A 4-2 loss at Down East on Sunday and Winston-Salem’s 2-1 win at Carolina dropped the Buies Creek Astros 1.5 games behind the first-place Dash in the Carolina League Southern Division baseball standings. Myrtle Beach has won nine straight and is 2.5 games back. … Duke took an 11-2 win in the Lubbock Super Regional on Sunday and plays Texas Tech today at 4 for a berth in the College World Series. … Campbell senior Sabina Allen collected second team All-America honors Saturday in the women’s triple jump with a 12.99-meter effort for 16th place in Eugene, Oregon. … On Friday, Amon Kemboi of the Camels finished fifth in the men’s 5,000 meters in 13:56.37 for first team All-America honors. … Rafael Nadal won the French Open in tennis for the 11th time Sunday. … Justify led wire-to-wire in the Belmont on Saturday with Mike Smith aboard to complete the Triple Crown. … A 2-0 win for the New York Mets on Sunday night ended a four-game winning streak for the New York Yankees and stopped an eight-game losing streak for the Mets. Former Yankee Todd Frazier hit a decisive two-run homer in the fifth and started a game-ending double play. … On this date in 1990, Nolan Ryan threw his sixth career no-hitter at age 43.
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