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Baseball volunteers

YOUNGSTOWN — Three members of the YSU baseball team played with three students who attend the Rich Center for Autism at Stambaugh Stadium.

Head coach Rich Pasquale, assistant Tom Lipari and players Jason Reitenbach, Trent Wood and Casey Holland played with the three students for about a half hour.

The Rich Center for Autism is an externally funded unit of Youngstown State with the mission to improve the lives of individuals with autism.

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Heck makes decision

NORTH LIMA — Jeremy Heck, a senior at South Range High School, will play football at Muskingum College in the fall.

Heck is a 6-foot, 220-pound defensive end.

Italiano selected

YOUNGSTOWN — Cardinal Mooney High senior Dave Italiano was selected to the first team North Squad Club Division all-star team of the Ohio High School Lacrosse Association.

Sophomore goalie Joe Illencik was picked second team and coach Tom Trefethern was named the “Man of the Year.”

Mooney is 5-6.

Softball nominations

NILES — Nominations are being accepted for the Hope Foundation of the Mahoning Valley’s Softball Game of Hope.

The game will be played at Eastwood Field on August 1, beginning at 4 p.m.

The format calls for a Mahoning County team to face a team from Trumbull County. See www.hopemv.org for details.

Tickets on sale

HARTFORD — Sharon Speedway will begin selling tickets for the Boardman/Diamond Steel Lou Blaney Memorial Classic on Tuesday.

The race is scheduled for July 7.

Tickets will be available at the speedway office, by calling (330) 772-1186 or at www.sharonspeedway.com.

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The Latest Line was not received in time for this edition.

Class B opens

STRUTHERS — Rondinelli Tuxedo defeated Dave Sugar Excavating 7-5 in 10 innings and OTN Performance doubled up 1080 Media, 4-2, in the opening of the Class B League.

Rondinelli scored two unearned runs in the top of the tenth inning for the win.

Kyle Vaclav reached on an error to start the top of the tenth and scored the go-ahead run on a wild pitch.

OTN Performance scored three runs in the bottom of the sixth inning to defeat the three-time defending league champion, 1080 Media.

Joe Sekula had a single and a double and drove home a pair of runs for OTN while Robert Franks went the first 61‚Ñ3 innings for the decision.

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Player’s son remains hospitalized

PITTSBURGH — The agent of Steelers linebacker James Harrison says the player’s young son is doing fine in a Pittsburgh hospital three days after an attack by a pit bull.

Harrison’s agent, William Parise, says the family hopes that 2-year-old James Harrison III will be released today.

Parise says the boy was bitten on the thigh after his mother let the dog out of its pen Thursday afternoon. Also hurt were the woman and the player’s massage therapist, who Parise says needed three stitches.

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Charlie’s Moment wins

INGLEWOOD, Calif. — Charlie’s Moment seized the lead early and went on to earn a two-length victory Sunday in the $100,000 Lazaro S. Barrera Stakes at Hollywood Park.

Under Alex Solis, Charlie’s Moment easily held off late-running Bet On Victor in the final sixteenth to win in 1:21.89.

Charlie’s Moment paid $15, $6.60 and $3.40. Bet On Victor, with Garrett Gomez up, returned $5.60 and $2.60. The show payoff on odds-on favorite Canonize, ridden by Jose Valdivia Jr., was $2.10.

Charlie’s Moment won for the fourth time in 12 starts. The winner’s share of $60,000 boosted his earnings to $231,760.

Vindicator staff/wire reports