Matt Thibault had three doubles and a home run and drove in five runs as St. Joseph’s (8-10, 4-0 GNAC) defeated Dean (1-17, 0-6) 8-5 to complete a doubleheader sweep in Standish on Monday.
Thibault doubled and scored in the second inning, hit an RBI double in the fourth and a two-run double in the sixth before capping the 4 for 4 game with a two-run homer in the eighth.
Jackson Stanton drove in three runs and Jared Wilhelm and Michael Wearne each had two RBI in the opener, which the Monks won 10-3.
• The Community College of Rhode Island took the lead for good with three runs in the seventh inning in a 12-10 win over Southern Maine CC in South Portland.
Luke Wearne had two hits with three RBI while Dylan Sellinger had two hits with two RBI for the SeaWolves. Michael O’Brien drove in two runs.
MEN’S BASKETBALL: Former Indiana Hoosiers coach Bob Knight was released from a hospital in Bloomington, Indiana, and returned home after being admitted with an illness over the weekend, his son said Monday.
“On behalf of the Knight Family, we thank you for your thoughts and prayers. As many have heard, my dad was hospitalized over the weekend with an illness and has since been released from the hospital,” according to a statement from Pat Knight.
An email from the university about Knight’s health was sent to former Indiana basketball players on Friday, asking for prayers and saying Knight hoped to return home soon after being hospitalized with an undisclosed illness.
The 82-year-old Knight won three national championships, 11 Big Ten titles and 662 games at Indiana before being fired in September 2000 after he allegedly grabbed a student by the arm in a hallway. The incident violated a zero-tolerance policy instituted by the university following an investigation into accusations of physical and verbal abuse made by former player Neil Reed, who died of a heart attack in 2012.
TAEKWONDO
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS: Russian athletes are set to compete again in taekwondo at next month’s world championships, the sport’s governing body said.
The decision by World Taekwondo’s ruling council could see Ukraine fulfill a threat by its government to boycott sporting events where athletes from Russia or Belarus are involved.
World Taekwondo leaders met remotely Monday to discuss the International Olympic Committee’s advice from last week to sports bodies to let neutral athletes and officials from Russia and Belarus return to competitions ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympics.
GYMNASTICS
OLYMPICS: Olympic gymnastics champion Sunisa Lee said a kidney issue cut short her college career, but she still has her sights set on the Paris Games next year.
Lee, who already had announced plans to leave college and resume training at the elite level this spring, missed the end of the regular season, the Southeastern Conference championships and the NCAA regional because of what Auburn described as a “non-gymnastics health issue.” She revealed Monday in a post on social media that it was related to kidney problems.
Lee was the 2020 women’s all-around gymnastics champion in Tokyo. She then became the first reigning Olympic champion to compete at the NCAA level, taking advantage of new name, image and likeness rules that allow college athletes to make money while competing.
SOCCER
PREMIER LEAGUE: Michael Keane made amends for conceding a penalty by scoring off a long-range thunderbolt in the 90th minute to earn Everton a 1-1 draw with Tottenham in a feisty English Premier League game that saw both teams finish with 10 men.
Some Everton fans jumped over the advertising hoardings to celebrate Keane’s dipping strike that took their team out of the relegation zone and stopped Tottenham from jumping to third place in its first match since the departure of manager Antonio Conte.
PERU: Peru has been stripped of hosting the men’s Under-17 World Cup because FIFA says the country is not ready to stage the tournament later this year.
FIFA has not named a replacement host for the 24-team tournament scheduled to be played from Nov. 10-Dec. 2. FIFA cited Peru’s inability “to fulfill its commitments to completing the infrastructure required to stage the tournament.”
The decision comes one week after FIFA took the men’s Under-20 World Cup from Indonesia because that country did not want to host Israel at its tournament in May.
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