BASKETBALL
The Tidewater Wildcats won the Hampton Roads 7 Cities Pro-Am basketball championship, defeating First Class Real Estate 82-74 to cap a four-game Sunday tournament at Norview High in Norfolk.
Jalen Milt scored 21 points and Deangelo Canty 15 in the championship game for the Wildcats. For First Class, former Norfolk State and Lake Taylor High star Joe Bryant Jr. scored 19 and Old Dominion’s Dani Pounds had 16.
In the quarterfinals, Team Brown won by forfeit against Harvey Lindsay after ECG defeated NewRunz 75-65. Jamari Garnett scored 19 points and Norfolk State’s Chris Fields Jr. had 16 for ECG. Christopher Newport’s Jahn Hines led NewRunz with 21.
In the semifinals, Pounds poured in 27 points to help First Class Real Estate overcome ECG 90-62. For ECG, Garnett scored 17 and Fields 16.
The Wildcats rallied past Team Brown 87-79, finishing the game on a 17-5 run. Ky Oden had 24 points and Khalil Oden 19 for the Wildcats.
For Team Brown, James Madison’s Xavier Brown had 35 points and Mary Washington’s Dashawn Cook added 21.
Longwood’s Mike Christmas, a Landstown High alum who played for Harvey Lindsay, repeated as the league MVP.
AUTO RACING
Hall takes third after being spun
Hampton native Connor Hall took third place in a bizarre CARS Tour Late Model Stock 125 Saturday night at Hickory Motor Speedway in Newton, North Carolina.
Hall, the pole starter, was dueling Ryan Millington for the victory, and they had contact over the final laps. Late contact from behind put Hall into a spin as Millington crossed the finish line.
But officials penalized Millington for the contact and gave the victory to Ronnie Bassett Jr., who got his first win in the series after joining it full-time in 2023.
Bobby McCarty finished second. According to racingamerica.com, Hall was able to point his car in the proper direction to edge Kade Brown for third. That finish came on the heels of Hall’s runner-up finish to Brenden Queen in the previous Saturday’s Hampton Heat 200 at Langley Speedway.
“I thought we had the race won, but the fastest car doesn’t always win the race,” Hall, last year’s NASCAR Weekly Series national champion and current CARS Tour points leader, told racingamerica.com. “This is a tough one. That’s three in a row that have been pretty tough to swallow. We’re just going to keep putting ourselves in position to succeed, and hopefully one will fall our way pretty soon.”
SOCCER
Seacoast United wins at CNU, advances to national final
The Seacoast United Phantoms of Epping, New Hampshire, will fondly remember their trip to Newport News.
They defeated the Asheville City SC Blues of North Carolina 1-0 Sunday night at Christopher Newport’s TowneBank Stadium to earn a berth in the USL League Two national championship match.
Friday, Seacoast United handed Lionsbridge FC a rare home loss, outscoring the Lions 6-3. Two days later, in a far different match at CNU, the Phantoms shut out an Asheville team that had beaten Corpus Christi FC of Texas 1-0.
