In this task, you are given a sentence in the Japanese language and your task is to convert it into the English language. In translation, keep numbers as it is and make it sentence case (capitalize only the first word of each sentence and noun).

[Q]: 後のイニングで打撃が低迷しなければ、もっと高い得点が記録されたかもしれない。
[A]: A bigger total could have been posted if it had not been for a late innings batting collapse.


[Q]: 洪水は、州北部のジョス市近辺での大量の降水量の結果ダムの許容貯水量を超えたため発生した。
[A]: The flooding occurred as the result of a large amount of rainfall close to Jos, a city in the north of the state, causing overflow of a dam.


[Q]: 多数党である国民運動連合（UMP)の指導者二コラ・サルコジが、国務大臣の敬意ある位である内務省の次官となった。
[A]:
Head of the majority Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) party, Nicolas Sarkozy, comes as a second-in-command as Minister of the Interior, with the honorific rank of Minister of State.