Basketball
DJ Steward had 24 points, seven assists and five rebounds as the Maine Celtics defeated Raptors 905, 130-112, on Saturday afternoon in Portland Expo.
J.D. Davison added 23 points and 12 assists for the Celtics, who achieved their second consecutive victory. Jordan Walsh added 20 points, Jordan Shackel scored 16 points, and Tony Snell and Neemias Koita each added 10 points.
Jaycean Paige scored 24 points and Kevin Obanor added 20 for Raptors 905.
National Basketball Association: The Indiana Fever won the WNBA draft lottery for the No. 1 pick for the second straight season.
The Fever acquired Aliyah Boston last season and she finished first and was named the league’s Rookie of the Year.
Now Indiana will have to wait to see who decides to enter the draft. Iowa State’s Kaitlin Clark, UCLA’s Paige Bueckers and LSU’s Angel Reyes could all return to school for another year thanks to an extra season due to the coronavirus.
Indiana, which hasn’t made the playoffs since 2016, had a 44% chance of getting the No. 1 pick. Los Angeles picked up the second spot with Phoenix picking third and Seattle fourth. The Sparks, who had an 18% chance of getting the top pick, have missed the postseason two years in a row and last had the No. 1 overall pick in 2012 when they drafted Nneka Ogwumike.
Hockey
Eat: The Maine Mariners fell behind 3-0 and eventually lost to the Newfoundland Growlers 4-2 at the Mary Brown Center on Sunday in St. John’s, Newfoundland.
The Growlers took a 2-0 lead on first-period goals by Ty Voit and Tyler Weiss, and extended the lead to 3-0 on a pass from James Melendy 5:24 into the second period, when two Mariners goals were disallowed — one ruled not to have crossed the goal line and the other It was shot high into the net.
However, Maine scored twice late in the period when Jimmy Lambert scored one shorthanded goal at 15:13 and Brooklyn Kalmykov scored the other 48 seconds later.
Newfoundland’s Matt Brassard finished it 2-for-1 in the third period for the final score.
baseball
American Premier League: Will Smith, who has won World Series rings the past three seasons with three different organizations, has agreed to a $5 million contract with the Royals, a person familiar with the deal told The Associated Press.
The 34-year-old Smith could also receive a certain amount of performance bonuses, according to the person who spoke on the condition of anonymity because his 2024 season deal was pending a physical.
• The Miami Marlins acquired infielder Christian Bethancourt from the Cleveland Guardians, bringing in another player who new president of baseball operations Peter Bendix knows from his days in Tampa Bay.
Bethancourt hit .225 with 16 doubles, 11 home runs and 33 RBI in 104 games with Tampa Bay during the 2023 season. He also threw out 13 of his 57 baserunners. The Panamanian-born reliever has a career batting average of .231 with 113 RBI and 31 home runs.
Cleveland Bethancourt, 32, claimed off waivers on Nov. 6 and will receive cash considerations in the deal.
• The Cleveland Guardians are reuniting with Austin Hedges, agreeing to a one-year, $4 million contract with the popular veteran, a person familiar with the deal told The Associated Press.
The person, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Hedges, who played in Cleveland from 2020-2022, will sign the contract once he passes a physical, because the deal cannot be completed until medical tests are completed.
soccer
Premier League: Without the injured Erling Haaland and trailing 1-0 to Luton at half-time, Manchester City were in danger of sliding into a full-blown crisis approaching the midway point of their Premier League title defence.
The defending champions turned things around, with Bernardo Silva and Jack Grealish scoring in the space of three minutes to seal a 2-1 win, ending a run of four games without a win and closing the gap on first-placed Liverpool to four. points.
• Tottenham achieved their first win in the English Premier League in six weeks, defeating a tired Newcastle team 4-1, with Richarlison scoring a goal in each half.
• Everton moved four points clear of the relegation zone in the English Premier League by defeating Chelsea 2-0 to achieve its third successive victory.
Golf
european tour: The Alfred Dunhill Championship at Malelan, South Africa, is set to be completed on Monday after play was suspended on Sunday due to dangerous weather conditions, with South African major winners Charl Schwartzel and Louis Oosthuizen sharing the 16-under-par lead on the European Tour. It happened.
Players were ejected twice due to a lightning threat.
Schwartzel and Oosthuizen were both in first place in their rounds after playing seven holes at Leopard Creek Country Club. They were three shots ahead of another South African, Christian Bezuidenhout (3 under after seven holes). Andy Sullivan and Mattie Schmid are two strokes back at 11 under.
PGA TOUR: The PGA Tour has narrowed its selection of potential investors to a new consortium led by Fenway Sports Group and said it will continue negotiations with the Saudi national wealth fund as it seeks to meet a December 31 deadline.
The PGA Tour’s board of directors — made up of six players and five independent directors — emailed players Sunday afternoon to say the strategic sports group was the unanimous choice to continue negotiating a potential partnership in the new PGA Tour organizations.
skiing
Women’s World Cup: Heavy snowfall overnight forced the cancellation of the Women’s World Cup Super-G race in St. Moritz, Switzerland, where Mikaela Shiffrin was an expected strong competitor.
Men’s World Cup: Snow and rain overnight in the French Alps forced the cancellation of the World Cup slalom in another loss to the men’s season.
So the number now stands at six cancelled races, one canceled and only two completed in what has been a difficult season so far. Marco Odermatt won the giant slalom on Saturday in Val d’Isère as snow fell.
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The Maine Celtics came out victorious in their recent game against Raptors 905, securing a convincing 130-112 win. The Celtics displayed strong offensive capabilities and solid defensive efforts throughout the game, ultimately outplaying their opponents and securing a well-deserved victory. This impressive performance has solidified the Celtics as a force to be reckoned with in the league and has undoubtedly boosted the team’s morale and confidence moving forward.
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