BASEBALL
Nathan Hickey capped a four-run third inning with a two-run single, Elih Marrero was 3 for 4 with a pair of RBI singles, and the Portland Sea Dogs snapped a four-game losing streak Friday night with a 9-5 Eastern League win over the Reading Fightin Phils at Hadlock Field.
Marrero, Phillip Sikes, Chase Meidroth and Tyler McDonough all scored twice, and Marcelo Mayer hit two sacrifice flies.
Hunter Dobbins got the win in his Double-A debut, allowing one run over five innings. He struck out five, walked three and gave up three hits.
TENNIS
QUEEN’S CLUB: Top-seeded Carlos Alcaraz reached his first ATP semifinal on grass when he defeated former champion Grigor Dimitrov 6-4, 6-4 at the Queen’s Club Championships in London.
In the semifinals, Alcaraz will face Sebastian Korda, who also is into his first grass semifinal. Korda became the first American to reach the Queen’s semis in 11 years, beating Cam Norrie, 6-4, 7-6 (1).
Second-seeded Holger Rune will meet seventh-seeded Alex De Minaur of Australia in the other semifinal.
VENETO OPEN: American teenagers Robin Montgomery and Ashlyn Krueger will face each other in the semifinals in Gaiba, Italy.
Montgomery, 18, beat third-seeded Ysaline Bonaventure, 6-4, 6-2, and Krueger, 19, routed seventh-seeded Lucrezia Stefanini, 6-2, 6-1.
HALLE OPEN: Daniil Medvedev lost in the quarterfinals in Germany, and Jannik Sinner’s preparations for Wimbledon were disrupted when an adductor muscle injury forced him to retire from his match.
Medvedev was upset by Roberto Bautista Agut, 7-5, 7-6 (3). The third-ranked Russian is 2-2 on grass this season, following his first-round loss at the Libema Open last week.
Bautista Agut faces another Russian opponent, Andrey Rublev, in the semifinals after Rublev converted his fifth match point against Tallon Griekspoor to win 3-6, 6-3, 6-4.
Organizers said Sinner retired from his match against Alexander Bublik after straining his adductor.
BIRMINGHAM CLASSIC: Top-seeded Barbora Krejcikova cruised into the semifinals, and No. 2-seed Jelena Ostapenko won in three sets.
Krejcikova eased past fellow Czech player Linda Fruhvirtova, 6-3, 6-2. Ostapenko had to rally from a set and 4-0 down to overcome Magdalena Frech of Poland, 4-6, 7-5, 6-2.
HOCKEY
NHL: Veteran forward Erik Haula passed up a chance to enter free agency, signing a three-year, $9.45 million contract to stay with the New Jersey Devils.
Haula, 32, had 14 goals and a career-best 27 assists in 80 games last season. The 10th-year NHL player provided leadership in helping a youth-laden Devils team set franchise records with 52 wins and 112 points and qualify for the playoffs for the first time in five seasons.
SOCCER
U.S. MEN: American midfielder Weston McKennie and defender Sergiño Dest were suspended by soccer’s governing body for North and Central America and the Caribbean from matches they weren’t scheduled to play in, a result of their ejections from the Nations League semifinal against Mexico.
CONCACAF said McKennie must serve a four-game suspension and Dest a three-game ban as a result of on-field conduct during the June 15 game. Mexican defender César Montes also was given a four-match suspension and defender Gerardo Arteaga was given a three-match ban.
Dest and McKennie are not on the roster for the CONCACAF Gold Cup, which starts Saturday. The U.S. Soccer Federation on June 12 announced a mostly junior varsity roster for the tournament, and the USSF said those games will count toward the suspension.
Montes and Arteaga are on Mexico’s Gold Cup roster.
CLUB WORLD CUP: The United States will host the Club World Cup in 2025, the first time the FIFA tournament will have 32 teams.
Real Madrid, Manchester City and Chelsea have already earned places as recent Champions League winners for the expanded tournament that is set to test stadiums and operations one year before the 2026 World Cup.
MLS: Sergio Busquets is joining former Barcelona teammate Lionel Messi at Inter Miami, the team’s second major addition in less than a month.
After nearly two decades with Barcelona, Busquets announced last month that he would not return to the club. The defensive midfielder’s contract expires at the end of June.
• LA Galaxy forward Javier “Chicharito” Hernández underwent reconstructive surgery on the ACL in his right knee and was placed on the season-ending injury list.
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