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SPORTS BRIEFING

Beavers, Potters ready for postseason

STEUBENVILLE — The Beaver Local and East Liverpool wrestling teams will kick off their postseason on Saturday with Division II sectional action at Steubenville High School.

The top four individuals in each weight class will advance to the district tournament next week at Heath High School.

Doors will open at 9 a.m. with action beginning at 10 a.m. The gym will be cleared for a short break following all consolation and semifinal matches.

Tickets for Saturday’s two sessions are $7 per session or $12 for the entire day.

Div. III sectional tourmanet set

ROOTSTOWN — Several area teams will be in action in the Rootstown Division III sectional tournament on Saturday.

Columbiana, Crestview, Lisbon, East Palestine, South Range, Southern, Springfield, United, Wellsville and Western Reserve will all have wrestlers competing for the right to move on in the postseason. Action gets under way at Rootstown High School at 9:30 a.m.

The top four finishers in each weight class will advance to next week’s Garfield district tournament.

Southern-Toronto will be varsity-only

TORONTO — The Southern Local at Toronto boys basketball game today will be a varsity-only contest beginning at 7 p.m.

Toronto — ranked fourth in the Division IV state poll — has won both Eastern Ohio Athletic Conference titles and has a 25-game league winning streak heading into today’s final league contest.

Southern needs a win to tie Wellsville for second place in the EOAC.

U.S. Amateur coming to Oakmont

OAKMONT, Pa. — The United States Golf Association (USGA) on Thursday announced sites for six U.S. Amateur Championships from 2021 through 2026.

Oakmont (Pa.) Country Club will host the U.S. Amateur in 2021 and will be followed by Ridgewood (N.J.) Country Club in 2022 and Cherry Hills (Colo.) Country Club. The 2024, 2025 and 2026 championships will be held at Hazeltine National Golf Club, in Chaska, Minn.; The Olympic Club, in San Francisco, Calif.; and Merion Golf Club, in Ardmore, Pa., respectively.

Oakmont Country Club has been the site of 16 previous USGA championships, the most recent in 2016 when Dustin Johnson won the U.S. Open by three strokes. In 2025, the U.S. Open will return to Oakmont for a record 10th time. The 2021 U.S. Amateur will mark the sixth time the championship has been held on the iconic western Pennsylvania course. Oakmont previously hosted the U.S. Amateur in 1919, 1925, 1938, 1969 and 2003.

“Coming over to the U.S. to play for the first time as a 18-19-year-old, I was pretty naive to a lot of the history of the great courses all around the country but learnt very quickly about them,” said Australian Nick Flanagan, who won the 2003 U.S. Amateur at Oakmont. “Whenever I’m asked where I won the U.S. Amateur and I say Oakmont, the usual reaction is wide eyes followed by ‘Wow, what a place to win.'”

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