SPORTS digest

Ursuline basketball penalized by OHSAA

COLUMBUS

Four Ursuline boys basketball players will be suspended for the first two scrimmages of the 2019-20 season. The players participated in a non-interscholastic event together, violating the 50 percent limitation clause.

The clause dictates that in basketball no more than two players from the same school can be on a non-interscholastic team.

Hubbard athletic passes on sale

HUBBARD

Hubbard will have individual, family and senior citizen passes on sale at Hubbard High School on August 13-15, 20 and 22 from 6-8 p.m. They will also be on sale from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on August 23 at Hubbard’s “Meet the Team.”

Youngstown wins Game 2 of PONY WS

WASHINGTON, PA.

Youngstown beat Mexico, 6-0, on Friday.

Mexico was knocked into the elimination bracket while Youngstown advances to play the winner Chinese Taipei vs. Puerto Rico.

Jarrod Malalise hit a three-run home run and Anthony Miller struck out 10 while giving up two hits and five walks in five innings to get the win.

Speedway to host Bill Kirila Memorial

HARTFORD

Sharon Speedway is hosting the Bill Kirila Memorial today.

Kirila, of Brookfield was on of the owners of the Speedway with his brother Ron and the Blaney and Weller families. He died of an illness in 2006 at the age of 68.

McLaren returns to full-time INDYCAR

McLaren will return to full-time IndyCar competition next season for the first time since 1979 in a partnership with existing team Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsports.

The new venture will be renamed Arrow McLaren Racing SP and rely on Arrow SPM’s current infrastructure. McLaren will be responsible for technical expertise, commercial experience and marketing. It will be a two-car team but switch next season to Chevrolet.

The team currently fields cars for James Hinchcliffe and Marcus Ericsson, but Hinchcliffe is a longtime Honda ambassador and star of ads for the automaker in North America.

Arrow Electronics will remain the team’s title partner and team co-founders Sam Schmidt and Ric Peterson will continue in their current leadership roles. Gil de Ferran, the sporting director for McLaren Racing, will lead the IndyCar effort.

McLaren is coming off a spectacular embarrassment in which it failed to qualify for the Indianapolis 500 in May with celebrated two-time Formula One champion Fernando Alonso.

Biles leads U.S. Championship

KANSAS CITY, MO.

Simone Biles is intent on testing the limits of her own immense talent. During the first night of the U.S. women’s gymnastics championships, she might have found them.

While the Olympic champion is well on her way to a record-tying sixth national title after posting an all-around score of 58.650, she didn’t exactly seem thrilled with her performance.

She admitted she was ticked off after her floor routine, when her attempt to end her first tumbling pass with a triple-twisting double flip — a move never attempted in major competition by a female gymnast — came up a bit short. She eye-rolled after the first of her two vaults. She trudged off the podium after her bars set.

A smile — maybe of joy, maybe of relief, likely a mixture of both — finally emerged after she drilled her double-twisting double-flip dismount on beam. Such are the standards Biles has set for herself that on a night when she finished with the top score on three of the four events and finished third on the other she seemed more annoyed than elated.

Staff/wire report