Wellsville bowlers roll

EAST LIVERPOOL — The Wellsville bowling team captured its 15th victory by rolling over Youngstown Chaney, 2084-1757, Thursday at Walnut Lanes.

Makayla Landess led the Tigers with a 218 game and 426 series. Madelyn Landess had a 200 game and 382 series, William Lockhart a 172 game and 339 series and Cameron Taylor a 171 game and 324 series.

The Tigers (15-1) will play Southern Local on Monday at Walnut Lanes.

YSU tries to beat storm

YOUNGSTOWN — Tipoff for the Milwaukee at Youngstown State men’s basketball game on Saturday has been moved up to 1 p.m. due to inclement weather in the forecast this weekend.

West Branch drops Salem

BELOIT — West Branch’s boys freshman basketball team beat Salem, 46-21, Thursday.

For West Branch, Judah Kutz had 14 points. Michael McCartney added 11 points. West Branch is 5-9 having won five straight.

The Warriors are at Canton Central Catholic on Saturday.

History against Broncos’ Stidham

(AP) — The injury that knocked Denver’s Bo Nix out of the playoffs has created a most unusual situation with Jarrett Stidham set to start the AFC title game after not throwing a single pass during a game the last two seasons.

When Stidham takes the field against New England on Sunday, it will be 749 days since his last pass attempt in the regular season or playoffs in Week 18 of the 2022 season against Las Vegas.

According to the NFL research department, that will be more than double the previous longest stretch without a pass attempt by a playoff starter with Joe Webb having gone 370 days before his 2012 wild-card start for Minnesota against Green Bay.

Stidham’s four career starts are the fewest ever for a QB starting in a conference championship game — one fewer than Jeff Hostetler had when he started the 1990 NFC title game for the Giants. Hostetler had four career regular-season starts and had won the divisional round when he started that win over San Francisco.

The Broncos will be the ninth team to start multiple quarterbacks in the same postseason and will try to become the fifth to get wins from both. Buffalo was the last to do it when backup Frank Reich won two games in place of the injured Jim Kelly in the 1992 playoffs before Kelly returned and won the AFC title game. The Bills lost the Super Bowl to Dallas.

The 1972 Dolphins, who finished a perfect 17-0, were the only Super Bowl champions to use two starting quarterbacks in the playoffs with Earl Morrall winning the first two rounds before Bob Griese returned from a broken leg to win the Super Bowl.

Golfer has a wild ride

LA QUINTA, Calif. (AP) — Blades Brown, the 18-year-old who turned pro last year, had a 67 in the first round of The American Express on Thursday to cap off a wild 24 hours.

He finished the Korn Ferry Tour event in the Bahamas on Wednesday (tie for 17th), then flew private to Palm Springs, arriving about 8 p.m. He had a 9:58 a.m. tee time Thursday at La Quinta. He earned the flight voucher as a perk for finishing in the top 50 at the Myrtle Beach Classic last year.

Also on Thursday, Brian Harman was penalized two shots for hitting the wrong ball on the 10th hole. Golf Channel reported it was an amateur’s golf ball he hit.

Penguins score three goals in early 37 seconds

EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Anthony Mantha scored twice, Sidney Crosby made it three in an early 37-second span and the Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Edmonton Oilers 6-2 on Thursday night.

The 37-second spree was the fastest three goals in Penguins history and the fastest three allowed by the Oilers.

The Penguins scored on three of their first four shots. Just 2:20 in, Justin Brazeau made a nifty pass through a defender’s legs to Mantha, who deflected it in. Twenty-two seconds later, Mantha scored on a breakaway. Crosby struck 15 seconds after that, deflecting a pass from the slot into the net.

Evgeni Malkin had a goal and an assist, Rickard Rakell, and Egor Chinakhov also scored and Arturs Silovs made 30 saves. The Penguins have won three straight and are 10-2-2 in their last 14 to get to 25-14-11.

Connor McDavid was held pointless in consecutive games are the first time this season. The last time he went two games without a point was Feb. 7 and Feb. 22, 2025, a pair of matches broken up by the 4 Nations Face-Off.

The Penguins will play at Vancouver on Sunday.

ABC to air three regular-season MLB games

BRISTOL, Conn. (AP) — Three regular-season weekend baseball games will air on ABC this year.

The San Francisco Giants will host the Chicago Cubs on June 14 at 3 p.m. EDT. Two weeks later, the New York Yankees will face the Boston Red Sox at 1 p.m.

ABC will air another rivalry on Aug. 16 when the Cubs host the St. Louis Cardinals at 3 p.m.

The games on ABC are part of ESPN’s three-year rights agreement with Major League Baseball that takes effect this season. ABC, like ESPN part of The Walt Disney Co., previously aired games during the wild card round, but those move to NBC and Peacock, along with the package of Sunday night games that ESPN had aired since its first MLB broadcasts in 1990.

Carroll scores 34 in Youngstown State win

YOUNGSTOWN (AP) — Cris Carroll’s 34 points led Youngstown State over Green Bay 88-81 on Thursday.

Carroll had seven rebounds for the Penguins (10-11, 3-7 Horizon League). Bryson Dawkins and Rich Rolf both scored 15 points.

CJ O’Hara finished with 22 points and two steals for the Phoenix (11-10, 6-4). Marcus Hall added 20 points for Green Bay. Justin Allen had 14 points.