BASEBALL
Yoan Moncada hit two home runs and the Portland Sea Dogs used a four-run sixth inning to take the lead for good against the Trenton Thunder in an 11-4 win Monday in Trenton, New Jersey.
Moncada’s first home run came in the top of the seventh, extending Portland’s lead to 7-2. He added a three-run homer in the eighth to make it 11-3.
Ryan Court broke a 2-2 tie with an RBI single in the sixth. Aneury Tavarez also singled home a run, and Jake Romanski hit a two-run single.
Tavarez went 3 for 5 with a triple and two runs scored.
Jalen Beeks picked up his first win of the season, allowing two runs on seven hits while striking out four in six innings.
BABE RUTH 13-15: Jared Beckwith doubled and drove in a run to help Apple Valley beat Tri-County 5-2 in the state championship game for 13- to 15-year-olds, at Augusta.
Cody Duguay added two hits, and Brian Hewitt threw a complete game to pick up the win. Apple Valley advances to the New England regional in Lynn, Massachusetts.
AMERICAN LEGION: Tanner Laberge hit an RBI double during a five-run second inning as the Sebago Lakers beat Libby Mitchell 8-0 at Scarborough.
Laberge also tripled, and Zachary Hicks added two hits and two RBI. Roderick Maynard also had two hits and picked up the pitching win with three scoreless innings.
CYCLING
TOUR DE FRANCE: World champion Peter Sagan won the 16th stage in a photo finish as the race crossed into Switzerland.
Sagan, a Slovakian with the Tinkoff team, edged Alexander Kristoff of Norway at the line.
Chris Froome held on to the yellow jersey entering the second and final rest day.
SOCCER
EURO 2016: Interpol said a crackdown on Asian gambling dens and websites during football’s European Championship led to more than 4,100 people arrested and $13.6 million seized.
Police raided nearly 4,000 illegal dens across Asia and Europe, including in China, Singapore, France and Italy.
EUROPE: Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi are on the 10-player shortlist to be named Best Player in Europe for this past season.
Ronaldo is joined by Pepe, his teammate on European champion teams Portugal and Real Madrid.
BASKETBALL
NBA: The Milwaukee Bucks re-signed free-agent center Miles Plumlee to a four-year deal worth $52 million. The 6-foot-11 Plumlee averaged 5.1 points and 3.8 rebounds in 61 games in 2015-16, his fourth season in the league and first full year in Milwaukee.
TENNIS
ROGERS CUP: Wimbledon champion Andy Murray withdrew from the tournament in Toronto because of fatigue.
The world No. 2 player and defending Rogers Cup champion said he needs time to rest after going deep in recent tournaments.
ATP: Serbian qualifier Nikola Cacic spoiled Aljaz Bedene’s 27th birthday at Umag, Croatia, by beating the British player 5-7, 6-4, 6-4 for his first win on the tour.
In the only other main-draw match, Leonardo Mayer of Argentina beat local wild card Nikola Mektic, 7-5, 6-2.
GENERALI OPEN: Mischa Zverev of Germany twice came back from a break down in the second set to defeat Facundo Bagnis of Argentina 7-6 (5), 7-6 (5) in the first round at Kitzbuehl, Austria.
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