FRIDAY SPORTS, JULY 10, 2026
PALACE CITY LEGION BASEBALL
— Palace City Post 18 competes at the Gopher Classic in the Twin Cities this weekend. Palace City faces Elk River on Friday at 2 pm, followed by the Invictus Eagles (Omaha) at 4 pm. On Saturday, Palace City faces Bloomington (Minn.) at 9 am, followed by Rosemount (Minn.)
— Palace City 14-and-under baseball split its first two games of the Mid-Summer Classic Tournament at Harmodon Park in Sioux Falls on Thursday defeating Yankton 11-2, before losing to the South Dakota Outlaws 10-3.
— Palace City 13-and-under baseball lost its first two games of the Mid-Summer Classic Tournament at Harmodon Park in Sioux Falls, 9-8 to Volga and 8-7 vs. Tea.
SDGA GOLF
— Mitchell’s Brooks Aadland finished first in the boys 10-11 division Wednesday during a South Dakota Golf Association Junior Mini Tour stop at Kuehn Park Golf Course in Sioux Falls. Aadland shot a 5-over-par 35 in the nine-hole event. Also for Mitchell, Kendall Aadland placed second in the girls 12-13 division with a 46.
— Parkston’s Landon Weber finished fourth in the boys 16-18 division Wednesday during a Junior Prep Tour stop at Rocky Run Golf Course in Dell Rapids. Weber shot a 3-over-par 74 on the par-71 course, tying two other golfers and placing fourth. The SDGA Junior Prep and Mini Tours continue Monday with stops in Arlington, Worthington, Minnesota, and Rapid City.
AMATEUR BASEBALL – THURSDAY
Alexandria 22, Dimock/Emery 11 – Jackson Jarding with two home runs and six RBI’s, while Jordan Gau, Tyson Gau, Dakota Munger and A.J. Wilber also went deep. Lincoln Bates led Dimock/Emery with a HR and five RBI’s.
Parkston Mudcats 10, Corsica 9 – Max Scott with a home run and three RBI’s. Brady Albracht with two RBI’s.
Parkston Rays 6, Winner/Colome 5 – Dylan Soulek with three RBI’s, Seth Muth with a pair of hits and three runs scored and Tanner Dyk added three hits. Nolan Dvorak get the win, allowing four earned runs with seven strikeouts over 7 1/3 innings.
Kimball/White Lake 9, Burke 1 – KWL with five runs in the eighth inning. Ethan Price threw five shutout innings with 10 strikeouts.
Freeman 13, Lesterville 8 – Colton Spader with three hits.
Colome 18, Wessington Springs 8 (7 innings)
Dell Rapids PBR 8, Salem 2
Hartford/Humboldt Wood Ducks 13, Canova 6
MINNESOTA TWINS
— Gavin Williams pitched seven innings, while Gabriel Arias, Chase DeLauter and Patrick Bailey hit home runs as the Cleveland Guardians beat the Minnesota Twins 5-2. Williams gave up two runs on three hits and tied his season high with 11 strikeouts. Twins starter Bailey Ober gave up one run on three hits with five strikeouts in his first appearance since May 30. Minnesota stays two games back of Cleveland and Chicago for first place in the AL Central. The Twins host the Los Angeles Angels for a three-game series starting Friday at 7:10 pm.
WORLD CUP
France 2, Morocco 0 – France advances to the semifinals on Tuesday at 2 pm at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.
Spain vs. Belgium – Friday at 2 pm on FOX
England vs. Norway – Saturday at 4 pm on FOX
Argentina vs. Switzerland – Saturday at 8 pm on FOX
TENNIS
— Karolina Muchova ended Coco Gauff’s run at Wimbledon in a drama-filled tiebreaker to reach the final. Gauff wasted a match point in the tiebreaker and so did Muchova before she finished it off to win 6-2, 1-6, 7-6 (10). Muchova will meet Linda Noskova in all-Czech final on Saturday. The men’s semifinals on Friday feature top-ranked and defending champion Jannik Sinner against seven-time Wimbledon winner Novak Djokovic, while French Open champion Alexander Zverev faces British wild card Arthur Fery.
NBA
— Kawhi Leonard’s trade to the Toronto Raptors is on hold pending the outcome of the NBA’s investigation into whether the Los Angeles Clippers circumvented salary cap rules. It does not necessarily mean that the trade is off. The Raptors said they still want Leonard, while the Clippers again insisted that they are not guilty of any wrongdoing. But the probe could lead to penalties that include a substantial fine, the loss of drafts and even the voiding of a player contract if the league finds there was a deliberate circumvention of salary cap rules.
— Former Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier wants to play in the NBA while he fights sports gambling charges that sidelined him last season. Bail conditions that bar him from contact with certain players and limit his travel could complicate his potential return. The U.S. District Judge denied a defense request to modify Rozier’s bail conditions so he can practice and play with potential witnesses as long as they don’t talk about the case. The judge said it would be impossible to police Rozier’s on-court conversations. The Judge admonished Rozier for already violating the no-contact provision of his $3 million bond by sending a text message to a person he was told not to communicate with. Rozier was contacting the person to tell the person he was on the no-contact list.
