SOFTBALL

St. Albans, Vermont, broke a 1-1 tie with seven runs in the fifth inning and went on to a 10-1 victory over Bonny Eagle in the opening game of the Little League Softball New England Regional on Sunday in Bristol, Connecticut.

Bonny Eagle opened the scoring in the first inning on consecutive singles by Lydia Weeks, Nora Spires and Maris Lopresti. The Maine champions will play an elimination game Monday night.

TRACK AND FIELD

HARRIS WINS: Isaiah Harris of Lewiston won the 800 meters Saturday night at the Sound Running Sunset Tour meet in Los Angeles but will have to wait a while longer for confirmation that he’ll be representing the United States at next month’s world championships in Budapest, Hungary.

Harris clocked a season-best time of 1 minute, 44.85 seconds but was .15 seconds away from achieving the world championships qualifying standard, which would have guaranteed his spot on the U.S. team. The runner-up at the national championships in Eugene, Oregon, earlier this month, Harris is still expected to make the team based on his world ranking. He currently is ranked 19th in the 800.

The world championships start on Aug. 19, and the first round of the men’s 800 is on Aug. 22.

BASKETBALL

NBA: The NBA Board of Governors has voted to approve Michael Jordan’s sale of the Charlotte Hornets to an ownership group led by Gabe Plotkin and Rick Schnall, according to a person familiar with the situation.

Jordan, who agreed to sell the team on June 16, will remain a minority owner. His decision to sell leaves the NBA without a Black majority owner.

The sale price is reportedly around $3 billion, according to ESPN.

WNBA: Betnijah Laney scored a season-high 22 points, Jonquel Jones added 18, and the New York Liberty rode a record hot start to rout the visiting Indiana Fever, 101-83.

New York (16-5) made its first nine shots on the way to a 44-point first quarter. That’s the most points ever in one quarter in WNBA history, surpassing the 42 by Chicago against the Liberty in 2019.

• Natasha Cloud scored 23 points and had nine assists, Brittney Sykes also scored 23 points, and the short-handed Washington Mystics beat Phoenix 84-69, extending the Mercury’s road losing streak to seven games.

FOOTBALL

NFL: Quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo passed a physical on his injured left foot and will begin training camp with the Las Vegas Raiders, a person with knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press on Sunday.

Training camp opens Wednesday.

Garoppolo signed a three-year, $72.75 million free-agent contract on March 17. His deal was announced a day later than others because of concerns about the foot.

AUTO RACING

INDYCAR: Josef Newgarden completed a doubleheader sweep by winning for the second straight day at Iowa Speedway.

Newgarden, who led 212 of 250 laps, held onto the lead on a restart with three laps to go, beating Team Penske teammate Will Power by less than a second.

Newgarden cut his deficit in the series standings to 80 points behind Alex Palou, who finished third.

FORMULA ONE: Max Verstappen took the lead from pole sitter Lewis Hamilton in the first corner and never looked back as he won the Hungarian Grand Prix for his seventh straight victory in a crushingly dominant season.

Red Bull’s 12th straight win, including the final race of 2022, broke McLaren’s record for consecutive team wins set in 1988.

McLaren driver Lando Norris finished second for the second-straight race, and Red Bull’s Sergio Perez was third. Hamilton, a seven-time Formula One champion who hasn’t won since the 2021 Saudi Arabia Grand Prix, dropped to fourth place with a sluggish start and finished in that position.

GOLF

PGA: Akshay Bhatia birdied the closing hole in regulation, then capitalized in sudden death when Patrick Rodgers found a divot in the fairway to win his first PGA Tour title at the Barracuda Championship in Truckee, California.

The 21-year-old Bhatia earned full status on tour and a spot in the FedEx Cup playoffs. He had been playing under special temporary membership since his runner-up finish at the Puerto Rico Open in March.

CYCLING

TOUR DE FRANCE: Danish rider Jonas Vingegaard won for the second straight year as cycling’s most storied race finished on the famed Champs-Élysées.

With a huge lead built up over main rival Tadej Pogačar, the 2020 and 2021 winner, Vingegaard knew the victory was effectively his again before the largely ceremonial stage at the end of the 110th edition of the Tour.

Belgian cyclist Jordi Meeus won the final stage in a photo finish between four riders – Meeus, Jasper Philipsen, Dylan Groenewegen and Mads Pedersen.

SWIMMING

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS: Australian Ariarne Titmus set a world record on the way to a decisive victory in the women’s 400-meter freestyle on the opening day of the world championships in Fukuoka, Japan, while Katie Ledecky settled for a silver medal.

Titmus won in 3 minutes, 55.38 seconds, beating Ledecky by more than three seconds. Titmus lowered the record of 3:56.08 set four months ago by 16-year-old Summer McIntosh of Canada, who placed fourth Sunday.

In the men’s 400 individual medley, Leon Marchand of France broke Michael Phelps’ 15-year-old world record with a time of 4:02.50. Phelps set the old record of 4:03.84 at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

TENNIS

HALL OF FAME OPEN: Second-seeded Adrian Mannarino defeated American teenager Alex Michelsen, 6-2, 6-4, in the final of the grass-court tournament in Newport, Rhode Island.

HOCKEY

NHL: The Chicago Blackhawks and forward Philipp Kurashev have a two-year contract in place after going through salary arbitration.

The deal carries a salary-cap hit of $2.25 million.

Kurashev, 23, set career highs with nine goals and 16 assists in 70 games last season.