$200,000 horse race decided by DQ

$200,000 horse race decided by DQ

AUSTINTOWN

Multiple handle records, including total single day handle and multiple single race and single pool handle highlighted the second Steel Valley Sprint program on Monday at Hollywood Gaming at Mahoning Valley Race Course. The total day’s handle on the nine-race program of $1,395,031 bested the previous benchmark by more than $150,000.

In the Steel Valley Sprint, which at $200,000 is the richest race offered at MVRC, Mo Dont No was awarded the victory after Awesome Banner, who crossed the wire two lengths in front of Mo Dont No, was disqualified for causing interference in mid-stretch when the Board of Stewards upheld jockey Luis Colon’s objection. Sent off at odds of 5.90 to 1, Mo Dont No returned $13.80 to his backers for the win, his eighth in eleven starts in 2016.

Boardman’s Hull named to All-OAC team

BEREA

Senior safety and Boardman product Brock Hull was among five Baldwin Wallace football players named to the 2016 All-Ohio Athletic Conference football team.

The other five were senior offensive guard Alex Kurtz (Smithville), junior running back Austin Smith (North Royalton), junior outside linebacker Sam Groff (Sandy Valley) and senior placekicker Joe Simonis (Medina Highland).

This season, he ranked fourth on the team with 51 tackles, including 30 solo stops and one for loss, two interceptions, four total pass breakups and a fumble recovery.

The Yellow Jackets finished 3-7 overall in 2016.

Local backs named Players of the Week

Two Trumbull County running backs —Iowa’s LeShun Daniels Jr. and Michigan’s De’Veon Smith— were named the Big Ten’s Co-Offensive Players of the Week.

Daniels Jr., a Warren Harding grad., carried the ball a career-high 26 times for 159 yards and two touchdowns in the Hawkeyes’ 28-0 win against Illinois.

Smith, a Howland product, piled up a carrer-high 158 rushing yards and two touchdowns as Michigan beat Indiana, 20-10.

U.S. Soccer fires Jurgen Klinsmann

CHICAGO

Jurgen Klinsmann is out as coach of the U.S. soccer team.

U.S. Soccer Federation President Sunil Gulati announced Monday that Klinsmann has been “relieved of his duties” as coach and technical director for U.S. Soccer. Gulati will conduct a media teleconference call Tuesday.

Klinsmann replaced Bob Bradley in July 2011 and led the team to the 2013 CONCACAF Gold Cup title and the second round of the 2014 World Cup, where the Americans lost to Belgium in extra time.

But the U.S. was knocked out in last year’s Gold Cup semifinals, lost to Mexico in a playoff for a Confederations Cup berth and started 0-2 this month in the final round of World Cup qualifying.

Ex-Indian Ramirez on Hall of Fame ballot

NEW YORK

Steroids-tainted stars Manny Ramirez and Ivan Rodriguez are on baseball’s Hall of Fame ballot for the first time along with Vladimir Guerrero.

Jeff Bagwell is the top holdover on the 2017 Baseball Writers’ Association of America ballot after falling 15 votes short of the required 75 percent in 2016 voting.

Ramirez was suspended for 50 games in 2009 while with the Los Angeles Dodgers for using a banned female fertility drug. He retired in 2011 rather than face a 100-game suspension after testing positive for a performance-enhancing substance. He applied for reinstatement that December. His suspension for the second failed test was cut from 100 games to 50 because he sat out nearly all of the 2011 season.

Ramirez did not play in the majors again.

Rodriguez was never disciplined for PEDs. In a 2005 book, former Texas teammate Jose Canseco alleged he injected the catcher with steroids.

Staff/wire reports