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Hatch scores on penalty kick, Spirit beat Angel City 1-0

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 11:48:03 GMT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ashley Hatch converted a penalty kick in stoppage time to give the Washington Spirit a 1-0 victory over Angel City in the National Women’s Soccer League on Saturday night. The Spirit are the lone undefeated team in the league, with four wins and three draws — the longest unbeaten streak to start a season in team history. Washington won three games all of last season.Angel City’s Mary Alice Vignola had a handball in the box that was confirmed by a lengthy video review. Hatch buried the penalty for her league-leading fifth goal.“We had a lot of good energy coming into this game and I’m just super proud of my team,” Hatch said. “This is a hard environment to play in, but we did the job and we’re going home with three points.”The Spirit are playing their first season under coach Mark Parsons.Angel City (2-3-2) has lost two of four.Attendance at BMO Stadium in Los Angeles was announced at 17,427. ___AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccer and h...

Bouanga sparks LAFC to 3-0 victory over Real Salt Lake

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 11:48:03 GMT

SANDY, Utah (AP) — Dénis Bouanga scored his league-leading ninth goal of the season to lead Los Angeles FC to a 3-0 victory over Real Salt Lake on Saturday night.LAFC (6-1-3) beat Real Salt Lake (3-6-2) for a seventh straight time and improved to 11-1-0 in the series. Kwadwo Opoku picked up his first goal — with an assist from Ilie Sánchez — since scoring in the season opener to stake LAFC to a 1-0 lead in the 8th minute.Bouanga stretched the lead to 2–0 when he took a pass from Carlos Vela and scored in the 35th minute.Mateusz Bogusz subbed in for Vela in the 80th minute and scored on a penalty kick in the 87th to complete the scoring.John McCarthy finished with five saves to earn the clean sheet for LAFC. Zac MacMatch saved one shot for Real Salt Lake.LAFC earned a road win for just the third time in its last 12 tries. LAFC moved past expansion St. Louis City and into second place in the Western Conference with the victory, two points behind the Seattle Sounders.Real Salt La...

Ruiz, Martínez lead Inter Miami over Revolution 2-1

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 11:48:03 GMT

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — David Ruiz had a goal and an assist on Josef Martínez’s go-ahead score before picking up a red card to help Inter Miami hold off the Eastern Conference-leading New England Revolution 2-1 on Saturday night.Ruiz staked Inter Miami (5-6-0) to an early lead when he took a pass from Leonardo Campana and scored in the 6th minute. It was the first career goal for the 19-year-old rookie midfielder.New England (7-2-3) thought it had scored the equalizer on a goal by 18-year-old midfielder Noel Buck in the 17th minute but it was disallowed because of an offside foul. Instead, the Revolution had to wait until the 26th minute to pull even when Carles Gil took passes from Matt Polster and DeJuan Jones and scored his third goal of the season.Inter Miami took a 2-1 lead into halftime on a goal by Martínez in the 44th minute. Ruiz and DeAndre Yedlin had assists on Martínez’s third netter of the season. Martínez has scored seven goals in nine career matches a...

Phoenix Suns fire coach Monty Williams after 4 seasons with the club

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 11:48:03 GMT

The Phoenix Suns fired Monty Williams on Saturday, two years after reaching the NBA Finals and a year after he was the overwhelming choice as the coach of the year.Williams had great success in his four regular seasons in Phoenix, winning 63% of his games. But three consecutive years of playoff frustration was likely too much for the Suns to overlook — especially after two straight years of Phoenix trailing by 30 points at halftime of elimination games at home.ESPN and The Athletic first reported the decision.“Monty has been foundational to our success over the past four seasons,” said James Jones, the Suns’ president of basketball operations and general manager. “We are filled with gratitude for everything Monty has contributed to the Suns and to the Valley community.”Jones also said he made the decision to fire Williams.The Suns had a 2-0 lead in the 2021 NBA Finals, only to lose in six games. They lost in the second round in each of the last two seasons, both times in...

Carranza’s goal sends Union to 2-1 victory over Rapids

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 11:48:03 GMT

COMMERCE CITY, Colo. (AP) — Julian Carranza scored the go-ahead goal and the Philadelphia Union came from behind to down the Colorado Rapids 2-1 on Saturday night. The Union (5-4-2) have won three straight and they’re undefeated in their last four league games. The Rapids (2-4-6) still have yet to win a match at home this season, with three draws and two losses. It was Colorado’s first loss after going unbeaten in seven straight games. The match was marked by a scuffle between the two teams in stoppage time. Colorado’s Braian Galvan and Philadelphia’s Jesus Bueno were each handed red cards and sent off. Connor Ronan gave the Rapids a 1-0 lead when he converted on a penalty in the 38th minute after Diego Rubio was fouled in the box. Kai Wagner scored his first goal of the season in first-half stoppage time to tie the match going into the break. Carranza’s goal in the 51st minute gave Philadelphia the lead for good. Philadelphia has lost just one of its l...

