Skeeters lose but still can win title today
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. — Long Island scored two runs in each of the first three innings and coasted to a 6-3 victory over Sugar Land on Saturday night, setting up a decisive fifth game to determine which team will reign as Atlantic League champion for the 2018 season.
Game 5 is 4:05 p.m. Sunday. The Skeeters, who won the league crown in 2016, won the first two games of the best-of-five series at home before dropping the next two on the road.
Dallas Beeler (0-2) struggled on the mound for Sugar Land, allowing six earned runs on seven hits in only 21⁄3 innings. He struck out five and walked one.
Matt Chavez, Denis Phipps and Alvaro Rondon drove in runs for the Skeeters.
Briscoe survives Xfinity ‘roval’
Chase Briscoe won the first of two big NASCAR races on the new “roval” at Charlotte Motor Speedway, capturing his first career Xfinity Series victory on the hybrid track of speedway and road course in Concord, N.C. Briscoe beat Justin
Marks, a part-time NASCAR racer who said this week this race is his last one dabbling in these cars.
Briscoe won in a Ford fielded by Stewart-Haas Racing in the lead-up to Sunday’s Monster Energy Cup playoff race.
Saturday was also a playoff race for NASCAR’s second-tier Xfinity Series, but these drivers were really the testers for the Cup race. Four drivers will be eliminated from the playoffs Sunday, and it will be in part to the difficulty of the roval, an odd layout causing headaches for the Cup drivers.
Romo’s Web.com qualifying over
Tony Romo shot a 1-over-par 72 at Garland Bridges in north Texas to complete a failed bid to advance in the first stage Web.com Tour's qualifying tournament.
The former Dallas Cowboys quarterback tied for 72nd at 13-under 297 in the 76-player field, with the top 22 and ties moving on to the second stage.
The 38-year-old Romo is an NFL analyst for CBS. Franklin Corpening won by a stroke, closing with a 65 for to finish at 20 under.
Man arrested in Sims shooting
Baton Rouge, La., police said a 20-year-old man was arrested and charged with seconddegree murder in the shooting death of LSU basketball player Wayde Sims.
Sims was shot early Friday during a street fight caught on video near the Southern University campus. Baton Police Chief
Murphy Paul said at a media conference Saturday that investigators concluded from the video and DNA evidence collected at the scene that a man could be seen punching a friend of Sims shortly before the shooting was Simpson.
“Wayde stepped in to defend his friend and was shot by Simpson,” Paul said.
Paul said eye glasses found at the scene of the shooting were tested for DNA that matched that of Simpson. Paul also said Simpson was arrested without incident after telling investigators that he was at the scene of the fight, had a gun and fired it at Sims.
In other news: • Diana Taurasi scored 26 points, including hitting five 3-pointers, to help the United States beat Belgium 93-77 at San Cristobal de la Laguna, Spain, in the semifinals of the FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup.
Breanna Stewart added 20 points, and Brittney
Griner had 16 for the Americans, who will be trying to win a third consecutive gold medal at the worlds. The U.S. will play Australia, which defeated Spain 72-66, for the title Sunday.
Accelerate tops West Coast
Accelerate outdueled West Coast to win the $300,000 Awesome Again Stakes by 2¼ lengths at Santa Anita in Arcadia, Calif., for his fourth Grade 1 victory of the year. Ridden by Joel Rosario, Accelerate already had a guaranteed berth in the $6 million Breeders' Cup Classic as a result of his win in the Pacific Classic in August. The 5-year-old's fifth victory in six races this year merely solidified his status as the best older horse in the country. Trained by John Sadler, Accelerate ran 11⁄8 miles in 1:50.38.
Boykin indicted on assault charge
Trevone Boykin, the former TCU and Seattle Seahawks quarterback, was indicted Friday in Tarrant County on a charge of aggravated assault causing serious bodily injury.
Boykin, 24, was arrested and charged in March after his girlfriend accused him of beating her severely at his home in north Texas.
Police in Mansfield said they reviewed footage of a March 21 incident captured by Boykin's security video system. He allegedly broke Shabrika
Bailey's jaw, which was swollen and wired shut after the incident.
Boykin, who has denied the allegations, was released from Seattle’s 90-man offseason roster shortly after the incident came to light.
Aggravated assault causing serious bodily injury is a second-degree felony punishable by two to 20 years in prison.