Boateng lifts Revolution past Sporting KC
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Emmanuel Boateng scored a goal in the 87th minute to send the New England Revolution to a 2-1 victory over Sporting Kansas City on Sunday.
Boateng notched his second goal of the season for the Revolution (5-5-4).
New England grabbed a 1-0 lead in the 30th minute when Gustavo Bou found the net for a second time this season.
Johnny Russell scored the equalizer for Sporting KC (3-9-4) in the 52nd minute with his team-high fifth goal.
College Baseball: Top-seeded Tennessee got knocked out of the NCAA Tournament on the same day Mississippi, the last team selected, punched its ticket to the College World Series. Notre Dame beat Tennessee 7-3 in the deciding third game of their super regional and joined Ole Miss, Oklahoma and Texas A&M in the CWS. The four other CWS spots will be filled late Sunday or Monday. The CWS begins Friday in Omaha, Nebraska.
Tennis: Beatriz Haddad Maia of Brazil captured her first WTA title by winning the Nottingham Open thanks to a 6-4, 1-6, 6-3 victory over Alison Riske of the United States. The seventhseeded Haddad Maia consigned the sixth-seeded Riske to a second loss in the final of the grass-court tournament in central England. The other time was in 2016 . ... Matteo Berrettini showed signs of recapturing the form which took him to the Wimbledon final last year as he beat Andy Murray 6-4, 5-7, 6-3 to win the Stuttgart Open in his first tournament for three months.
Obituary: Bernd Bransch, who captained East Germany at its only World Cup appearance in a symbolic Cold War win over West Germany, has died. He was 77. Bransch’s former club Hallescher FC said in a statement Sunday that he had died on Saturday following “a long, severe illness.” Bransch was East Germany’s equivalent of the charismatic West German star Franz Beckenbauer. Both men captained their national teams and both played as a sweeper, sitting deep in defense with space to start counterattacks. When they met at the 1974 World Cup in West Germany, it was Bransch’s team that came out the surprise winner, beating West Germany 1-0.