This is the first day of summer! … The Region 2 baseball team, which includes Brunswick County, topped Region 4 (Dunn, Fayetteville) by an 11-10 margin in the State Games at UNC Greensboro on Thursday. Region 2 plays a 5-inning game for fifth place in the 8-team event at UNCG today at 1 p.m. … Shallotte will host the Diamond Youth Majors (12-and-under) Division 2 state baseball tournament July 12-17. … Corey Muscara, who has worked with pitchers at Wake Forest, has been named baseball coach at Duke. … Host Indiana forced a deciding seventh game in NBA finals on Sunday (ABC, 8 p.m.) with a 108-91 win over Oklahoma City on Thursday night as six players scored in double figures for the Pacers. … Scottie Scheffler and Austin Eckroat each shot 8-under par 62s on Thursday in the PGA Tour event in Cromwell, Connecticut, for a 2-shot lead going into the second round today (Golf Channel, 3 p.n.).
Thursday, June 20
