Former Overhills coach Michael Stephens will be the new varsity boys basketball coach at Harnett Central with the retirement of Will Gage. … The athletes of the year at Central are Kevin Spears (Male) and Alison Williams (Female). … Former Triton players Anthony Jones and Xander Johnson are members of the Hope Mills Rockfish in the Old North State wooden bat baseball league. Hope Mills plays at Laurinburg on Friday at 6 p.m. … Host Edmonton took game one of the Stanley Cup finals, 4-3, over defending champion Florida on Wednesday night on a power play goal in overtime by Leon Draisaitl as the Oilers completed a comeback from a 3-1 deficit. … The NBA finals get underway tonight as visiting Indiana is a 9.5-point underdog to Oklahoma City (ABC, 8:30p.m.). … Tickets are sold out for the Savannah Bananas at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte on Friday and Saturday but the second matchup with the Party Animals will be shown nationally (ESPN2, 7 p.m.). … The Canadian Open on the PGA Tour gets underway today (Golf Channel, 3 p.m.).