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AMERICAN LEAGUE EAST SPORTS CLIPS W L Pct GB Tampa Bay 65 44 .596 — Boston 64 46 .582 1½ Meigs golf knocks Rockwood New York 59 49 .546 5½ Toronto 57 49 .538 6½ Meigs County’s golf team swept Rockwood at Baltimore 38 69 .355 26 Mouse Creek Golf Course on Wednesday. CENTRAL W L Pct GB The Meigs boys won 126-142. The top three boys 63 46 .578 — scorers for Meigs were Alex Schaumburg with a 40, Cleveland 52 54 .491 9½ Connor Mason with a 41 and Tanner McKenzie with 53 58 .477 11 Kansas City 47 60 .439 15 a 45. Braden McLemore shot a 49. Minnesota 46 63 .422 17 Other scores for the Meigs boys included Easton WEST Meadows with a 46, Ethan Meadows with a 50, Mat- W L Pct GB thew McKheen with a 49 and Chandler Erwin with Houston 65 44 .596 — Oakland 61 48 .560 4 a 53. On the girls’ side, Meigs won 42-63 with Macey Seattle 58 52 .527 7½ Bunch posting a 42. Rockwood had only one girls Los Angeles 55 54 .505 10 player. Other scores for Meigs included a 49 by Car- Texas 39 70 .358 26 lee McLemore, 50 by Michelle Bradford and a 53 by Wednesday Tampa Bay 4, Seattle 3 both Zoe Womac and Tynsley Peadon. 6, Minnesota 5 Meigs traveled to Loudon on Thursday and the Oakland 5, San Diego 4, 10 inn results were not as good, at least for the boys. N.Y. Yankees 10, Baltimore 3 The Meigs girls defeated Midway 83-119. Loudon Toronto 8, Cleveland 6 Boston 4, Detroit 1 and Copper Basin do play in the girls’ division. The L.A. Angels 2, Texas 1 girls are 5-0 on the season. Kansas City 9, ChiSox 1 FRANCISCO SECO | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Meigs boys shot a 211, which was good enough L.A. Dodgers 7, Houston 5 Thursday Gold medalist Katie Nageotte celebrates after winning the final of the women’s pole vault at to beat Copper Basin (234), but not good enough to Detroit 8, Boston 1 the 2020 Summer Olympics on Thursday in Tokyo. take down Loudon (199) or Midway (208). L.A. Angels 5, Texas 0 Meigs will travel to Rockwood Country Club for a Toronto 3, Cleveland 0 4 p.m. match. Meigs will be home on Tuesday and N.Y. Yankees 5, Seattle 3 Kansas City 3, ChiSox 2 Thursday next week. Minnesota 5, Houston 3 Losses in track, wins on field: Today ChiSox at ChiCubs, 2:20 p.m. Seattle at N.Y. Yankees, 7:05 p.m. ON TV Tampa Bay at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m. Boston at Toronto, 7:07 p.m. Another rocky day for USA AUTO RACING Detroit at Cleveland, 7:10 p.m. 6 p.m...... ARCA Menards Series: The Clean Harbors 100 at The Minnesota at Houston, 8:10 p.m. BY EDDIE PELLS Kansas City at St. Louis, 8:15 p.m. Glen, Watkins Glen International...... FS1 Texas at Oakland, 9:40 p.m. AP National Writer MLB L.A. Angels at L.A. Dodgers, 10:10 p.m. 2 p.m...... White Sox at Cubs ...... MLB Saturday TOKYO — A five-minute 7 p.m...... Mets at Philadelphia ...... ESPN Seattle at N.Y. Yankees, 1:05 p.m. ChiSox at ChiCubs, 2:20 p.m. burst of action near the 10 p.m...... Angels at Dodgers OR Arizona at San Diego ...... MLB Boston at Toronto, 3:07 p.m. Gm1 backstretch of the Olympic NBA Texas at Oakland, 4:07 p.m. track served up the perfect Summer League Tampa Bay at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m. 7 p.m...... San Antonio vs. Memphis ...... ESPNU Boston at Toronto, 7:07 p.m. Gm2 snapshot of what is going Detroit at Cleveland, 7:10 p.m. right, and all that is going 9 p.m...... Utah Jazz Blue vs. Utah Jazz White ...... ESPNU Minnesota at Houston, 7:10 p.m. wrong, for the U.S. track GOLF Kansas City at St. Louis, 7:15 p.m. and field team in Tokyo. 