SPORTS digest

Canfield 9-10 baseball drops to losers bracket

HAMILTON

The Canfield 9-10 year-old baseball team will have to go through the losers bracket if it is to reach the state championship this weekend.

Canfield lost 7-3 to Olentangy Liberty on Friday with a berth to the title game on the line. However after six errors in the field, Canfield found themselves on the wrong end of the final.

Ben Slanker had a home run and a double while Luca Ricchiuti, AJ Havrilla, Connor Miller and Dominic Marzano each added singles.

Canfield will face Tuscarawas County today at noon for the right to play Olentangy Liberty in the championship.

Youngstown Cene wins at Pony Palomino

compton, calif.

Youngstown Cene defeated the South Region champion, Louisiana, 8-2 on Friday in the Pony Palomino World Series in Compton, Calif.

Mark Gross was the winning pitcher, going seven innings while giving up five hits and one earned run. Greg Popatak had a two-out bases loaded triple, driving in all three runners to put Youngstown ahead 4-1 in the fifth inning. Scott Sada also had a key two-out single to put the game out of reach.

Mitch Wood had a triple and Kyle Benyo had a double for Youngstown Cene.

Today at 1 p.m., Cene will play Michigan, which was the North Region winner.

Boardman receives donation for stadium

BOARDMAN

The Boardman Stadium Project has announced that Boardman Subaru is donating $25,000 to help fund the new stadium that is scheduled to open in September.

Boardman Subaru will be recognized as a seating section sponsor at the new stadium. The first home football game in the stadium will be September 4 at 7 p.m.

“As a 1977 Boardman High School graduate and life-long resident, I am excited and honored to help with the new Boardman Stadium,” owner of Boardman Subaru Rob Fellman said.

If you would like to support the project, contact the Boardman Boosters for additional information at donate@boardmanboosters.org or visit www.boardmanboosters.org.

Angels’ Trout homers on his birthday, again

ANAHEIM, Calif.

Mike Trout has homered on his birthday for the third time.

Trout celebrated his 24th birthday by hitting his major league-leading 33rd homer in the first inning of the Los Angeles Angels’ game against the Baltimore Orioles on Friday night.

Angels fans serenaded Trout with a chorus of “Happy Birthday to You” in the top of the first inning, and he acknowledged them with a wave.

The reigning AL MVP then connected against Kevin Gausman, sending a drive to the fake rock pile beyond left-center field at the Big A.

Trout also homered on his birthday in 2012 and 2013. He went 0 for 3 last season on Aug. 7.

Trout’s homer was his 131st. Only Eddie Mathews, Mel Ott and Ken Griffey Jr. hit more before their 24th birthdays.

Louise Suggs, HOF LPGA founder, dies

The LPGA Tour says Louise Suggs, an LPGA founder and one of the greatest female golfers of all time, died Friday. She was 91.

Suggs died in Sarasota, Florida. The LPGA did not list a cause of death.

Suggs was perhaps the most influential player in LPGA history. Along with being one of the 13 founders in 1950, she served as LPGA president three times and was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame and the LPGA Teaching and Professional Hall of Fame.

Her efficient swing marked her for greatness as a teenager in Georgia. Suggs won the 1947 U.S. Women’s Amateur, the 1948 British Ladies Amateur and the 1949 U.S. Women’s Open by 14 shots over Babe Zaharias.

The LPGA Tour named its rookie-of-the-year award after Suggs.

Staff/wire reports