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Soon after Dillard’s two-point loss at last year’s state track meet, Panthers coach Davidson Gill went to work on a plan that could halt the 14-year stranglehold that Miami Northwestern has had in the Class 3A state girls track and field meet. Among the plans was to have senior Christiana Coleman compete in just the longer-distance races and drop her from the 800-meter dash.

Harrison Bader and Tyrone Taylor each drove in two runs in a four-run first inning on Sunday, and the Mets ended Miami’s four-game win streak with a 7-3 victory. Brandon Nimmo homered and Francisco Lindor singled twice following a 1-for-27 skid as the Mets rebounded from blowing a four-run, ninth-inning lead on Saturday and avoided a three-game sweep. “You’re not defined by what you do the day before.

By TIM REYNOLDS SUNRISE — Here’s the list of Aleksander Barkov’s top highlights from the Florida-Boston series: the go-ahead goal that sparked a Game 2 victory, scoring a spectacular game-winning goal to cap a comeback in Game 4, then blocking a shot late in Game 6 to keep things tied about 90 seconds before the Panthers won the game and clinched the series. He did it all.

Stoneman Douglas senior Nick Diaz hit a base-loaded single to left field in the bottom of the eighth inning to score sophomore Cade Raley as the Eagles won their fourth straight state championship with a 3-2 victory over Windermere in Fort Myers on Saturday night. Diaz hit a walk-off two-run home run the day before to lift the Eagles past Vero Beach in the state semifinal.

A record-breaking heat wave has most of South Florida wilting — and wondering when it will end. There’s no major cooldown ahead just yet, but temperatures will drop a touch on Monday, said George Rizzuto, a meteorologist at the Miami office of the National Weather Service. Monday’s heat index will hit around 100 degrees, down from Sunday’s “feels-like” temps of 105 to 110 degrees. “It will still be hot, but not as oppressively hot as it has been this weekend,” Rizzuto said.