SPORTS

Sports briefs Friday

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TRACK AND FIELD

Wisconsin’s Georgia Ellenwood had her best pentathlon performance of the season en route to becoming a first-team All-American for the third straight year.

The junior finished seventh at the NCAA indoor championships in College Station, Texas. Ellenwood had a total of 4,162 points. Georgia’s Kendell Williams won with 4,682 points.

BASEBALL

Daulton Varsho’s two-run triple in the eighth helped UW-Milwaukee turn back host Texas-Arlington, 5-2, at Clay Gould Ballpark.

AUTO RACING

Brad Keselowski beat out Martin Truex Jr. for the pole for Sunday’s Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Kobalt 400.

Matt Kenseth qualified fourth on his 45th birthday.

Ex-Formula One star dies: British driver John Surtees, who won the 1964 Formula One championship to become the only man to win world titles on two and four wheels, died in London at the age of 83.

SKIING

American standout Mikaela Shiffrin used a strong burst near the finish to win a giant slalom race as the World Cup returned to Olympic Valley, Calif., for the first time since 1969.

Shiffrin finished in a combined time of 2 minutes 16.42 seconds Friday, beating Federica Brignone of Italy by 0.07 of a second.

From Journal Sentinel wire reports