Columbiana’s Mook earns Ohio honor

March 18, 2015 at 12:00a.m.

Columbiana High School basketball player Baylie Mook was voted Division IV second-team All-Ohio by the Associated Press.

In Div. III, Newton Falls’ Gabby Kline made the third team.

Area players receiving special mention in Div. III were South Range’s Ashley Sharp and Springfield’s Callie Ford. In Div. IV, special mention players were Maplewood’s Miranda Sloan, Warren JFK’s Antonella LaMonica and Western Reserve’s Aleah Hughes.

YSU baseball team loses to Toledo

TOLEDO

The Youngstown State baseball team posted 11 hits, but the Penguins were limited to just one run in a 2-1 loss to Toledo on Tuesday at Mercy Field.

YSU’s run came in the top of the first inning when Shane Willoughby plated Frank Califano with a two-out triple to right field.

Toledo (6-13) tied the score in the bottom of the second on Matt Hansen’s two-out single, and the Rockets scored the only other run in the game on a sacrifice fly in the fourth. Jacob Britt reached on an error to start the inning, went to third on a wild pitch and single and came in on Josh Cales’ sacrifice fly to center.

YSU (3-8) left the bases loaded in the fifth, and Matt Sullivan was thrown out at the plate trying to score the tying run to end the sixth inning.

Reds blank Tribe; Kluber allows 3 runs

GOODYEAR, Ariz.

AL Cy Young winner Corey Kluber gave up home runs to Todd Frazier and Kristopher Negron, and the Cincinnati Reds beat the Cleveland Indians 4-0 Tuesday.

Kluber allowed three runs on three hits and two walks in four innings. He struck out four.

Reds starter Mike Leake pitched two-hit ball for four innings.

Cincinnati closer Aroldis Chapman followed with two scoreless innings. Chapman pitched two innings for his third straight outing. He has allowed one run in seven innings this spring.

Indians closer Cody Allen turned in his fourth scoreless appearance.

Astros shell Bucs: Locke roughed up

BRADENTON, Fla.

Chris Carter was 3 for 3 with two doubles and four RBIs to break out of a spring-training slump and lift the Houston Astros over the Pittsburgh Pirates 13-7 Tuesday.

Carter had entered 1 for 13 with two RBIs in the exhibition season.

Pirates left-hander Jeff Locke was roughed up for six runs and seven hits in three innings, leaving him with a 9.00 ERA.

Locke is competing for a rotation spot with right-hander Vance Worley, who pitched four scoreless innings Sunday. Locke said the Pirates have given no indication regarding when a fifth starter could be announced.

With the Pirates trailing 4-0, Pittsburgh’s Neil Walker hit a three-run homer in the third off Roberto Hernandez.

Carlos Correa hit his first home run of spring training, a sixth-inning drive off John Holdzkom.

Liriano to start Pirates opener

BRADENTON, Fla.

Francisco Liriano is set to start on opening day for Pittsburgh, making him the first Pirates pitcher in quite a while to draw the honor two years in a row.

Manager Clint Hurdle made the announcement Tuesday. The Pirates begin the regular season on April 6 at Cincinnati.

Liriano will be the first Pirates pitcher to start on opening day in consecutive seasons since Oliver Perez in 2005-06.

“We just want to put to rest that we’ve had nine different opening day pitchers in a row,” Hurdle said. “We wanted to settle down and kick that one to the curb.”

The 31-year-old Liriano emerged as the Pirates’ ace in 2013, when he went 16-8 with a 3.02 ERA and led the franchise to its first postseason appearance in two decades. In 2014, while dealing with groin and oblique injuries, he overcame a 1-7 start to finish 7-10 with a 3.38 ERA.

The left-hander signed a three-year, $39 million deal with the Pirates in December.

Staff/wire report