BASEBALL
Two-run home runs by Niko Kavadas and Chase Meidroth helped the Portland Sea Dogs beat the Rumble Ponies 9-1 in an Eastern League baseball game Tuesday night in Binghamton, New York.
Kavadas hit his homer in the first and Meidroth connected in the third.
Nathan Hickey also drove in two runs with a homer and a single.
Portland also scored runs on a groundout by Meidroth, an RBI single by Phillip Sikes and a sacrifice fly by Marcelo Mayer.
Sterling Sharp (2-0) pitched six innings, allowing six hits and a run. He walked two and struck out six.
The Sea Dogs remained a half-game in front of the Somerset Patriots atop the Northeast Division.
NECBL: Jeremiah Jenkins hit a two-run homer with two outs in the top of the ninth inning and the Sanford Mainers beat the North Adams SteepleCats 2-1 at North Adams, Massachusetts.
Starter Justin Honeycutt and relievers Declan Lavelle, Jacob Jette and Michael Simes combined on a three-hitter for the Mainers (3-3)
Starter Dominick Marcoccio allowed three hits and struck out seven in six innings and Samuel Tackett hit a solo homer in the sixth for North Adams (1-4).
GOLF
PGA TOUR: PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan is recovering from a medical situation, the tour announced Tuesday night.
The tour did not disclose the nature of the situation or how serious it was, only that two of his executives would lead the day-to-day operations of the PGA Tour during the most intense time of its 54-year history.
The announcement comes a week after Monahan stunned the golf world by announcing the PGA Tour had ended its battle with Saudi Arabia’s wealth fund and its LIV Golf League by agreeing to a business partnership.
Monahan, 53, spent nearly two months working on the deal with two PGA Tour board members, investment banker Jimmy Dunne and New York attorney Ed Herlihy, without any players’ knowledge. Almost all of them said they were shocked. Some said they felt betrayed.
The tour said its chief operating officer, Ron Price, and its president, Tyler Dennis, would be in charge while Monahan recovers.
Monahan was expected to meet with players and the media next week at the Travelers Championship in Connecticut.
• Monahan has told congressional members the PGA Tour was “left on our own” to fend off Saudi Arabia’s bid to take over the sport with LIV Golf because of the United States’ geopolitical alliance with the kingdom. Monahan sent the letter to various lawmakers on June 9, three days after the PGA Tour’s stunning announcement of an agreement with Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund and the European tour to pool commercial business and rights in a new company.
The agreement, while still not finalized, would end all litigation between the PGA Tour and the Public Investment Fund.
Three days after Monahan’s letter, the leader of a Senate subcommittee demanded records from the PGA Tour and Saudi golf interests amid “serious questions” on how the agreement came about.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., the chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, also said he wanted to hear the PGA Tour’s plan to keep tax-exempt status.
BASKETBALL
WNBA: Rookie Aliyah Boston had 23 points, 14 rebounds and six assists and the Indiana Fever beat the Washington Mystics 87-66 for their first home victory of the season.
Indiana snapped a six-game losing streak against Washington — with its first double-digit victory since 2021.
• Allisha Gray scored 16 points, rookie Haley Jones had 13 points and nine rebounds in her second start and the visiting Atlanta Dream beat the short-handed New York Liberty 86-79.
Gray was fouled far from the basket with 42.2 seconds left and made two free throws to give Atlanta an 84-79 lead. Marine Johannes had a 3-pointer rattle out for New York and Gray sealed it with two free throws at 35.4.
New York was without Sabrina Ionescu, who scored a career-high 37 points on Friday in a 106-83 victory over Atlanta.
TENNIS
NOTTINGHAM OPEN: Beatriz Haddad Maia’s defense of her grass-court title is over already.
Coming off reaching the semifinals at the French Open last week, the Brazilian player was defeated by lucky loser Daria Snigur 6-4, 6-3 in the first round at Nottingham, England.
Snigur was only playing because fellow Ukrainian Lesia Tsurenko pulled out because of injury hours before the match. However, as a junior Wimbledon champion back in 2019, Snigur was a tough opponent for the second-seeded Haddad Maia.
Third-seeded Magda Linette advanced to the last 16 by beating Olivia Gadecki 6-4, 6-4 and seventh-seeded Camila Giorgi defeated Madison Brengle 7-6 (5), 6-2.
New British No. 1 Katie Boulter beat Emily Appleton 6-1, 6-3.
LIBEMA OPEN: Seven-time major champion Venus Williams lost her first competitive singles match since injuring her hamstring in January, succumbing to 17-year-old Celine Naef 3-6, 7-6 (3), 6-2 at the grass-court tournament at Den Bosch, Netherlands.
With family members including her sister, Serena, in the stands, the 42-year-old Williams battled temperatures around 86 degrees and an opponent making her WTA debut to win the first set before losing a second-set tiebreaker and wilting in the decider.
SOCCER
TOTTENHAM: A Tottenham fan was banned from attending soccer matches for three years for making gestures mocking the Hillsborough disaster during a Premier League game against Liverpool.
Kieron Darlow, a 25-year-old man from Welwyn, north of London, made the gestures at a game between the teams at Anfield on April 30, British prosecutors said.
Darlow’s ban also prevents him from being in the vicinity of stadiums.
Ninety-seven Liverpool fans died as a result of a crush at Hillsborough in 1989, making it Britain’s worst sporting disaster.
WOMEN’S WORLD CUP: Sweden midfielder Caroline Seger will take part in her fifth Women’s World Cup after being selected for the upcoming tournament in Australia and New Zealand at the age of 38.
Seger has struggled with injuries since last year’s European Championship but has proved her fitness to Sweden Coach Peter Gerhardsson in her latest comeback for Rosengård.
CHAMPIONS LEAGUE: The Champions League for next season formally got underway with four national league winners from Europe taking part in the draw for the preliminary round.
The first draw of the 2023-24 season was made one day after new champion Manchester City’s victory parade to fans at home. It paired Atlètic Club d’Escaldes of Andorra with Budućnost Podgorica of Montenegro, and San Marino’s Tre Penne with Icelandic champion Breidablik.
Iceland will host a knockout bracket of single-leg games from June 27-30. The winner will advance to the first qualifying round that is played from July 11-19.
The first qualifying round includes Sheriff, Ferencváros and Maccabi Haifa, which in recent seasons played in the elite group stage of the competition. That draw is made next Tuesday.
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