Sports Digest: Chad Epperson returns for second season as Sea Dogs manager

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The Red Sox announced Saturday that Chad Epperson will be entering his second season as manager of the Portland Seadogs. Sean Patrick Ouelett/Staff Photographer

Chad Epperson is in his second season as manager of the Portland Sea Dogs and will lead the coaching staff for the 2023 season announced Saturday by the Boston Red Sox.

Epperson led the Sea Dogs to the Eastern League playoffs for the first time since 2014, as Portland were late-season champions of the Northeast Division with a 45-24 record. Overall, Sea Dogs he went 75-63.

Doug Clark will also be in his second season as hitting coach, while Joe Hudson will remain as strength and conditioning coach.

The staff also includes pitching coach Sean Isaac, assistant coaches Mickey Jean and Pablo Cabrera, and trainer Brian Statura.

ski

Women’s World Cup: American skier Mikaela Shiffrin dominated the slalom at Spindleruv Mlyn in the Czech Republic on Saturday, moving to one of the World Cup records set by Swedish great Ingemar Stenmark in the 1980s, for the 85th time. You have won a career.

Shiffrin could match another Sunday’s slalom record of 86 wins.

Shiffrin, who shared a women’s record of 82 wins with former teammate Lindsay Vonn, won back-to-back giant slalom events in Italy this week, adding to her three-game winning streak on Saturday.

After finishing the race, the American wiggled his shoulders and celebrated with a bright smile.

Men’s World Cup: Swiss skier Marco Odermatt won the Men’s World Cup Super G in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, after a triumphant comeback from an injury layoff 10 days before the start of the World Championships.

Odermatt missed two races last week to ease a sore left knee, but the defending overall champion returned to his best form on the scenic Olympia delle Tofane course, beating Norwegian rival Alexander Amott Kilde by 0.35s. surpassed.

This was Odermatt’s third Super-G win of the season, while Kilde won the other two events.

golf

European Tour: Top-ranked Rory McIlroy and rival Patrick Reed trailed by two strokes at the halfway point of the Dubai Desert Classic in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Richard Brand, Thomas Pieters and amateur Michael Thorbjörnsen all reached 10-under overall at the Emirates Golf Club after two rounds of a weather-affected tournament that ends Monday. We shared the first place.

Torbjörnsen, ranked second in the world amateur rankings, hit an 8-under 64. He started on the 10th and after birdies on five of the first six holes, he eagled on the par-5 18th. He added a bogey and also his two birdies.

Football

FA Cup: Leeds and Leicester avoided a potential upset and reached the FA Cup fifth round, but survival in the Premier League remains a priority for both clubs.

Leeds beat third-placed Accrington Stanley 3-1, while Leicester beat fourth-placed Walsall 1-0.

The win provided a temporary distraction for both sides, who sit just one point above the league’s relegation zone.

NWSL: The National Women’s Soccer League is nearing expansion with three teams located in the Boston, Utah and San Francisco areas, according to a Wall Street Journal report Friday.

The Women’s Professional League has previously hinted at adding at least two more teams by 2024. The Wall Street Journal, citing unnamed sources, reported that franchises in Northern California and Utah are set to start playing next year, with Boston set to join at a later date. .

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