Sports in Brief: Federer outduels Djokovic for Dubai title

Defending champion

Roger Federer

of Switzerland won his seventh Dubai Championships title and second of the year in defeating top-ranked

Novak Djokovic

of Serbia, 6-3, 7-5, on Saturday in the United Arab Emirates.

This is the seventh consecutive year - 11th time in 13 years - that Federer or Djokovic has won the title.

Fed Cup winner Lucie Safarova of the Czech Republic beat Victoria Azarenka of Belarus in straight sets, 6-4, 6-3, to clinch the Qatar Open in Doha. It was her sixth career title.

TRACK AND FIELD Ryan Hill, a 10-time all-American at North Carolina State, held off charges by Ben Blankenship and Evan Jager to win the first two-mile run in the U.S. indoor championships in 84 years. His time of 8 minutes, 26.72 seconds was a meet record.

GOLF Padraig Harrington of Ireland made six birdies in the 12 holes he played in the rain-delayed Honda Classic to complete a 4-under-par 66 and take a 1-shot lead over Patrick Reed, with Ian Poulter of Britain and Brendan Steele another shot behind in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.

The PGA Tour event will end Monday. The third round ended 51 minutes after it started because of a storm that dumped about 5 inches of rain on PGA National.

American Stacy Lewis shot a 1-over 73 for a 1-stroke lead over South Korean Amy Yang in the Honda LPGA Thailand on Siam Country Club's Pattaya Old Course in Chonburi, Thailand.

Top-ranked Lydia Ko, 17, broke the course record with an 11-under 61 for the second-round lead in the New Zealand Women's Open in Christchurch.

AUTO RACING Kevin Harvick held off Daytona 500 winner Joey Logano to win the Xfinity Series Hisense 250 at Atlanta Motor Speedway in Hampton, Ga.

Harvick has won the race in NASCAR's second-tier series three years in a row and four times overall. Logano has been the runner-up the last two years.

The NASCAR Sprint Cup race car No. 44 stolen Thursday from Morrow, Ga., was found about 35 miles away near Snellville, Ga., but not the trailer and pickup truck used to transport it. Gwinnett County police found no damage to the car, which was to be driven by Travis Kvapil. The truck - with no trailer - was found a few hours later in Stockbridge, Ga.

COLLEGES Delaware Valley played its first-ever women's lacrosse game, falling to host Richard Stockton, 18-6.

A goal in the last four seconds gave eighth-ranked Virginia (2-2) a 16-15 women's lacrosse win at No. 9 Penn State (3-1). Katie O'Donnell (West Chester Henderson) had tied the score with 2 minutes, 26 seconds remaining.

- Staff and wire reports