Sports Digest: Isaiah Harris helps set medley relay world record

TRACK AND FIELD

Lewiston’s Isaiah Harris teamed up with Brannon Kidder, Brandon Miller and Henry Wynne to set a world record in the medley relay Friday night at the Oregon Relays in Eugene, Oregon.

Harris ran a split of 1 minute, 45.75 seconds in the 800-meter leg. The team finished with a time of 9:14.58 in the 4,000-meter race, breaking the record of 9:15.50 set by an American team in 2015.

Kidder opened with a 1,200-meter leg of 2:49.60, and Miller followed with a 400-meter leg of 46.60. After Harris’ leg, Wynne ran 3:52.64 over the final 1,600.

DIAMOND LEAGUE: Armand Duplantis broke his own world record in the pole vault when he cleared 6.24 meters – 20 feet, 5 inches – at the season-opening meet in Xiamen, China.

It’s the eighth time the Olympic and two-time world champion has surpassed the world record.

GOLF

PGA: Masters champion Scottie Scheffler shot another bogey-free round at the RBC Heritage – an 8-under 63 that gave him a one-shot lead at Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.

Scheffler was at 16-under 197. Sepp Straka made a 15-foot birdie putt on the last hole for a 65 to get within one shot.

• Wesley Bryan finished a wild round of birdies and bogeys with one last birdie to take a one-shot lead over Kevin Tway going into the final round of the Corales Puntacana Championship in the Dominican Republic.

Bryan had only six pars to go along with seven birdies and five bogeys for a 2-under 70. The last birdie put him at 17-under 199, tying the 54-hole tournament record.

LPGA: Nelly Korda was one shot off the lead at the Chevron Championship when the third round was suspended because of lightning in The Woodlands, Texas.

Play was halted just before 3 p.m. and called for the day two-and-a-half hours later with dangerous conditions remaining. The third round of the LPGA’s first major of the season will resume Sunday morning, with the final round scheduled to commence just before 9:30 a.m.

Korda, who is trying to tie an LPGA Tour record with her fifth straight victory, was at 10 under overall through 11 holes. Atthaya Thitikul had the lead at 11 under through 12 holes.

FOOTBALL

NFL: Roman Gabriel, a four-time Pro Bowl quarterback who was the 1969 NFL MVP with the Los Angeles Rams, died Saturday. He was 83.

Gabriel’s son, Roman III, announced his father’s death in a social-media post, saying he had “passed away peacefully” of natural causes at home.

TENNIS

MUGURUZA RETIRES: Two-time major champion Garbiñe Muguruza announced she’s retiring from professional tennis at age 30 after an extended time away from the court.

Muguruza beat Serena Williams in the 2016 French Open final and Venus Williams in the 2017 Wimbledon final, making her the only player to defeat each Williams sister in a Grand Slam title match.

BARCELONA OPEN: Casper Ruud and Stefanos Tsitsipas will meet in consecutive clay-court finals after they won semifinals in Spain.

Ruud beat Tomas Martin Etcheverry, 7-6 (6), 6-4, and Tsitsipas rallied past Dusan Lajovic, 5-7, 6-4, 6-2.

Tsitsipas defeated Ruud in straight sets last weekend in the Monte Carlo final.

PORSCHE GRAND PRIX: Elena Rybakina defeated top-ranked Iga Świątek 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 to reach the final in Stuttgart, Germany, and end Swiatek’s hopes of a third consecutive title.

Rybakina will play Marta Kostyuk in Sunday’s final after the 27th-ranked Ukrainian defeated Wimbledon champion Marketa Vondrousova, 7-6 (2), 6-2.

HOCKEY

NHL: The Colorado Avalanche will be without forward Jonathan Drouin for their first-round playoff series against Winnipeg because of a lower-body injury.

Drouin, 29, set a career high with 56 points this season (19 goals, 37 assists).

Game 1 of the series is Sunday.

SOCCER

FA CUP: Bernardo Silva’s 84th-minute goal fired Manchester City into the FA Cup final with a 1-0 victory over Chelsea at Wembley Stadium.

Manchester United meets Coventry in the other semifinal on Sunday. The final is on May 25.

PREMIER LEAGUE: Arsenal moved back to the top of the Premier League by winning 2-0 at Wolverhampton.

Arsenal is one point ahead of Manchester City, which has a game in hand.

WOMEN’S CHAMPIONS LEAGUE: Chelsea handed defending champion Barcelona a rare home defeat, and Lyon produced a stunning comeback with three late goals to down Paris Saint-Germain 3-2 in the first leg of their semifinals.

Erin Cuthbert’s 40th-minute goal was enough for Chelsea to win 1-0 and inflict Barcelona’s first home loss in five years.

AUTO RACING

FORMULA ONE: Max Verstappen of Red Bull took the pole = for the Chinese Grand Prix, just hours after winning the first F1 sprint of the season.

Teammate Sergio Perez will start alongside Verstappen on the front row Sunday, with Fernando Alonso of Aston Martin and Lando Norris of McLaren on the second row. Verstappen turned a fast lap of 1 minute, 33.660 seconds – 0.322 ahead of Perez.

INDYCAR: Felix Rosenqvist gave Meyer Shank Racing its first ever pole by edging Will Power for the top starting spot at the Long Beach Grand Prix.

Rosenqvist beat Power of Team Penske by just 0.0039 seconds.

XFINITY: Nineteen-year-old rookie Jesse Love earned his first Xfinity Series victory in a crash-marred, double-overtime finish at Talladega Superspeedway.

Love held off Brennan Poole, who pulled alongside Love going into the trioval, and took the checkered flag 0.141 seconds ahead of Riley Herbst. Anthony Alfredo and Leland Honeyman claimed the next two spots, while Poole faded to fifth.

OLYMPICS

SWIMMING: The world’s top anti-doping regulator says 23 Chinese swimmers were cleared to compete at the Tokyo Olympics despite testing positive for a banned heart medication because it agreed with Chinese authorities and ruled that their samples had been contaminated.

The World Anti-Doping Agency said the swimmers tested positive for the heart medication trimetazidine in the months leading up to the start of the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 but that Chinese authorities told the agency the positives were the result of contamination.