COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (July 4, 2025) – The U.S. Men’s Sitting National Team will play for the gold medal at the 2025 Dutch Tournament with three more wins on Saturday in Assen, Netherlands.

The U.S. (5-0) began the day with a 3-1 (20-25, 25-17, 25-18, 25-9) Türkiye before sweeping Canada, 3-0 (25-19, 25-21, 25-20). The U.S. Men’s Sitting Team clinched its berth in the gold medal match with a thrilling 3-2 (25-23, 25-12, 21-25 ,16-25, 15-13) victory over Poland.

MATCH STATISTICS vs. TURKIYE
MATCH STATISTICS vs. CANADA
MATCH STATISTICS vs. POLAND

vs. Türkiye

The U.S. finished with a 47-30 advantage in kills and 16-14 in blocks. Outside hitter Zach Upp recorded nearly twice as many aces as all other players combined with 13 of his team’s 16. Türkiye totaled four aces.

Upp led all players with 25 points with 11 kills and a block to go with his aces. James Stuck recorded a match-high 16 kills, adding a block and an ace.

Middle blocker Roderick Green finished with 12 points on eight kills and four blocks, and outside Ben Aman posted a match-high six blocks with three kills and an ace for 10 points.

vs. Canada

The U.S. finished with 34 kills compared to just 21 for Canada and held a slight edge in aces (13-10). Canada held the advantage in blocks (11-8).

Outside hitters Jason Roberts and Dan Regan were the top two scorers in the match. Roberts scored 16 points on eight kills, a match-best six aces and two blocks. Regan also delivered eight kills, adding four aces and two blocks for 12 points.

Alex Wilson was the third U.S. play to record eight kills and outside Sam Suroweic finished with six kills and an ace for seven points.

With a one-point lead at 13-12 in the first set, the U.S. went on a 7-0 run with Stuck serving to open up an eight-point lead. After Canada hoped to stop the momentum by taking a timeout at 17-12, Stuck responded with an ace.

The second set featured multiple ties until the U.S. took a two-point lead at 16-14. A Wilson kill extended the lead to three points, 18-15, and a pair of aces by Roberts stretched the lead to four, 21-17. Canada was unable to close the gap any closer than three points as the U.S. took a 2-0 set lead.

The U.S. started quickly in the third set, taking a 7-2 lead. The margin was seven, 14-7, when Canada scored five points in a row to close the gap to two. Canada pulled within a point on three occasions, the last being at 21-20, but the U.S. scored the final four points to complete the victory.

vs. Poland

The U.S. produced double-digit margins in kills (53-40) and aces (17-6), while Poland finished with eight more blocks (18-10).

Upp hit the 20-point mark for the second time in his two matches on Saturday, sharing match-high honors with teammate Green in kills (13) and leading all players with seven aces. Green added three blocks for 16 points.

Duda scored 15 points as one of three U.S. players to record a double-digit kill total with 12 to go with three aces. Aman finished with 10 points on four kills, three blocks and three aces.

Stuck totaled six points on five kills and a block, while Roberts scored five points on three kills and a pair of aces.

Behind the serving strength of Upp and Aman, the U.S. went on an 8-1 run to take a 16-7 lead in the first set. The lead grew to double digits,19-9, before Poland made a furious comeback to tie the match at 23.

Green stopped a four-point Poland streak to give the U.S. set point, and a hitting error secured the set for the U.S.

With a 10-7 lead in the second set, the U.S. scored eight of the next nine points for an 18-8 lead. Denying Poland a similar comeback to the first set, the U.S. scored six consecutive points for a 24-10 lead and took a 2-0 lead in the match three points later.

Poland scored the first four points of the third set and never trailed. At one point, the U.S. used a 5-2 run to cut the lead to two points, 19-17 but could not maintain the momentum after a delay of several minutes when the head official was clarifying information with the scorer’s table.

Poland ran out to 6-0 and 10-1 leads in the fourth set. The U.S. never got closer than seven points behind as the match headed to a deciding set.

