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Delay of game by Wildcats
SOUTHINGTON — Due to a lack of players, the Southington Chalker football team has canceled its first five games of the season.
The Wildcats will not play Jackson-Milton on Aug. 20, Sebring on Aug. 27, Leetonia on Sept. 3, Conotton Valley on Sept. 10 and Toronto on Sept. 17 as originally scheduled.
Southington hopes to play its Northeastern Athletic Conference games, beginning Sept. 24 at Mathews.
Reed hits hole-in-one
CALCUTTA — Gerald Reed hit a hole-in-one at Beaver Creek Meadows Golf Course on Tuesday.
He used an 8-iron to ace the 130-yard 12th hole.
Witnesses were Russ Hammond and Jerry Medley.
Memorial golf scramble set
SALEM — The Bob Beeson Memorial Golf Scramble will be held July 31 at Salem Hills Golf & Country Club. Tee times start at noon.
Cost is $75 per person or $300 per four-man team, which includes 18 holes of with cart, food at the turn and drink ticket.
To sign up or for more information, call or text Melanie at (740) 255-8024 or Justin at (614) 806-1106.
All proceeds are to benefit the Bob Beeson Memorial Golf Scholarship, which will be given to Salem High School students.
Youth stars from Valley
Five players from the Ohio Valley Beaver County Colt League team were selected for the 16U Beaver County Select Travel Team. Players (from left) Jayden Vandeborne of Indian Creek, T.J. Decapio of Oak Glen, Chase Patterson of Oak Glen, Preston Cole of Oak Glen and Hunter Rhoades of Oak Glen will represent Beaver County this weekend at Beaver Falls High School and then travel to North Carolina on Wednesday to play in a national qualifier tournament.
Oosthuizen sets pace
SANDWICH, England (AP) — Louis Oosthuizen set a 36-hole record at the British Open and is halfway to ending that run of near misses at the majors.
Now all he has to do is hold off a cast of major champions on the weekend at Royal St. George’s.
On a day of pleasant summer weather that took the fear out of the links off Sandwich Bay, Oosthuizen broke away from a three-way tie with a birdie-birdie-eagle run from the 12th hole. He shrugged off his first bogey of the week for a 5-under 65 and a two-stroke lead on Friday.
Former PGA champion Collin Morikawa had a 64 in the morning and was two shots behind. Another shot back was Jordan Spieth (67), going after his fourth major.
Lurking was two-time major champion Dustin Johnson, the No. 1 player in the world who shot 65 and was tied for fourth, four strokes behind Oosthuizen.
“The game is good, but I know it’s a really good leaderboard,” Oosthuizen said. “I’ll have to play good golf this weekend if I want to come out first.”
Oosthuizen, looking as calm as the conditions, was at 11-under 129, breaking the 36-hole Open record.
Ginn retires from NFL
CLEVELAND (AP) — Ted Ginn Jr. returned to Glenville High School on Friday to announce his NFL retirement.
The 36-year-old former Ohio State receiver and returner played for his father, Ted Sr., at Glenville before moving on to the Buckeyes and the NFL.
“I’ve dedicated my entire life to football until now,” Ginn said. “I’m going out in peace. … On my own terms, not forced out.”
Ginn spent 14 seasons in the NFL with Miami, San Francisco, Carolina, Arizona, New Orleans and Chicago. In 193 regular-season games, he had 412 receptions for 5,742 yards — averaging 13.9 yards a catch — and 33 touchdowns. He also returned four punts and three kickoffs for touchdowns.
All-Star Pirates
Reynolds, Frazier lead Pirates over Mets 4-1; Lindor injured
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Coming off their first All-Star appearances, Bryan Reynolds homered and Adam Frazier hit a two-run single to lead the Pittsburgh Pirates to a testy 4-1 victory over the New York Mets on Friday night.
Mets star shortstop Francisco Lindor left in the fifth inning with soreness on his right side — moments before a hot-tempered shoving match between the teams on the field.
Reynolds’ homer came in the seventh inning and pushed the lead to 4-1. It was his 17th of the season, setting a career high.
Frazier’s hit in the second opened the scoring. He and Reynolds became the first Pirates teammates to start in an All-Star Game on Tuesday since Barry Bonds and Bobby Bonilla in 1992.
Lindor winced after grounding out to second base in the fifth. He took a few steps out of the batter’s box but then peeled off toward the Mets’ dugout on the first base side.
In the bottom half, the benches cleared after Mets starter Marcus Stroman jumped high in the air when John Nogowski lined out to first base to end the inning.
Nogowski began shouting and pointing at Stroman, who walked toward him and barked back. No punches were thrown during a large scrum on the field, and there were no ejections
Chad Kuhl (3-5) got the win despite issuing five walks in five innings. He allowed one unearned run and two hits while striking out three.
NL East-leading New York managed three hits against the Pirates, who are last in the NL Central. The teams split four games last weekend in New York.
Stroman (6-8) gave up just the two runs on Frazier’s single in five innings while scattering eight hits. He struck out two and walked none.
Richard Rodriguez pitched a scoreless ninth for his 13th save in 15 chances.
Wilmer Difo also homered for Pittsburgh, a drive to the back of the right field stands in the sixth off Drew Smith that made it 3-1. Difo, Reynolds and Jacob Stallings each had two hits for the Pirates.
