HOCKEY
The ECHL’s Norfolk Admirals signed defenseman Andrew McLean and forward Justin Young.
McLean, a 28-year-old Michigan native from Wisconsin-Stevens Point, signed his first pro contract in March 2020 with the Admirals, only to see the season canceled after one game amid the COVID-19 response.
McLean played for current Norfolk coach Jeff Carr with the Southern Professional Hockey League’s Knoxville Ice Bears in 2020-21, compiling four goals and 13 assists to earn SPHL all-rookie honors. Last season, he had five goals and 14 assists with the Glasgow Clan, a Scottish team in the UK Elite Ice Hockey League, after playing three games for the ECHL’s Orlando Solar Bears.
Young, 25, played his first full pro season last year with the ECHL’s Allen Americans in Texas. He had 10 points in 61 games, including 10 playoff contests.
GOLF
Shingler joins elite group with VSGA Senior Amateur trophy
Haymarket’s Scott Shingler, 52, defeated Arlington’s Matt Sughrue, 63, 1-up to win the 76th VSGA Senior Amateur Championship on Friday at Willow Oaks Country Club in Richmond.
Shingler joined a select group of players to win both the VSGA Amateur and VSGA Senior Amateur. The others are Keith Decker, David Partridge, Vinny Giles and Richard Payne.
Buck Brittain and Jon Hurst shared the qualifying medal at 6-under-par 138, and the top 32 from stroke play advanced to match play.
Dave Williams Jr. of Sleepy Hole Golf Course in Suffolk earned his way to the quarterfinals. He prevailed 2-up against Carlos Aranda of Northern Virginia and 3 and 2 against Tony Good before losing 6 and 4 to Buck Brittain, who then lost a semifinal to Sughrue.
Allen Barber of James River Country Club in Newport News, Robert Bradshaw of Virginia Beach’s Bayville Golf Club and Michael Hays of Princess Anne Country Club advanced through the first round but fell in the round of 16.
Barber ousted Dave Pulk of Williamsburg 5 and 4 in the first round but was sidelined 6 and 4 by Hurst. Bradshaw defeated Nicholas Crowe of Williamsburg National 3 and 2, then lost 2 and 1 to Jeffrey Klatt. Hays edged James River’s Bob Bailey on the 19th hole, then dropped a 5-and-4 match to David Jordan from the Richmond area.
Hampton Roads Academy graduate Thomas Garner, who lives in the Richmond area, reached match play but lost 2-up to Ron Totton in the first round. Jay Serrao, from Cavalier Golf & Yacht Club in Virginia Beach, fell 3 and 2 to Richmond-area standout David Partridge in the first round.
UVA players eliminated at U.S. Amateur
A day after extra-hole magic kept two Virginia Cavaliers alive at the U.S. Amateur Championship, the Hoos could not repeat those performances during Friday’s play in Colorado.
Sophomore Ben James of Milford, Connecticut, was eliminated in the quarterfinals in 19 holes by Florida sophomore Parker Bell. UVA junior Paul Chang, from China, lost to Auburn’s John Marshall Butler on the 19th hole after their match had been suspended Thursday night because of darkness after 18.
James’ run was the farthest he has advanced at the U.S. Amateur in three showings. James, trailing by two holes, won 16 with a birdie and 17 with an eagle to square the match. After both players parred the 18th hole, Bell hit a birdie putt on the 19th hole to move on to the semifinals.
Chang, who was on the UVA club team the past two years, was invited onto the varsity this summer. Thursday, he bounced in a shot for an eagle-2 to win the 460-yard 16th hole — a stroke featured on the “Top 10 Plays” of an ESPN late-night “SportsCenter,” but Butler, from Louisville, Kentucky, won the 549-yard 17th with a birdie-4 to pull even.
UVA senior wins Mass. Women’s Amateur
Virginia senior Rebecca Skoler took the Massachusetts Women’s Amateur Championship trophy in her home state.
A year after losing in the final, the Needham native defeated Central Florida freshman Molly Smith 2 and 1 at Dedham Country & Polo Club. Par putts on holes 16 and 17 ensured Skoler of the title.
HORSE RACING
Gallardo rides three victors for day
Antonio Gallardo rode to three victories Friday afternoon at Colonial Downs, giving the Spanish native a meet-leading 20 this summer in New Kent County. Mychel Sanchez is next with 17, including a triumph aboard By the Sey Shore in an $87,500 turf allowance for Virginia-bred, sired and certified horses.
Gallardo’s winning horses Friday were Tiberius Mercurius, Andie One and Boomin’ Belle.
