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Scrappers rained out against Batavia

Batavia, N.Y.

The Mahoning Valley Scrappers and Batavia Muckdogs were rained out on Thursday night at Dwyer Stadium.

The game will be made up as part of a doubleheader at a date to be announced.

The Scrappers and Muckdogs conclude their series tonight at 7:05. Gregori Vasquez will get the start for Mahoning Valley.

The Scrappers return home on Tuesday night to host Batavia.

Mill Creek offers Tuesday Night League

Youngstown

Mill Creek Golf Course will be offering a two-person team scramble league Tuesdays beginning Sept. 12.

The league will run eight weeks and will consist of two divisions — men’s division and a mixed division.

Registration is available by calling 330-740-7112 or in person at the Mill Creek Golf Course Fieldhouse. Registration deadline is Sept. 8 at 5 p.m.

Two YSU anglers are 4th in regional

YOUNGSTOWN

Two Youngstown State University Bass Fishing Club members earned fourth place in a regional college fishing competition to qualify for the YETI Fishing League Worldwide College Fishing National Championship in spring 2018.

The successful anglers are Jonathan Creed of Niles and Michael Soots of McDonald.

They caught five largemouth bass with a total weight of just more than 14 pounds at the regional contest in Lake Chautauqua, N.Y., winning a $500 prize for their club. The top 10 teams qualified for the national competition.

YSU’s Bass Fishing Club is beginning its sixth year, under the direction of Tessa Padilla, coordinator of Sport Clubs, and adviser Marko Marinkovich.

Willoughby South drops Rebel mascot

WILLOUGHBY

Willoughby South High School is getting rid of its Confederate mascot in the wake of a deadly car attack at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., last weekend.

Superintendent Steve Thompson said Thursday that the school will drop its “Rebel” mascot — a man dressed in a gray Confederate military outfit — but keep the name.

Thompson said he made the decision to support the school’s diverse student body.

“The Civil War was part of the history of the American story and that’s not going anywhere, but how we view it sometimes changes,” Thompson said. “We thought it was the right thing to do.”

The school is in Willoughby, 20 miles northeast of Cleveland. About 20 percent of its students are from minority families.

The sports teams still will be called the South High Rebels and will continue wearing gray and blue as their school colors. The school will create a committee do decide how to rebrand the term “Rebel.”

“Rebel can mean a lot of things. George Washington was a rebel,” Thompson said.

The Rebel has represented the school since it was founded in 1959. The move to replace it is the latest in a series of steps the school has taken to phase out Confederate iconography.

The Rebel mascot used to carry a Confederate flag and tout a gun, but school officials dropped both items from the mascot’s depiction after it stirred controversy.

Eagles’ Long supports Jenkins’ protest

PHILADELPHIA

Chris Long, the Philadelphia defensive end who grew up in Charlottesville, Va., put his arm around teammate Malcolm Jenkins as a show of unity during the national anthem before the Eagles’ exhibition game Thursday night against Buffalo.

Jenkins stood with his right fist raised in the air as he’s done since last season. Long was to his right with his left arm on Jenkins’ shoulder.

“I think it’s a good time for people that look like me to be there for people that are fighting for equality,” Long said.

Staff/wire report