Martha Downing of Shingle Springs and Kathleen Bennett of Rancho Mirage easily won their first-round doubles match Tuesday in the International Tennis Federation Super-Seniors World Individual Championships in Perth, Australia.
The third-seeded team crushed unseeded Mary Ann Gaskin and Patricia McLachlan of Canada 6-1, 6-0 to reach the semifinals of the women's 60-and-over division.
– Paul Bauman
Colleges
Jackson Carbajal, a 6-foot-3 guard from Buchanan High School in Clovis, has verbally committed to play basketball for Sacramento State.
– John Schumacher
• UC Davis senior Rochelle VanBuskirk was named to the Big West's all-conference soccer first team.
– Bee Sports staff
• Freshman Kayla Riede shot a 7-over-par 79 to help lead Sacramento City College to its second consecutive Northern California Community College women's golf championship. The Panthers were 29 shots better than runner-up Canada College in the 36-hole tournament at Butte Creek in Chico. Sac City and Canada advance to the four-team state championship next week in Hanford.
– Steve Pajak
Cycling
Sacramento's Mark Bristow won two gold medals at the Para-Cycling Track World Championships in Manchester, England.
Bristow, who rides for Great Britain, clocked 1 minute, 9.68 seconds to win the one-kilometer time trial in the LC1 category, for athletes with an upper-limb disability. He is unable to use his right arm above the wrist.
Bristow, who won two gold medals in the 2008 Paralympic Games in Beijing, also helped Great Britain win the men's team sprint.
– John Schumacher
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