BASEBALL
Oliver Dunn tied the game with a two-run homer in the eighth inning, and Ethan Wilson homered in the ninth to give the Reading Fightin Phils a 3-2 win over the Portland Sea Dogs in an Eastern League game Sunday in Reading, Pennsylvania.
Wikelman Gonzalez, making his Double-A debut for the Sea Dogs, struck out nine in six scoreless innings, allowing four hits and one walk. But Portland didn’t score until the eighth, when Corey Rosier tripled and Elih Marrero followed with an RBI single. Marrero later scored on an error to make it 2-0.
NECBL: Sanford Mainers catcher Logan Poteet and second baseman Devan Bade were selected to the East Division squad for the New England Collegiate Baseball League All-Star Game, which will be played July 23 in Lynn, Massachusetts.
Poteet (Vanderbilt) will be the starting catcher, while Bade (Binghamton University) will be among the reserves.
Poteet has a .309 batting average, .400 on-base percentage, three home runs and 19 RBI in 25 games. Bade is batting .286 with two home runs and 19 RBI in 28 games.
GOLF
PGA: Rory McIlroy birdied the last two holes in whipping wind for a 2-under 68 to win the Scottish Open – his first victory on Scottish soil – as he heads into the final major of the year.
McIlroy was one shot behind Robert MacIntyre when he played the slope to near perfection on the par-3 17th for a 4-foot birdie putt to tie for the lead. Then, he delivered what McIlroy called his best shot of the year – a 2-iron into the wind to 10 feet for a final birdie.
It was a heartbreaker for MacIntyre, who was trying to win his national open. Playing several groups in front of McIlroy, MacIntyre hammered a 3-wood from the rough on the 18th hole at The Renaissance Club to 4 feet, pumping both fists when the putt dropped for a 64.
McIlroy finished at 15-under 265 and moved past Jon Rahm to No. 2 in the world.
Scottie Scheffler, the No. 1 player in the world, closed with a 70 and tied for third with Byeong Hun An (70) and David Lingmerth (68).
• Vincent Norrman lipped in an 8-footer for bogey on the 72nd hole to get into a playoff, then scrambled for par on the same hole in sudden death to beat Nathan Kimsey and win the Barbasol Championship in Nicholasville, Kentucky, for his first PGA Tour victory.
Norrman, a 25-year-old rookie from Sweden, closed with a 66 to finish at 22-under 266.
Kimsey, a 30-year-old European tour player from England who made his PGA Tour debut in this co-sanctioned event, shot 64 but then couldn’t save par in the playoff.
CHAMPIONS TOUR: Steve Stricker won his third PGA Tour Champions major of the year, capping a dominant weekend at Firestone in Akron, Ohio, with a 4-under 66 for a three-shot victory in the Kaulig Companies Championship.
Stricker was five shots off the lead after a second-round 73, but closed with rounds of 65 and 66 for an 11-under 269 total.
David Toms shot a final-round 65 to finish alone in second at 8 under.
LPGA: Linn Grant won her first LPGA Tour title, closing with a 3-under 68 and enduring a charge from U.S. Women’s Open champion Allisen Corpuz for a three-shot victory in the Dana Open at Sylvania, Ohio.
The 24-year-old Grant, from Sweden, has five victories on the Ladies European Tour, but she did not play in the United States until this year, when the U.S. dropped its COVID-19 vaccination requirement for foreign travelers.
AMERICAN CENTURY CLASSIC: Stephen Curry made an 18-foot putt for eagle on the final hole to win the celebrity tournament in Stateline, Nevada.
Curry finished with 75 points in the modified Stableford scoring system, two ahead of Mardy Fish, a former pro tennis player who won this event in 2020.
AUTO RACING
INDYCAR: Christian Lundgaard won the Honda Indy Toronto after a failed strategic gamble by Scott McLaughlin and Scott Dixon.
Both McLaughlin and Dixon gambled on softer tires for the final 30 laps, betting that there would be no more yellows and that they’d be able to stay out of the pit. But both drivers ended up making an additional stop.
Points leader Alex Palou took second despite starting 15th and driving with a damaged front wing. Colton Herta was third for his first podium of the season.
FOOTBALL
NFL: Tight end Evan Engram and the Jacksonville Jaguars agreed to a three-year, $41.25 million contract that includes $24 million guaranteed, according to a person familiar with negotiations.
Engram’s agent, Mike McCartney, announced via Twitter that the deal had been reached. Engram had been guaranteed a one-year, $11.345 million deal this season under the franchise tag. But he and the team had been vocal about wanting a long-term deal.
Engram, a first-round draft pick by the New York Giants in 2017, caught 73 passes for 766 yards – both career highs – to go along with four touchdowns last season.
CYCLING
TOUR DE FRANCE: Defending champion Jonas Vingegaard kept intact his 10-second overall lead over two-time champion Tadej Pogacar, while Dutch veteran Wout Poels soloed to victory after a tough trek in the Alps with a mountaintop finish.
The 35-year-old Poels was part of an early breakaway in the 111-mile 15th stage and moved away from his remaining companions on a short but very steep ascent just before the final 4-mile climb to the finish.
Further back, Vingegaard and Pogacar stayed together and crossed the finish line side by side. Their duel will resume in a time trial on Tuesday, following a rest day.
BASKETBALL
NBA: The Phoenix Suns traded guard Cameron Payne to the San Antonio Spurs and signed free-agent big man Bol Bol to a one-year contract, a person familiar with the moves told The Associated Press.
HOCKEY
NHL: The Arizona Coyotes signed restricted free agent forward Matias Maccelli to a three-year, $10.2 million contract, a person familiar with the deal said.
The Finnish forward was second among NHL rookies with 22 points before a lower-body injury knocked him out of the lineup for six weeks in late December. He picked up where he left off after returning, finishing with 11 goals and 38 assists in 64 games.
COLLEGES
FOOTBALL: Tennessee must vacate all 11 of its wins from the 2019 and 2020 seasons under coach Jeremy Pruitt as part of penalties handed down by the NCAA for multiple violations.
A school spokesman confirmed the Vols’ eight wins in 2019 and three in 2020 will be vacated. Pruitt’s final record is now 5-19, and the school’s all-time record is 856-410-53.
SOCCER
GOLD CUP: Santiago Giménez scored after an electrifying sprint in the 88th minute, and Mexico won the CONCACAF Gold Cup for a record ninth time with a 1-0 victory over Panama in Inglewood, California.
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