7 a.m...... KORN FERRY: The Utah Championship (Taped) ...TGC L.A. Angels at L.A. Dodgers, 9:10 p.m. At one moment in the 10 a.m...... PGA: The Barracuda Championship...... TGC NATIONAL LEAGUE pole vault pit Thursday Noon ...... PGA: The WGC FedEx St. Jude Invitational...... TGC EAST night, Katie Nageotte MIXED MARTIAL ARTS W L Pct GB cleared 16 feet, 1 inch and 7 p.m...... LUX Fight League: Pedro Pena vs. Kevin Morales ..FS2 New York 56 52 .519 — went running up to the FRANCISCO SECO | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 10 p.m...... XFC 45: Guilherme Faria vs. Daron Cruickshank. ....FS2 Philadelphia 56 53 .514 ½ 1 a.m. (Sat.)XFC: YoungGuns3(Taped) ...... FS2 Atlanta 55 54 .505 1½ stands to celebrate a gold Cravon Gillespie, of United States, reacts after finishing a semi- Washington 49 60 .450 7½ medal that had looked like final of the men’s 4x100-meter relay at the 2020 Summer HORSE RACING Miami 47 62 .431 9½ a lost cause only an hour Olympics on Thursday in Tokyo, Japan. 1 p.m...... NYRA: Saratoga Live ...... FS2 CENTRAL earlier. TENNIS W L Pct GB Milwaukee 65 44 .596 — At the next, just as the the Americans: exceptions to the trends. 2 p.m...... Washington D.C.-ATP & San Jose-WTA ...... TEN Cincinnati 58 51 .532 7 400-meter sprinters — Grant Holloway, the Athing Mu and Sydney St. Louis 53 55 .491 11½ approached the halfway defending world cham- McLaughlin lived up to Chicago 52 58 .473 13½ point, American champi- pion who came .01 sec- their hype to capture the TOKYO OLYMPIC GAMES Pittsburgh 41 68 .376 24 BASEBALL WEST on Michael Norman was onds short of the world country’s only two golds W L Pct GB steaming so far ahead of record earlier this summer from the track. And Ryan 11:30 p.m. .... Bronze Medal Game ...... NBC San Francisco 69 40 .633 — the competition, it became in the 110-meter hurdles, Crouser gutted out an BASKETBALL Los Angeles 65 44 .596 4 clear he could not sustain came .05 short of Jamai- emotion-drenched victo- 8 p.m...... Final ...... NBC San Diego 62 48 .564 7½ Colorado 48 61 .440 21 the pace. ca’s Hansle Parchment, ry to defend his Olympic 3 a.m...... Sat. Women’s Bronze Medal Game ...... NBC Arizona 34 76 .309 35½ He didn’t. Norman fin- who won in 13.09. It was shot put title. BEACH VOLLEYBALL Wednesday ished fifth. The U.S. men’s Jamaica’s third Olympic Very few would’ve fig- 9 p.m...... Men’s Bronze Medal Game ...... NBC Cincinnati 6, Minnesota 5 10:30 p.m. .. Men’s Gold Medal Game ...... NBC Milwaukee 4, Pittsburgh 2 sprinters, once the dom- gold medal of the post- ured Crouser’s win Thurs- Oakland 5, San Diego 4, 10 inn inant power across the Usain Bolt era. day would be the first in DIVING Philadelphia 9, Washington 5 global track game, left the — Will Claye, considered any event for the men, who 8 p.m...... Men’s Platform Qualifying ...... NBC N.Y. Mets 5, Miami 3 stadium