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SPORTS BRIEFING

All-district honors

CALCUTTA — Several Beaver Local golfers were named Div. II All-Eastern District Golf Coaches Association recently.

Junior Owen Hill (41.03 average), sophomore Britton Hickman (41.38) and junior Braxton Hickman (41.99) all were awarded second team honors.

Sophomore Andre Wiegand (43.68) was named to the third team.

Dodgers win World Series

NEW YORK (AP) — The Los Angeles Dodgers won their second World Series championship in five seasons, overcoming a five-run deficit with the help of three Yankees defensive miscues and rallying on sacrifice flies from Gavin Lux and Mookie Betts in the eighth inning to beat New York 7-6 in Game 5 on Wednesday night.

Aaron Judge and Jazz Chisholm Jr. hit back-to-back home runs in the first inning, Alex Verdugo’s RBI single chased Jack Flaherty in the second and Giancarlo Stanton’s third-inning homer against Ryan Brasier built a 5-0 Yankees lead.

But errors by Judge in center and Anthony Volpe at shortstop, combined with pitcher Gerrit Cole failing to cover first on Betts’ grounder, helped Los Angeles score five unearned runs in the fifth.

The Dodgers earned their eighth championship and seventh since leaving Brooklyn for Los Angeles.

Freeman gets record 12 RBIs

NEW YORK (AP) — Freddie Freeman hit a two-run single Wednesday night for the Los Angeles Dodgers to give him 12 RBIs in the World Series, matching a Fall Classic record set 64 years ago.

New York Yankees second baseman Bobby Richardson drove in 12 runs in 1960 against the Pittsburgh Pirates, who won the championship that year on Bill Mazeroski’s famous homer that ended Game 7.

Freeman compiled his total in just five games against the Yankees, breaking several World Series marks along the way.

Cavs go 5-0

CLEVELAND (AP) — Evan Mobley scored 25 points, Donovan Mitchell added 24 and the Cleveland Cavaliers improved to 5-0 with a 134-110 win over the Los Angeles Lakers on Wednesday night in a game that included a special homecoming for LeBron James and his son, Bronny.

The win marks the first time the Cavs have started 5-0 since the 2016-17 season, led by LeBron, and the third time in franchise history.

In the final minutes, Bronny played for the second time as a pro and was inserted with 5:16 left. The younger James, who grew up in the arena, made a 14-foot jumper with 2:03 to play for his first NBA points.

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