— Former Dallas Mavericks majority owner Mark Cuban is accusing team governor Patrick Dumont of freezing him out of business opportunities regarding the team’s proposed arena relocation. Cuban alleges that Dumont has engaged in adversarial business practices. The dispute stems from a plan to move the Mavericks 10 miles north of downtown to a new arena scheduled to open in 2031. Cuban, who still owns 27 percent of the franchise, claims his businesses are contractually entitled to participate in the development.
NFL
— The Washington Commanders are retiring John Riggins’ No. 44 during the upcoming NFL season, the team announced Thursday. The Hall of Fame running back will be honored in a ceremony at halftime of the team’s game against the Los Angeles Rams on Nov. 8. Riggins is the organization’s all-time leading rusher with 7,472 yards and 79 touchdowns on 1,988 carries and helped the team win the Super Bowl in the 1982 season.
NCAA
— An Ohio judge has granted a preliminary injunction for 24 men’s and women’s college basketball players suing the NCAA for eligibility, claiming the new age-based model unfairly shuts them out of further competition. Judge Christopher Wagner said Thursday the NCAA eligibility rules have been applied to 2022 high school graduates in an arbitrary manner, adding the plaintiffs would suffer “irreparable injury” without an injunction. Wagner’s ruling allows the athletes in the lawsuit an opportunity to enter the transfer portal. He scheduled a conference for Aug. 4 to prepare for a trial.
OLYMPICS
— Russia’s track and field federation says it has gone to the Court of Arbitration for Sport to overturn a World Athletics ruling suspending its athletes from international events due to the war in Ukraine. World Athletics excluded all athletes from Russia and its ally Belarus from its international events in March 2022, days after Russian forces invaded Ukraine. It kept that suspension in place at a council meeting last week. Since then, the International Olympic Committee has eased its restrictions on Russia ahead of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics and recommended other sports bodies do the same. Russia hasn’t competed under its own flag at a world athletics championships since 2015, when the Russian track federation was suspended over widespread doping.
MLB
— Phillies first baseman Bryce Harper and St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Jordan Walker will participate in the Home Run Derby in Philadelphia on Monday night. Harper and Walker join Boston’s Willson Contreras, Kansas City’s Jac Caglianone, Tampa Bay’s Junior Caminero and the New York Yankees’ Ben Rice in the competition at Citizens Bank Park. The other two participants haven’t been announced.
— Ben Rice hit two homers and drove in five runs as the New York Yankees beat the Tampa Bay Rays 12-4 to split a four-game series between the AL’s top two teams. Junior Caminero went deep for the Rays, who have a four-game lead over the Yankees in the East.
— Jake Bauers hit a three-run home run, Brice Turang added his 13th homer of the season as the Milwaukee Brewers used a six-run third inning to defeat the St. Louis Cardinals 8-4 to claim four of five games in the series.
— Mike Yastrzemski hit a game-sealing grand slam in the ninth inning, while Matt Olson hit a first-inning home run while tying the franchise record for consecutive games played as the Atlanta Braves defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates 10-5. Olson has played in 740 straight games, going back to the start of the 2022 season.
— Caleb Durbin hit a two-run homer to help the Boston Red Sox top the Chicago White Sox 2-1 for their sixth consecutive victory. The Red Sox improved to 11-2 in their past 13 games.
— Eduardo Valencia became the 10th Detroit player to homer in his first career plate appearance, while Framber Valdez pitched seven innings as the Tigers beat the Athletics 4-1 for a series sweep.
— Otto Lopez hit a two-run triple as the Miami Marlins beat the Seattle Mariners 8-4 to extend their winning streak to six. Lopez leads the majors with a .345 average. The Marlins are 52-42 and 10 games above .500 for the first time since 2023.
— Jesús Luzardo allowed two hits in seven shutout innings and struck out 11, while Justin Crawford’s base hit in the eighth inning drove in the game’s only run as the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Cincinnati Reds 1-0.
— Wyatt Langford lined a shot off the wall in left field to bring home Alejandro Osuna in the ninth inning, lifting Texas to a 7-6 victory over the Los Angeles Angels after the Rangers blew a five-run lead.
— Tyrone Taylor hit the game-tying homer to start a five-run fifth inning, leading the New York Mets to a 7-3 win over the Kansas City Royals.
— Jeremiah Jackson hit a two-run double in the bottom of the eighth inning to lift the Baltimore Orioles to a 3-2 victory over the Chicago Cubs.
— Nolan Arenado homered and moved closer to 2,000 hits, while Merrill Kelly combined with two relievers on a three-hitter for the Arizona Diamondbacks, who beat the San Diego Padres 3-1. Arenado is now six hits shy of 2,000.
— Casey Schmitt, Bryce Eldridge and Willy Adames homered as the San Francisco Giants beat the Colorado Rockies 8-2.