SPORTS digest

Baird Brothers third in Palomino World Series

SANTA CLARA, CALIF.

Baird Brothers made history in the PONY Palomino World Series over the weekend, going farther than any Youngstown team ever has in the event.

Baird Brothers had reached the semifinals with two wins on Saturday, but fell to host Santa Clara 3-1 on Sunday.

Joey Rock started and worked the first three innings, allowing all three runs for the Soldiers. Dom Michael pitched four scoreless innings of relief.

The Baird Brothers’ bats, which had been mostly hot during the tournament, were mostly quiet Sunday.

Jimmy Nixon singled and doubled and Mike Turner and Travis Perry added singles for Baird Brothers, which completed the 2017 season with an overall record of 42-11.

King, Davies win at Sharon Speedway

Hartford

Rex King Jr., Dan Davies, Rocky Kugel, Chas Wolbert and Tyler Frankenberry were winners Saturday at Sharon Speedway.

King took the lead on lap five then beat Garrett Krummert to the finish for the second consecutive week as he closes in on his third Hovis Auto & Truck Supply title in four years.

Davies rode the cushion and powered to the 25-lap $1,000 E-Mod feature win presented by A&MP Electric. Davies became the fourth different winner in as many races this season and did it without brakes over the final 10 laps.

Kugel, surged from the eighth starting spot to take the lead just past the halfway point of the 20-lap HTMA/Precise Racing Products feature.

Wolbert won the weather-delayed 2016 “Apple Festival Nationals” make-up feature.

Frankenberry won the 20-lap Summit Racing Equipment-sponsored feature.

Darren Daulton, 55; was all-star catcher

PHILADELPHIA

Darren Daulton, the All-Star catcher who was the leader of the Philadelphia Phillies’ NL championship team in 1993, has died. He was 55.

Daulton had battled brain cancer since 2013. He had two tumors removed during brain surgery on July 1, 2013, but nine days later was diagnosed with glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer that also took the lives of his former teammate Tug McGraw and former coach John Vukovich.

Daulton played 141/2 of his 15 major league seasons with Philadelphia and finished his career with the 1997 World Series champion Florida Marlins, batting .389 (7 for 18) with two doubles and one homer in a seven-game series against Cleveland.

The left-handed hitting Daulton batted .245 with 137 homers and 588 RBIs in 1,161 games. He went to three All-Star games and led the NL with 109 RBIs in 1992.

The long-haired Daulton was beloved by Phillies fans and respected by teammates. He policed a wild clubhouse in ’93 that included Lenny Dykstra, John Kruk, Dave Hollins, Pete Incaviglia, Mitch Williams and Curt Schilling.

Clippers’ Reed jailed after domestic dispute

MIAMI

New Los Angeles Clippers center Willie Reed was jailed Sunday in Miami on a battery charge.

His wife told police that he dragged her across the apartment while wrestling for a purse and later pulled her hair and grabbed her by the wrist during an argument Saturday night, according to the police report.

Reed’s wife told police the argument started when she told her husband she wanted a divorce. She said she was knocked to the ground while struggling over her purse and dragged around the apartment until the strap broke. She also alleged Reed tore her shirt as she went to the lobby of the apartment building to notify the concierge, then returned to get her two children.

When the woman picked up her youngest son and started to exit the apartment again, she told police that Reed grabbed her by the hair to take the child back, then grabbed her left wrist and twisted her arm.

Staff/wire report