Off the wire

FOOTBALL UCLA receiver killed

UCLA receiver Nick Pasquale was hit by a car and killed while walking in San Clemente early Sunday morning. He was 20. The Orange County sheriff’s office said Pasquale was struck about 1:30 a.m. It wasn’t immediately clear whetherPasquale was trying to cross a street. Sheriff ’s Lt. Gary Strachan said the car’s driver stopped, called authorities and stayed with Pasquale until they arrived. The accident is under investigation. Strachan said noone was arrested. Pasquale, a redshirt freshman, walked on at UCLA last fall after playing at San Clemente High School, where he was a three-year starter. The 5-foot-7 receiver earned the nickname “Pacman” from his teammates while participating on the scout team in practices last season and again this summer. UCLA said Pasquale played in its season-opening victory over Nevada on Aug. 31, although his name and No. 36 jersey didn’t appear on the participation report. The No. 16 Bruins were off this weekend. “The UCLA family lost a wonderful young man who represented the university, his team and his family well,” UCLA Athletic Director Dan Guerrero said. “Our hearts go out to the Pasquale family, and we will do everything we can to assist and support them, as well as his teammates, as they go through this unthinkable tragedy.”

BASKETBALL

Pitino, 11 others inducted

Rick Pitino remembers the “training meals” at the local pizza place where his Boston University teams ate more than 30 years ago. Even Hall of Famers have to start somewhere. Pitino was inducted along with 11 others into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on Sunday. Two former college coaches were inducted as part of the second consecutive 12-member class, the largest in the Hall’s history - Jerry Tarkanian, 83, who led UNLV to the 1990 NCAA championship, and Guy Lewis, 91, who took Houston tofive Final Fours. Tarkanian, who had heart surgery less than two months ago, came on stage with a walker. Lewis was in a wheelchair. Both smiled as they received standing ovations. Also inducted were Gary Payton, the only NBA player with 20,000 points, 8,000 assists, 5,000 rebounds and 2,000 steals; Bernard King, who averaged 22.5 points in 15 NBA seasons with five teams; North Carolina women’s Coach Sylvia Hatchell; five-time WNBA All-Star Dawn Staley; former Knicks guard Richie Guerin; former NBA deputy commissioner Russ Granik; and Oscar Schmidt, who played in five Olympics for Brazil. E.B. Henderson, who learned basketball at Harvard in 1904 then introduced it to black students in Washington, D.C., and four-time ABA All-Star Roger Brown of the Indiana Pacers were enshrined posthumously.

GOLF U.S. takes Walker Cup

Nathan Smith won the deciding point in the United States’ 17-9 victory over Britain and Ireland in the Walker Cup on Sunday, beating England’s Nathan Kimsey 4 and 3 in the fifth singles match at historic National Golf Links of America in Southampton, N.Y. The United States, ahead 8-4 entering the final day in the biennial amateur event, split the four morning foursomes matches and won seven of the 10 afternoon singles matches. The U.S. leads the series 35-8-1. In 2011, Britain and Ireland won 14-12 at Royal Aberdeen in Scotland. The 35-yearold Smith, a four-time U.S. Mid-Amateur champion from Pittsburgh, won the par-3 13th and par-4 14th with pars and ended the match with a halve for bogey on the par-4 15th.Alabama teammates Bobby Wyatt and Justin Thomas, 45-year-old Todd White, California’s Michael Kim, Oklahoma State’s Jordan Niebrugge and Stanford’s Patrick Rodgers also won singles matches. Niebrugge won last month’s Western Amateur championship at The Alotian Club in Roland, while Rodgers was the medalist. England’s Matthew Fitzpatrick and Callum Shinkwin and Ireland’s Kevin Phelan won their singles matches. Fitzpatrick, a freshman at Northwestern, is the U.S. Amateur champion.