Rockies pitcher Ryan Feltner hospitalized for tests after taking line drive to head

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 11:48:03 GMT

DENVER (AP) — Colorado Rockies pitcher Ryan Feltner was to spend the night in the hospital after being struck in the head by a line drive in the second inning against the Philadelphia Phillies on Saturday. “He’s under observation at a local hospital,” Colorado manager Bud Black said after the Phillies’ 7-4 win. “He’s undergoing a litany of exams and tests. We’ll know more in the morning.” Nick Castellanos lined a 1-0 slider back to the mound at 92.7 mph. The ball went off the back right side of Feltner’s head. The right-hander immediately collapsed to the ground as the ball deflected to first baseman C.J. Cron. Castellanos was safe with a single. Feltner didn’t appear to lose consciousness. He lay on his stomach and was squinting his eyes as two members of the Colorado training stuff sprinted to the mound. With the crowd hushed, Feltner eventually sat up, then got to his feet with catcher Elias Diaz standing next to him. The 26-year-old Feltner wa...

MLB Notes: Texas Rangers have gotten their money’s worth with Nathan Eovaldi

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 11:48:03 GMT

A couple of weeks ago we highlighted all of the players Boston has moved on from since last summer’s trade deadline, and most haven’t gone on to do much with their new teams. Xander Bogaerts was an obvious outlier, but at the time you couldn’t make a strong case the Red Sox missed many of the others, starting pitcher Nathan Eovaldi among them.That may have been a tad premature.Eovaldi didn’t get off to the greatest start, posting a 5.20 ERA over his first five starts with the Texas Rangers, but over the past two weeks has settled down and become absolutely dominant. The 33-year-old has now put together a run of 28.2 consecutive scoreless innings, including three straight scoreless outings in which he threw eight innings or more.That includes a complete game shutout on April 29 against the Yankees, and this past Thursday he came within one out of throwing another against Oakland, recording a career-high 12 strikeouts over 8.2 innings in the 4-0 win.Overall Eov...

Patricia Arquette, Matt Dillon take ‘High Desert’ trip

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 11:48:03 GMT

Showbusiness is notorious for seeing youthful performers as easily disposable. Yet Patricia Arquette and Matt Dillon began as teenagers and endured. The latest evidence: Their wacky, comically drug-addled “High Desert” series, streaming Wednesday on AppleTV+.To what do they credit their durability, longevity and sustained interest so many years later?“I’m gonna say, first of all, good luck,” Arquette, seated next to Dillon for a Zoom interview, began. “Second of all, choosing good other talent to work with.“Even though Matt was a heartthrob, he didn’t go for that clean, clear leading man, the obvious thing. And I didn’t go for that either. I always wanted messy, complicated parts, interesting stories. When you only commit to that leading lady-leading man thing it’s a dead-end road.”“For me, I always believed in myself,” Dillon, 59, began. “I wasn’t interested in fame; I was really interested in work. Doing good work. That can be frustrating at times.“Be...

Bangladesh, Myanmar brace as Cyclone Mocha makes landfall

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 11:48:03 GMT

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh and Myanmar braced Sunday as an extremely severe cyclone started to hit coastal areas and authorities urged thousands of people in both countries to seek shelter.The outermost band of Cyclone Mocha reached the coast of Myanmar’s Rakhine state on Sunday morning, and by afternoon the center of the storm was expected to make landfall near Sittwe township, which was under the highest weather alert, Myanmar’s Meteorological Department said Sunday.More than 4,000 of Sittwe’s 300,000 residents have been evacuated to other cities since Friday and more than 20,000 people are sheltering in sturdy buildings such as monasteries, pagodas and schools located on the city’s highlands, said Tin Nyein Oo, who is helping people in shelters in Sittwe. Many local residents live in areas more than 3 meters above sea level, places where residents believe the storm surge cannot reach, he added.Strong winds of 40 to 48 kilometers per hour (25 to 40 miles...

Turkey’s elections for presidency, parliament underway

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 11:48:03 GMT

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Voters in Turkey are heading to the polls on Sunday for landmark parliamentary and presidential elections that are expected to be tightly contested and could be the biggest challenge Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan faces in his two decades in power.The vote will either grant the increasingly authoritarian Erdogan a new five-year term in office or set the NATO-member country on what his opposition contender calls a more democratic path.Polling began at 8 a.m. (0500 GMT) and will close at 5 p.m. (1400 GMT). Media organizations are barred from reporting partial results until an embargo is lifted at 9 p.m. (1800 GMT). There are no exit polls.For the first time in his 20 years in office, opinion polls indicate that the populist Erdogan, 69, is entering a race trailing behind an opponent. Opinion surveys have given a slight lead to Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the 74-year-old leader of the center-left, pro-secular Republican People’s Party, or CHP, and the joint candid...