BOSTON — Alex Parkos hit a three-run homer during a four-run first inning and added an RBI single during a four-run rally in the fifth to lead fifth-seeded Eastern Connecticut State University to a 13-6 win over Southern Maine on Wednesday on the opening day of the Little East baseball tournament.

USM (29-12) will next face top-seeded UMass-Boston – who fell 4-3 to Western Connecticut in its opener – in an elimination game on Thursday at noon.

Nick Dibiase and Sam Stauble each had three hits and one RBI for the Huskies and Dibiase also scored a run.

Brandon Martins had two hits and Jake Glauser drove in two runs for USM.

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NORTH CAROLINA: Roy Williams tried to play golf the weekend before last, he said, and that experience provided all the incentive he needed to go ahead and schedule the double knee replacement surgery that has seemed inevitable for him.

“I was so bad and I hurt so much during the course of it,” Williams said of that particular round of golf. “So that was the final straw … and I interviewed four different doctors, and they told me there wasn’t much left to do.”

And so that was that: Williams, who was speaking this week at the ACC’s annual spring meetings, scheduled the surgery to replace both of his knees. He’ll have it done later this month, and he plans to be back up and mobile by July, in time for the busy summer recruiting season.

MINNESOTA: A prosecutor has delayed a decision on whether to charge a Minnesota basketball player arrested on suspicion of criminal sexual conduct last weekend. Minnesota, however, has suspended Reggie Lynch, 21, indefinitely – pending an investigation. University President Eric Kaler called the allegations “deeply troubling.”

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FLORIDA STATE: Coach Jimbo Fisher believes the Atlantic Coast Conference has three legitimate contenders for the Heisman Trophy in 2016.

Fisher’s picks are Clemson quarterback Deshaun Watson, FSU running back Dalvin Cook and Miami quarterback Brad Kaaya.

Watson is the offseason favorite to win the award.

RUTGERS HAS raised more than $50 million since the start of the year in its campaign to build new athletic facilities and upgrade others in a bid to become more competitive in the Big Ten Conference.

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