Andrew Svoboda won the Chiquita Classic, beating Will MacKenzie with a par on thefirst hole of a playoff in the second tournament in the four-event Web.com Tour Finals series. Svoboda tapped in for par on the par-5 18th, and won when MacKenzie - who eagled the hole in regulation - missed a 5-footer. Svoboda shot a 2-under 70 to match MacKenzie at 12 under. MacKenzie finished with a 67. Svoboda earned $180,000. The former St. John’s player, the Price Cutter Charity Championship winner last month, had already wrapped up a PGA Tour card by finishing 25th on the Web.com Tour money list. MacKenzie, 40th on the Web.com money list, made $108,000. The bulk of the field was made up of players in the top 75 on the Web.com Tour money list and Nos. 126-200 in the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup standings. The top 25 on the Web.com money list are assured PGA Tour cards, while the other players are fighting for 25 additional cards through earnings in the four-event series. Ben Martin and John Peterson tied for third, a stroke back, Martin shot 68, and Peterson had a 71. Scott Gardiner(Farmington) tied for 47th place and earned $3,533.

Esteban Toledo won the Montreal Championship for his second Champions Tour victory of the season, chipping in for birdie to beat Kenny Perry on the third extra hole. The 50-year-old Toledo won the Insperity Championship in May in Texas to become the first Mexican winner in Champions Tour history. He also won that event on the third hole of a playoff, topping Mike Goodes with a par. Toledo shot a 3-under 69 to match Perry at 5-under 211 on La Vallee du Richelieu’s Rouville Course. Perry, the Senior Players Championship and U.S. Senior Open winner in consecutive tour starts this summer, had a 70. They each parred the par-4 18th twice in the playoff, and Toledo won on the par-3 10th. Duffy Waldorf was a stroke back after a 70. Bernhard Langer, three strokes ahead entering the round, had a 75 to tie for fourth at 3 under with David Frost, Michael Allen and Anders Forsbrand. Frost had a 70, Allen shot 71, and Forsbrand had a 72.

Denmark’s Thomas Bjorn made a 12-foot birdie putt on the first hole of a playoff hole with Scotland’s Craig Lee to win the European Masters. Bjorn, also the 2011 winner, made his winning putt after Lee’s attempt from 15 feet slide left of the hole on the par-4 18th. Bjornfinished with a 6-under 65 to match Lee at 20-under 264. Lee shot 67. The 42-year-old Bjorn has 14 career European Tour victories.

MOTOR SPORTS

Buescher holds on in Iowa

James Buescher took control during a second green-white checkered finish and held on to win the NASCAR Trucks series race at Iowa Speedway on Sunday. It was the second victory in four races for Buescher, the defending series champion. Buescher grabbed the lead from the outside position and edged out polesitter Ross Chastain for his sixth career victory. Chastain, denied his first career victory, was followed by Ty Dillon, Johnny Sauter and Darrell Wallace Jr.

Jordan Taylor held off Scott Pruett and IndyCar driver Scott Dixon on Sunday to win the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series race at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. Taylor and co-driver Max Angelelli raced to their second consecutive victory in the No. 10 Wayne Taylor Racing Corvette DP to take an eight-point lead over the Chip Ganassi Racing duo of Pruett and Memo Rojas into the season finale Sept. 28 at Lime Rock Park in Connecticut. Taylor also held off Pruett for the victory in the previous event at Kansas Speedway.

SAILING Team USA wins Race 4

Oracle Team USA came flying out of the fog around Mark 4 and stayed ahead of Emirates Team Zealand in a heart-stopping sprint to the finish to win Race 4 of the America’s Cup by 8 seconds Sunday. Finally, there were backslaps and smiles from the beleaguered defending champions. It was the first victory of the regatta for Oracle, which still has a long way to go to keep the oldest trophy in international sports. Owned by software billionaire Larry Ellison of Oracle Corp., Oracle Team USA was docked two points by an international jury in the biggest cheating scandal in the regatta’s 162-year history. That meant the Americans started at minus-2. Oracle needs to win 10 more races to keep the silver trophy. Team New Zealand won Race 3 earlier in the day, its third consecutive victory, and needs to win six more to take the Auld Mug to the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron.