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CHESTER DROPS FIRST GAME
BOARDMAN -- The Chester Old-Timers baseball team suffered its first loss of the season, 6-5, to Youngstown on Sunday at the Fields of Dreams.
Bobby Vaughn had two hits and Dave Smith a double for Chester. Kevin Farrell took the loss.
Chester plays at Springfield High School at 2 p.m. Sunday.
SHIVERS COMPETES AT NATIONALS
NEW YORK -- Salem High School graduate and former Notre Dame standout Anthony Shivers placed 12th in the discus on Saturday at the United States of America Track and Field Outdoor Championships at Ichan Stadium.
Shivers, 31, had a best throw of 179 feet, 9 inches on his second attempt.
Texas Tanner, 21 of the United States Air Force, won with a throw of 214-9.
In the Oklahoma Throws Series on June 14, Shivers had thrown 199-5.
HARRISON TO RETIRE A PIRATE
PITTSBURGH -- Major League Baseball veteran Josh Harrison will retire as a member of the Pittsburgh Pirates at a press conference on Aug. 7. On Aug. 8 the Pirates will honor Harrison with a T-shirt giveaways to first 20,000 fans at PNC Park.
Harrison played 13 seasons in the majors including eight with the Pirates from 2011-2018. He has not played in the majors since a stint with the Philadelphia Phillies in 2023.
PHANTOMS LOSE COACH
YOUNGSTOWN -- Youngstown Phantoms head coach Ryan Ward has accepted a position as an assistant coach with the Providence Bruins, the AHL affiliate of the Boston Bruins.
Ward is the winningest coach in Phantoms history going 156-70-2 with a Clark Cup title in 2023.
EAST PALESTINE SELLS FALL PASSES
EAST PALESTINE -- The East Palestine athletic department will be selling fall athletic passes from 5 to 7 p.m. on Aug. 8 and Aug. 13 in the board of education office at 200 West North Avenue. Passes will also be available at the first volleyball and football home games. For more information call Cindy Dunn at (330) 853-6792.
GUARDIANS GAIN PICK IN NEXT DRAFT
NEW YORK (AP) -- Pitchers Logan Schmidt and Aidan Knaak were the only two players among those picked in the first 10 rounds of baseball’s amateur draft who didn’t sign by Monday’s deadline to agree to deals.
Schmidt, an 18-year-old left-hander from Ganesha High School in California, was selected 59th overall by Cleveland on the second round, and is likely to attend LSU or a junior college. Because he didn’t sign, the Guardians get an extra selection next year at No. 60.
Knaak, a 21-year-old right-hander selected 163rd by Milwaukee on the fifth round, appears to be staying for a fourth season at Clemson.
Right-hander Gavin Giese, taken 85th by Tampa Bay on the third round, signed on the final day for a $997,500 bonus. His father Dan pitched in the major leagues from 2007-09 with San Francisco, the New York Yankees and Oakland.
Signing bonuses have totaled $409.3 million up from $401.8 million last year. UCLA shortstop Roch Cholowsky, selected first by the Chicago White Sox, agreed to an amateur draft record signing bonus of $10,347,500.
Major League Baseball last month proposed shortening the draft from 20 rounds to 12 in 2027, eliminating eligibility players from high school and junior college, and establishing hard slots totaling $200 million.
Just two picks from the top-10 rounds didn’t sign in 2025: right-hander Angel Cervantes, selected 50th overall by Pittsburgh on the second round, and outfielder Mason Ligenza, taken by the Los Angeles Dodgers 195th on the sixth round.
Pittsburgh got an extra pick at 51 this year.
The signing deadline does not apply to players who have exhausted college eligibility, a group that can sign until until a week before next year’s draft.
Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Colorado, Detroit, Houston, the Los Angeles Dodgers, Milwaukee, the New York Yankees, San Diego, San Francisco, Tampa Bay and the Athletics all spent exactly 5% over their signing bonus pool, the maximum allowed before incurring the loss of a first-round pick in next year’s draft. No team has ever exceeded its signing bonus pool by more than 5%.
FORMER BROWNS GM PLACED ON LEAVE
North Carolina football general manager Michael Lombardi has been placed on paid administrative leave.
The school announced the move with a statement Monday morning, coming days before the Tar Heels open preseason camp. The school didn’t provide details as to the reason, noting that employees and athletes aren’t permitted to address the topic “as is standard procedure with personnel matters.”
Lombardi joined Bill Belichick in making the NFL-to-college move when the school hired the former New England Patriots coach in December 2024. Lombardi’s career as an NFL executive had included being the GM of the Cleveland Browns in 2013, and he was an immediate hire by the six-time Super Bowl-winning coach in Chapel Hill.
The school had hired Belichick to jolt a football program that had largely been an Atlantic Coast Conference also-ran while making periodic but unsustained climbs into national relevance.
A few months into Belichick’s tenure, Lombardi said the goal was running a college program in a way similar to the NFL, saying the Tar Heels “consider ourselves the 33rd (NFL) team” due to the staff connections to the pros.
CAPE VERDE HERO WINS BEST GOAL
CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) -- Cape Verde made more World Cup history on Monday when Sidny Lopes Cabral won the public vote for goal of the tournament.
Lopes Cabral’s curling shot into the far top corner of the Argentina net was a standout moment at the World Cup where the unheralded African team made a stellar debut.
His goal tied defending champion Argentina at 2-2 in extra time of their thrilling round of 32 game in Miami Gardens. Cape Verde would eventually lose 3-2.
Lopes Cabral’s goal was voted best of the 308 goals scored at the tournament, ahead of Eldor Shomurodov’s delicate lob for Uzbekistan against Congo and Wilson Isidor of Haiti scoring with a powerful rising shot against Morocco.