CCW class coming up

CHESTER, W.Va. — The Chester-Newell Sportsmen’s Club will offer a concealed carry class at 9 a.m. on May 18 at the club’s grounds. Cost is $75. Class is good for Ohio and West Virginia. Phone or text James at (757) 288-4772 to sign up.

EP to host meets

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

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

Twenty-seven schools are entered, including host East Palestine, Beaver Local, Columbiana, Crestview, Heartland Christian, Salem, Springfield Local and South Range.

Red and White game

YOUNGSTOWN — The Youngstown State football team will play its annual Red-White Spring Game at 11 a.m. Saturday at Stambaugh Stadium.

Admission is free while parking is available in nearby YSU lots for $5. Seating will be in the West stands only.

The game will feature the offensive (Red Team) vs. the defense (White Team) in a format that will include a variety of scrimmage-like situations.

The first half will include two 15-minute quarters with normal clock procedures. The second half will have a continuous 20-minute running clock.

Warmups will begin at 10:10 a.m.

YSU still alive

LAS VEGAS — Youngstown State’s women’s bowling team is still alive in the NCAA Final Four.

The Penguins, the third seed, knocked off second-seed Nebraska in the early session on Friday with a 1,021-973 win in the traditional round and a 1,116-1,006 win in the baker series.

Facing off against No. 1 seed Jacksonville State of Alabama in the winners bracket in the evening session the Penguins lost the traditional round 1,051-1,045 and then won the baker 1,127-1,123 to force a best-of-seven series. Jacksonville State won that 4-1.

YSU will play Nebraska again early on Saturday. If YSU beats the Huskers it will play defending champion Jacksonville State in the title match.

The tournament final will be broadcast at 9 p.m. on ESPNU.

McConnachie wins

ST. CLAIRSVILLE – Oak Glen’s Kensington McConnachie won the girls long jump at the Dave Porterfield Memorial Invitational on Friday.

McConnachie leaped 15-feet-7 1/2 to beat St. Clairsville’s Ava Boroski by 2 inches in the 22-girl field.

Caldwell senior and University of Kentucky recruit Gwyn Lori set meet and Red Devils Stadium records in winning the discus with a toss of 145-feet-10 and also was first in the shot put (44-10), the event she won the Division III state title in last year.

Oak Glen’s Orien Bone was second in the boys discus (135-3) and third in the shot put (46-4 1/2).

Host St. Clairsville won the boys team title with 97 points, while Steubenvile was the girls winner with 91 points.

The Oak Glen boys were 13th with 24 points and the Oak Glen girls were 14th with 23 points in the 17-school field.

Reds down Bucs

CINCINNATI (AP) — Jeimer Candelario hit a two-run homer to help Brady Singer and the Cincinnati Reds beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 5-3 on Friday night.

Singer (3-0) pitched five innings of three-run ball in his third straight win. The right-hander allowed two hits, struck out three and walked three.

Singer is in his first season with Cincinnati after he was acquired in a November trade with Kansas City.

Taylor Rogers, Graham Ashcraft and Emilio Pagán followed Singer with four innings of two-hit ball. Pagán handled the ninth for his third save.

Adam Frazier hit a two-run homer for Pittsburgh, and Tommy Pham had an RBI double. Bailey Falter (0-2) was charged with five runs — three earned — and three hits in five innings.

Candelario’s first homer made it 3-0 in the first. A two-run throwing error by catcher Endy Rodríguez extended the lead to 5-0 in the third.

Rodríguez entered the game after Joey Bart departed because of lower-back discomfort.

Both teams managed only four hits and combined for 10 walks.

Pittsburgh outfielder Oneil Cruz missed his second consecutive start with a finger injury on his left hand.

Reds outfielder Austin Hays was 0 for 2 with a sacrifice fly in his first rehab start at Triple-A Louisville on Friday night. Hays, who signed as a free agent in the offseason, suffered a left calf injury late in spring training.

Key moment

Rodríguez blocked a wild pitch, but overthrew third trying to get Elly De La Cruz, who scored along with Spencer Steer.

Key stat

The Reds have scored 30 runs in Singer’s three starts.

Up next

Andrew Heaney (0-0, 1.50 ERA) starts for the Pirates on Saturday against fellow left-hander Andrew Abbott, making his season debut after a couple of rehab starts at Triple-A Louisville.

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