June 2005 in Sports - 12 June 2005

12 June 2005

• Arena football: The Colorado Crush win ArenaBowl XIX in Las Vegas 51–48 over the Georgia Force. Crush kicker Clay Rush kicks the title-winning field goal with 3 seconds left. (ArenaFootball.com)
• Auto racing:
  • Formula One: Kimi Räikkönen wins the Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal over Michael Schumacher. Both Renaults drop out, and Juan Pablo Montoya is disqualified for failing to heed the red light at the end of pit road as the safety car leads by a long string of cars, a safety car that was brought out after polesitter Jenson Button crashes. (Formula1.com)
  • Nextel Cup: Carl Edwards wins the Pocono 500 in Long Pond, Pennsylvania for his second Nextel Cup win of the season. (NASCAR.com)
• Football (soccer): Norway join Germany in the semi-finals of the 2005 UEFA Women's Championship following a 5–3 defeat of Italy and Germany's 3–0 win over France. (UEFA.com –Norway-Italy, Germany-France)
• Golf:
  • Annika Sörenstam becomes the first woman to win the first two majors of the year since 1986, waltzing to a three-shot win at the LPGA Championship in Havre de Grace, Maryland. Second place went to 15-year-old Michelle Wie, who scored the highest finish by an amateur in a major since 1998. (AP/Yahoo!)
  • Sergio García wins the Booz Allen Classic on the PGA Tour, this year held at Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Maryland. The Classic, the old Kemper Open, is held annually in suburban Washington, D.C.. It is generally held at the TPC (Tournament Players Club) at Avenel in Potomac, Maryland, but Avenel is being renovated. Having the tournament at Congressional, the week before this year's U.S. Open, attracted the best field ever for the event. (AP/Yahoo!)