GOLF<\/p>\n
Chesapeake native Lauren Coughlin split a pair of matches Saturday, after which her United States team and Europe were tied at 8 heading into the final day of Solheim Cup competition in Cromvoirt, Netherlands.<\/p>\n
The cup will be decided via 12 singles matches Sunday at the Bernardus Golf venue, including Coughlin against Ireland\u2019s Leona Maguire at 6:46 a.m. Eastern time on the Golf Channel. Coughlin is ranked 17th in the world, while Maguire is 80th.<\/p>\n
In morning foursomes (alternate-shot) play, Coughlin and Alison Lee won for the second consecutive day, dominating Englishwomen Charley Hull and Lottie Woad 6 and 5. The Europeans won the other three foursomes matches.<\/p>\n
In afternoon fourballs (better-ball) competition, Coughlin and Megan Khang lost 2 and 1 to the Swedish pair of Maja Stark and Linn Grant, but the Americans won the other three matches.<\/p>\n
The U.S. is 11-7-1 all-time in Solheim Cup play. The Americans would retain the cup in case of a 14-14 tie.<\/p>\n
AUTO RACING<\/p>\n
Langley Speedway card rained out<\/p>\n
The stock car racing card planned for Langley Speedway in Hampton was rained out. Langley\u2019s next planned races will be Oct. 3, the first of the year\u2019s two championship nights.<\/p>\n
COLLEGE FIELD HOCKEY<\/p>\n
Loar\u2019s hat trick propels No. 1 CNU<\/p>\n
Lindsey Loar scored a hat trick as Christopher Newport (4-0), playing its home opener and for the first time in 2026 as No. 1 in Division III, breezed past New Paltz of New York 7-0.<\/p>\n
Caroline Hughlett added two goals, and Emma Weber and Riley Iasiello also scored as the Captains held a 51-0 advantage in shots.<\/p>\n
COLLEGE MEN\u2019S SOCCER<\/p>\n
Batten, William Paterson play to tie<\/p>\n
Batten\u00a0and William Paterson played to a 1-1 draw.<\/p>\n
The host Marlins (0-0-3) went ahead 5:27 into the match on Ivan Polczynski\u2019s goal, but the Pioneers (2-1-2) replied at 8:14 when John Witkowski scored. Batten\u2019s Adrian Najarro made two saves, while Paterson\u2019s Luca Misko made six.<\/p>\n
COLLEGE WOMEN\u2019S SOCCER<\/p>\n
No. 7 W&L shuts out No. 25 CNU<\/p>\n
Washington and Lee (3-0), ranked seventh in Division III, won 1-0 at No. 25 Christopher Newport (2-1-1) behind Elizabeth Zimmerman\u2019s goal 14:33 into the match. The Generals outshot the Captains 17-8.<\/p>\n
Batten (3-0-1) and Stockton (1-0-3) played to a 0-0 draw in Virginia Beach. The Marlins\u2019 Allie Greco made one save for a shutout, while the Ospreys\u2019 Tori Vliet made seven.<\/p>\n
COLLEGE WOMEN\u2019S VOLLEYBALL<\/p>\n
Gilbert sets Norfolk State\u2019s all-time kills record<\/p>\n
Gabrielle Gilbert became Norfolk State\u2019s all-time kills leader, though the Spartans (2-6) lost all three of their matches at UNC Wilmington\u2019s round-robin event.<\/p>\n
Friday, they fell to 3-1 (25-27, 25-16, 25-21, 25-21) to UNCW and then 3-1 (25-8, 14-25, 25-22, 25-19) to Harvard at Hanover Hall. Saturday,\u00a0UNC Asheville swept Norfolk State 3-0 (25-15, 25-17, 25-19).<\/p>\n
Gilbert led NSU with seven kills. She entered the event with 1,176 career kills, one shy of the 1,177 Charlotte Armstead compiled from 2009-12. Gilbert had 38 kills for the three matches, giving her 1,214.<\/p>\n
No. 22 CNU goes 2-1 in Paterson event<\/p>\n
Christopher Newport (4-3), ranked 22nd in Division III, defeated Centenary of New Jersey 3-0 (25-19, 25-11, 25-21) to finish 2-1 at William Paterson\u2019s round-robin event. Simara Alexander had 10 kills and three blocks and Lauren Hobbs had 20 assists for CNU.<\/p>\n
Friday, William Smith defeated CNU 3-1 (19-25, 25-22, 25-16, 25-23), but the Captains recovered to beat William Paterson 3-1 (23-25, 25-20, 25-18, 25-17). Against Paterson, Jasmine Williams had 12 kills and five blocks, Fielding Croft had 23 assists and Emmy Carpenedo had 15 assists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GOLF Chesapeake native Lauren Coughlin split a pair of matches Saturday, after which her United States team and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":846118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,2662,2558,3,99,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-846117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-college-sports","tag-latest-headlines","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/846118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}