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LOS ANGELES — Candace Parker had 31 points and 10 rebounds, and Lisa Leslie added 25 points, 15 rebounds and eight assists to lead the Los Angeles Sparks to a 91-80 victory over the Phoenix Mercury on Sunday night.

Shannon Bobbit had a career-best 11 points for the Sparks (11-6), who broke a three-game losing streak.

Cappie Pondexter and Kelly Miller each scored 14 points for the Mercury (8-9), which lost its second straight after winning four consecutive games.

Tangela Smith added 12 points but Diana Taurasi, the WNBA's leading scorer, did not score until 9:37 remained. She finished with eight points.

WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. — Scott Dixon's bid for a fourth straight victory on the road course at Watkins Glen ended Sunday with an uncharacteristic mistake that gave Ryan Hunter-Reay the opening he needed to earn his first IndyCar Series victory.

Dixon, preparing to make a run at leader Darren Manning after a long caution period, spun out under yellow and was hit from behind by contender Ryan Briscoe. That gave the runner-up spot to Hunter-Reay, who easily passed Manning on the restart and drove away with the fourth series win for Rahal Letterman Racing.

It is the third open-wheel victory for Hunter-Reay, a Texas-born driver who won twice while driving in the now-defunct Champ Car World Series.

● In Silverstone, England, Lewis Hamilton won the British Grand Prix for the first time, leading his rain-soaked home race from the fourth lap to take the lead in the Formula One drivers championship.

The McLaren driver lapped all but two cars in the field Sunday and finished more than a minute ahead of Nick Heidfeld's BMW Sauber in a race at Silverstone that was full of spinouts and near misses. Honda's Rubens Barrichello was third for his first podium in four years and Honda's first of the season.

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Owen Nolan, the 36-year-old power forward who spent last season with the Calgary Flames, signed a two-year, $5.5 million deal with the Minnesota Wild on Sunday.

Nolan had 16 goals and 16 assists in 77 games for the Flames last season, his 16th in the NHL.

● The Marshall University softball team hired former Sahuaro High School standout Randi Nielson as pitching coach, the school recently announced.

Nielson, the sister of Marshall's current shortstop Kelly Nielson, has been an assistant for the Arizona Impulse, a local 18-U ASA travel team.