Tickets for the Boston Celtics preseason game against the Toronto Raptors at Cross Insurance Arena go on sale Monday at 10 a.m.

Tickets are $95, $75 and $45 and are available at the Trusted Choice Box Office.

Tickets can also be purachsed at all Ticketmaster outlets, online at ticketmaster.com and by calling 1-800-745-3000.

WNBA: Phoenix’s Sandy Brondello is coach of the year for guiding the Mercury to a league-record 29 wins this season.

FIBA: Stephen Curry scored 17 points and the U.S. national team pulled away in the second half to beat Puerto Rico 112-86 in New York in its final home exhibition game before the FIBA Basketball World Cup.

COLLEGES

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WOMEN’S SOCCER: Charlene Achille scored on a direct kick from just outside the penalty box with 7:38 left in the second half to lift UMaine to a 1-0 win over Quinnipiac in their season-opener in Orono.

Claudia Dube-Trempe made three saves to record the shutout for the Black Bears, who were outshot 11-7.

n New Mexico Coach Kit Vela has been suspended for a week without pay and most of the team is suspended for one game over a hazing incident involving seven freshmen, two of whom were taken to the hospital for excessive alcohol consumption.

CYCLING

USA PRO CHALLENGE: Aspen’s Tejay van Garderen of BMC Racing held his 20-second lead over Rafal Majka of Tinkoff-Saxo following a 104-mile ride from Woodland Park into Breckenridge, Colorado.

Trek Factory rider Laurent Didier of Luxembourg won Stage 5 Friday with a burst into Breckenridge.

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TENNIS

WINSTON-SALEM OPEN: Lukas Rosol of the Czech Republic advanced to the finals after beating Taiwan’s Yen-Hsun Lu 7-5, 4-6, 6-4 in the last tuneup for next week’s U.S. Open.

CONNECTICUT OPEN: Wimbledon champ Petra Kvitova moved into the finals for the third straight year, beating Australian Samantha Stosur 6-3, 6-1.

SWIMMING

EUROPEAN SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIP: Adam Peaty of Britain set a world record in the 50-meter breaststroke, finishing in 26.62 seconds in a semifinal heat in Berlin, Germany.

Peaty appeared amazed at the end of the second of two semifinal heats and needed a few moments to realize that he had set a new mark.

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SOCCER

UEFA: European soccer’s governing body won’t recognize any matches played by Crimean clubs in Russian competitions, but it stopped short of issuing sanctions against 2018 World Cup host Russia.

Three clubs from Crimea, a region annexed by Russia, debuted in Russian league and cup competitions this month.

– From staff and news services


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