SPORTS DIGEST || NEDAB to have seeded brackets for H.S. sports

NEDAB to have seeded brackets for H.S. sports

The Northeast District Athletic Board will have seeded district and sectional tournaments for baseball and softball starting this spring.

Boys and girls soccer, basketball and volleyball will follow suit through the spring of 2019.

Seeding will be based on voting of the schools within the relevant district and sectional tournaments.

Former YSU player declares for NBA draft

Marcus Keene, the nation’s leading scorer, is entering the NBA draft, a person familiar with the decision told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

The person spoke on condition of anonymity because an announcement had not been made.

Keene scored 30 points per game at Central Michigan this season, the highest scoring average by a Division I player since Charles Jones averaged 30.1 points for Long Island University during the 1996-97 season.

The 5-foot-9 point guard was born in Germany, where his parents were employed by the U.S. Air Force, and raised in San Antonio.

Keene spent two seasons at Youngstown State before transferring.

After sitting out last year as a redshirt, he was a scoring sensation this season as a redshirt junior.

Pre-sale tickets out for McDonald, JFK game

MCDONALD

Pre-sale tickets for McDonald’s regional basketball game tonight against Warren JFK will be on sale from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at McDonald High School.

Tickets are $7. The game tips off at 7 p.m. at Warren Harding High School.

OSU football players

to visit Eastwood Mall

NILES

Three former Ohio State football players will be signing autographs on Saturday at Everything Buckeyes in the Eastwood Mall.

Wide receiver Noah Brown, defensive back Gareon Conley and punter Cameron Johnson will be making an appearance starting at 2 p.m.

There will be fees for the autographs.

Canfield’s Kabetso signs with D-II college

CANFIELD

Canfield shot put and discus thrower Kaelin Kabetso signed with Division II Embry Riddle Aeronautical University of Daytona Beach on Wednesday.

The senior was a regional qualifier last spring.

World’s oldest golf club to allow women

GULLANE, Scotland

Muirfield has voted to admit female members for the first time in its 273-year history, paving the way for the Scottish golf club to again host the British Open.

The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers, which owns Muirfield and is the world’s oldest golf club, held a second postal ballot after members voted last May to retain the male-only policy. That led to Muirfield being taken off the list of 10 courses that can host the British Open.

The R&A, which organizes the British Open, said Muirfield was back in the rotation to stage the world’s oldest major.

Muirfield has staged the British Open 16 times since 1892, most recently in 2013 when Phil Mickelson won.

Prosecutors: agent smuggled Cubans

MIAMI

Federal prosecutors told jurors Tuesday that a Florida sports agent and a baseball trainer orchestrated an illegal Cuban ballplayer smuggling ring to get rich by making it easier for the players to escape the communist island and sign lucrative Major League Baseball contracts.

Defense lawyers countered that agent Bartolo Hernandez and trainer Julio Estrada stayed within the law while helping players navigate the free-agent complexities Cuban defectors must overcome to play big-league U.S. baseball.

Hernandez and Estrada are charged with conspiracy and alien smuggling.

Staff/wire report