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Ohio State’s Price right for watch list

COLUMBUS

Ohio State senior center Billy Price has been placed on the Rimington Award list as one of the top candidates for the honor.

Pat Elflein, Price’s teammate last season, won the Rimington award last year. He’s now on the Minnesota Vikings.

Price, an Austintown Fitch High School graduate, played right guard last season. He is listed as the No. 1 center prospect in the nation by College Football News and he is a returning first-team All-American and all-Big Ten Conference honoree. Price has started every game over the past three seasons — 41 in all — and is on pace to break Luke Fickell’s school record for starts and consecutive starts at 50, set between 1993-96.

Price graduated this spring with his degree in business administration with a specialization in operations management.

Tri-T tryouts moved to YSU’s WATTS

YOUNGSTOWN

Because of rain on Monday and Tuesday, Tri-T baseball tryouts for the 13-14 all-star teams will be held today at Youngstown State University’s WATTS from 5-7 p.m. Registration begins at 4:15 p.m.

The players chosen will be competing against the Japanese players who will be visiting on Aug. 11.

For more information, visit the website www.tritbaseball.net.

McQuown shoots 76 at Ohio Amateur

SPRINGFIELD

Jason McQuown of Poland shot a 76 in the first round of the 111th Ohio Amateur at Springfield Country Club. He’s nine strokes behind four co-leaders.

Jared Wilson of Columbiana shot a 78 and Boardman’s Brian Terlesky shot a 79. Youngstown’s Ken Keller shot an 80 and Poland’s Zach Jacobson recorded a 93.

Cavaliers sign Green to contract

CLEVELAND

The Cleveland Cavaliers have signed veteran forward Jeff Green.

The Cavs announced the move on Tuesday after agreeing to terms on a deal for the veteran’s minimum last week. Green averaged 9.2 points and 3.1 rebounds for the Orlando Magic last season and will give the Cavaliers some depth in the frontcourt.

Green turn 31 in August. He has averaged 13.5 points and 4.7 rebounds during his career. Green has appeared in 38 postseason games, most recently with the Clippers in 2015-16.

The No. 5 overall pick by Seattle in 2007 out of Georgetown, Green averaged career lows in points, rebounds and shooting rate (39.4 percent) for the Magic last season.

The Cavaliers will be his sixth NBA team.

Pens name Recchi assistant coach

PITTSBURGH

The Pittsburgh Penguins didn’t look very far for assistant coach Rick Tocchet’s replacement after he left to take the head coaching job with the Arizona Coyotes.

The Stanley Cup champions hired newly elected Hockey Hall of Famer Mark Recchi to take over Tocchet’s position on Tuesday just moments after the Coyotes made Tocchet’s hiring official.

The 49-year-old Recchi is the 12th-leading scorer in NHL history, racking up 1,533 points during a 22-year career that included stops with Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and Montreal.

Recchi won Stanley Cups with Pittsburgh (1991), Carolina (2006) and Boston (2011) as a player.

Recchi spent the past three years as a player development coach with the Penguins and was recently promoted to director of player development.

Recchi will focus on working with the team’s forwards and helping head coach Mike Sullivan coordinate the power play.

The 53-year-old Tocchet, who spent the past three seasons as a Pittsburgh assistant, played 18 seasons in the NHL and helped the Penguins win the Stanley Cup in 1992. He spent one season as an assistant to Coyotes coach Wayne Gretzky in 2005-06.

Staff/wire report