South Portland’s Heffernan wins Gatorade baseball award
Higher SCHOOLS
Andrew Heffernan, a senior pitcher and third baseball at South Portland Higher, has been named the Gatorade Maine Baseball Player of the Year.
Heffernan, a six-foot-1, 215-pound proper-hander who has signed a letter-of-intent to play for Merrimack College, completed the standard season with a four-two record with 1 save, a .28 earned-run typical, 72 strikeouts and only 4 walks in 51 innings. At the plate, he’s hitting .418 with 15 RBI and 13 runs scored.
BASKETBALL
NBA: The Phoenix Suns hired Frank Vogel to replace Monty Williams as head coach, a particular person with know-how of the choice told The Related Press.
Vogel, 49, has been the coach of the Indiana Pacers, Orlando Magic and Los Angeles Lakers and now moves to the Suns, exactly where he’ll attempt to support the franchise win its very first title in its 55-year history with a roster that consists of stars Kevin Durant, Devin Booker and Chris Paul.
Vogel led the Lakers to an NBA title in 2020 when the league completed its season in the Florida bubble. He has a 431-389 record more than 11 seasons, and a 49-39 mark in the playoffs.
TENNIS
NADAL SURGERY: Rafael Nadal had arthroscopic surgery for the injured left hip flexor that forced him to sit out the French Open for the very first time given that he won the very first of his record 14 titles there in his 2005 tournament debut.
Nadal, who turns 37 Saturday, has been sidelined given that January, when he hurt his hip through a second-round loss at the Australian Open.
BOXING
JURISPRUDENCE: A Baltimore judge has ordered Globe Boxing Association lightweight champion Gervonta Davis to serve the remainder of his hit-and-run crash sentence behind bars rather of in house detention immediately after he moved to a luxury hotel and then a new house with out the judge’s permission, the state’s attorney’s workplace confirmed.
Baltimore Circuit Court Judge Althea Handy sentenced Davis on May well five to 90 days of house detention immediately after he pleaded guilty to charges stemming from a 2020 hit-and-run crash that left 4 people today injured.
Davis has a 29- record, with all but two of his victories by knockout.
SOCCER
JURISPRUDENCE: José Mourinho was charged with abusing a match official by UEFA immediately after getting filmed aggressively cursing at a referee in a stadium garage immediately after the Europa League final.
UEFA mentioned the Roma coach is charged for “insulting/abusive language against a match official” – who was later verbally abused by Italian fans at the airport in Budapest – immediately after Sevilla’s title victory this week.
UEFA gave no timetable for its disciplinary panel to judge the case. If identified guilty, Mourinho would be suspended for at least two games.
TRACK AND FIELD
Globe RECORD: Faith Kipyegon of Kenya broke the women’s 1,500 meters globe record at the Golden Gala meet in Florence, Italy.
She became the very first lady to superior three minutes, 50 seconds, finishing in three:49.11. The two-time Olympic and two-time globe champion took just about a second off the record of three:50.07 set by Genzebe Dibaba of Ethiopia in 2015.
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