An Aman kill put the U.S. ahead 6-3 in the fifth set and led Poland to call its first timeout. Duda registered a kill later in the set to extend the lead to four points, 10-6. After the teams exchanged the next two points, the U.S. took its biggest lead when Kremer hustled and made a great set for another Duda kill and a 12-7 lead.

Poland scored the next three points to lead head coach Greg Walker to call his first timeout. Duda scored again, this time off the Poland block, to make it 13-10. Once again Poland went on a three-point streak and tied the set at 13, completing a 6-1 run.

After Walker called his second timeout, Green scored off the block to set up match point, which the U.S. converted on a Poland hitting error.

Roster

No. Name (Position, Height, Hometown)
2 Dan Regan (OH, 6-0, St. Louis, Mo.)
3 Nick Dadgostar (L, 6-0, Sidney, Neb.)
4 Ben Aman (OH, 6-5, Edmond, Okla.)
5 Eric Duda (S/OH, 6-5, Fort Lauderdale, Fla.)
6 Alex Wilson (OPP/OH, 6-6, Saugerties, N.Y.)
8 James Stuck (S/OH, 6-5, New Kensington, Pa.)
10 Robbie Onusko(OH, 6-0, Daytona Beach, Fla.)
11 Roderick Green (MB, 6-3, West Monroe, La.)
14 John Kremer (L, 5-9, Buford, Ga.)
17 Zach Upp (OH, 6-5, Bartlett, Ill.)
20 Jason Roberts (OH, 6-3, Moncks Corner, S.C.)
22 Brett Parks(OH, 6-0, Miami, Fla.)
23 Will Curtis (S/L, 6-0, Cumberland, Maine)
49 Sam Surowiec (OH, 6-2, Everett, Wash.)

Coaches
Head coach: Greg Walker
Assistant Coach: Julie Allen
Assistant Coach: Dave Dantes
Assistant Coach: Kenzie Rombach
Performance Analyst: Sydnie Mabry
Athletic Trainer: Whitney Padgett

Schedule

July 4
USA def. Netherlands, 3-0 (25-16, 25-17, 25-23)
USA def. Japan, 3-0 (25-20, 25-16, 33-31)

July 5
USA def. Türkiye, 3-1 (20-25, 25-17, 25-18, 25-9)
USA def. Canada, 3-0 (25-19, 25-21, 25-20)
USA def. Poland, 3-2 (25-23, 25-12, 21-25 ,16-25, 15-13)

July 6
Gold medal match: USA vs. TBA, 7 a.m. PT

The Texas Tech Red Raiders announced themselves as a major player in college athletics’ revenue-sharing era on Friday with a historic football signing.

ESPN college football reporter Eli Lederman shared that 2026 five-star offensive tackle Felix Ojo agreed to a staggering three-year, $5.1 million fully guaranteed contract for his commitment to Texas Tech.

According to 247Sports, Ojo is the top offensive tackle and No. 5 overall prospect in his class.

Per Lederman:

“The deal is believed to be one of the largest fully guaranteed revenue-sharing agreements in college football history under the recently approved federal settlement that allows college programs to pay their athletes directly.”

In February, ESPN’s Max Olson wrote about the program’s spending spree this offseason, which included On3.com’s top-ranked transfer portal class.

Per Olson, the Red Raiders spent over $10 million for its 2025 acquisitions, including linebacker David Bailey, defensive tackle Lee Hunter and running back Quinten Joyner.

Bailey led Stanford with seven sacks in 2024 and ranked fourth in NCAA in fumbles forced (five). Hunter tied for a UCF team-high 10 tackles for loss, while Joyner, a 2024 redshirt freshman at USC, averaged 7.6 yards per carry and scored four touchdowns last season. 

The Red Raiders aren’t solely spending heavily on their football roster.

As Lederman noted, Texas Tech softball pitcher NiJaree Canady also recently received her second million-dollar name, image and likeness deal with the university, another sign of the program’s serious push to establish itself as the premier Big 12 power.

A vacuum exists at the top following Oklahoma and Texas leaving for the SEC. In 2024, Arizona State football won the conference after being picked to finish last in the preseason by Big 12 media, which canceled all future preseason polls as a result.

