Teams schedule games to coincide with solar eclipse

LINCOLN, NEB. » Baseball fans in more than a half-dozen cities are heading to ballparks to watch the solar eclipse as teams look to cash in with game-day viewing parties.

Minor league teams from Oregon to South Carolina have scheduled games Monday to coincide with the total eclipse as it streaks across the United States.

In Nebraska, the Lincoln Saltdogs will wear special eclipse jerseys and stop their game to watch the full eclipse at 1:02 p.m. The team says it has sold tickets to buyers from as far away as the United Kingdom and Germany.

Other teams hosting events include the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes, Idaho Falls Chukars, Bowling Green Hot Rods, Nashville Sounds, Greenville Drive, Columbia Fireflies and Charleston RiverDogs.

No big league games are scheduled to coincide with the eclipse. WEST DES MOINES, IOWA » Four years ago, Team Europe celebrated the most decisive win in Solheim Cup history — on American soil, no less.

Captain Annika Sorenstam and her team will likely spend their trip back across the Atlantic wondering when they’ll be ready to compete with the U.S. again. Lexi Thompson, 22, and her resurgent U.S. teammates finished off their most-decisive Solheim Cup victory in more than 20 years, beating Europe 16 ½-11 ½ on Sunday at Des Moines Golf and Country Club.

Though Europe played the U.S. even on Sunday, the Americans dominated foursome and four-ball play to put the Europeans in a major hole. The Americans are now 10-5 in the biennial tournament after their biggest win since a 17-11 triumph in 1996 in Wales. They rallied to win in Germany in 2015 and have taken five of the last seven matches — the exception being that 18-10 blowout that Europe handed the U.S. in Colorado in 2013.