Columbiana girls cool Southern

COLUMBIANA — Claire Banner tied the school’s 9-hole scoring record with a 2-under-par 35 to lead Columbiana to a 169-212 win over Southern on Wednesday at Valley Golf Course. The Clippers improve to 5-0 on the season.

Victoria Buckingham and Alyssa Kakavros each shot 44, while Ashlynn Day added a 46 to round out the scoring for Columbiana.

Southern was led by Lola Perfetto with a 49. Kaitlyn Boston and Rylee Digman each carded 53, and Alyssa Deeley followed with a 57.

Columbiana will compete in the Flamingo Frenzy on Tuesday at Ridgewood Country Club.

Beavers down Columbiana

CALCUTTA — Beaver Local’s boys golf team stayed unbeaten with a 161-170 win over Columbiana on Thursday at Turkana Golf Course.

Owen Hill led the way with a low medalist score of 39. Andre Wiegand shot 40, Braxton Hickman and Nathan Pusateri each carded 41.

Beaver Local is now 4-0 on the season. The Beavers will play in the first round of the Buckeye 8 tournament on Monday at Cadiz Country Club.

East Liverpool Christian tallies links win

EAST LIVERPOOL– East Liverpool Christian School defeated Wellsville 191-229 on Thursday at Historic Highlands.

Levi Williams and Noah Williams led East Liverpool Christian with matching scores of 41. Lucas Balser added 54 and Landon Kelly shot 55.

Wellsville’s top scorers were Darnell Roe and Cooper Frank, each shooting 50. Nate Cline carded 60 and Danny Allen had 69.

The teams will meet again Monday at Mountaineer’s Woodview Golf Course in a quad match that also includes Oak Glen and Toronto.

Skenes solves Reds

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Pittsburgh Pirates aces Paul Skenes’ record streak of allowing six or fewer hits to open an MLB career ended at 46 games on Thursday night against the Cincinnati Reds.

The longest such streak to begin a career (excluding openers), according to OptaStats, had belonged to Shohei Ohtani, who went 31 starts from 2018-21 for the Los Angeles Angels.

Skenes (7-8) allowed seven hits over six innings Thursday. He struck out eight batters and didn’t give up a run, lowering his ERA to 1.94.

That extended his scoreless streak to 27 2/3 innings; he last allowed a run June 8 against Philadelphia. He entered 3-0 with 0.53 ERA all time against the Reds with 25 strikeouts.

The Pirates beat the Reds 7-0.

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