Ursuline tennis has runner-up finish

Ursuline tennis has runner-up finish

PLAIN CITY

Ursuline’s boys tennis team finished as the runner up in the Ohio Tennis Coaches Association’s 2019 Boys Team Tennis Tournament in the Elysium Raquet Club on Sunday.

The Irish — who were the first Youngstown-area team to advance to the tournament’s finals — fell to Wellington, 3-0. Earlier on Sunday, the Irish defeated Ottawa Hills, 3-0.

The team finish comes after Saturday’s OHSAA state tournament, where junior Greg Morgione was the Division II singles runner-up after an injury kept him out of the final. Morgione participated in the team tournament on Sunday after he was briefly hospitalized with cramps.

Jack Arvin Classic coming to Niles

NILES

The Mahoning Valley Coaches Association and ScoutingOhio.com are sponsoring the 35th annual Jack Arvin All-Star Football Classic on June 13 at 7 p.m. in Niles’ Bo Rein Stadium. The format for the game is where the team with players from Mahoning and Columbiana counties will face the Trumbull County team.

Champion head coach Tim McGlynn will coach the Trumbull County team and McDonald head coach Dan Williams will coach the Mahoning/Columbiana County team.

Christman locks up qualifying spot

ORRVILLE

Boardman graduate Cole Christman locked up his spot in the Junior PGA Section Championship on Sunday during a qualifier at Riceland Golf Course.

Christman shot four-under to win the round by two strokes.

Sharon Speedway washed out

HARTFORD

Racing at Sharon Speedway was cancelled due to inclement weather.

Grandstand rain checks from Saturday night will be honored for the next two events, while pit passes can be used for the remainder of the season for all $30 events or upgraded for the difference on special events with higher pit pass prices. The 29 HTMA/Precise Racing Products RUSH Sportsman Modified drivers, 21 Gibson Insurance Agency Stock Cars, and 17 Summit Racing Equipment Econo Mods in the three weekly divisions that were signed in will receive 10 show-up points per track procedures with to the pill draw being closed.

Racing will resume on Saturday.

Team USA blanks Mexico

HARRISON, N.J.

Tobin Heath was gifted a goal by a goalkeeper error early in the first half, Mallory Pugh and Christen Press scored late in the second and the United States beat Mexico 3-0 Sunday in a World Cup send-off match that for much of the afternoon showed the Americans’ failings more than their facets.

Seeking its second straight World Cup title and fourth overall, the top-ranked U.S. has seven wins and two draws since a Jan. 19 defeat at France that ended a 28-game unbeaten streak. The Americans leave Monday for London, where they will be based at Tottenham’s training camp before heading to France. They open against Thailand on June 11, then play Chile and Sweden.

Mexico failed to qualify after consecutive group stage eliminations, is ranked 26th and fielded a relatively inexperienced team mixed with a few veterans.

Goalkeeper Cecilia Santiago caused the first goal when she made a careless pass to defender Rebeca Bernal, who wasn’t looking for the ball. Heath ran onto the ball, took three touches to create space from Santiago and put the U.S. ahead in the 11th minute with her 30th international goal, her 11th in her last 15 appearances.

Carli Lloyd, the 2015 star who is now a role player at age 36, entered at the start of the second half and sparked the second goal with runs up the left side. She burst up the field and put the ball in front of the goal, where it went in off Pugh’s foot in the 76th.

Staff/wire report