SKIING

Hirscher locks up giant slalom title — Marcel Hirscher locked up the men’s World Cup giant slalom title with a race to spare on Saturday. The Olympic GS champion from Austria dominated the penultimate event of the season, giving him an insurmountable 125-point lead in the GS standings over Norwegian rival Henrik Kristoffersen. A win is worth 100 points. Hirscher posted the fastest times in both runs at Kranjska Gora, Slovenia, and finished in 2 minutes, 20.76 seconds, beating runner-up Kristoffersen by 1.66 seconds. Alexis Pinturault of France was more than 2½ seconds off the pace in third. Bend’s Tommy Ford finished in the top 10, clocking in at 2:25.2 to place ninth.

Weirather leads race to super-G title after beating Gut — Tina Weirather won a women’s World Cup super-G at Crans Montana, Switzerland, on Saturday to go top of the discipline standings with one race remaining. The Olympic bronze medalist from Liechtenstein overtook Lara Gut, who finished seventh, to lead her Swiss rival by 46 points going into the World Cup finals in Are, Sweden. Weirather timed 1 minute, 2.17 seconds to lead Anna Veith of Austria by 0.36. Wendy Holdener of Switzerland trailed by 0.38 in third for her career best super-G result. Bend’s Laurenne Ross finished 45th in 1:04.64.

Baseball

Beavers sweep two from Hartford — Adley Rutschman’s two-run double in the seventh inning was the difference for Oregon State on Saturday night in a 5-4 win over Hartford in the second game of a doubleheader at Goss Stadium in Corvallis. The Beavers won the opener 5-0 behind the one-hit pitching of Bryce Fehmel and are now 11-0 to start the season. The two teams conclude their four-game series on Sunday.

Florida Atlantic blanks Ducks — Two Florida Atlantic pitchers combined to strike out 13 Oregon batters Saturday and the Owls (8-2) squared their series with the Ducks (6-3) with a 5-0 win at PK Park in Eugene. FAU scored four runs in the fourth inning against Oregon starter Cole Stringer (0-2). Ray Soderman had three of the Ducks’ nine hits. The third game of the four-game series is set for Sunday.

Softball

Two more wins for streaking Ducks — Oregon extended its winning streak to eight games with two victories Saturday at the Unconquered Invitational in Tallahassee, Florida. The No. 6 Ducks (17-3) opened with a 2-1 win over Hofstra in a game that went 11 innings. Shannon Rhodes hit a go-ahead solo home run in the top of the 11th, and Miranda Elish earned the win with seven strong innings of relief, improving her record to 8-0. Later, Oregon downed Florida Gulf Coast for the second time in as many days, winning 5-1 on the strength of a four-run third inning highlighted by two-run singles by Mary Iakopo and Mia Camuso. Maggie Balint (4-1) was the complete-game winner for the Ducks, who face Florida State on Sunday in their tournament finale.

Oregon State drops close one — Long Beach State scored three runs in the second inning and made them stand in a 3-2 victory over Oregon State on Saturday night at the San Diego Classic. Two of the 49ers’ runs were unearned. The Beavers (11-8) were limited to five hits, and they included run-scoring singles by Alysha Everett and Missy Nunes in the fourth inning. Oregon State is scheduled to play two games Sunday to close out the tournament, versus Boston University and the University of San Diego.

MOTOR SPORTS

Larson wins Vegas Xfinity race — Kyle Larson looks ready to make another memorable West Coast swing after kicking it off with another NASCAR Xfinity Series win. Larson overcame strong wind and two late restarts Saturday to earn his ninth career Xfinity victory at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The 25-year-old Californian earned his first win on the 11⁄2-mile track in Vegas, where he finished second in both the Xfinity and Cup series races last year.

Boxing

Kovalev defends light heavyweight title — Sergey Kovalev powerfully defended his WBO light heavyweight title Saturday night, opening a deep cut under fellow Russian Igor Mikhalkin’s right eye that forced the fight to be stopped with 35 seconds left in the seventh round. Kovalev won his second consecutive fight since his back-to-back losses to Andre Ward, dealing punishment to his former amateur teammate in the first defense of the title he regained in his last fight. Kovalev (32-2-1, 28 KOs) took some punches but simply walked through them and opened the cut in the sixth round. Then in the seventh, referee Steve Willis halted the action and sent Mikhalkin to the corner after a flurry of punches to his face, and the physician said the fight needed to be halted. Mikhalkin (21-2) had a bloody U.S. debut, winning just one round on one judge’s card. In the other light heavyweight title fight at Madison Square Garden, WBA champion Russian Dmitry Bivol (13-0, 11 KOs) stopped Cuba’s Sullivan Barrera in the 12th round.

— From staff and wire reports