without having as good a bet as any to win make up about half of the 9 p.m...... Men’s Platform Semifinal ...... USA Atlanta 7, St. Louis 4 2:30 a.m. ... Sat. Men’s Platform Final ...... USA ChiCubs 3, Colorado 2 won a single gold medal with the defending cham- deepest team in the world. L.A. Dodgers 7, Houston 5 over the first seven days pion, Christian Taylor, Norman’s fifth-place fin- GOLF San Francisco 7, Arizona 1 of the nine-day meet. on the sideline, finished ish capped a dreary day of 6:30 p.m. .... Women’s Final Rd ...... TGC Thursday But Nageotte’s gold, fourth in triple jump. The running for the red, white GYMNASTICS Miami 4, N.Y. Mets 2 Colorado 6, ChiCubs 5 won in a tense back-and- winner: Pedro Pichardo of and blue. 10:40 p.m. .. Rhythmic Gymnastics Group Qualifying ...... USA San Francisco 5, Arizona 4, 10 inn forth with Russian athlete Portugal. He is something of a HANDBALL Philadelphia 7, Washington 6 Anzhelika Sidorova, was Other winners on a day celebrity in Japan because 4:30 a.m. .... Women’s Semifinal ...... USA Cincinnati 7, Pittsburgh 4 MARATHON Atlanta 8, St. Louis 4 the third victory in the where eight gold medals his mother was born here Today field for the U.S., two of were awarded included and set a national middle- 6 p.m...... Women’s Marathon ...... USA ChiSox at ChiCubs, 2:20 p.m. which have been won by Nafissatou Thiam of Bel- school record in the 100 TRACK AND FIELD N.Y. Mets at Philadelphia, 7:05 p.m. women. gium (heptathlon) and meters. He was supposed 8 p.m...... Track & Field Finals ...... NBC Pittsburgh at Cincinnati, 7:10 p.m. Washington at Atlanta, 7:20 p.m. With only two days left Damian Warner of Can- to be part of a showdown VOLLEYBALL San Francisco at Milwaukee, 8:10 p.m. at Olympic Stadium, what ada (decathlon). with Steven Gardiner of 12:30 a.m. .. Sat. Men’s Bronze Medal Game ...... USA Kansas City at St. Louis, 8:15 p.m. started as anomaly can Also, Massimo Stano the Bahamas, but Gardiner WATER POLO Miami at Colorado, 8:40 p.m. now be considered a trend: won the 20-kilometer race won this easily, in a time 3:30 a.m...... Sat. Women’s Gold Medal Game ...... USA Arizona at San Diego, 10:10 p.m. L.A. Angels at L.A. Dodgers, 10:10 p.m. The U.S. women are walk, moved to Sapporo to of 43.85 seconds, to add Saturday doing well. try to beat the Tokyo heat, to his title from the world ChiSox at ChiCubs, 2:20 p.m. The U.S. men are not. to give Italy its third gold championships two years N.Y. Mets at Philadelphia, 4:05 p.m. Pittsburgh at Cincinnati, 7:10 p.m. The U.S. overall is doing medal in track. ago in Qatar. San Francisco at Milwaukee, 7:10 p.m. well in field events. The U.S. closed Thurs- Much earlier in the day Kansas City at St. Louis, 7:15 p.m. It is struggling overall on day with five — and 20 came a rite of passage for visitmcminn.com Washington at Atlanta, 7:20 p.m. the track. medals overall, which is 13 the U.S. at the Olympics: A Miami at Colorado, 8:10 p.m. Arizona at San Diego, 8:40 p.m. Other instances that more than anyone else — debacle in the men’s 4x100 L.A. Angels at L.A. Dodgers, 9:10 p.m. played out Thursday for and there have been some relay.

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