Tennessee’s Gabriel throws perfect game
Tennessee’s Gabriel throws perfect game
Poland High graduate Erin Gabriel threw the 13th perfect game in Tennessee history to lead the No. 15 Volunteers to Tuesday’s 10-0, five-inning win over ETSU.
The win was Gabriel’s second no-hitter over the last two weeks. She threw her first no-no against Illinois State (seven innings, 16 strikeouts) on March 10. Gabriel (11-3) was efficient. She threw just 49 pitches with 37 for strikes.
“I just had a goal again of being efficient,” Gabriel said. “We talked about how over the weekend I wasn’t as efficient with my pitching. I wasn’t getting ahead of batters. So I just went out and had an attack mindset.”
Gabriel is the fourth Tennessee pitcher to throw two no-hitters in the same season.
Pirates star McCutchen cuts dreads for charity
Andrew McCutchen’s trademark dreadlocks won’t be heading north with the rest of the Pittsburgh Pirates star.
The 2013 National League Most Valuable Player spent a portion of his team’s off day on Wednesday at the mercy of his barber, who clipped off McCutchen’s long locks and gave him a decidedly more aerodynamic do heading into the 2014 regular season.
McCutchen posted a video on YouTube saying “it was time for a new change” before showing the process. He laughed a bit as he watched them getting snipped one by one. The 28-year-old then had a couple of small designs shaved in and clapped his hands after getting a look at the finished product. McCutchen says he will auction off the dreadlocks through mlb.com, with all proceeds going to Pirates charities.
Marlins pitcher being looked at for gambling
Miami Marlins pitcher Jarred Cosart is being investigated by Major League Baseball for online comments he may have made about gambling.
Marlins spokesman Matt Roebuck confirmed the investigation in a statement Wednesday but declined further comment. The 24-year-old Cosart deleted his Twitter account Tuesday after screen shots of comments he purportedly made to a gambling expert were published on the social media site.
It is a MLB rules violation for players or any other employees to bet on baseball games. A player who bets on a game his team isn’t playing in faces a mandatory one-year suspension. A player who bets on or against his own team faces a lifetime ban. The commissioner, at his discretion, can discipline a player for placing other types of bets with an illegal bookmaker.
AD says USC treated unfairly by NCAA
Southern California athletic director Pat Haden says private email between members of the NCAA committee on infractions made public as part of a lawsuit by a former Trojans assistant coach confirm the school was treated unfairly in the association’s handling of the Reggie Bush case.
Haden said in a statement released Wednesday that the “documents are cause for concern about the NCAA’s own institutional controls.”
YSU to add women’s bowling in the fall
Youngstown State University will add a women’s bowling program as a new intercollegiate athletic program beginning in the fall of 2015, athletic director Ron Strollo announced on Wednesday.
Women’s bowling will become the 19th Division I sport and 11th women’s sport offered by YSU. The 2015-16 academic year will serve as a start-up period to hire a coach, recruit student-athletes, secure a facility and prepare a schedule to begin competition in 2016-17.
Curbstone Coaches basketball banquet
The Curbstone Coaches boys and girls all-league high school recognition basketball banquet will be held on Sunday, April 12 at the Georgetown Banquet Center in Boardman.
The event will begin at 4 p.m. For more information, contact Sam Rogers at 330-707-0234. Tickets will not be sold at the door.
Staff/Wire reports