BASEBALL
Sean Boyle held the Portland Sea Dogs to two hits in seven dominant innings Saturday and Max Burt homered twice, leading the Somerset Patriots to a 7-3 win at Hadlock Field.
Mickey Gasper and Elijah Dunham also homered for the Patriots. Boyle struck out nine and walked none.
Stephen Scott broke up the shutout with a two-run homer in the eighth. Christian Koss doubled home David Hamilton in the ninth.
NECBL: Creek Robertson led off the bottom of the ninth with a double and eventually scored on a passed ball to give the Ocean State Waves a 4-3 win over the Sanford Mainers in South Kingstown, Rhode Island.
Adam Dapkewicz drove in all three runs for Sanford, which rallied from a 3-0 deficit. Dapkewicz hit a two-run single in the sixth and an RBI double in the eighth.
AUTO RACING
XFINITY: Justin Allgaier outran 2011 Daytona 500 champion Trevor Bayne at New Hampshire Motor Speedway for his third Xfinity Series victory in his last eight races.
Landon Cassill finished third but was disqualified for failing postrace inspection. Fourth-place finisher Noah Gragson also was disqualified.
INDYCAR: Colton Herta posted a fast lap of 59.2698 seconds in qualifying at Toronto, becoming IndyCar’s first two-time pole winner this season.
Herta barely edged out six-time series champ Scott Dixon, whose best time on the bumpy, 11-turn, 1.786-mile course came on his last lap of the day. Dixon was clocked at 59.3592
Points leader Marcus Ericsson will start ninth in IndyCar’s first race at Toronto since 2019.
SOCCER
MLS: Daniel Gazdag scored on a penalty kick in the 79th minute to lift the Philadelphia Union to a 2-1 victory over the New England Revolution in Chester, Pennsylvania.
Gazdag’s ninth goal of the season for Eastern Conference-leading Philadelphia (10-2-9) came four minutes after Mikael Uhre pulled the Union even with his seventh netter.
Gustavo Bou’s seventh goal of the season – all in the last eight matches – gave New England (6-7-7) a 1-0 lead in the 61st minute.
SPAIN: Barcelona is set to sign Poland striker Robert Lewandowski from Bayern Munich in a bold move by the debt-ridden club to acquire a world-class scorer who can finally help to fill the void left by Lionel Messi’s exit.
The European clubs have reached an agreement in principle for Lewandowski’s move to Barcelona. Spanish media reports that the transfer would cost Barcelona 50 million euros ($50.4 million).
Lewandowski, 33, scored 312 goals in 384 games for Bayern and previous club Borussia Dortmund in Germany’s Bundesliga. He had 35 goals in 34 appearances last season to become the Bundesliga’s leading scorer for the seventh time overall.
CYCLING
TOUR DE FRANCE: Michael Matthews soloed to victory in the 14th stage, while defending champion Tadej Pogacar tried in vain to regain time on overall leader Jonas Vingegaard.
Matthews’ fourth stage career win came five years after the Australian last tasted victory in France. The one-day classic specialist was in a group of 23 riders who broke from the pack after a frenetic start to the stage punctuated by a flurry of attacks on hilly ground from Saint-Etienne to Mende.
Pogacar was also on the move as he tried to upset his rivals just 10 kilometers into the 193-kilometer route, forcing Vingegaard to react and chase. Aided by Jumbo-Visma teammate Wout Van Aert, was able to chase down Pogacar and maintain his lead of two minutes, 22 seconds.
GOLF
LPGA: Jennifer Kupcho and Lizette Salas won the Dow Great Lakes Bay Invitational in Midland, Michigan, closing with a 9-under 61 in best-ball play for a five-stroke victory in the LPGA Tour’s lone team event.
The U.S. Solheim Cup partners finished at 26-under 254 at Midland Country Club.
Matilda Castren and Kelly Tan were second after a 62.
PGA: Chez Reavie doubled his lead to six points in the Barracuda Championship, the PGA Tour’s lone modified Stableford scoring event.
Reavie scored nine points – making five birdies and a bogey – to reach 37 points on Tahoe Mountain Club’s Old Greenwood layout in Truckee, California.
Martin Laird was in second after a 13-point round.
TENNIS
HALL OF FAME OPEN: Fourth-seeded Maxime Cressy ended John Isner’s 10-match winning streak on the grass courts in Newport, Rhode Island, beating his fellow American 6-2, 4-6, 6-3 to advance to the final.
Cressy will face No. 3 seed Alexander Bublik, who beat Jason Kubler, 6-3, 6-2.
TRACK AND FIELD
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS: Back-to-back NCAA champion Randolph Ross was booted from the world championships on the eve of his 400-meter preliminary race, about a month after officials could not locate him to take an antidoping test.
The Athletics Integrity Unit announced it was provisionally suspending the North Carolina A&T sprinter for tampering with the antidoping process after an unsuccessful testing attempt on June 18. The investigation concluded, the AIU said, after officials interviewed him Thursday.
Also ousted from the meet in Eugene, Oregon, was Kenyan marathoner Lawrence Cherono, who tested positive for a banned substance used to treat chest pain resulting from lack of blood supply and oxygen to the heart. It was the same drug that led to Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva’s doping case at the Beijing Winter Olympics this year.
Both athletes had been scheduled to compete Sunday.
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