BASEBALL
Jacoby Boyce homered twice and Andy Valley, based in the Oxford Hills area, won the Cal Ripken World Series in the 12-year-old division with a 12-4 victory Saturday in Waterville against Weymouth, Massachusetts.
Andy Valley finished with a 6-1 record, avenging a 2-1 loss to Weymouth during pool play. Andy Valley outscored its opponents 72-8.
EASTERN LEAGUE: Casey Schmitt doubled home the go-ahead run in the 11th inning, and the Richmond Flying Squirrels ended the Portland Sea Dogs’ four-game winning streak with an 8-6 victory Saturday night at Hadlock Field.
Richmond overcame a 6-2 deficit, tying the game on a three-run homer by Diego Rincones in the eighth inning.
Kike Hernandez went 2 for 4 with a two-run double in another rehab appearance for the Sea Dogs. David Hamilton also had two hits, including his ninth home run of the season.
AUTO RACING
CUP SERIES: Kyle Larson won the pole for Sunday’s race at Richmond Raceway with a lap at 117.177 mph, claiming pole position for the third time this season.
Larson, the final driver in the second round of qualifying, beat the speed of 116.883 mph posted by Ross Chastain. Denny Hamlin, William Byron and Alex Bowman rounded out the top five.
With three races left in the regular season, there have been 15 different race winners, putting Ryan Blaney and Martin Truex Jr. in danger of missing the 16-car field for the playoffs. Both are in the top 10 in points, but neither has a win this year, so at least one of them will be bumped out if they don’t win one of the next three races. Truex will start sixth Sunday, Blaney 10th.
After Richmond, the series moves to the road course at Watkins Glen, then to Daytona International Speedway.
The race winner most in danger of being bumped is Kurt Busch, who will miss his fourth consecutive race because of a concussion sustained in qualifying at Pocono on July 23. Busch has dropped from 14th to 20th in the standings.
TENNIS
NATIONAL BANK OPEN: Two-time champion Simona Halep of Romania advanced to the final in Toronto, beating Jessica Pegula of the United States, 2-6, 6-3, 6-4.
Halep will face Brazil’s Beatriz Haddad Maia, a 6-4, 7-6 (7) winner over Karolina Pliskova.
• Eighth-seeded Hubert Hurkacz of Poland beat fourth-seeded Casper Ruud of Norway, 5-7, 6-3, 6-2, in the men’s semifinals in Montreal.
SOCCER
ENGLAND: On another humiliating day for a massive club in freefall, Manchester United conceded four goals in the first 35 minutes and was swept aside in a 4-0 loss at Brentford in the Premier League.
It’s two matches, two losses so far for new manager Erik Ten Hag, the Dutchman who arrived from Ajax in a bold offseason appointment.
• Ilkay Gundogan, Kevin De Bruyne and Phil Foden were Manchester City’s scorers, along with an own goal, in a 4-0 thrashing at home against Bournemouth.
• Gabriel Jesus scored the first two goals before halftime and provided assists for second-half strikes by Granit Xhaka and Gabriel Martinelli, leading Arsenal to a 4-2 win over Leicester.
SPAIN: Robert Lewandowski endured a frustrating debut for Barcelona, as visiting Rayo Vallecano held on for a 0-0 draw in a Spanish league opener.
FRANCE: Neymar scored twice and Kylian Mbappe added a goal but missed a penalty in his return from a groin injury as Paris Saint-Germain’s high-powered attack put on another impressive display in a 5-2 win over Montpellier.
HOCKEY
WORLD JUNIORS: Wyatt Kaiser and Carter Mazur each scored twice and the United States beat winless Austria 7-0 to improve to 3-0 in group play in Edmonton, Alberta.
Canada also is 3-0 after a 5-1 win over the Czech Republic.
SWIMMING
WORLD RECORD: Seventeen-year-old David Popovici of Romania became the youngest swimmer to break the world record in the men’s 100-meter freestyle, beating the mark set more than 13 years ago in the same pool in Rome.
Popovici touched in 46.86 seconds at the European championships to top the time of 46.91 set by Brazil’s Cesar Cielo at the 2009 world championships, which also were held at Rome’s historic Foro Italico.
Cielo established his record on July 30, 2009, at the last major international meet to allow rubberized suits. It stood longer than any record in the event’s history, going back to 1905.
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