COLLEGES
Hyland earns conference man of the year at Bentley
Bentley men’s basketball player Keegan Hyland of South Portland was named the Northeast-10 Conference Man of the Year on Monday night at the annual conference banquet in Providence.
Hyland played for three seasons at Bentley while getting his bachelor’s degree in finance and also earning his MBA.
He averaged 20.4 points per game while leading Bentley to the Northeast-10 regular season championship and a berth in the NCAA Division II East Regional.
MAINE: Jesse Orach (men’s cross country), Shannon O’Neil (women’s cross country/track) and Liz Wood (women’s basketball) were honored by the America East Conference as Presidential Student-Athletes.
The award recognizes graduating student-athletes who earned a cumulative GPA of 3.75 or higher as an undergraduate student and graduated this spring.
KENTUCKY: Brad Calipari, son of Wildcats Coach John Calipari, will be be on next season’s roster. A school release does not specify whether the 6-foot, 180-pound Calipari will be scholarship or walk on.
Calipari averaged 15.3 points per game last season at the MacDuffie School in Massachusetts.
NCAA BASEBALL: More home runs have been hit in Div. I regional play than in the entire 2015 tournament. There were 166 homers in 96 games through Monday. That compares to 150 in 136 tournament games through the College World Series last year.
This year’s total also is the highest since new bat standards went into effect in 2011. This is the second season a flat-seam ball has been used. The new ball was put into play to increase the amount of offense in the college game. In 2014, the last year for the raised-seam ball, 87 home runs were hit in 139 tournament games.
HIGH SCHOOLS
BASEBALL: Nick Mazurek pitched a one-hitter and also drove in the a run as fifth-seeded Oceanside (13-4) earned a 6-0 win over No. 12 Presque Isle (6-11) in a Class B North prelim at Rockland.
Mazurek struck out 11 and did not issue a walk.
Mazurek doubled home Michael Norton in the bottom of the first for an early lead.
The Mariners then put the game away with a five-run fourth, highlighted by Thomas Curtis’ two-run double.
SOCCER
EUROPE: Host Italy again dominated as it beat Finland 2-0 in its final warmup for the European Championship.
AFRICA: Zimbabwe’s soccer federation folded with a debt of more than $6 million and has formed again under a different name.
The debt, blamed on previous leadership, was passed to a liquidator to deal with.
COPA AMERICA: Blas Perez scored two goals, including the winner in the 87th minute, and Panama beat Bolivia 2-1 on a rainy night in a Group D opener in Orlando, Florida.
ITALY: Chinese retail giant Suning has bought a majority stake in Inter Milan, marking the latest entry into the European soccer market by cash-rich firms in China.
TENNIS
NOTTINGHAM OPEN: Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic came late to the Nottingham Open but avoided an early exit.
Saving the only break point she faced, Pliskova served superbly to outlast Anastasija Sevastova of Latvia 6-7 (5), 6-0, 6-2.
Second-seeded Johanna Konta of Britain and No. 8 Christina McHale of the U.S. also advanced.
– From staff and news services
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