Sharon Speedway ready for Week 2

Sharon Speedway ready for Week 2

Hartford

Sharon Speedway will look to try again for week number two of the 86th anniversary season on Saturday night with a full program of “Steel Valley Thunder” action.

Featured will be the Hovis Auto & Truck Supply DIRTcar Big-Block Modifieds, Summit Racing Equipment Modifieds, Weller Hughes Contracting & Developing RUSH Sportsman Modifieds, Gibson Insurance Agency Stock Cars, HTMA/Precise Racing Products Econo Mods, and the Deforest Used Parts Mini Stocks.

Group qualifying begins at 7 p.m.

Rockies’ Weiss taken to hospital

ANAHEIM, Calif.

Colorado Rockies manager Walt Weiss has been taken to hospital after two days of stomach discomfort.

A club spokesman said Wednesday that the 51-year-old Weiss left Angel Stadium right before batting practice with athletic trainer Keith Dugger to get a follow-up exam. Bench coach Tom Runnells will handle things until Weiss returns.

The Rockies begin a four-game series up the freeway at Dodger Stadium Thursday night.

This is Weiss’ third season with the Rockies, who entered Wednesday 11-18 with a 10-game losing streak.

Line drive injures Colorado starter

ANAHEIM, Calif.

Colorado Rockies starter Jordan Lyles has left the game against the Los Angeles Angels with an injured right hand after getting hit by Albert Pujols’ line drive to end the first inning.

Christian Bergman took over in the second inning for the Rockies, who have lost 10 straight games.

Lyles had little time to react to the liner from Pujols. Second baseman D.J. LeMahieu fielded the deflection and threw out Pujols to end the first inning, but Lyles was pulled from the game when his hand swelled in the dugout.

Lyles was 2-3 with a 4.42 ERA in his first six starts for the Rockies. He broke a bone in his left hand last June while making a tag at the plate.

DC United wins

WASHINGTON

Kofi Opare and Chris Rolfe scored second-half goals and D.C. United rallied to beat Orlando City 2-1 on Wednesday night to extend their undefeated streak to eight games

It’s D.C. United’s longest unbeaten stretch since 2007.

Opare leapt over his defender and headed in Taylor Kemp’s free kick in the 70th minute. Rolfe, who entered the game in the 54th minute, fully extended to touch home Miguel Aguilar’s chipped pass in the 79th.

D.C. United (6-1-3) is undefeated in 14 straight league home games. Orlando (2-5-3) has lost three of its last four games.

Rookie Cyle Larin gave Orlando City a 1-0 lead in the 11th minute with his third goal of the season. A loose ball fell to his feet at the top of the 18-yard box and his quick shot found an opening through traffic.

Liu-Mitsunaga win four-ball title

BANDON, Ore.

Mika Liu and Rinko Mitsunaga won the inaugural U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball title Wednesday at Bandon Dunes, beating fellow teens Hannah O’Sullivan and Robynn Ree 4 and 3.

The 16-year-old Liu, from Beverly Hills, California, and 18-year-old Mitsunaga, from Roswell, Georgia, were 8 under for 15 holes on the Pacific Dunes course. Liu had six birdies in a seven-hole stretch on the front nine, and Mitsunaga holed out for eagle from the fairway on the par-5 12th.

Liu and Mitsunaga won Nos. 6, 7 and 8 with Liu’s birdies to open a 3-up lead, Mitsunaga made it 4 up with her eagle on No. 12 and they halved the next three holes with pars to end the match.

The 17-year-old O’Sullivan is from Chandler, Arizona, and the 18-year-old Ree is from Redondo Beach, California.

Staff/wire report