East Palestine hosts meet

EAST PALESTINE — The William E. Ward Boys and East Palestine Girls Invitational will be held Saturday.

Action at Reid Stadium will start at 10 a.m. with the boys discus and high jump and girls shot put and long jump and the preliminaries in the 100-meter dash and 100-meter hurdles.

The McDonald boys and girls will be trying to defend their team titles. Twenty-five schools are entered, including host East Palestine, Beaver Local, Columbiana, Crestview, Heartland Christian, Oak Glen, Salem, Southern Local, Springfield Local, Wellsville and Western Reserve.

OVAC All-Star basketball

ST. CLAIRSVILLE — The 48th annual Ohio Valley Athletic Conference All-Star Basketball Game will be held Sunday at the ECO Center.

The girls game will start at 1 p.m. with the boys game starting approximately 20 minutes after the completion of the girls game. There will be a three-point shootout for the girls and a slam dunk contest for the boys.

Five Buckeyes attend draft

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Five Ohio State players plan to attend the first round of the NFL draft on April 23.

Defensive back Caleb Downs, defensive tackle Kayden McDonald, linebacker Arvell Reese, linebacker Sonny Styles and wide receiver Carnell Tate will be in the green room in Pittsburgh waiting for their name to be called before coming out to applause and receive congratulations and a hug from NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell.

Ohio State has a chance to join Michigan State in 1967 and Notre Dame in 1946 as the only schools to have four players selected in the top 10.

Two players each from Alabama and Miami plan to attend. The Crimson Tide will be represented by offensive tackle Kadyn Proctor and quarterback Ty Simpson while the Hurricanes have defensive end Rueben Bain Jr. and offensive lineman Francis Mauigoa.

The other players attending are Texas Tech linebacker David Bailey; LSU defensive back Mansoor Delane; Auburn defensive end Keldric Faulk; Southern California wide receiver Makai Lemon; Notre Dame running back Jeremiyah Love; and Arizona State wide receiver Jordyn Tyson.

Heisman Trophy winner and Indiana quarterback Fernando Mendoza, the projected first overall pick by the Las Vegas Raiders, is expected to watch the draft with family and friends in Miami.

The last top overall pick not in attendance at the draft was Travon Walker when he was selected by Jacksonville in 2022.

Flipping out at the Masters

AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Robert MacIntyre made no public apologies for his fiery behavior at the Masters this week, breezing past reporters after his first-round 80 and then declining interview requests after a 71 on Friday that caused him to miss the cut.

The 29-year-old MacIntyre, who tied for second last week at the Texas Open, raised some eyebrows Thursday at Augusta National — where decorum is held in high esteem — when he flashed the middle finger upon hitting a ball into the water. MacIntyre also slammed a couple of clubs and muttered some curse words loud enough to be caught live by the TV mics.

It was unclear whether Augusta National took any disciplinary action.

MacIntyre finished at 7 over, missing the cut by three shots, and headed straight to the Player Services Building. At one point, someone posted to his Instagram story what appeared to be an AI-produced image of a Masters gnome in his likeness giving the bird.

Whoever it was had a sense of humor about things.

Bryson DeChambeau probably didn’t find anything funny about his finish.

He was 3 over coming to the par-4 18th before hitting his drive under a pine tree. He managed to punch his next into a bunker left of the green but left the ensuing shot in the sand. His fourth rolled off the front of the green, and the bogey pitch that DeChambeau needed to make the cut never had a chance; the two-time U.S. Open champ made triple bogey and finished at 6 over.

It was a grind for many of the game’s best players to make the low 50 and ties and play the weekend.