Duke wins its first men’s lacrosse title

Duke won its first NCAA men’s lacrosse championship in dramatic fashion, defeating Notre Dame, 6-5, Monday on a goal by C.J. Costabile with five seconds gone in sudden-death overtime at Baltimore.

Costabile won the faceoff from Trever Sipperly and sprinted downfield before beating standout goaltender Scott Rodgers with a shot from directly in front of the net.

The Blue Devils immediately rushed onto the field and created a massive pile of players, sticks and helmets while celebrating the fastest goal to start an overtime in NCAA championship history.

Duke (16-4) twice before advanced to the title game, and lost by one goal both times. This time, however, the Blue Devils walked away with the championship trophy by defeating the unseeded Fighting Irish (10-7).

Stanford’s Bradley Klahn routed Louisville’s Austen Childs, 6-1, 6-2, to win the NCAA men’s singles championship at Athens, Ga.

Playing before the home crowd, Chelsea Gullickson beat second-seeded Jana Juricova of California, 6-3, 7-6 (7), to become the third Georgia player to win the women’s title.

Klahn is the 14th player from Stanford to win the men’s crown.

UCLA and USC will have the two youngest teams in the 30-team field at the NCAA men’s golf championships beginning Tuesday at the Honors Course in Chattanooga, Tenn.

UCLA, with a lineup consisting of sophomores Alex Shi Yup Kim and Gregor Main and freshmen Mario Clemens, Pedro Figueiredo and Pontus Widegren, has the youngest team. USC’s lineup is junior Matt Giles, sophomore Steve Lim and freshmen T.J. Vogel, Martin Trainer and Sam Smith.

The tournament opens with 54 holes of stroke play over the 7,395-yard course. The top eight teams advance to a match play bracket, and an individual champion will be crowned Thursday, after the third round. There are then three rounds of match play to determine the national team champion.

Texas A&M is the defending champion. UCLA won in 2008.

—Mike Hiserman

Single-game tickets for five of UCLA’s six football home games at the Rose Bowl next season will go on sale beginning Tuesday. UCLA’s home and Pacific 10 Conference opener is Sept. 11 against Stanford. The Bruins also play host to Houston on Sept. 18, Washington State on Oct. 2, Arizona on Oct. 30, Oregon State on Nov. 6 and USC on Dec. 4. Tickets for the USC game can be purchased only as part of season ticket packages. Tickets are available at Ticketmaster or (310) 825-2946.

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Strasburg to make his debut June 8

The Washington Nationals say prized prospect Stephen Strasburg is scheduled to make his major league debut against Pittsburgh on June 8.

The 21-year-old right-hander from San Diego State is scheduled to start for triple-A Syracuse at Buffalo on Thursday.

Spanish cyclist Alejandro Valverde received a global two-year ban for his connection to a blood-doping ring but was allowed to keep his 2009 Spanish Vuelta victory.