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GLENVILLE BACK IN
COLUMBUS - The Salem football team better not throw out the scouting report on state power Cleveland Glenville.
A Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court judge granted the Tarblooders a restraining order Friday and they rescheduled the first-round playoff game against Hunting Valley University School for Saturday afternoon.
But University School said it will not play in that game.
"We will not compete in the now rescheduled contest, respect the court's prudence in deciding the ultimate outcome of the legal dispute, and will prepare to compete with Salem on (Nov. 6) if that is the resolution," the school said in a statement.
They were originally scheduled to play Friday night, but the Ohio High School Athletic Association removed the Tarblooders from the playoffs late Thursday afternoon.
Now Salem has no idea who it will be hosting in the second round next Friday, Nov. 6.
The OHSAA said there is an ongoing investigation into the Cleveland Metropolitan School District inaccurately assigning student participation opportunities to Glenville.
A hearing is scheduled for Monday.
The OHSAA said it first requested student residential information from Cleveland Metro on Sept. 28. The OHSAA received an initial batch of information from CMSD on Oct. 22. On Thursday, in a meeting with Glenville, the school did not object to the findings of the OHSAA audit.
Glenville is the defending state champion and has won three state titles in the past four years.
WADE’S STATUE
MIAMI (AP) -- Dwyane Wade has a new face -- on his statue.
Mindful of criticism that started coming in waves immediately after the statue outside the arena where the Miami Heat play was unveiled in his honor two years ago, Wade revealed Friday that he consented to having a new head made for the piece.
The original statue was widely panned because the face bore almost no resemblance to Wade, who spent the majority of his 16-year Basketball Hall of Fame career starring for the Heat and was a major part of Miami’s three NBA championship teams.
BYU SOPH LEADS
ALLARTA, Mexico (AP) -- Kihei Akina chipped in for birdie on the last hole Friday for a 7-under 64 and his name atop the leaderboard in the Mexico Open, and there was every reason for the 20-year-old sophomore at Brigham Young to feel like this was old hat.
It was his ninth round of 67 or lower on the PGA Tour in his last four tournaments, dating to the sponsor exemption he received in the Wyndham Championship. He already has one top 10, in the Bank of Utah Championship.
“I’m feeling more comfortable with each round played,” said Akina, who was at 11-under 131 and tied with Matthieu Pavon and Adrien Dumont de Chassart with half the field still to play. He wound up three shots behind Andrew Novak in a tie for second.
His life dream is to play on the PGA Tour and he’s making remarkable progress. Dating to August and the Wyndham Championship, Akina has picked up seven points in the PGA Tour University program for underclassmen. He gets one point for every PGA Tour cut and one point for a top 10.
Akina now has 12 points, leaving him eight away from having access to a PGA Tour card.