Mar 13, 2018 3 min read

At The Meadows

Albany Girl brushed wide through the lane and held off the late surge of Camera Lady to capture Tuesday’s $20,000 Filly & Mare Not Listed Preferred/Preferred Handicap Pace . . . and snap Camera Lady’s five-race winning streak.

Albany Girl was third over for Tony Hall and moved three-wide into the final turn, with Camera Lady right on her back. The 5-year-old daughter of Somebeachsomewhere-Twin B Beachbaby was a nose better than her rival at the wire, scoring in 1:54.3 over a “good” surface. Cruzin Coco earned show.

Randy Bendis trains Albany Girl, who lifted her career bankroll to $193,473, and owns with Tom Pollack.

Aaron Merriman, Mike Wilder, Ronnie Wrenn, Jr. and trainer Bill Rhoades each enjoyed a double on the 10-race card.

In college basketball

Travis Fields Jr. and Ed Polite Jr. each scored 13 points to lift Radford to its first-ever NCAA Tournament win, 71-61 over LIU Brooklyn in the First Four on Tuesday night.

Carlik Jones added 12 points and 10 rebounds for the Highlanders, who move on to face No. 1 seed Villanova on Thursday in Pittsburgh. Radford, the Big South champion, is making its third tournament appearance and first since 2009.

• Deng Adel had 20 points, including 16 during Louisville’s hot-shooting second half that rallied the Cardinals past Northern Kentucky 66-58 in a first-round NIT game.

The No. 2 seed Cardinals (21-13) needed a half to shake the mental funk of missing the NCAA Tournament before making 14 of 23 in the final two quarters (61 percent) to win the meeting between Bluegrass State schools. Louisville led 45-44 after three quarters thanks to a monster slam by Darius Perry and scored the first nine points of the fourth to gain some breathing room against the No. 7 seed Norse (22-10).

Norwegian

leads Iditarod

Norwegian musher Joar Ulsom has left the second-to-last checkpoint in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, with the finish line in Nome just hours away.

Ulsom left the White Mountain checkpoint shortly before 4 p.m. Tuesday. That checkpoint is 77 miles (123 kilometers) from Nome.

Ulsom holds the lead in the world’s most famous sled dog race. He is a native of Norway who has been living in Willow, Alaska, the dog mushing capital of the United States.

Nic Petit, a native of France who lives south of Anchorage, was in second place. Defending champion Mitch Seavey was in third. All three faced a mandatory eight-hour rest at the checkpoint before heading back out.

The race also reported that two mushers had scratched, Wade Marrs and Tom Schonberger.

Woods, Els

named captains

Ernie Els was always the logical choice to be the International team’s next captain in the Presidents Cup.

Tiger Woods at first thought it might be soon for him.

That changed a couple of months ago when Woods asked PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan about the U.S. captain for next year’s matches in Australia, and the usual suspects were mentioned. Monahan asked if anyone had been left out, and Woods added another name to the short list.

“Me.”

Woods and Els, who both played eight times in the Presidents Cup and were involved in a high-stakes playoff that ended in a tie, were introduced as captains on Tuesday. The 2019 matches will be Dec. 12-15 at Royal Melbourne, the latest the event has been held.