Alise Post won her sixth consecutive BMX national championship while Connor Fields won his third title, each of them stamping themselves as favorites to make the U.S. team for the Rio Olympics.
Post, from St. Cloud, swept her three moto runs Sunday before going wire-to-wire in the elite final in Oldsmar, Fla. She was followed across the line by Brooke Crain, her teammate on the 2012 London Olympics team. Felicia Stancil won bronze.
Florida State beats Gophers in softball
Zoe Casas had two of Florida State's softball team's four hits, including a two-run double in the seventh inning that drove in the game's only runs, in a 2-0 victory over the visiting Gophers in the ACC-Big Ten Challenge on Sunday.
The Gophers' Sara Groenewegen gave up only four hits, striking out five. She also hit a leadoff double in the fourth — one of the Gophers' six hits — but was stranded.
Gophers split in Arizona
Minnesota closed out the opening weekend of the college baseball season by splitting a doubleheader in Surprise, Ariz., winning 9-3 over Utah before losing 8-7 to fifth-ranked Oregon State.
The Gophers totaled 29 hits in the two games.
Riley Smith went 4-for-5 and Terrin Vavra had three hits and three RBI against the Utes. Toby Hanson's three-run homer was the big hit in the second game
United drops exhibition
The Portland Timbers beat visiting Minnesota United FC 4-0 in the first in a series of exhibition matches against Major League Soccer teams. United lost defenders Tiago Calvano and Kevin Venegas to red cards; they will miss Wednesday's match against Chicago.
