Sports Quick Hits: November 15th, 2021
⛳️LPGA: As if Sundays weren’t scary enough, yesterday’s LPGA Pelican Women's Championship went to a four-player playoff. American and World No. 1 Nelly Korda birdied the first playoff hole to claim her fourth LPGA title win of the season.
- And we have to shout-out Canadian Brooke Henderson, who came in fifth, her seventh top-10 finish of the season. Proud.
🏎️F1: Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton kept his repeat world champion title hopes alive thanks to a thrilling win during yesterday’s São Paulo Grand Prix. Three races remain, and Hamilton trails his archrival, Red Bull’s Max Verstappen, by just 14 points. Couldn’t write a better ending.
🏒Hockey: While some of the game’s best women were showing out here at home, Team Canada took their talents abroad, defeating world No. 3 Finland 5–1 yesterday to sweep the three-game exhibition series. Bust out those brooms.
⚽️Soccer: Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) Féminine forward Aminata Diallo is speaking out following a disturbing attack on her PSG teammate Kheira Hamraoui (pronounced AHM-row-wee) last week. ICYMI: Diallo was arrested in connection with the attack but was later released from police custody without charge.
- Diallo denies planning the attack and dismisses any rumors of a rivalry between her and Hamraoui.
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