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Even with a big weekend awaiting, Rhode Island coach Dan Hurley doesnt think his No. 21 Rams will have trouble focusing on Wednesday nights Hall of Fame Tip-off game against Brown at Kingston, R.I.Thats Brown, a longtime local rival.We know what it is when we play Brown, Hurley said after the Rams disposed of Marist 107-65 on Monday night.The Bears of the Ivy League are 1-1 in this early season, losing to now-rated Cincinnati before opening their home season with a win over Niagara on Sunday behind Steven Spieth with a career night of 27 points, 10 rebounds and nine assists.(Brown coach) Mike (Martin) ... and the job he does with those guys in terms of how hard it is to play, how hard-nosed they are, their ability to shoot the ball and spread you out, said Hurley. Theyre playing pretty small. Every time weve played them its been a hell of a game.Last year, the Rams, dressing only seven scholarship players, pulled out an 88-85 victory over the Bears. URI has won four straight, 13 of the last 14 and 18 of the last 20, leading a series that started in 1909-10 by 104-53.Last years OT game should be more than enough for URI to stay focused on Brown -- even with a date with No. 24 Cincinnati and then quite possibly No. 1 Duke over the weekend at the Mohegan Sun Casino in Connecticut waiting. Duke faces Penn State on Saturday with the winners and losers pairing off the next day.Brown plays Albany and Marist in the tournaments other bracket at the same location.Our team can score the basketball, said Martin. We play at a pretty good pace and we have a lot of guys that can make plays.No one made more of them Sunday than Spieth, who came within one assist from becoming only the third Ivy Leaguer to record a triple-double. Dartmouths Ian McGinnis (2000) and Browns Jason Forte (2004) are the others.Spieth, a senior, hit only four baskets (on nine tries) but went 19-for-22 from the foul line in his career game. Obi Okalie scored 15 points and grabbed five rebounds and freshman Joshua Howard scored all 14 of his points in the first half.Im happy with todays win, Martin said after the game. We put in a lot of hard work in the off-season and it paid off today with a victory. We did enough defensively and got to the free-throw line.And get to 1-1 before URI.Ive gotten to know Mike over the last couple of years, hes an excellent coach, Hurley said. He will have his guys ready on Wednesday and we need to have the right mindset in that game.The Rams have dealt with sluggish defensive starts in each of their two games but had no trouble waking up in plenty of time -- upping their non-conference record on their Ryan Center home floor to 74-25. They have won 13 of their last 15 and 22 of their last 26 non-league games at home. Hydro Flask Coffee Cup .J. Ellis hit two-run homers and the NL West champion Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the San Diego Padres 4-0 Saturday night. 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NEW YORK -- Finally after a week of questions about whats wrong with the San Francisco Giants, they have a win.The Giants needed four hours and 25 minutes to snap their season-high six-game losing streak and they will look to get another win and do so in less time Sunday afternoon when their three-game series with the New York Yankees concludes.I liked the way weve been fighting, Giants manager Bruce Bochy said. The only thing you do in this game is create opportunities, get guys on and be in a good situation. Weve been doing that.Those were Bochys comments after the streak ended with Saturdays 2-1 victory after right fielder Mac Williamsons single with one out in the 12th inning.Williamsons hit was the Giants only one in 11 at-bats with runners in scoring position. During the last seven games, San Francisco has eight hits in 64 at-bats in those situations.Its a huge win for us, reliever Hunter Strickland said. Weve been battling. We just came up short the last few games.Had the Giants continued their skid, besides answering questions about their struggles, they would have been associated with the rival Los Angeles Dodgers in a dubious way. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, the 1991 Dodgers are the only team to enter the break with the best record in baseball and lose their first seven games.While San Francisco waited for the big hit, it received effective starting pitching in New York. After Madison Bumgarner allowed two runs and six hits in seven innings on Friday and Johnny Cueto allowed one run and six hits in six innings on Saturday, it will be Jeff Samardzijas turn.Samardzija was listed as Saturdays starter, but Bochy said it was a miscommunication. Samardzija was to go Sunday as the team intended all along and he will look to end some of his struggles since the start of June.Through May 31, Samardzija was 7-3 with a 2.84 ERA in his first 11 starts. Since then, he is 2-2 with a 6.02 ERA in his last eight outings.The All-Star was unable to turn it around during last Saturdays 7-6 loss in San Diego when he allowed five runs (four earned) and ffive hits in five innings while getting a no-decision in a game decided on a passed ball.dddddddddddd.Samardzija has limited experience facing the Yankees, going 0-1 with a 6.92 ERA in three appearances. Last year, he faced New York while pitching for the Chicago White Sox and allowed nine earned runs in 4 2/3 innings on Aug. 2.The Yankees are 5-4 during their 10-game homestand and have won eight of their last 13 games against teams who have been in first place (Cleveland, Boston, Baltimore and San Francisco). Each loss pushes the conversation toward selling at the Aug. 1 non-waiver trade deadline.Its not in our hands, Yankees right fielder Carlos Beltran said. We have to go out and perform, but the organizations going to make whatever decision theyre going to make. So you cant worry about that.While New Yorks hitting has faltered after scoring five runs in the last three games, the pitching has not. The Yankees have allowed 11 earned runs in the last seven games after Ivan Nova gave up one run in seven innings.It hurts, because we had opportunities to score some runs and we werent able to do it, Yankees manager Joe Girardi said. To lose a game 2-1 in 12 innings is really difficult. But weve got to bounce back and find a way to win tomorrow.On Sunday, Nathan Eovaldi will be tasked with pitching the Yankees to a winning homestand. Eovaldi returned from three scoreless relief appearances and ended a six-start winless skid by allowing one run and four hits in 5 1/3 innings during Tuesdays 7-1 win over Baltimore.Before Tuesday, Eovaldi had been 0-4 with a 9.20 ERA in his last six starts.Eovaldi is 1-4 with a 13.30 ERA in five career starts against the Giants. He last faced San Francisco July 18, 2014 at Miami and allowed eight runs and nine hits in four-plus innings.The Yankees will likely attempt to get a win with Dellin Betances, Andrew Miller and Aroldis Chapman possibly unavailable. They have thrown a combined 132 pitches. ' ' '