Mooney’s Perry makes all-star softball team

June 20, 2019 at 12:00a.m.

YOUNGSTOWN

Cardinal Mooney softball player Caitlin Perry homered and drove in several runs while playing for the Northeast Ohio Fastpitch Coaches Association’s all-star team.

More than 50 players tried out for 20 roster spots.

The Northeast Ohio team played against all-star teams from Ohio’s other five districts at Pickerington High School.

Perry, who will be a senior in August, plays outfield.

Correction

Garrett Walker is the third Springfield High School runner to win a state title. A story in Tuesday’s edition incorrectly said Walker’s 400 win in the Division III state track and field meet earlier this month was Springfield’s first state champion in track. In 1925, Russell Wilson won the 440 in Class B and in 1959, Frank Parks won the 880 and mile in Class A.

Bickerstaff Cup races are Saturday

Hartford

This season’s second round of the Bickerstaff Cup Series for Outlaw Mods will be contested on Saturday at Sharon Speedway.

With 42 victories, Bickerstaff is the all-time winningest Super Late Model driver at Sharpn Speedway.

The non-wing RUSH Sprint Cars and the HTMA/Precise Racing Products RUSH Sportsman Modifieds also will race. Pits will be open throughout the afternooy with pit passes going on sale at 4 p.m. The main grandstands will open at 5 p.m. Heat races are scheduled for 7 p.m. Grandstand admission for those 14 and older costs $13. Senior citizen tickets costs $10. Pit passes cost $30.

Sharon Speedway is owned by the Blaney, Weller, and Kirila families and is a 3/8-mile dirt track located on Custer-Orangeville Road. For more information, visit the website at www.sharonspeedway.com or call 330-772-5481.

Jets hire ex-Browns GM Phil Savage

NEW YORK

Jets general manager Joe Douglas has filled out his front office staff with four hires, including Rex Hogan as the team’s assistant GM.

The team also announced Wednesday that Douglas hired Chad Alexander as director of player personnel, Phil Savage as senior football advisor and Chris Noland as a college scout.

The Jets signed Douglas to a six-year contract on June 7, three weeks after Mike Maccagnan was fired as GM.

Savage is a longtime NFL executive who worked in the front offices of Baltimore, Cleveland and Philadelphia, and also has previously worked with Douglas.

Savage was the general manager of the Cleveland Browns from 2005-08. He hired Romeo Crennel as the franchise’s third full-time head coach since its return in 1999. He only saw one winning season with the Browns.

Cleveland went 10-6 in 2007, but just missed the playoffs following a Tennessee Titans’ win over the Indianapolis Colts in Week 17. The Browns went 4-12 the next season, leading to the firing of Savage and Crennel.

It was his only time as an NFL general manager.

Savage was the Senior Bowl Executive Director from 2012-18. He left in 2018 to become the general manager of the Arizona Hotshots of the Alliance of American Football, which folded after one season.

Police find missing former NFL RB safe

Former NFL running back Rod Smart has been found safe after missing for the last six days, according to Lancaster County police in South Carolina.

Smart, who earned notoriety when he wore “He Hate Me” on the back of his XFL jersey in 2001, “has been located and he is safe at this time,” the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office posted on its Facebook page Tuesday night.

Earlier in the day police had asked the public for help in finding Smart after he did not get in touch with anyone and hadn’t been seen in six days.

The 42-year-old Smart played for the Eagles and Panthers during his five-year NFL career.

Staff/wire report