Baltimore Sun Sunday

MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL Baltimore native Todd named ESPN’s No. 1 Class of 2020 prospect

- — Callie Caplan From Sun staff and news services

■ COLLEGE BASEBALL: Caleb Gilbert held No. 1 seed Oregon State to two hits in 7 innings, Michael Papierski homered from both sides of the plate and LSU (52-18) beat the Beavers, 6-1, in Omaha, Neb., to reach the College World Series finals. LSU will face Florida in the best-of-three series after Alex Faedo allowed just three hits in 71⁄3 innings in the Gators’ 3-0 win over TCU. ■ GOLF: So Yeon Ryu shot a course-record 10-under 61 in the LPGA’s NW Arkansas Championsh­ip in Rogers to take a five-stroke lead into the final round. Stacy Lewis and Moriya Jutanugarn were tied for second. They each shot 65 . ... Paul Broadhurst shot a 3-under 69 to maintain a two-stroke lead in the PGA Tour Champions’ American Family Insurance Championsh­ip in Madison, Wis. Broadhurst was at 12-under 132. Lee Janzen and Scott Verplank were tied for second. ■ NHL: The Islanders traded D Travis Hamonic and a 2019 or 2020 fourth-round pick to the Flames for a first-round pick in the 2018 draft, a second-round pick in the 2018 draft and a second-round pick in 2019 or 2020 . ... LW Andy Andreoff agreed to a two-year, $1.355 million deal with the Kings. A Baltimore transplant is in position to be the city’s highest-ranked boys basketball recruit since Josh Selby. Rising sophomore forward Isaiah Todd on Friday was named the No. 1 prospect in the Class of 2020 by ESPN. DeMatha center Hunter Dickinson also made the top 10, at No. 9. While Todd attends John Marshall High in Richmond, Va., for which he averaged 13 points per game as a freshman, he plays for Baltimore-based Amateur Athletic Union squad Team Thrill. Todd already has offers from Maryland, Kansas and Virginia, among others, and visited College Park for the Terps’ win against Indiana last season. Selby, whose wandering high school career took him from John Carroll to DeMatha to Lake Clifton, was rated the No. 1 recruit in the Class of 2010 by Rivals.com. Baltimore native Carmelo Anthony (Archbishop Spalding) also was considered the Class of 2002’s top recruit by ESPN.com.

Injury-slowed Centrowitz beaten, still makes U.S. team

Robby Andrews used a late kick to catch injuryslow­ed Olympic champion Matthew Centrowitz (Broadneck) on Saturday and win the 1,500-meter final at the USA Track & Field Outdoor Championsh­ips in Sacramento, Calif. “It’s an honor just to run with him,” Andrews said of Centrowitz in a postrace television interview. “I’ve learned a lot from him and racing against him.” Andrews finished in 3 minutes, 43.29 seconds. Centrowitz, an Arnold native who in Rio became the first U.S. Olympic 1500 gold medalist in 108 years, came across second in 3:43.41 to earn a spot on the threeman world championsh­ips team. Centrowitz was battling a right abductor muscle injury after suffering a previous strain of a left abductor muscle and a viral illness that caused him to miss the Prefontain­e Classic in late May. HORSE RACING: Hillwood Stables’ Phlash Phelps, a two-time Maryland-bred turf champion racing for the first time in seven months at a distance he hadn’t tried in more than two years, rallied to the lead in mid-stretch and held off a pair of late long shot challenger­s to win Saturday’s ■ SOCCER: Cristiano Ronaldo scored his 75th internatio­nal goal to lift Portugal to a 4-0 win against New Zealand in St. Petersburg, Russia, and into the Confederat­ions Cup semifinals. In other action, Mexico beat hosts Russia 2-1 in Kazan to reach the semis. ■ TENNIS: Petra Kvitova beat Lucie Safarova in the Aegon Classic semifinals in Birmingham, England, to reach her first final since her playing hand was injured in a knife attack at her home. Kvitova won when Safarova quit with a right thigh strain after only eight games. Kvitova will play Ashleigh Barty, who beat Garbine Muguruza 3-6, 6-4, 6-2 . ... Marin Cilic and Feliciano Lopez reached the final of the Queen’s tournament in London. Cilic beat Gilles Muller 6-3, 5-7, 6-4 in the first semifinal. Lopez beat Grigor Dimitrov 7-5, 3-6, 6-2. ■ ALSO: World-record holder Keni Harrison used a strong start to win the 100-meter hurdles in Sacramento, Calif., her first U.S. outdoor track and field championsh­ip . ... Ryan Bader defeated Phil Davis by split decision in his Bellator debut to win the promotion’s light heavyweigh­t championsh­ip at Madison Square Garden. $75,000 Mister Diz at Laurel Park. The 34th running of the Mister Diz for 3-year-olds and up was the last of six turf stakes worth $450,000 in purses on the 11-race ‘Class on the Grass’ program and the second restricted to Maryland-bred/sired horses, following Daylight Ahead’s win in the $75,000 Jameela fillies and mares 3 and older. Phlash Phelps ($7), narrowly favored at 5-2 over Spartianos in a field of 11 older horses, ran 6 furlongs in 1:08.40 over a firm Fort Marcy Turf Course to win by a neck over 9-1 long shot English Minister. It was another neck back to late-running Talk Show Man (13-1) in third. Ben’s Cat, a 26-time stakes winner and earner of more than $2.6 million lifetime, finished ninth, his eighth straight loss. MAJOR LEAGUE LACROSSE: Peter Baum had three goals and two assists to lead the league-leading Ohio Machine (7-2) to a 15-13 win over the visiting Chesapeake Bayhawks (3-5). Lyle Thompson scored two goals in his debut for the Bayhawks. MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER: Fabrice “Fafa” Picault scored on a volley and Andre Blake made two big second-half saves to lead the host Philadelph­ia Union (5-7-4) to a 1-0 victory over D.C. United (5-9-3). Picault took a cross from Alejandro Bedoya and sent in a left-footed shot inside the left-hand post past diving goalkeeper Bill Hamid in the 31st minute. Philadelph­ia beat United for the second time in three meetings this season. NATIONAL WOMEN’S SOCCER LEAGUE: Francisca Ordega scored in the 18th minute to lift the host Washington Spirit (3-5-2) to a 1-0 victory over the Portland Thorns (4-3-3). The Thorns, who came in averaging more than two goals per game, were shut out for only the second time. NFL: Financial news and opinion website 247wallst.com ranked the Ravens the 12th most popular of the NFL’s 32 teams via attendance data from ESPN. It averaged home attendance in 2016 as a percentage of the stadium’s capacity. An average of 71,102 attended each game at M&T Bank Stadium last year, filling it to 100.1 percent capacity. SCHOLARSHI­PS: Johns Hopkins women’s track and field senior Lindsay Cheu and men’s swimming senior Andy Greenhalgh each received a $7,500 postgradua­te scholarshi­p from the NCAA. ... Nicole Hill, a senior on the McDaniel women’s soccer and track and field teams, won the Maryland Associatio­n of College Directors of Athletics postgradua­te scholarshi­p. Hill was one of three recipients of the annual award, joining Towson women’s cross country senior Megan Knoblock and Harford Community College men’s cross country senior Ronald Krsolovic. —

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