Washington’s Jones throws no-hitter in LLWS
Eli Jones went all six innings Saturday, no hitting Florida as Washington got a 1-0 win in the Little League World Series.
Jones struck out five and walked two in the first solo no-hitter at the Little League World Series in over 40 years. Jones also drove in the only run of the game.
Elsewhere, New Jersey mounted a furious rally to beat Connecticut, 11-4. Down, 4-3, entering the fifth, New Jersey got rolling and blew the game open. New Jersey scored eight runs in the fifth, highlighted by a grand slam by Joey DiMeo.
Pro basketball
SkylarDiggins-Smith had 25points and seven assists, DianaTaurasi added 18 pointsand 10 rebounds, and thePhoenix Mercury beat theAtlanta Dream, 84-69, for theirfourth consecutive win.
Visiting Phoenix (13-10) led, 60-57, entering the fourth quarterand closed it out behindDiggins-Smith, who had 11points in the period as the Mercuryoutscored the Dream,24-12, in handing themtheir eighth loss in a row.
Golf
Woody Austin birdied the par-5 18th for a 4-under 68 and a one-stroke lead over Jim Furyk and Colin Montgomerie in the PGA Tour Champions’ Boeing Classic in Snoqualmerie, Wash. Austin, 587, had three consecutive birdies on Nos. 1315. He has four senior victories after also winning four PGA Tour titles. Austin was at 10-under 134 . Furyk and Montgomerie, playing in the same group, each shot 67. Furyk, 51, won in his first two senior starts last year and took the U.S. Senior Open last month in Nebraska. Montgomerie, 58, won the most recent of his seven senior titles in 2019. He birdied the final two holes. Local favorite Fred Couples shot 69 to get to 3 under.
• Tapio Pulkkanen will take a two-stroke lead into the final round of the Czech Masters after a 6-under 66 in Vysoky Ujezd, Czech Republic. Three shots off the lead after the second round, the 31-year-old Finn did not drop a shot in the third round until the par-4 17th. He bounced back with his seventh birdie on No. 18 for a 13-under 203 total. It’s the first lead for Pulkkanen after the third round in his career.
Soccer
Tim Melia tied his season high with seven saves and short-handed Sporting Kansas City held on for a 0-0 tie with Minnesota United in St. Paul, Minn. Remi Walter was shown a straight red card in the 21st for a dangerous studs-up foul and Kansas City (11-4-6) played a man down down the rest of the way.
• Xavier Arreaga and Will Bruin scored late goals about a minute apart to help the visiting Seattle Sounders beat the defending champion Columbus Crew, 2-1. Arreaga redirected a shot by Raul Ruidiaz that trickled over the line in the 88th minute, and Bruin ripped a right-footer past the outstretched hand of goalkeeper
Eloy Room in the 89th. Bradley Wright-Phillips scored his first goal of the season for Columbus in the 77th.
Hockey
The Russian Olympic Committee team scored twice in 14 seconds against Switzerland in the second period, coming back from a 1-0 deficit and winning, 3-1, in the Women’s Hockey World Championships in Calgary, Alberta. Valeria Pavlova, Viktoria Kulishova and Maria Batalova had the goals for ROC, which outshot the Swiss, 34-20. Both teams will face host Canada in their next games.
• Nina Christof scored the only two goals of the opening period to propel Germany to a 3-0 win over Hungary. It was the first game in
Hungary’s history at the top level of the Women’s Worlds and also the first-ever meeting between the two nations in women’s hockey at any level of the Women’s Worlds.
Baseball
The Washington Wild
Things edged the Lake Erie Crushers, 1-0, at Mercy Health Stadium in Avon, Ohio. Aklex Boshers threw six shutout innings with four strikeouts. Scotty Dubrule hit a home run in the sixth inning to clinch the win for Washington.