BASEBALL
Kole Cottam lined a two-run double down the left-field line in the bottom of the ninth inning Sunday afternoon to give the Portland Sea Dogs a 12-11 win over the Somerset Patriots at Hadlock Field.
Cottam’s hit capped a wild game that included five home runs, five stolen bases by the Sea Dogs, a cycle by Somerset right fielder Jeisson Rosario, and a comeback from a 9-2 deficit by the Patriots.
Portland was clinging to a 10-8 lead in the top of the ninth when Somerset put together a two-out rally, capped by Chad Bell’s three-run homer.
Christian Koss, who drove in four runs for the Sea Dogs, reached on a wild-pitch third strike leading off the bottom of the ninth. Stephen Scott sent Koss to third with a double, and both runners scored on Cottam’s double.
Koss and Alex Binelas combined for three home runs and seven RBI in the first two innings. Koss was 3 for 5 with four runs scored, and Binelas homered twice.
Rosario, a former Sea Dog, hit a two-run homer in the first inning, a single in the fourth, a two-run triple in the fifth and a double in the seventh.
NECBL: The Vermont Mountaineers scored six runs in the fifth inning as they completed a doubleheader sweep against the Sanford Mainers with a 12-5 win in Montpelier, Vermont.
Sanford took a 3-1 lead in the fourth inning on an RBI single by Quinn McDaniel and a two-run homer by Aidan Kane. But Vermont answered with a run in the bottom half, then surged ahead in the fifth.
The Mountaineers won the opener in eight innings, 3-2, despite home runs by McDaniel and Cal Hewitt.
GOLF
PGA: Chez Reavie won the Barracuda Championship in Truckee, California, holding on in the PGA Tour’s lone modified Stableford scoring event for his third tour title.
Six points ahead entering the day, Reavie had a six-point round for a one-point victory over Alex Noren on Tahoe Mountain Club’s Old Greenwood layout.
TRACK AND FIELD
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS: Tamirat Tola led a 1-2 finish by Ethiopia in the men’s marathon in Eugene, Oregon, opening a wide lead late in the race and cruising through the finish line.
Tola finished in a championship-record time of 2 hours, 5 minutes, 36 seconds on the fast and flat course. Teammate Mosinet Geremew held on for silver, finishing 68 seconds behind Tola. Bashir Abdi of Belgium captured bronze.
U.S. runner and former University of Oregon standout Galen Rupp was in the lead group for much of the race before dropping back and finishing 19th.
• Americans Brooke Andersen and Janee’ Kassanavoid took gold and bronze in the women’s hammer. Andersen, a 26-year-old from California, won with a throw of 259 feet, 1/2 inch, beating Canada’s Camryn Rogers by more than 11 feet.
• Fred Kerley led the first American sweep of the 100 meters at the world championships in 31 years, barely edging teammates Marvin Bracy and Trayvon Bromell on Saturday night to stamp a red-white-and-blue exclamation point on the first championships ever held in the United States.
Kerley leaned at the line to finish in 9.86 seconds and beat both Bracy and Bromell by 0.02 seconds. The difference between second and third was 0.002.
It marked the first American sweep at worlds since Carl Lewis, Leroy Burrell and Dennis Mitchell went gold-silver-bronze at the 1991 championships in Tokyo.
• Chase Ealey of the U.S. dethroned two-time defending world champion Gong Lijiao of China in the women’s shot put, as her opening toss of 67 feet, 2¾ inches held up through the rest of the competition.
AUTO RACING
INDYCAR: Scott Dixon tied Mario Andretti for second place on IndyCar’s career wins list, snapping a 22-race winless streak by holding off pole sitter Colton Herta and Felix Rosenqvist on a late restart to win the Grand Prix of Toronto.
Dixon now has 52 wins and trails only A.J. Foyt, who had 67.
Herta placed second, Rosenqvist was third, Graham Rahal took fourth and Marcus Ericsson finished fifth, padding his points lead.
TENNIS
HALL OF FAME OPEN: Fourth-seeded American Maxime Cressy rallied to win his first career ATP Tour title, beating No. 3 seed Alexander Bublik 2-6, 6-3, 7-6 (3) in Newport, Rhode Island.
CYCLING
TOUR DE FRANCE: Jasper Philipsen of Belgium braved a heat wave to win the 15th stage in a sprint, while Jonas Vingegaard kept the leader’s yellow jersey.
Philipsen beat Wout van Aert and Mads Pedersen at the finish line on the 126-mile ride from Rodez to Carcassonne as he won a Tour stage for the first time.
BASKETBALL
WNBA: Kelsey Plum scored 14 of her 22 points after halftime, Chelsea Gray tied her season highs with 21 points and nine assists, and the visiting Las Vegas Aces beat the Connecticut Sun 91-83 in a matchup between two of the top teams in the WNBA.
Las Vegas (18-7) is second in the league standings, one game behind the defending champion Chicago Sky. Connecticut (16-9), which is 4-5 in its last nine games, fell a game behind the Seattle Storm into fourth.
• Breanna Stewart scored 25 points, Jewell Loyd and Tina Charles added 15 points apiece and the Seattle Storm beat Indiana at home, 81-65, to extend the Fever’s losing streak to nine games.
• Elena Delle Donne scored 21 points and had 10 rebounds, Ariel Atkins added 15 points and three steals, and the Washington Mystics beat the visiting Minnesota Lynx, 70-57.
• Cheyenne Parker matched her season high with 21 points and grabbed 11 rebounds, Tiffany Hayes added 16 points, seven rebounds and six assists, and the visiting Atlanta Dream beat the Phoenix Mercury 85-75.
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