COLLEGES
Southern Maine (15-7, 7-4 Little East) rallied from an early six-run deficit in Game 2 but couldn’t close out a baseball doubleheader sweep against Eastern Connecticut State (20-3, 10-1), which earned a split with a 10-9 victory in 10 innings at Willimantic, Connecticut.
Ben Lambert pitched a five-hitter and Andrew Olszak and Cam Seymour each had two RBI to lead USM to a 7-2 win in Game 1.
In Game 2, Sam Troiano scored four runs and drove in three as USM twice took late leads after falling behind 6-0 in the first inning. But Holden White tied the game with a sacrifice fly in the ninth, then won it with an RBI single in the 10th.
• Sam Knotts capped a six-run second inning with a two-run homer as Maine (13-10) slugged its way to an 11-7 win over UMass Lowell (9-20) in a doubleheader opener at Lowell, Massachusetts.
Ryan Turenne added a two-run homer in the third. Jake Marquez and Jake Rainess also drove in two runs.
UMass Lowell won the second game, 5-1.
SOCCER
SUPER LEAGUE: The Spanish and Italian clubs still clinging to the Super League must disavow the breakaway or face being banned from the Champions League, UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin told The Associated Press on Friday.
Although the Super League imploded this week after being rapidly abandoned by most participants, Real Madrid, Barcelona, Juventus and AC Milan have not left the project, and officials could “suffer some consequences,” Ceferin said.
Real Madrid President Florentino Perez, who was to chair the Super League, continues to defy Ceferin by pledging to keep working on reviving the Super League. While Madrid’s place in the Champions League semifinals next week is not at risk, participation in the future will be unless the ultimatum is dropped.
ENGLAND: Several hundred Arsenal fans protested outside Emirates Stadium before the English Premier League match against Everton to call for American owner Stan Kroenke to leave the club for joining the Super League.
Everton won, 1-0, as Arsenal goalkeeper Bernd Leno allowed a shot from Richarlison to squeeze between his legs.
Fans gathered on the stadium’s concourse more than two hours before kickoff, banging metal screens above the main box office, lighting flares, setting off fireworks, blaring airhorns and chanting “We want Kroenke out,” and “We want our Arsenal back.”
They also hung banners over the edge of the concourse including ones that read, “Arsenal till I die. Kroenke out,” and “Our club our home. Sell up Stan.”
Kroenke also owns the Los Angeles Rams, Denver Nuggets and Colorado Avalanche.
WALES: Former Manchester United star Ryan Giggs has been charged with assaulting two women, prosecutors said, and as a result won’t coach Wales at the European Championship.
GOLF
EUROPEAN TOUR: Denmark’s Thorbjorn Olesen shot 9 under for a course record 61 to take the lead in the Gran Canaria Open at Las Palmas, Spain.
Olesen made an eagle and seven birdies to move to 14 under after two rounds at Meloneras Golf Course on Spain’s Canary Islands.
Rhys Enoch and Wil Besseling are one shot behind Olesen.
LPGA: Jessica Korda rode out a series of big momentum shifts at historic Wilshire Country Club to hold onto the lead in the HUGEL Air Premia LA Open in Los Angeles.
Six strokes ahead after three holes, tied with top-ranked Jin Young Ko at the turn and two shots back with three to play, Korda birdied the final two holes to take a one-stroke lead into the final round.
Korda shot a 3-under 68 to break the tournament 54-hole record at 16 under.
Ko shot a 66, making a 30-foot bogey putt on the par-3 18th after driving over the green and watching her second bang into the bank and roll back to her feet.
PGA: Tony Finau and Cameron Champ shot a 4-under 68 in alternate-shot play for a share of the Zurich Classic lead with the Norwegian duo of Viktor Hovland and Kris Ventura, in Avondale, Louisiana.
Hovland and Ventura had a 69 to match Finau and Champ at 13-under 131. The teams will play best ball on Saturday, and close with an alternate-shot round on Sunday.
TENNIS
BARCELONA OPEN: Rafael Nadal brushed aside Cameron Norrie, 6-1, 6-4, to ease into the semifinals in Spain and move closer to a record-extending 12th title at the event.
Nadal will next faces fellow Spaniard Pablo Carreno Busta, who defeated Diego Schwartzman, 6-4, 3-6, 7-5.
Second-seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas beat Felix Auger-Aliassime, 6-3, 6-3, and will play Jannik Sinner, who upset Andrey Rublev, 6-4, 6-7 (4), 6-4.
PORSCHE GRAND PRIX: Top-ranked Ash Barty moved a step closer to her first clay title since the 2019 French Open as she came back from a break down in the deciding set to beat Karolina Pliskova, 2-6, 6-1, 7-5, in the quarterfinals in Stuttgart, Germany.
Barty next plays Elina Svitolina, who saved two match points before overcoming Petra Kvitova, 6-7 (4), 7-5, 6-2.
No. 2 seed Simona Halep defeated Ekaterina Alexandrova, 6-1, 6-4, and Aryna Sabalenka ousted Anett Kontaveit, 7-5, 4-6, 6-1.
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