Soccer-Miners of Cobresal win first Chilean league title

SANTIAGO, April 26 (Reuters) - A late penalty gave Cobresal a 3-2 win over Barnechea on Sunday and lifted them to a first ever Chilean league title. Matias Donoso scored from the spot after 83 minutes to guarantee the club from a small northern mining town a maiden Clausura title with a week of the season remaining. The win took Cobresal to 33 points after 16 games, four clear of second-placed Universidad Catolica. Barnechea sit bottom of the 18 team league and were already relegated. Cobresal were formed in 1979 in El Salvador, a town of around 8,000 people in a copper mining region of the Atacama desert. The club play their games in the Copper Stadium and are nicknamed 'The Miners' with a hard hat on their badge. Cobresal's only other domestic honour was a Copa Chile win in 1987 when they had a young Ivan Zamorano -- who would later play for Real Madrid and Inter Milan -- in their ranks. (Writing by Andrew Downie in Sao Paulo)