SPORTS digest

Warren JFK player makes second team

Warren JFK High School girls basketball player Antonella LaMonica was selected to the Associated Press All-Ohio second team for Division IV.

LaMonica, a junior, averaged 19 points per game.

Valley Christian’s India Snyder was selected to the third team. The sophomore averaged 21 points.

Receiving Special Mention honors were: Katarina Schubert, Mathews; Sara Joseph, McDonald; Kaitlyn Totani, Jackson-Milton; and Sydney Smith, Sebring.

Named to the Honorable Mention list were: Murphy Flowers, Sebring; Kristy Eckman, Leetonia; Ashley Bennett, Wellsville; Sam Homa, McDonald; Bryanna McClurg, Mathews; Michaelina Terranova, Jackson-Milton; and Ashley Totani, Jackson-Milton.

Ursuline selling advance tickets

YOUNGSTOWN

Tickets for Thursday’s Ursuline-Akron SVSM boys basketball game at the Canton Civic Center are on sale at Ursuline High School.

Advance price is $7. Gate price will be $8.

Washington releases Griffin for cap space

WASHINGTON

In the end, Robert Griffin III was just another name on a list, one of four players released by the Washington Redskins on Monday to create salary-cap space.

The move, expected for some time, brings an end to the quarterback’s sudden-rise-and-stunning-fall saga with a team that traded a bevy of draft picks to acquire him — and now receives nothing in return as he departs. The move gets Griffin’s 2016 contract, worth about $16 million, off the payroll before Wednesday, when the new league year begins and free agents can be signed.

It also closes the book on RG3’s tumultuous tenure in Washington. He arrived as a Heisman Trophy winner and the No. 2 overall choice in the 2012 NFL draft — a pick that came from the Rams at the high price of three first-round selections plus a second-rounder — and immediately became a star and national sensation. He leaves having spent all of last season on the sideline, never allowed to take so much as a single snap during a game.

Eagles will send Murray to Titans

NASHVILLE, Tenn.

The Tennessee Titans have agreed to acquire DeMarco Murray in a trade with Philadelphia in looking for the running back threat they’ve lacked since releasing Chris Johnson, according to a person familiar with the deal.

Murray also agreed to rework the five-year, $40 million contract with $21 million guaranteed he signed with Philadelphia last year. The deal will not be announced until Wednesday.

Other terms of the deal were not immediately available. The Titans hold the No. 1 pick in the April draft and have eight draft picks — three in the top 64 selections.

Cards’ Peralta could miss 2 months

JUPITER, Fla.

St. Louis shortstop Jhonny Peralta injured his left thumb and could miss the first two months of the season.

Cardinals general manager John Mozeliak said Peralta is expected to return to St. Louis for a second opinion of what he said may be a damaged ulnar collateral ligament.

Peralta hurt his glove hand while fielding a ground ball during Saturday’s exhibition game against Miami.

Illinois hires Lovie Smith

CHAMPAIGN, Ill.

In a conference where Jim Harbaugh’s star power and Urban Meyer’s national-title pedigree dominate the news, Illinois has become an afterthought and the headlines lately have been about the coaches who’ve been fired or accused of misbehavior.

Illinois hopes to put an end to all that with a big name of its own: Lovie Smith.

The Illini made a splash of the positive variety Monday by announcing the hiring of Smith, the former coach of the Chicago Bears and Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Staff/wire report