HOCKEY
Owen Pedersen put in a centering pass from Tim Doherty with 20.9 seconds left in overtime to give the Maine Mariners their first win of the season – 4-3 over the Adirondack Thunder in Glens Falls, New York.
Gabriel Chicoine scored twice for Maine, and Curtis Hall started the scoring 3:33 into the game. Mariners goalie Shane Starrett finished with 37 saves, including six in overtime.Lucic, 35, has missed the last two games after getting hit by a shot off an ankle in a game against Los Angeles on Oct. 21.
NHL: The NHL suspended Buffalo Sabres defenseman Connor Clifton for two games without pay for what it determined was an illegal check to the head of New Jersey Devils forward Nico Hischier on Friday night.
Clifton, signed this offseason as a free agent after five seasons with the Bruins, will lose nearly $35,000 in pay.
SOCCER
MLS: Dániel Gazdag, Mikael Uhre and Nathan Harriel scored in the first half and the Philadelphia Union beat the short-handed New England Revolution 3-1 in the first round of the MLS playoffs.
Philadelphia (16-9-10), the defending Eastern Conference champion, will play at New England (15-10-10) on Nov. 8 in Game 2 of the best-of-three series.
New England captain Carles Gil left the game early in the first half with an apparent leg injury after a rough challenge from Uhre.
Gustavo Bou scored for New England in the 68th minute.
ENGLAND: Eddie Nketiah scored his first Premier League hat trick as Arsenal brushed aside last-place Sheffield United 5-0 to keep pace in the title race.
The win left Arsenal two points behind leader Tottenham.
GERMANY: Harry Kane scored a spectacular goal from his own half for Bayern Munich against Darmstadt before going on to claim a hat trick in an 8-0 victory.
Kane spotted goalkeeper Marcel Schuhen off his line and took a shot from Bayern’s side of the center circle. It flew over Schuhen, who was desperately running back to his goal, and into the net to increase Bayern’s lead to 5-0.
Kane now has 12 goals in nine Bundesliga games since he joined the German champions in the off-season from Tottenham.
SPAIN: Jude Bellingham scored two goals, including a stoppage-time winner, to lead Real Madrid to a 2-1 comeback victory at Barcelona in the Spanish league.
They were Bellingham’s 12th and 13th goals in 13 games since the English midfielder joined Madrid this summer.
PREP SCHOOLS
GIRLS’ SOCCER: Allie Moore and Ginger Friedman scored two quick goals late in the first half, and Berwick Academy (11-3-2) earned its 11th shutout with a 2-0 win over Portsmouth Abbey in South Berwick.
Moore curled in a free kick two minutes before halftime and later sent a corner kick to Friedman, who headed it in for a 2-0 lead.
Alexa Garcia made seven saves in the first half, including a tip of a ball that was headed under the crossbar.
AUTO RACING
XFINITY: Justin Allgaier beat Sheldon Creed in a door-to-door demolition derby at Martinsville Speedway that decided the Xfinity Series championship field.
The messy race went into a two-lap overtime shootout after a nearly 30-minute stoppage for the 15th caution. The final restart pitted Richard Childress Racing teammates Austin Hill and Creed side-by-side on the front row, with both needing a win to make next week’s championship finale.
Creed is leaving RCR at the end of the season and has battled Hill on the track all season, so it was no surprise to see the two slamming doors for the two overtime laps around the Virginia short tack. Allgaier took advantage of the situation and grabbed the win by .032 seconds.
Allgaier, Sam Mayer, John Hunter Nemechek and Cole Custer will compete the championship next Saturday at Phoenix Raceway.
FORMULA ONE: Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc will start the Mexico City Grand Prix from the pole position and next to teammate Carlos Sainz after the Italian team pulled out two surprising laps to knock Red Bull’s Max Verstappen off the front row.
GOLF
LPGA: Rose Zhang birdied the 18th hole for a 7-under 65 and a one-stroke lead after three rounds of the Maybank Championship in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
The American had an 18-under total of 198.
Atthaya Thitikul was tied for second place, after a 62, with fellow Thai player Jasmine Suwannapura (67), who led after the first two rounds.
RUGBY
WORLD CUP: Defending champion South Africa kicked its way to a record fourth Rugby World Cup title by beating New Zealand 12-11 in Paris after New Zealand captain Sam Cane was the first player to be red-carded in a final.
Flyhalf Handre Pollard scored all the points for a Springboks side that denied the All Blacks their own chance to win a fourth title in their record fifth final.
BASKETBALL
NBA: Khris Middleton won’t play Sunday against the Atlanta Hawks as the Milwaukee Bucks monitor his workload in the three-time All-Star’s return from offseason knee surgery.
Middleton played 16 minutes Thursday in a 118-117 season-opening victory over the Philadelphia 76ers. Bucks Coach Adrian Griffin said the team chose to rest him Sunday, the first of back-to-back nights. Middleton is expected to be available for Monday’s game with the Miami Heat.
SKIING
WORLD CUP: Swiss skier Lara Gut-Behrami edged first-run leader Federica Brignone by two-hundredths of a second to win the season-opening women’s giant slalom in Soelden, Austria, with Mikaela Shiffrin finishing in sixth.
Gut-Behrami trailed Brignone by 0.73 after the opening leg but made up three-quarters of a second with a gutsy second run.
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