The Mets got their run in the fourth when Pete Alonso walked and scored on Jonathan Villar’s groundout. After winning his second consecutive All-Star Home Run Derby on Monday night, Alonso reached base four times on a double and three walks.
DeGROM UPDATE
The Mets have yet to determine when ace Jacob deGrom will make his next start.
He threw a light bullpen before the game, which would line him up to pitch Monday at Cincinnati. However, the Mets have not announced a starter for Sunday’s series finale with the Pirates and deGrom could get the nod.
DeGrom is 7-2 with a major league-leading 1.08 ERA in 15 starts this season despite being hampered by multiple ailments. He last pitched July 7 against Milwaukee.
“We want him to take the time off from a medical standpoint to come in fresher for the second half,” manager Luis Rojas said.
ROSTER MOVES
Mets: Activated INF J.D. Davis from the injured list and designated OF Billy McKinney for assignment. Davis had been out since May 2 with a hand injury.
Rojas has no set plan on how he will divide playing time at third base between Davis and Villar, who started there Friday.
“When I get the opportunity, I’ll bang,” said Davis, who struck out in the seventh as a pinch-hitter.
McKinney hit .220 with five home runs in 39 games after being acquired from Milwaukee on May 26 in a trade.
LHP Stephen Tarpley was released. He allowed two runs without getting an out in his lone relief appearance.
Pirates: INF/OF Philip Evans was activated from the concussion IL and RHP Nick Mears was recalled from Triple-A Indianapolis, while INF/OF Cole Tucker was optioned to Indianapolis. Evans had been sidelined since July 6.
The Pirates had a roster spot open after placing LHP Sam Howard (right oblique strain) on the injured list Tuesday.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Mets: RHP Carlos Carrasco (strained right hamstring) is tentatively scheduled to make a rehab start Tuesday for a farm club to be determined. On the IL since the beginning of the season, Carrasco pitched two scoreless innings for High-A Brooklyn on Thursday in his first rehab outing, allowing one hit and striking out two. … RHP Corey Oswalt (right hamstring strain) is rehabbing at the spring training facility in Port St. Lucie, Florida, and had an injection to reduce swelling in his leg.
Pirates: RHP Duane Underwood Jr. (right side discomfort) threw a bullpen Thursday. … RF Gregory Polanco (bilateral adductor strain) has started running the bases.
UP NEXT
It will be a matchup of rookie right-handers Saturday night when the Mets’ Tylor Megill (0-0, 3.50 ERA) faces Wil Crowe (1-5, 6.05). Megill will be making his fifth career start. Crowe has given up a run in the first or second inning in 11 of his 12 starts this season.
Love out, US basketball adds McGee, Keldon Johnson to roster
(AP) — The U.S. basketball team has lost two games and now two players on its road to Tokyo.
Kevin Love withdrew from the Olympics on Friday because of a right calf injury, forcing the Americans to replace a player for the second straight day.
Love’s withdrawal came after the Americans announced Thursday that Washington Wizards guard Bradley Beal would miss the Olympics because he was in health and safety protocols.
It means the much of the U.S. roster will have little time together before its Olympic opener July 25 against France.
“I think coming into something like this, you know that things can come up, especially coming out of a pandemic and the possibility of guys maybe testing positive,” U.S. guard Damian Lillard said.
“Injuries happen. People have a change of heart. You just come into it expecting that. “But I think our primary focus was to come here and come together as a team, get our bodies moving around, get in shape to be able to go compete on the level that we want to compete on and I think we’ve moved in that direction as a group. We feel good about where we are.”
Lillard spoke after the team’s practice in Las Vegas. The Americans were supposed to play Friday night against Australia, but that exhibition was canceled because of health and safety concerns.
Veteran center JaVale McGee and Spurs guard Keldon Johnson were added later Friday to the 12-man Olympics roster as replacements.
Johnson, who plays for U.S. coach Gregg Popovich in San Antonio, was a member of the select team of young players training against the Americans, and had appeared in two of their exhibition games.
McGee, who played for the Cleveland Cavaliers and Denver Nuggets last season, has won three NBA titles but has no Olympic experience. He has been involved in the national team program since 2009.
Love would have been trying for a second Olympic gold medal, having played for the Americans in London in 2012. He also was on the team that won gold two years earlier in the world championships.
That past USA Basketball experience helped him get selected for this roster despite his difficult NBA season. Love missed 46 games because of the injury and averaged just 12.2 points in 25 games.
He played in two of the Americans’ three exhibition games in Las Vegas, scoring one point.
The U.S. was already short-handed before the losses of Beal and Love. Milwaukee’s Jrue Holiday and Khris Middleton, along with Phoenix star Devin Booker, won’t join the team until after the NBA Finals.
With them not joining the team until after camp and forward Jerami Grant also in health and safety protocols — though with his Olympics not expected to be in jeopardy — the Americans are currently without half the players they will take to Tokyo.
Guard Zach LaVine said he didn’t have any concerns about the team’s readiness.
“I think we’re the best basketball players in the world,” he said. “We’re able to compete and do things under certain circumstances and we’ve got to go out here and get the job done regardless. So I don’t think anybody’s going to feel bad for us or try to take it easy. It’s just what it is and we’ve got to still get a job done.”
The Americans dropped their first two games before beating Argentina. They have one exhibition left against Spain.
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