BASEBALL

Kristian Campbell, who spent much of the season with the Portland Sea Dogs, has been named Minor League Player of the Year by Baseball America and also was named the Eastern League’s MVP on Tuesday.

Campbell was joined on the Eastern League’s All-Star team by three Sea Dogs teammates – Roman Anthony (outfielder), Marcelo Mayer (shortstop) and Kyle Teel (DH).

Campbell is the second Sea Dog selected as an Eastern League MVP; Kevin Millar won in 1997. It is also the second time in franchise history that four players were selected as all-stars. The last time was in 1997, with Lionel Hastings, Mark Kotsay, Alex Gonzalez and Millar.

Campbell was promoted to Portland on June 4. In 56 games, he hit .362 with 17 doubles, three triples, eight home runs and 35 RBI before he was promotion to Triple-A Worcester on Aug. 20. For the season, he batted .330 with 20 homers, 24 steals and a .997 OPS.

EASTERN LEAGUE: The Erie SeaWolves repeated as Eastern League champs, beating the Somerset Patriots 3-2 in Bridgewater, New Jersey.

Erie swept the beat-of-three series, winning the opener 9-5 on Sunday night at home.

Erie swept Binghamton in last season’s championship series.

Chris Meyers had two RBI singles for Erie. Starter Austin Bergner pitched six scoreless innings, allowing two hits. He walked one and struck out eight.

COLLEGES

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL: South Carolina Coach Dawn Staley said nothing has changed with the status of suspended forward Ashlyn Watkins and she’s unsure when or if her player would be available for the season.

Watkins is a 6-foot-3 junior from Columbia who was arrested Aug. 31 and charged with first-degree assault and battery and kidnapping.

“Nothing’s moved yet,” Staley said, a day after her team started fall practice. “We’re not going to move until her situation’s settled down a little bit. It’s out of her control. It’s out of our control.”

Watkins has been suspended from the team since the incident and was not part of the group that visited the White House two weeks ago.

Watkins averaged 9.2 points and 7.4 rebounds and led the Gamecocks with 91 blocks as the team finished 38-0 to win its third national championship and second in three seasons.

BASKETBALL

WNBA: Curt Miller is leaving as coach of the Los Angeles Sparks after the WNBA franchise missed the playoffs for the fourth consecutive season and second under him.

The Sparks will begin their search for a new coach immediately.

The team was 25-55 in Miller’s two seasons.

• Sabrina Ionescu tied a franchise playoff record with 36 points and the New York Liberty beat the visiting Atlanta Dream 91-82 to advance to the semifinals of the WNBA playoffs.

Jonquel Jones added 20 points and 13 rebounds for the top-seeded Liberty, who swept the best-of-three series and will face either Las Vegas or Seattle in the next round that begins Sunday in New York.