Liberty grad Toussaint helps lift Ravens

August 12, 2014 at 12:00a.m.

BALTIMORE

Liberty High graduate Fitzgerald Toussaint rushed four times for 20 yards in the Baltimore Ravens’ 23-3 preseason-opening victory over the San Francisco 49ers on Thursday.

Toussaint’s name was omitted from a roundup of area NFL players in Monday’s newspaper.

Lakeview girls golf tourney is Wednesday

CORTLAND

The seond annual Lakeview Bulldogs Invitational girls golf tournament will take place Wednesday at Tamer Win golf course with an 8 a.m. shotgun start. Eleven teams are scheduled to compete.

The tournament will include three golfers from the 2014 Valley’s Greatest Golfer final grouping of Lakeview’s Kaylee Neumeister, Boardman’s Jacinta Pikunas and Canfield’s Christina Cooper.

Tayala 2nd in hammer at U23 championships

KAMLOOPS, BRITISH COLUMBIA

Kent State junior Matthias Tayala (McDonald) took second in the hammer throw on Sunday at the North American, Central American and Caribbean Athletic Association (NACAC) Under-23 Championships in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada.

Tayala had a best mark of 68.93m (226-feet, 1-inch) as he finished in second place behind Mexico’s Diego Del Real Galindo who had a first-place mark of 69.42m (227- 9).

Boardman’s Hays named Hiram coach

Hiram

Boardman native Emily Hays has been named Hiram College’s next women’s basketball head coach. Hays served as women’s basketball assistant coach at Washington & Jefferson College (Washington, Pa.) for the past four years. She replaces Andrea Preston, who led the Terriers for the past seven years.

Hays was Presidents’ Athletic Conference Player of the Year her senior year at W&J and led the Presidents to two appearances in the NCAA Division III playoffs.

YSU’s Yeo shoots 82 at U.S. Amateur

ATLANTA

Youngstown State golfer Bryan Yeo shot a 41-41—82 in the first round Monday of the U.S. Amateur Championship at Atlanta Athletic Club.

Yeo played on the par 71 Highlands Course. Jimmy Beck of Columbus, Ga., is the leader after one round with a score of 65, also on the Highlands Course.

QB Quinn agrees to terms with Dolphins

MIAMI

Former first-round draft pick Brady Quinn agreed to terms Monday with the Miami Dolphins, his seventh NFL team. Quinn reached an agreement on a deal after a tryout and is expected to compete with Matt Moore for the Dolphins’ backup job behind starter Ryan Tannehill. Moore has been nursing a sore shoulder and didn’t play in the first exhibition game last week, but he practiced Monday.

Quinn was with the Seahawks, Rams and Jets last year but didn’t play. He is 4-16 as a starter and has thrown 12 touchdown passes and 17 interceptions, including two touchdown passes and eight interceptions in 2012, when he started eight games for the Chiefs. Quinn was a star at Notre Dame and the 22nd pick in the 2007 draft by the Cleveland Browns after being widely projected to go higher.

Staff reports/Associated Press