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Sports • Artesia SeaDogs Summer Swim Team Location: Artesia Aquatic Center Tryouts: 4-6 p.m. Thursday, May 30; 10 a.m.

El Rito Media Kayson Gomez, Jed Bilberry, and Elijah Sanchez have something most eightyear-olds would never dream of: a World Series championship. The three boys helped the Artesia Freedom 8-under baseball team claim the United States Specialty Sports Association (USSSA) 8-and-under AAA World Series title.

Rank/Driver Points 1 Cole Custer #00 716 2 Justin Allgaier #7 665 3 Chandler Smith #81 657 4 Austin Hill #21 640 5 AJ Allmendinger #16 564 6 Jesse Love #2 563 7 Riley Herbst #98 560 8 Sheldon Creed #18 543 9 Parker Kligerman #48 524 10 Sam Mayer #1 501 Rank/Driver Points 11 Sammy Smith #8 488 12 Ryan Sieg #39 466 13 Shane v. Gisbergen #97 463 14 Brandon Jones #9 412 15 Anthony Alfredo #5 393 16 Brennan Poole #44 337 17 Parker Retzlaff #31 315 18 Josh Williams #11 308 19 Jeb Burton #22 268 20 Jeremy Clements #51 267 NEXT RACE: PENZOIL 250, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, 3:30 p.m.

Rank/Driver Points Rank/Driver Points 1 Christian Eckes #19 618 2 Corey Heim #11 586 3 Nicholas Sanchez #2 505 4 Ty Majeski #98 490 5 Rajah Caruth #71 430 6 Tyler Ankrum #18 414 7 Grant Enfinger #9 411 8 Taylor Gray #17 404 9 Ben Rhodes #99 383 10 Daniel Dye #43 366 11 Tanner Gray #15 365 12 Stewart Friesen #52 362 13 Matt Crafton #88 319 14 Chase Purdy #77 314 15 Jake Garcia #13 293 16 Dean Thompson #5 277 17 Layne Riggs #38 271 18 Bayley Currey #41 250 19 Ty Dillon #25 249 20 Bret Holmes #32 247 NEXT RACE: TSPORT 200, Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park, 8:30 p.m. ET Friday, FS1 .

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Cole Custer celebrates after winning the Explore The Pocono Mountains 225 at Pocono Raceway Saturday. J.

• Saturday’s EXPLORE POCONO MOUNTAINS 225, Pocono Raceway Reigning Xfinity champion Cole Custer claimed his first win of the season Saturday, beating his closest championship challenger Justin Allgaier to the Explore The Pocono Mountains 225 checkered flag and giving Ford its first series win of 2024. Custer’s No.

Sports • Artesia SeaDogs Summer Swim Team Location: Artesia Aquatic Center Tryouts: 4-6 p.m. Thursday, May 30; 10 a.m.

RUIDOSO, N.M. — There will be a chance for a Triple Crown winner this year in quarter horse racing for 2-year-olds.

Reigning Cup champion Ryan Blaney returned to the site of his first career NASCAR Cup Series win and pulled away from the field in the closing laps of Sunday’s The Great American Getaway 400 at a sold-out Pocono Raceway to deliver a strong reminder to the competition that he’s primed to contend for another season trophy.

• Friday’s CRC BRAKLEEN 175, Pocono Raceway Corey Heim earned his series’ best fifth victory of the season in Friday evening’s rain-interrupted CRC Brakleen 175 at Pocono Raceway. The 21-year-old driver swept both stages and led 55 of the 70 laps to add to his trophy total.