CCBC Essex’s NJCAA DII World Series run ends
The CCBC Essex baseball team fell, 13-8, to Scottsdale (Ariz.) CC in an elimination game at the National Junior College Athletic Association Division II World Series in Enid, Okla. Sophomore second baseman Julio Creazzola and sophomore first baseman Luke Schaffer (John Carroll) each drove in two runs for the No. 10 seed Knights, who scored four runs in the fifth inning and three in the sixth to pull within 8-7 before the Fighting Artichokes pulled away. Essex ended its season with a 30-26 record, a Region XX Division II title, a Northeast District championship and their first NJCAA DII World Series appearance since 1992. TENNIS: Frances Tiafoe of Riverdale in Prince George’s County fell, 6-1, 6-2, 7-6 (8), to No. 12 seed Sam Querrey in the first round of the French Open. Tiafoe, 20, a product of the Junior Tennis Champions Center in College Park, entered the match ranked a career-high No. 57. Denis Kudla of Ukraine, who like Tiafoe trained at the Junior Tennis Champions Center in College Park, lost, 6-4, 6-2, 6-2, to Damir Džumhur on Sunday. WOMEN’S COLLEGE LACROSSE: Liza Barr scored five goals to help Gettysburg (21-2) secure an 11-9 victory over Middlebury (20-3) in Salem, Va., for its second straight NCAA Division III national championship. Bailey Pilder made 12 saves for the Bullets, who defeated Salisbury in the semifinals. — mask while healing from the facial fracture. Irving had not played since March because of a knee injury, but his absence on the bench was noted when the Celtics played his former team, the Cavaliers.
Liverpool reached a deal to sign Brazilian midfielder Fabinho from Monaco in a transfer reportedly worth $58 million. Liverpool announced on its website that Fabinho will officially join the club July 1. Fabinho is seen as a replacement for Emre Can, who is out of contract at Anfield and has been linked with a move to Juventus. ... Josh Sargent scored in his American debut, fellow 18-year-old Tim Weah added a goal in his second international match and a young United States team beat Bolivia, 3-0, in an exhibition Sunday in Chester, Pa. Walker Zimmerman put the Americans ahead in the 37th minute and Sargent doubled the lead in the 52nd. Weah, the son of former FIFA Player of the Year and current Liberia president George Weah, scored in the 59th. Weah, born on Feb. 22, 2000, became the fourth-youngest American to score when he displaced Sargent, who was born two days earlier. Sargent's goal was particularly memorable — with his back to the goal, he intercepted a pass over his head from the goalkeeper, played the ball to himself and put it in the net with a strong right-footed shot from about 11 yards. ... Mexico started its World Cup preparations with a 0-0 draw against Wales at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif. Playing the first of three tuneup matches before its Group F opener against defending champion Germany on June 17 in Moscow, a rampant El Tri attack could not find a way to beat Wales goalkeeper Wayne Hennessey.