Michael Phelps was a scratch in the 200-meter individual medley final, his fourth event, at the Longhorn Elite Invitational on Sunday night in Austin, Texas. He was fifth in the preliminaries with a time of 2 minutes, 5.89 seconds. The 18-time Olympic gold medalist won the 100 freestyle Friday, but was fourth in the 200 free and second in the 100 butterfly.
Missy Franklin won the 100-meter backstroke to close an up-and-down weekend. Franklin had also easily won the 200 backstroke while twice finishing second to Allison Schmitt, a teammate of Phelps at the North Baltimore Aquatic Club. Also in Austin, Katie Ledecky, 19, of Bethesda won the Arena Pro Swim Series points titles with victories in 10 events.
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Women's college lacrosse: Maryland senior Taylor Cummings (McDonogh), who the Tewaaraton Award for a record third straight time last month, was named the Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Associations Midfielder of the Year. Terps senior Alice Mercer (Century) was named Defender of the Year and Princeton junior Ellie DeGarmo was named Goalie of the Year. Syracuse's Kayla Treanor was named Attacker of the Year.
Men's college lacrosse: Junior midfielder Zachary Franco (Broadneck) had seven goals to lead Hofstra to a 15-10 victory over the Japan national team in the International Friendship Games at Edogawa Stadium in Tokyo. Franco, a native of Arnold, was named the game's Most Valuable Player. Hofstra, which is also holding a clinic during its tour, will face four university teams Tuesday at Tokyo University's Hongo Campus.
WNBA: Tayler Hill scored 17 points and the Washington Mystics (3-6) led the entire second half to beat the Atlanta Dream, 86-79, on Sunday, ending a three-game losing streak. The Mystics took the lead for good late in the first half and pushed ahead 52-43 by opening the third quarter with eight straight points. Atlanta got as close as 67-62 early in the fourth quarter, but Washington answered with a 12-3 run. Emma Meesseman, who surpassed 1,000 career points with a basket in the first quarter, finished with 15 points and Ivory Latta scored 12 for the Mystics. Angel McCoughtry (St. Frances) had a season-high 28 points to lead the Dream (6-2).
Men's college soccer: Loyola Maryland announced the addition of midfielders Gabriel Carlsson, a sophomore transfer from South Florida, and incoming freshman Morgan Lussi (St. Paul's) to the Greyhounds 2016 recruiting class. Carlsson, a native of Stockholm, Sweden, started all 20 games in his freshman season with the Bulls. Lussi, a Lutherville native, played for the Players Development Academy and was named to All-America watch list this year.
Women's boxing: Baltimore's Franchon Crews, who won a bronze medal at the World Championship last month in Astana, Kazakhstan, announced that she is training for the U.S. Bobsled combine July 9 in Gaithersburg. Crews will attempt to make the team to compete in the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in South Korea.
Gymnastics
Whittenburg takes fifth place at P&G, to enter Olympic trials
Baltimore's Donnell Whittenburg, who entered Sunday's P&G Gymnastics Championship final in Hartford, Conn., in first place, finished in fifth to secure a spot on the U.S. Senior National Team, which will compete in the U.S. Olympic Team Trials in St. Louis June 23 and 25. Whittenburg, a 21-year-old who attended Edgewood, claimed the individual title in the still rings with a two-day score of 31.650. Despite not winning an individual title, Sam Mikulak claimed his fourth straight championship with a two-day score of 181.500. Mikulak entered the final in second place thanks in part to an out-of-bounds step on the floor exercise on Friday, but he scored at least 15.250 on every event but the high bar (14.700) Sunday to become the second gymnast to win four straight U.S. national championships. Blaine Wilson won five in a row from 1996 to 2000. Chris Brooks, a Team Hilton gymnast with Mikulak and Whittenburg, took second place with a score of 179.850. Jake Dalton, a member of Oklahoma's 2016 NCAA men's gymnastics championship team, was third (179.000). Stanford's Akash Modi was fourth (178.750) and Yul Moldauer, Dalton's college teammate and the NCAA all-around champion, finished tied for fifth with Whittenburg and Ohio State's Sean Melton (177.550).
—Sean Begin, Tribune Newspapers
Women: Maggie Musselman of Crownsville finished 10th overall in a 24-athlete field Saturday night at the Secret U.S. Classic in Hartford. Musselman, who finished tied for 10th in vault (14.400), 20th in uneven bars (13.000) and balance beam (13.300), and seventh in floor exercise, had an overall score of 54.200. Alexandra Raisman of Needham, Mass., claimed first place (59.250).