Wednesday, August 30, 2017
Muckdogs defeat Scrappers
BATAVIA, N.Y.
Remey Reed allowed just two hits over six innings, leading the Batavia Muckdogs over the Mahoning Valley Scrappers in a 2-0 win on Tuesday.
Reed (3-4) picked up the win after he struck out four and walked one.
The only score of the game came in the first inning when Thomas Jones hit a two-run home run for Batavia (28-38).
Kirk McCarty (2-2) went three innings, allowing two runs and two hits while striking out four in the New York-Penn League game. Vincenzo Aiello pitched two scoreless innings for his fourth save of the season.
Mahoning Valley (39-27) missed a scoring opportunity in the eighth, when Ulysses Cantu struck out with the bases loaded.
The series concludes tonight in Batavia before the Scrappers return home to host the State College Spikes in a three-game series starting Thursday.
Horizon League files suit against Valparaiso
EVANSVILLE, IND.
The Horizon League has filed a $500,000 lawsuit against Valparaiso and the Missouri Valley Conference claiming that the school breached a one-year notification agreement before leaving the league for the MVC.
Valparaiso, a member of the Horizon League since 2006, announced it was leaving for the MVC in May.
In the lawsuit, the Horizon League notes it was Valparaiso President Mark A. Heckler that proposed that schools leaving the league without giving a year’s notice be forced to pay $500,000. The provision was approved in August 2013, according to the lawsuit.
Valparaiso announced its intention to withdraw from the Horizon League in May 2017. The exit was effective July 1, 2017, and the lawsuit notes the school has not paid the $500,000 fee.
Parto’s Golf Center will host Rally for the Cure
YOUNGSTOWN
Parto’s Golf Center is hosting Rally for the Cure, a charity golf event on Sept. 10. It’s an 11 a.m. shotgun start and the cost is $25 per person and $100 per team. Proceeds go to the local Susan G. Komen for the Cure.
For more information, call 330-743-6718.
Ex-RB Merril Hoge guest speaker at HOF
EAST LIVERPOOL
Former Pittsburgh Steelers running back and current ESPN analyst Merril Hoge will be the guest speaker at the Lou Holtz/Upper Ohio Valley Hall of Fame induction banquet on June 4, 2018.
Hoge will be the recipient of the 2018 Distinguished American Award. He is also chairman and a member of the board of the Highmark Caring Foundation, which has created four centers in Pennsylvania.
Tickets are available through the Holtz Hall of Fame. For more information or to reserve tickets, call 330-386-5443.
U.S. Open champ falls in first round
NEW YORK
The question was rather simple after Angelique Kerber became only the second defending U.S. Open champion in the professional era to lose in the first round.
The surprisingly lopsided 6-3, 6-1 loss to 45th-ranked Naomi Osaka of Japan under the closed roof in Arthur Ashe Stadium at a rainy Flushing Meadows on Tuesday was former No. 1 Kerber’s latest in a long list of disappointing performances in 2017, so she was asked what she thinks went wrong this season.
She sighed, shrugged her shoulders and began to answer: “I don’t know. This year is a completely different year.”
Talk about an understatement. In 2016, Kerber broke through to the top of tennis in a spectacular way. A player with only one previous Grand Slam semifinal appearance reached the first three major title matches of her career, winning two of them: She stunned Serena Williams in the Australian Open final, lost to Williams in the Wimbledon final, and then beat Karolina Pliskova in the U.S. Open final to rise atop the WTA rankings for the first time.
Staff and wire reports