Sports Digest: Sea Dogs blow late lead, then rally for 10-inning win over Altoona

BASEBALL

Kyle Teel tied the game with a two-out, three-run homer in the ninth inning, and Tyler Miller hit a go-ahead RBI single in the 10th as the Portland Sea Dogs pulled out an 8-6 win over the Altoona Curve in an Eastern League game Friday night in Altoona, Pennsylvania.

The Sea Dogs nearly wasted a stellar outing by starting pitcher Hunter Dobbins, who exited with a 3-0 lead after allowing just three hits and a walk over seven innings. Altoona rallied for six runs in the bottom of the eighth against relievers Helcris Olivarez and Robert Kwiatkowski. The big blow was a grand slam by Joe Perez, and Carter Bins followed with a solo shot to make it 6-3.

Portland took the lead in the fourth inning when Tyler McDonough singled, advanced on a wild pickoff attempt and scored on a Nick Yorke single.

Matthew Lugo homered in the seventh, and the Sea Dogs made it 3-0 in the eighth when McDonough, Marcelo Mayer and Teel hit consecutive singles.

Miller singled home automatic runner Eddinson Paulino in the 10th, and Nick Decker drove in another run with a groundout.

Dobbins recorded eight strikeouts.

HIGH SCHOOLS

GIRLS’ LACROSSE: Riley Davis scored six goals and set up two others as Falmouth (14-0) completed an undefeated regular season with a 13-5 win over Massabesic (8-6) in Falmouth.

Peaches Stucker added two goals and three assists, and Keira Alcock also scored twice.

Sydney Cyr and Finley Pomerleau tallied two goals apiece for Massabesic.

GOLF

LPGA: Wichanee Meechai became the latest surprise in a U.S. Women’s Open filled with them, making four straight birdies as she matched the low score of the week with a 3-under 67 for a two-shot lead in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Meechai is a 31-year-old Thai whose only victory recognized by the women’s world ranking was nine years ago on the Taiwan LPGA. She had never finished in the top 10 in her 20 previous appearances in majors. She was at 4-under 136, two shots in front of Angela Lee and three ahead of a pair of former Women’s Open champions, Minjee Lee (69) and Yuka Saso (71).

Several prominent players missed the cut, including world No. 1 Nelly Korda, Lexi Thompson, Rose Zhang, Lydia Ko, Brooke Henderson and defending champion Allisen Corpuz.

Korda rebounded from her 80 in the opening round, shooting an even-par 70, but she bogeyed her final hole when she needed a birdie to make the cut. Korda had won six of her last seven starts, including her second major title at the Chevron Championship.

PGA: Ryan Fox closed with a 14-foot birdie putt for a 6-under 64 and a share of the second-round lead with Robert MacIntyre in the RBC Canadian Open at Hamilton, Ontario.

MacIntyre had a 66 in the morning for his second straight bogey-free round. The leaders, both winless on the PGA Tour, were at 10-under 130.

Joel Dahmen was in third place, two strokes back, after a 65.

EUROPEAN TOUR: English golfer Laurie Canter shot a bogey-free, 7-under 66 to move into a three-stroke lead in the second round of the European Open in Hamburg, Germany.

Canter, who also plays on the LIV Golf breakaway circuit and is ranked No. 224, was at 12 under for the tournament.

Jannik De Bruyn (73) of Germany and Denmark’s Niklas Norgaard (68) were tied for second.

BOXING

TYSON-PAUL FIGHT: Mike Tyson’s fight with Jake Paul has been postponed after the 57-year-old Tyson fell ill on a flight last weekend.

Tyson and Paul said they will announce a new fight date next week. They were scheduled to meet July 20 in Arlington, Texas.

Tyson hasn’t fought professionally since June 2005, but he has been training regularly for several years. He fought Roy Jones Jr. in an entertaining exhibition in November 2020.

SOCCER

MATERNITY LEAVE: Soccer’s international governing body is implementing new measures designed to further support the well-being of players and coaches during pregnancy and after the birth of their children.

The FIFA protocols give both players and coaches a minimum of 14 weeks of paid maternity leave, and a minimum of eight weeks paid leave for those who adopt a child younger than 2. There is also a minimum eight weeks paid for women who are non-biological parents of newborns.

While the players’ maternity leave was previously adopted in 2020, the new rules extend it to coaches, non-biological and adoptive mothers.

FOOTBALL

NFL: Olympic gold medal wrestler Gable Steveson signed an undrafted rookie free-agent contract with the Buffalo Bills.

Steveson became the youngest freestyle wrestler to win gold as a super heavyweight at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, when he was 21. He then went on to win two college national titles at Minnesota in 2021 and ‘22, and twice was named the nation’s best college wrestler.