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Ursuline regional final on local radio station

The Sports Animal 1390 will broadcast the Ursuline baseball team in the Division III regional championship game against Orrville today beginning at 4:45 p.m.

The game will be played at Massillon Washington High School.

Former Mooney athlete has success at Tiffin

Former Cardinal Mooney High standout and Tiffin University sophomore Chyna Davis was named to the NCAA Division II All-Midwest Region outdoor track and field team in triple jump, repeating an honor she also earned during the indoor season.

Davis placed third in the triple jump at the GLIAC Conference Outdoor Championships with a jump of 38-2 1/4, and also placed seventh with a time of 14.48 in the 100-meter hurdles.

At the Indoor Championships, she was fourth with a triple jump of 37-3 1/4, the third-longest jump in school history. She also recorded Tiffin’s third-fastest 60-hurdles time of 8.89 which was good for seventh in the conference meet.

YSU senior thrower also excels in classes

Youngstown State senior thrower John Seaver from South Range has been voted to the 2013 Capital One Academic All-District Men’s Track / Cross Country Team for his combined performance both athletically and in the classroom.

Seaver concluded his outdoor season this past weekend by placing 13th in the shot put at the NCAA East Prelims with a career-best throw of 17.84 meters. He was one spot shy of advancing to the NCAA meet.

He won the Horizon League titlein the shot put by 2.34 meters earlier this month, earning the third individual title of his career. With one year of eligibility remaining during the outdoor season, Seaver ranks third in school history in the shot put. He finished his indoor career ranking second in school history.

In the classroom, Seaver holds a 3.62 grade-point average in integrated social studies education. He is a three-time Academic All-Horizon League honoree.

Mattek-Sands tops Li in French 3rd round

PARIS

Bethanie Mattek-Sands, at age 28, in her 27th Grand Slam tournament, earned her most significant victory to date, a 5-7, 6-3, 6-2 upset of 2011 champion Li Na at the rain-soaked French Open on Thursday to join four other American women in the third round.

By beating the sixth-seeded Li, Mattek-Sands helped give the United States its largest group of women in the third round since six made it in 2004. The five U.S. women left, out of the 15 in the main draw, are the most this far at any Grand Slam tournament since the half-dozen at Wimbledon in 2005.

Royals turn to Brett as interim hitting coach

ST. LOUIS

George Brett is giving coaching a month. The greatest player in Kansas City Royals history isn’t sure teaching is his forte and doesn’t know if players will listen.

The 60-year-old Hall of Famer accepted the job of interim batting coach after calls from general manager Dayton Moore and manager Ned Yost, telling Yost he’d think about it. All it took was one more loss.

Brett and Moore plan to meet in a month to assess the situation, and then again two weeks after that. Brett did most of the talking at a news conference with Moore and Yost.