SPORTS digest || Baker completes successful NCAA career

Baker completes successful NCAA career

Abby Baker, a Canfield graduate, was one of two seniors who were part of the winningest class in Wittenberg University softball history.

Baker’s teams compiled 105 wins and a winning percentage over .700 during her four years at the Springfield, Ohio university.

Baker compiled a career .322 batting average. She’s fourth all-time in home runs and fifth all-time in RBIs in school history.

This past season, the Tigers finished their season 29-7 and 15-1 in North Coast Athletic Conference play.

Crestview hires new boys basketball coach

Jeffrey Wilson has been named varsity head boys basketball coach at Crestivew.

Wilson has been the junior varsity coach at Austintown since 2014 and coaching basketball in Austintown since 1999.

Wilson played basketball at Cardinal Mooney high school.

Mooney hosting football camp in June

Guest coaches include Bo Pelini and the Youngstown State staff. Mark Stoops and Vince Marrow from University of Kentucky, Frank Colaprete from the College of Wooster and Bernie Kosar will also be in attendance.

Information and registration is available at cardinalmooney.com or by calling Sue Brandenstein at 330-788-5007.

Harper’s suspension dropped one game

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Washington Nationals star Bryce Harper has agreed to drop his appeal of a four-game suspension and will have one game shaved from the punishment.

Harper reached the agreement Wednesday with Major League Baseball and was to begin serving the suspension immediately.

The punishment stemmed from a bench-clearing brawl on Monday after Harper was hit by a 98 mph fastball from Giants reliever Hunter Strickland. There’s no word on Strickland, who received a six-game suspension and also had planned to appeal.

The bad blood between the two stemmed from a pair of home runs Harper hit off Strickland in the 2014 playoffs.

Teammates win US 4-Ball championships

The team of Frankie Capan and Shuai Ming Wong rallied to win the U.S. Amateur Four-Ball Championship on Wednesday, beating Clark Collier and Kyle Hudelson 2 and 1.

The two 17-year-olds won the title with a birdie on the par-3 17th hole at the same Pinehurst No. 2 course that has hosted three U.S. Opens.

Furman teammates Alice Chen and Taylor Totland won the U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball Championship on Wednesday, beating former Georgia players Sammi Lee and Mary Ellen Shuman 4 and 3.

Chen, from Princeton, New Jersey, and Totland, from Tinton Falls, New Jersey, won the first three holes at The Dunes and were still 3 up at the turn. Lee and Shuman took the 10th, and Chen and Totland won the 11th and 12th and halved the next three to end the match.

Charges dropped in hockey catfish toss

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Prosecutors are dropping charges filed against a Tennessee man for throwing a catfish onto the rink in Pittsburgh during the opening of the Stanley Cup Final.

Thirty-six-year-old Jacob Waddell was charged in Allegheny County with disorderly conduct, possessing instruments of crime and disrupting meetings or processions after tossing the dead fish over the glass surrounding the rink Monday night during the Nashville Predators-Pittsburgh Penguins game.

District Attorney Stephen Zappala said in a Facebook post Wednesday that Waddell’s actions “do not rise to the level of criminal charges” so the charges “will be withdrawn in a timely manner.”

Nashville Mayor Megan Barry had called for the charges to be “quickly dismissed.”

Waddell said he sneaked the fish into the arena by hiding it between layers of underwear, running the fish over with his truck several times to make it easier to pack.

Staff/Wire reports