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Baseball

The Kansas City Royals purchased the contract of right-hander Jose Lima from Triple-A Omaha on Sunday and optioned righty Nate Field to Omaha.

Lima, a 10-year veteran and 21-game winner in 1999 with Houston, had been pitching in the independent Atlantic League before the Royals signed him last week. He started on Sunday against San Francisco.

The Royals also placed infielder Mendy Lopez on the 15-day disabled list with a strained calf muscle and reinstated 2B Carlos Febles from the disabled list.

The son of Hall of Famer Ted Williams got his first professional hit Saturday night -- in his 12th at-bat.

The 34-year-old John Henry Williams, playing for the Southeastern Cloverleafs of the unaffiliated Southeastern League of Professional Baseball, hit a soft popup that fell in behind Pensacola Pelicans shortstop Heath Kelly in the ninth inning. Host Pensacola won 5-3.

Ted Williams finished with a .344 career average and was the last major league to bat over .400, when he hit .406 in 1941. John Henry Williams' career average is .083.

He did not ask for the ball, Pelicans owner Quint Studer said.

"It just dropped in there and he went to first," Studer said moments after the hit. "He's not even smiling. Nobody's making a big deal about it."

Williams, who started at first base, struck out in his first two at-bats Saturday, then grounded out to third. He went 0-for-2 on Friday, in his first appearance with Southeastern.

Colleges

Richie Burgos hit a tiebreaking triple in the seventh inning, and relievers Wes Littleton and Chad Cordero held Stanford hitless over the last four innings in Cal State Fullerton's 6-5 victory in the College World Series on Sunday night in Omaha, Neb.

The Titans (50-14) are now 2-0 in the tournament and advanced to play the winner of Tuesday's Stanford (47-16) vs. South Carolina elimination game on Wednesday.

Littleton (7-3) took over for starter Dustin Miller in the sixth and retired all six batters he faced. Cordero, the 20th overall draft pick by Montreal, came on in the eighth and struck out three for his eighth save.

In an elimination game Sunday, Landon Powell hit a tiebreaking RBI double to cap South Carolina's three-run eighth inning as the Gamecocks beat Louisiana State 11-10.

The Gamecocks (45-21) squandered a six-run first-inning lead and trailed by as many as three runs before coming back to win.

LSU (45-22-1) was knocked out of the CWS in two games for only the second time in 12 appearances in Omaha.

Aleen Bailey completed a sprinting sweep in the NCAA track and field championships Saturday night in Sacramento, Calif., defeating LSU's Muna Lee in the 200 meters -- just as she had a day earlier in the 100.

But the Jamaican speedster, who almost single-handedly kept defending champion South Carolina in contention for the team title, could only watch as LSU pulled away for its 13th team crown.

In the men's competition, Alistair Cragg clinched Arkansas' 10th team title -- its first since a string of eight straight championships ended in 1999 -- by winning the 5,000.

Arkansas had 59 points and Auburn was second with 50.

On the women's side, LSU had 64 points, followed by Texas with 50 and South Carolina with 47.

Soccer

Thousands of fans flooded the streets of Monterrey in raucous celebrations of their team's first soccer title in 17 years, leaving at least two people dead and about 200 arrested Sunday.

The violence came after Rayados played Morelia to a scoreless tie to capture the championship.

The game ended just before midnight Saturday in Morelia, more than 850 miles from Monterrey. Thousands of fans rushed to the central plaza in Monterrey before the finish. Within a few hours, authorities said close to 15,000 fans had thronged the area.

A man died after being run over by a taxi and a teenager was stabbed to death by a group of people, Monterrey's police department said.

There were 194 arrests, most for public drunkenness or violating the city's open-container law, police said.

Tennis

Andy Roddick enjoyed a commanding victory leading to Wimbledon, beating Sebastien Grosjean 6-3, 6-3 Sunday to win the Queen's Club title in London.

This was the second title of the year for the hard-serving American following last month's win at St. Poelton, Austria. He will be a strong contender when Wimbledon starts June 23.

"I feel I'll be better prepared than I ever have been for Wimbledon," he said. "I'm probably more confident than I ever have been, but you have to guard against that, against overconfidence. I felt pretty good going into Paris as well, and I don't want to talk about that."

Roddick lost in the first round at the French Open three weeks ago.

On Sunday, the third-seeded Roddick had 10 aces but won with a little help from a net cord. He was on his second match point when his backhand clipped the net and dropped on the other side with Grosjean unable to make a return.