Summer Ball

■ Brian Carr pitched 9 scoreless innings in relief for the Casa Grande Cotton Kings in the Arizona Summer Collegiate League Championship game last sunday. The Cotton Kings won the game 3-2 in 18 innings. The Cotton Kings will now move on to Wichita, Kansas for the NBC Naitonals.

■ Opel's walk-off blast lifts Westerners over Gulls (newstimes.com)

The home runs were flying out of Rogers Park on Wednesday night, and Dane Opel hit perhaps the biggest home run of the season for the Danbury Westerners.

With two outs in the 10th inning, Opel drove the first pitch he saw onto Memorial Drive beyond the right-field fence to lift the Westerners to a much-needed 5-4 victory over the Newport Gulls in a battle between two of the top teams in the New England Collegiate Baseball League.