BASEBALL
David Hamilton went 3 for 5 with his fifth home run of the season, and five pitchers combined on a four-hitter for the Portland Sea Dogs in a 2-0 win Sunday afternoon over the New Hampshire Fisher Cats in Manchester, New Hampshire.
Victor Santos (5-4) pitched five innings to get the win in relief of opener Jake Thompson. Joan Martinez struck out the side in the ninth, stranding two runners in scoring position after a one-out walk and a double.
Portland took the lead in the second inning with Kole Cottam singled home Izzy Wilson. Hamilton lined a home run to right-center in the third.
The Sea Dogs return home to start a six-game series against the Hartford Yard Goats on Tuesday.
BASKETBALL
NBA: Quin Snyder resigned as coach of the Utah Jazz, ending an eight-year run where the team won nearly 60% of its games but never got past the second round of the playoffs.
Snyder went 372-264 with the Jazz; his winning percentage of .585 is 18th-best among NBA coaches who have worked for at least that long.
WNBA: Aerial Powers scored 27 points, Sylvia Fowles and Kayla McBride added 18 apiece and the visiting Minnesota Lynx held off the New York Liberty, 84-77, after nearly blowing a 19-point lead in the second half.
• Nia Coffey had 16 points and 10 rebounds, Rhyne Howard also scored 16 points and the Atlanta Dream won at home against the Indiana Fever, 75-66.
• Jonquel Jones had 25 points, eight rebounds, six assists and three steals, DeWanna Bonner and Brionna Jones added 21 points apiece and the Connecticut Sun rallied to win at Seattle, 93-86.
• Skylar Diggins-Smith scored a season-high 29 points on 10-of-16 shooting to lead the Phoenix Mercury to an 81-74 victory over the visiting Los Angeles Sparks.
• Emma Meesseman scored 13 points with six assists, five steals and four rebounds against her old team, Candace Parker had a double-double, and the Chicago Sky defeated the visiting Washington Mystics, 91-82.
• Kelsey Plum tied her career high with 32 points, Chelsea Gray added 18 and the Las Vegas Aces won at home against the Dallas Wings, 84-78.
SOCCER
WORLD CUP QUALIFYING: Ukraine missed out on qualifying for the World Cup, as the war-disrupted team was beaten 1-0 by Wales at Cardiff, Wales, in the European playoff final for the FIFA soccer showpiece.
Andriy Yarmolenko inadvertently headed the ball into his own net while trying to clear Wales captain Gareth Bale’s first-half free kick.
While Wales heads to a first World Cup in 64 years – opening against the United States in November – it was an agonizing end to Ukraine’s emotionally charged mission to qualify for Qatar while remaining under invasion by Russia.
U.S. MEN: Jesús Ferreira failed to convert a pair of first-half chances as U.S. forwards kept up their goal-scoring struggles, and the Americans played a 0-0 draw against Uruguay at Kansas City, Kansas, in their second of four World Cup warmup matches this month.
The Americans stretched their home unbeaten streak to 25 matches since a September 2019 loss to Mexico. That’s one shy of the team record set from 2013-15.
CANADA: Canada’s World Cup warmup match against Panama was canceled Sunday when the men’s team refused to play because of a labor dispute with the nation’s governing body that includes a demand that the women’s national team get equal match fees.
Players, preparing for the nation’s first men’s World Cup appearance since 1986, refused to train on Friday and Saturday.
NATIONS LEAGUE: Cristiano Ronaldo scored his world record-extending 116th and 117th goals for Portugal in a 4-0 win at Switzerland. Erling Haaland scored twice in Norway’s 2-1 win at Sweden, and 17-year-old Gavi got his first international goal as Spain drew 2-2 at the Czech Republic.
COLLEGES
BASEBALL: Maryland erased a 5-3 deficit with a six-run rally in the eighth inning, eliminating Wake Forest from the NCAA Tournament with a 10-5 win in College Park, Maryland.
Wake Forest catcher Brendan Tinsman of Cape Elizabeth was 2 for 4 with a double and an RBI. He finished the season with 24 home runs and 69 RBI.
SOFTBALL: Holly Azevedo threw a two-hit shutout and No. 5 UCLA beat No. 14 Florida 8-0 in six innings at Oklahoma City to reach the Women’s College World Series semifinals and eliminate the Gators.
AUTO RACING
INDYCAR: Will Power closed the Belle Isle era with a Team Penske victory, taking the final Detroit Grand Prix on the island park to reclaim the IndyCar points lead.
Power held off Alexander Rossi in the closing laps – extending Rossi’s losing streak to nearly three years. All three Team Penske drivers have a win through seven races this season.
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