Sports

Poston on the prowl at The Memorial

DUBLIN (AP) — J.T. Poston stepped onto the putting green Friday at the Memorial just in time to feel the first gust of wind, knowing a tough course was about to get even harder. Part of him was eager to see how a new golf ball to help with the wind was going to perform. It's safe to say he was pleased. Poston had eight birdies in a round of 7-under 65, a score best measured by the fact he was nine shots better than the field average, enough for a one-shot lead over Ryan Gerard going into the weekend at Muirfield Village. Poston was at 9-under 135, a score not many saw coming. The ...

Beaver runners try to keep up

COLUMBUS — Salem freshman Chaya Murray made her presence known at the state track meet Friday. She posted the top time in the 200-meter dash and anchored the 400 and 1600 relay teams in the Division III preliminaries. "It's amazing," Murray. "I had so much fun." The fun starts ...

Southern Local's Jones saves the best for last

COLUMBUS - Southern Local senior Maddy Jones left the state track and field meet in tears again. "I'm crying happy tears," Jones said Friday after becoming the second Southern girl ever to stand on the podium at state. After finishing no higher than 14th place in her previous two trips to ...

SPORTS BRIEFING

SEC SAYS NO SUPER LEAGUE Southeastern Conference commissioner Greg Sankey said there's no talk of a merger with the Big Ten and called the notion that the SEC wants to form a super league — the specter of which is being leveraged by lawmakers as a central threat to the future of college sports — as "not consistent with the truth." Sankey, in an interview Friday on "The Paul Finebaum Show," outlined the reasons the SEC does not support a bipartisan bill introduced last week in Congress that would regulate a college sports landscape that has changed dramatically in the new era of ...

Beavers on the fast track

Wellsville’s Kersey leaps to 8th place finish

COLUMBUS — Wellsville long jumper Clayten Kersey remembers going to his first state track meet at Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium as a fifth-grader. That was in 2019 when Wellsville's Justin Wright captured state championships in the long jump and 100-meter dash. "I couldn't believe he's ...