CYCLING

Norwegian Hushovd gains overall lead in Tour de France after team time trial

Thor Hushovd of Norway captured the overall lead at the Tour de France on Sunday after his Garmin-Cervelo team won the time trial in the second stage of the race in Les Essarts, France.

Hushovd took the yellow jersey from Philippe Gilbert of Belgium, the winner of Saturday’s opening stage.

The Garmin-Cervelo team finished in 24 minutes, 48 seconds around the 14.3-mile flat stage around Les Essarts in the Vendee region of western France.

Defending champion Alberto Contador lost more time to the other main contenders after his Saxo-Bank team posted a time of 25:16. He already lost more than a minute to his rivals during the first stage after being slowed down by a crash and stands 75th, 1:42 behind Hushovd.

BASEBALL

NECBL: Conor Keniry scored on a two-out single by Robby Ort in the bottom of the ninth inning to lift the Newport Gulls (7-7) to a 4-3 win over the Old Orchard Beach Raging Tide (3-14) in Newport, R.I.

Tim Quinn hit an RBI single in the top of the sixth for Old Orchard Beach and came around to score on a two-run single by Marcus Way that gave the Raging Tide a 3-1 lead. Old Orchard Beach starter Matt Croglio gave up one run on seven hits over 52/3 innings.

BOXING

PORTLAND BOXING CLUB: Middleweight Russell Lamour lost a 12-10 decision to Aaron Coley of Haywood, Calif., at the U.S. national championships in Colorado Springs, Colo.

Featherweight Liz Leddy lost a 21-12 decision to Heather Hady of Brooklyn, N.Y. Leddy placed second overall.

ROWING

HENLEY REGATTA: American boats won four titles on the final day of racing on the River Thames in Henley, England.

Harvard won the Prince Albert Cup by defeating Oxford Brookes University by 13/4 lengths in the final of the race for student-coxed fours. University of California led from the first stroke in the Temple Cup for student eights to down Dutch students by 4 1/2 lengths.

In the Remenham Cup for female international eights, the world champion U.S. team — racing as Princeton Training Center — tied the record time of 6 minutes, 38 seconds by beating British crew Leander and Gloucester.

BASKETBALL

WNBA: Swin Cash scored 19 points as the Seattle Storm (5-3) won in Washington for the first time since 2006, earning a 73-63 win over the Mystics (2-6).

TRIATHLON

WORLD RECORD: Marino Vanhoenacker won the Ironman Austria triathlon in Klagenfurt, Austria, in a world record time, beating the 14-year-old previous best mark by nearly 41/2 minutes.

The 34-year-old Vanhoenacker finished the race in 7 hours, 45 minutes, 58 seconds to break the record set by fellow Belgian Luc Van Lierde in Roth, Germany, in 1997.

Mary Beth Ellis of the United States won the women’s race in a new course record of 8:43:34 — the best time ever recorded by a woman making her Ironman debut.

Erika Csomor of Hungary was second for the women in 8:51:10. Austria’s Diana Riesler finished third in 8:53:03.

— From staff and news services