No one knows what to expect from the conference moving forward, but Texas Tech is putting itself in a position to emerge near the top with its splurge. Money can’t buy championships, but it provides teams an easier path to contention.

The Red Raiders are clearly hungry to add to their total. In 2024, men’s track and field won the NCAA Indoor Championships, marking the third NCAA title in Texas Tech history.

Men’s track and field also won an outdoor championship in 2019, while women’s basketball earned Texas Tech its first NCAA championship in 1993.

The softball team came painfully close to winning the women’s College World Series in June, losing to Texas, 2-1, in the best-of-three championship series.

ESPN’s Football Power Index isn’t too high on the football squad being nearly as competitive this fall. The Red Raiders have an 8-4 projected win-loss record and 10.3 percent chance of reaching the 12-team College Football Playoff.

Texas Tech could be an afterthought on the gridiron in 2025, but Ojo’s massive signing is indicative of the program’s bright future.

The recent landmark House vs. NCAA settlement forever altered the college athletics landscape, and the Red Raiders have been one of the quickest to take advantage.

Our Sports Reporter

GUWAHATI: Jorhat emerged as the champion in the 32nd All Assam Aquatic Championship, which concluded at the Sarusajai Sports Complex in the city today. Jorhat dominated the competition, amassing a total of 56 gold, 51 silver, and 36 bronze medals.

Kamrup finished in second place with 35 gold, 38 silver, and 34 bronze medals, while Sivasagar secured third with 7 gold, 8 silver, and 13 bronze medals.

In water polo, Sivasagar took home the men’s and women’s titles, while Jorhat claimed the runners-up positions in both events.

Group Champions: 1. Men (open) – Banadip Medhi (Kamrup),  Women (open) – Disha Gogoi (Charaideo).  Group – I (Boys) – Sanskar Bhuyan (Jorhat),  Group – I (Girls) – Jahnabi Changmai (Kamrup). Group – II (Boys) – Prayash Gogoi (Jorhat) and Awad Aditya (Jorhat), Group – II (Girls) – Angarika Saikia (Jorhat)  and Bhoomika Kashyap (Jorhat).  Group- III (Boys)- Abhigyan Mohan (Jorhat),  Group-III (Girls) Kasturi Gogoi (Kamrup).

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UNIVERSITY PARK – Six State College Spikes pitchers combined to whiff 13 Williamsport Crosscutters on Thursday night as the Spikes drew within a half-game of the first-place Crosscutters with a 5-2 win at Medlar Field at Lubrano Park.

With eight games remaining on the MLB Draft League first-half schedule, the Spikes (11-10) are tied for third with the West Virginia Black Bears. The Crosscutters (12-10) remained in first place despite the loss, but now lead the Trenton Thunder (13-11) by only three percentage points.

Another stout mound effort powered the Spikes, beginning with the debuting Jacob Mayers. The LSU product, fresh off winning a national championship in Omaha and notching the win in the MLB Draft League’s 10-6 win over the Cape Cod League in Monday’s exhibition at Citi Field in New York, allowed just one run on four hits and one walk while striking out seven batters over four innings.

Caden Wooster (1-0) then struck out two batters and yielded just one walk and one hit batsman over two scoreless frames before Landon O’Donnell and Ethan Storm kept the Crosscutters off the board in the seventh. Jason Shockley then left the bases loaded with two strikeouts in the eighth before Treyson Peters (1) whiffed one batter in a one-hit ninth for the save.

Ryan Rivera got the offense going for State College with a two-run single in the first. Despite continuing his eight-game hitting streak, the longest active string in the MLB Draft League, Rivera saw his streak of multi-hit games finish at five after a 1-for-3 performance. The multi-hit streak finished one game shy of the Spikes record shared by Steven Ramos in 2013 and Trent Taylor in 2022.

Dan Tauken and Caden Shapiro added RBI singles for State College.

Williamsport starter Connor Knox (1-1) took the loss after giving up two runs on seven hits while recording five strikeouts.