put Utah below the Pac-12’s minimum threshold of 53 available scholarship players under the conference’s game cancelation policy. The Pac-12 approved the request on Friday.
The cancellation is the second in two days for the Pac-12, which is set to kick off its seven-game season this weekend after spending the past several weeks watching as other conferences began playing. The game between Washington California was canceled Thursday.
In golf
Paul Goydos and Brandt Jobe each shot 7-under 64 in calm, overcast conditions Friday to share the first-round lead in the PGA Tour Champions’ Charles Schwab Cup Championship.
The tournament is the final official event of the year, but not the season as in the past. Because of the coronavirus pandemic and subsequent loss of tournaments, the 2020 and 2021 seasons have been combined with the Schwab Cup winner to be determined in a year.
The 56-year-old Goydos birdied the par-5 18th in a bogey-free round at Phoenix Country Club. He won the event in 2016 at Desert Mountain for one of his five senior titles.
Breeders’ Cup
Initially out of the picture, Essential Quality regrouped for a signature win that may set him up for a big 2021.
Essential Quality took charge in the stretch to overtake 94-1 long shot Hot Rod Charlie and win Friday’s $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile by three-quarters of a length on the first day of the season-ending world championships at Keeneland.
Hot Rod Charlie and 4-5 favorite Jackie’s Warrior dueled through the final turn before Essential Quality, initially off the pace after an early bump, recovered and emerged from a four-wide pack. The colt held on at the wire as Keepmeinmind, a 30-1 long shot, made a late charge. Essential Quality improved to 3-0 and established himself as a possible contender in next year’s Kentucky Derby.