BRASILIA, Brazil -- While shes just 18 and the youngest soccer player at the
Olympics for the U.
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displays the confidence of a seasoned veteran.The Colorado teenager holds the
distinction of being the youngest American ever to score an Olympic goal. She
got it on Tuesday night in Manaus, when the three-time defending champion United
States won its group with a 2-all draw against Colombia.A couple of days later,
the magnitude of the feat had sunk in -- at least as much as possible for
someone who considers goals just part of the job.I got on the bus after the game
and its kind of felt like any other goal, she said Thursday. But that night I
was getting settled in and I was like, this is actually pretty cool. I scored a
goal in the Olympics.Pugh was in Brasilia preparing with the United States for a
quarterfinal match against Sweden on Friday.The recent graduate from Mountain
Vista High School in Colorado made her debut at the senior level in the teams
opening match this year, scoring her first goal in a 5-0 win over Ireland. Shes
appeared in 16 matches overall with four goals.Her latest put the United States
up 2-1 against Colombia. She blasted a shot through several defenders in the
59th minute.I was asking her when we were in ice bath: `Did that shot go through
a bunch of peoples legs? And she told me, `I dont really know. I just hit it as
hard as I could. Thats just kind of how she is. She does amazing things and its
kind of like, `Well, I do these things all the time. So I guess its just every
day, U.S. defender Becky Sauerbrunn said.Pugh said she remembers thinking: Its
go time.The lead didnt stand, however, as Catalina Usme scored her second goal
of the match on a free kick in the final moments to tie it.Pugh first came to
the attention of U.S. coach Jill Ellis when she was 14. She has played on the
under-17 and under-20 national teams, and turned heads when she captained the
team that won the CONCACAF Womens U-20 Championship last year, earning the
Golden Boot award for most goals with seven.She is the youngest of a youth
movement for the senior U.S. national team. The average age of the team is 27.8,
down from the 29.5-year average of the team that won the World Cup in Canada
last summer.Several veterans, including Abby Wambach and Lauren Holiday, have
since retired from the team that beat Japan 5-2 for the World Cup title. Sydney
Leroux and Amy Rodriguez didnt vie for Olympic roster spots because of
pregnancies.Pugh, however, is not the youngest-ever Olympian on the team. That
distinction went to Cindy Parlow, who was about a month younger than Pugh is now
when she played in the 1996 Atlanta Games.Following the Olympics, Pugh will
compete for the U-20 national team (shes the captain) at the World Cup for that
level of play in Papua New Guinea this November. She jokes that she still hasnt
figured out how to pack for big tournaments in far-flung locales.When things
settle down, she said she plans to enroll at UCLA in January. She didnt enroll
for the fall because she didnt want to use a redshirt year.At least for now,
shes all about soaking up the Olympic experience. Pugh would like nothing more
than to help the U.S. win a fourth straight gold.I think for now were just all
looking forward to just playing in these big-time games in the Olympics and just
trying to push toward our main goal, she said.
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SNOQUALMIE, Wash. -- By the time Bernhard Langer made the turn in the final
round of the Boeing Classic, he was five shots out if the lead. At one point
Sunday he was tied for 14th after not finishing lower than 13th in any
tournament this year.A few hours later, Langer had outlasted Kevin Sutherland
and Woody Austin in a playoff and was celebrating his fourth PGA Tour Champions
victory this season and 29th overall on the 50-and-over tour.I blew tournaments
when I had a lead and Ive come from seven behind, so you just never know, Langer
said.Langer made a 3-foot birdie putt on the first hole of a playoff with Austin
and Sutherland to win the Boeing Classic for the second time. A day after his
59th birthday, Langer birdied the par-5 18th in regulation for a 5-under 67 to
match Austin and Sutherland at 13-under 203 at TPC Snoqualmie Ridge. Austin also
had a 67, and Sutherland shot 64, the low round of the week.It took a special
stretch for Langer to recover from a shaky front nine, and he needed a few
lengthy par putts to stay on the edge of contention. Langer went out in 1-over
37, but played the back nine in 6-under 30, also making birdies on Nos. 10-13
and 15.When he gets hot with that broom, Austin said in reference to Langers
putter, you cant beat that broom.Langer tied Lee Trevino for second on the
career victory list, still well behind leader Hale Irwin at 45. Langer also won
the Boeing Classic in 2010.Langer took advantage of Austin and Sutherland both
finding bunkers on the 18th in the playoff. Sutherland ended up in a bunker off
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making the birdie putt to win.You need to be precise and have the nerve and play
the golf course the way it needs to be played, Langer said. Theres still a
little bit of life left in me.Gene Sauers, the second-round leader and U.S.
Senior Open winner two weeks ago, shot a 72 to finish a shot out of the playoff.
Sauers started his day with two straight birdies to reach 14 under. But he
struggled on the back nine, bogeying three of the first five holes, and allowed
the chase group to catch up. Sauers was still in contention until making bogey
at the 17th after his tee shot came up short. Sauers made birdie at the 18th to
finish alone in fourth.While Langer rolled through the back nine, Austin was hot
on the front nine, going out in 32. His first mistake of the round came at the
15th when he went for the green in two on the par 5 unaware he was in a tie for
the lead because electronic scoreboards on the back nine were not working.
Austin found a bunker and ended up making bogey.I would have laid up to the
right for sure, absolutely, no question, said Austin, who birdied Nos. 17 and 18
to get into the playoff.Sutherland started the day seven shots behind Sauers and
made eight birdies with no bogeys in his round. Sutherland was attempting to win
his first stroke-play tournament on either the regular or senior tour.
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