BASEBALL

Mike Shawaryn pitched seven scoreless innings and Cole Sturgeon hit a three-run homer as the Portland Sea Dogs won their second straight, 7-1 Wednesday night over the New Hampshire Fisher Cats at Manchester, New Hampshire.

Shawaryn allowed three hits and one walk, striking out eight.

Daniel McGrath pitched the last two innings, allowing an unearned run in the ninth.

The Sea Dogs took a 2-0 lead in the second on a homer by Josh Ockimey and an RBI double by Austin Rei.

Portland secured the win with a five-run ninth, capped by Sturgeon’s three-run homer, his sixth.

FOOTBALL

NFL: Ichiro Suzuki of the Seattle Mariners once received a text from Patriots QB Tom Brady, and Suzuki didn’t know him.

Suzuki told Peter Gammons of The Athletic that one morning in 2017 at spring training, he was checking his text messages when he got a note from someone asking him about his stretching routine. The guy said he got his number from Alex Rodriguez.

Suzuki didn’t recognize the guy. One of his coaches asked for the guy’s name, and Suzuki replied: “Some guy named Tom Brady. Who the (expletive) is Tom Brady?”

Suzuki, who is 44, won’t play the rest of this year and is changing roles to take a new front office job with the organization, according to USAToday.

BASKETBALL

NBA: Toronto’s Dwane Casey was announced as the coach-of-the-year selection by the National Basketball Coaches Association. The award, named for longtime NBCA executive director Michael H. Goldberg, is voted on only by the league’s head coaches.

A media panel voted separately for the NBA’s Coach of the Year award, which will be announced June 25.

Other coaches who received votes were Philadelphia’s Brett Brown, Houston’s Mike D’Antoni, Indiana’s Nate McMillan, San Antonio’s Gregg Popovich, the Los Angeles Clippers’ Doc Rivers, Utah’s Quin Snyder and Portland’s Terry Stotts. Boston’s Brad Stevens did not receive a vote.

• Peja Stojakovic is now an assistant general manager of the Sacramento Kings, after spending the last three seasons with the franchise in other executive capacities.

• The Warriors reached their fourth straight Western Conference finals by beating the Pelicans 113-104 Tuesday night.

The Warriors face the top-seeded Rockets, who closed out the Jazz earlier Tuesday in their own Game 5. Game 1 is at 9 p.m. Monday at Houston.

TENNIS

MADRID OPEN: Novak Djokovic added another early elimination to his disappointing season, and Rafael Nadal continued to look invincible on clay.

Djokovic lost to Kyle Edmund 6-3, 2-6, 6-3 in the second round, the sixth straight tournament in which he has failed to reach the quarterfinals.

Nadal later cruised past Gael Monfils 6-3, 6-1, extending his record of consecutive sets won on clay to 48.

ITALIAN OPEN: Serena Williams has withdrawn from next week’s Italian Open, saying she needs more time to be “100 percent ready to compete.”

PREP SCHOOLS

BOYS’ LACROSSE: Hebron Academy scored in the first minute of overtime to defeat Berwick Academy 9-8 in Hebron.

Hebron (5-5) led 8-7 with a minute left in regulation, before Jack Merecki scored to force overtime.

Berwick (4-8) was led by Brad Simas’ four goals.

SOFTBALL: Berwick Academy fell 9-6 to Concord Academy in Concord, Massachusetts.

Laura Slama had two hits and two RBI to lead Berwick (1-7). Andrea Caradonna had three hits and an RBI.

SOCCER

ITALIAN CUP: AC Milan goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma gifted two goals and Nikola Kalinic added an own-goal in a 4-0 defeat for the Rossoneri as Juventus claimed a record fourth straight title in Rome.

PREMIER LEAGUE: Manchester City set the league record for most points, most goals and most wins in a single season by beating Brighton 3-1.

City moved onto 97 points, two more than Chelsea’s final total from the 2004-05 season, and 105 goals, two more than Chelsea’s previous record haul from the 2009-10 season.

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