The Tribune

Bowling

City Bowling League: The City Bowling League will continue tonight at the Mario’s Bowling and Family Entertainment Centre with the following match-ups:

Bahamasair v Carib Construction; BEC v Ten Back Strikers; Unique Discovery v GIGA Tech; The Knights v Checker’s Cafe; Commonwealth Electrical v Unique Discovery; Telco Enterprises v City Leaguers.

Financial Bowling League: THE Financial Bowling League will continue on Wednesday night at Mario’s Bowling and Family Entertainment Centre with the following match-ups:

Price Waterhouse Coopers v Forsythe Communications; Sunshine Insurance v Fidelity Bulldogs; Moonlight Strikers v Leno Corporate Services; BTC v Strike Force; Deloitte & Touche v Rubis Oil Stars.

Rugby

South Africa ended world champions New Zealand’s 22-match unbeaten run with a thrilling 27-25 victory in Johannesburg on Saturday.

Patrick Lambie landed a 55 metre penalty with two minutes remaining to clinch a gripping Rugby Championship match. The Springboks led by 11 points just after half-time but Dane Coles’ 71st-minute try put the visitors ahead, only for Lambie to snatch the win.

The defeat was the first for the All Blacks in 23 matches since they lost to England at Twickenham in December 2012 and only their second in 38 games since winning the World Cup in 2011.

Argentina claimed their first Rugby Championship win at the eighteenth attempt by coming from 14-0 down to beat Australia 21-17 in Mendoza.

Swimming

Putting his swimming career on hold after his second drunken driving arrest, Olympic champion Michael Phelps began a six-week programme yesterday that he said “will provide the help I need to better understand myself.” The winner of the most Olympic medals in history made the announcement in a series of posts on his Twitter account.

According to his representatives at Octagon, Phelps entered an in-patient program that will keep him from competing at least until mid-November, though there’s no indication he plans to give up swimming.

Phelps, 29, was arrested last Tuesday and charged with drunken driving in his native Baltimore. Police said he failed a series of field sobriety tests and had a blood-alcohol content of 0.14 percent, well above the legal limit of 0.08.

Phelps retired after the 2012 Olympics in London, having won a record 18 gold medals and 22 medals overall. But he returned to competition this year with the goal of making the 2016 Rio Games. His comeback has produced encouraging results, including three golds and two silvers at the Pac Pacific Championships in August.

Golf

Oliver Wilson held off Rory McIlroy to capture his first European Tour title with a one-shot victory in the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship at St Andrews, Scotland, yesterday.

Wilson, 34, shot a two-under par 70 in the final round on the Old Course as McIlroy came up just short after a bogey on the 17th hole. Wilson finished at 271, 17-under, with McIlroy in a three-way tie for second with Richie Ramsay, of Scotland, and Tommy Fleetwood, of England.

Wilson, currently ranked 792nd in the world, had finished second nine times in his 227 previous Tour events, but lost his card two years ago and was competing this week on an invitation.

• South Korea’s Mirim Lee won the second title of her rookie LPGA Tour season, shooting a five-under 69 in the final round yesterday to capture the Reignwood Classic in Beijing, China, by two strokes.

Starting the day tied for third, Lee birdied three holes on the front nine and added two more on the 16th and 18th to offset one bogey. She finished at 277, 15-under. World No 1 Stacy Lewis and Caroline Hedwall, the co-overnight leaders, both fell short on a windy final day at Pine Valley Golf Club. Hedwall, shot a 73 to finish second while Lewis fell away with a 75.

• Spain’s Azahara Munoz successfully defended her French Ladies Open title at Saint-Jean-de-Luz yesterday, birdieing three of the final four holes for a one-stroke victory and her third European Tour victory.

The former Arizona State star birdied the 15th, 17th and 18th for a three-under par round of 67 and an 11-under 269 total. Wales’ Amy Boulden and Spain’s Maria Hernandez tied for second. Boulden had a 66, and Hernandez shot 72.

“I played very solid all week, but the putts just didn’t want to drop,” Munoz said. “When I arrived at 17, I knew I needed at least one birdie to make a playoff. The putts dropped. I guess it was my time!”

Tennis

Top-ranked Novak Djokovic won his fifth China Open title in what he called the most dominant final of his career, routing third-seeded Tomas Berdych 6-0, 6-2 yesterday in a little over an hour. “This has been, under the circumstances, probably the best performance in all finals in my career I played,” he said. “It was incredible.”

His statistics looked fairly routine: 19 winners and nine unforced errors, though many of those came in the two games he lost at the end. The difference was the way he relentlessly pressured Berdych’s serve and prevented him from getting close to a break point on his.

On the women’s side, Maria Sharapova outlasted Petra Kvitova 6-4, 2-6, 6-3 in a hard-hitting, back-and-forth duel to win the title and return to No 2 in the rankings. Sharapova overcame 10 double-faults and a number of untimely errors to defeat Kvitova in a re-match of their 2011 Wimbledon final, which was won by the Czech left-hander.

College football

The Southeastern Conference has fined Mississippi and Kentucky after their fans stormed the field to celebrate victories. The SEC fined ‘Ole Miss’ $50,000 yesterday because the school also was cited for similar violations in 2012 and 2013. Rebels fans rushed the field after a 23-17 victory over Alabama on Saturday.

Kentucky drew a $25,000 penalty for the celebration of a 45-38 upset of South Carolina. Kentucky also was penalised in 2006 and 2007, but drew a smaller fine because its last offence was more than three years ago.

SEC policy restricts access to areas of competition to coaches, athletes, officials support personnel and others with proper credentials.