Loyola Blakefield opens with 6-0 soccer victory
Loyola Blakefield’s soccer team opened its season with a 6-0 win over Shipley School (Pa.) at Goucher College on Tuesday. Chase Llewellyn scored twice and Dylan Becks, Cole Hendrix, Julian Schmugge and John Peterson each scored once. Luke Brigg had two assists andMatt Lala, James Ugarte, John Peterson, Dominick Caltabaino each had an assist. Loyola’s defense, led by Ben Gallagher, held Shipley to two shots. Goalies Patrick Milmoe and Tyler Ledford combined for the shutout. TENNIS: Frances Tiafoe of Riverdale, a product of the Junior Tennis Champions Center in College Park, defeated No. 29 seed Adrian Mannarino of France, 6-1, 6-4, 4-6, 6-4, for his first career U.S. Open victory. COLLEGE FOOTBALL: 16 on the Park, the Residence Inn Baltimore at The John Hopkins Medical Campus’ rooftop restaurant in Eager Park, will feature broadcasts (88.9 FM) with Morgan State coach Ernest T. Jones during its Morgan Sports Live broadcasts Friday, Oct. 4 and Oct. 18. Events feature WEAA Radio and football giveaways. COLLEGE FIELD HOCKEY: Salisbury is ranked No. 5 in the National Field Hockey Coaches Association Division III National Coaches Poll for the preseason. The Sea Gulls earned 926 points in the poll, behind only Middlebury (1,362 points), Messiah (1,287), The College of New Jersey (1,112) and Franklin & Marshall (1,023). MEN’S COLLEGE SOCCER: Loyola Maryland’s Michael Marchiano, a Bel Air native, has been named one of nine NCAA Division I assistant coaches to watch in 2018 by TopDrawerSoccer. COLLEGE TENNIS: St. Mary’s graduate Melissa Barall ( Wilde Lake) is the Seahawks’ nominee for the NCAA Woman of the Year Award. The award, established in 1991, honors graduating female college athletes who have exhausted their eligibility. — for the Central Coast Mariners in an Australian A-League preseason game against an amateur team. The eight-time Olympic sprinting gold medalist from Jamaica is on trial with the Mariners, hoping to win a professional contract. He has been practicing on the left wing and expects to play about 15 to 20 minutes in that position during Friday’s exhibition match. Club officials are predicting a crowd of 12,000 for the home game in Gosford. ... Four-time European champion Ajax qualified for the Champions League group stage for the first time in four years, while AEK Athens and Young Boys Bern ended even longer absences. Ajax went to Dynamo Kiev with a 3-1 lead, and that was the final aggregate result after the Dutch team was held to a 0-0 draw despite dominating. Young Boys fans have waited 32 years since their team last played in Europe’s top competition. The Swiss team beat Croatia’s Dinamo Zagreb 2-1 in the second leg for a 3-2 win on aggregate. AEK Athens beat Hungarian team Vidi 3-2 on aggregate after a 1-1 draw.
Alex Bentley came off the bench to score 21 points as the Dream evened their semifinal playoff series against the visiting Mystics with a 78-75 victory. Mystics star Elena Delle Donne went down with what looked to be a serious knee injury with just over 3 minutes remaining. She stumbled on a drive to the basket and collapsed to the court, clutching her left knee. ... The Las Vegas Aces will pick first in the WNBAdraft for a third straight year. The Aces won the draft lottery after barely missing the playoffs this season. The Aces had the second-best chance (27.6 percent) to secure the top choice after finishing with the second-worst combined record the last two seasons.