Poland selling tickets for opener

Poland selling tickets for opener

POLAND

The Poland High School Athletic Department will be selling general admission tickets to the Aug. 27 football season opener against Marlington beginning Monday.

Tickets will be sold in the High School Athletic Office from 9 a.m.-2 p.m..

Tickets also may be purchased at Trolio’s T-Shirts beginning Monday from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Students tickets cost $4 and adult tickets cost $6.

All tickets at the gate will cost $6.

Soccer kickoff set in Hubbard

HUBBARD

The OHSAA’s new program “Friday Night Futbol” will be celebrated at Hubbard’s fields on Friday.

The Hubbard boys team will play Crestview at 5 p.m. and the Hubbard girls team will play South Range at 7 p.m. At halftime, the high school band will perform.

YSU soccer team opens this weekend

YOUNGSTOWN

The Youngstown State women’s soccer program opens its 20th season this weekend when it visits VMI and Longwood.

The Penguins take on the Keydets on Fridayat 4 p.m. and Longwood on Sunday at 7 p.m. T

his is the fourth meeting between the Penguins and VMI in a series that dates to 2005. The Penguins own a 2-1 advantage in the all-time series.

The Penguins are coming off a 7-9-2 record in 2014 and the program’s first undefeated season at home (6-0-2). YSU has 18 letterwinners returning from last-year’s squad.

Blaney wins truck race

BRISTOL, Tenn.

Ryan Blaney took the lead from Matt Crafton off a restart in a green-white-checkered finish and held off Kyle Busch to win the NASCAR Camping World Truck race Wednesday night at Bristol Motor Speedway.

Blaney rebounded after losing a lap early on the 0.533-mile oval when he was given a pass-through penalty for jumping a restart while leading.

“Obviously, we didn’t like it, but it was NASCAR’s jurisdiction,” Blaney said. “To come from a lap down, to do it in that fashion, it says so much for this team to be able to charge back up there.”

Blaney raced to his first victory of the year and fourth overall. Starting on the inside line on the final restart, he made the winning pass after beating Crafton to the first turn.

USA soccer team defeats Costa Rica

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.

Not even a thunderstorm could slow down the United States in the latest chapter of its Women’s World Cup victory tour.

Carli Lloyd and Heather O’Reilly each scored twice and the United States beat Costa Rica 7-2 on Wednesday night in an exhibition game that included an 83-minute weather delay.

Abby Wambach and Alex Morgan also scored for the U.S. in its second friendly since winning the Women’s World Cup six weeks ago. The Americans beat Costa Rica 8-0 on Sunday in Pittsburgh.

“This team is resilient,” O’Reilly said. “We bounce back through games, through tough moments of games and in this situation, it was sort of peculiar circumstances that we were able to show our resilience through.”

Crew, NY FC tie

COLUMBUS

Kwadwo Poku scored two second-half goals to help New York City FC tie the Columbus Crew 2-2 in a game delayed 1 hour, 14 minutes in the 77th minute because of a thunderstorm.

New York City FC (7-11-7) pulled into a sixth-place tie with Montreal and Orlando City in the Eastern Conference, while Columbus (9-8-8) remained third.

Kei Kamara opened the scoring in the 24th minute for Columbus with his MLS-leading 18th goal.

David Villa played through three defenders and passed to a charging Poku, who tapped it past goalkeeper Steve Clark in the 57th minute.

Staff/wire report