Riverhounds lose on road

Charlotte nets winner after half

PittsburghRiverhounds SCfell to the Charlotte Independence,1-0, Saturday nightat American Legion MemorialStadium in Charlotte,N.C.

EnzoMartinez scored the onlygoal less than two minutesinto the second half for Charlotte(8-7-2), as the Riverhounds(10-6-3) were stagnanton offense and got shut outfor the first time in 12 matches.It is also just the thirdtime the Riverhounds havelost consecutive games infour seasons under coach BobLilley.

More soccer

Germany’stop two soccer divisionswill have a female chiefexecutive for the first timenext year. Donata Hopfenwill take over from outgoingGerman soccer leagueCEO Christian Seifert.

•Jonathan Klinsmann tieda career high with seven saves,Kevin Cabral scored forthe second consecutive gameand the LA Galaxy beatMinnesota United, 1-0, inMinneapolis. ... Valentin Castellanoshad his first multi-goalgame since 2019 andNew York City FC beat visitingInter Miami 2-0.

Baseball

Johnstownbeat Manchester,N.H. in the earlygame of the PONY

LeagueWorld Series, 10-3. BenKormanski and Connor Joneseach had two hits and twoRBIs for Johnstown. ... Inthe second game, Bayamon,P.R. edged Bay County, Mich.,3-2. Juliomar Campos singledin the bottom of the fifthto bring home Eliel Ramosfor the winning run.

•The Florence Yalls poweredpast the Washington WildThings, 6-0, at Wild ThingsPark. Keven Pimentel wentseven innings, allowing11 hits and all six runs, fiveof which were earned.

Tennis

KarolinaPliskova defeatedtop-seeded Aryna Sabalenka,6-3, 6-4, to reach thefinal of the National BankOpen in Montreal. Pliskova,seeded fourth from theCzech Republic, will play forthe title Sunday against CamiliaGiorgi of Italy, who beatJessica Pegula of the UnitedStates, 6-3, 3-6, 6-1

•American Reilly Opelka beatthird-seeded Stefanos Tsitsipasof Greece, 6-7 (2), 7-6 (4),6-4, to reach the National BankOpen final in Toronto. Opelkawill face top-seeded DaniilMedvedev of Russia, whobeat American John Isner,6-2, 6-2.

Harness racing

KRyan Bluechip won Saturday’sfeature at The Meadows,a $12,800 ConditionedPace, to notch the 50th winof his career.