Arrest made in EOAC football threat

YOUNGSTOWN — Edward Agee, 18, was arraigned Friday in Youngstown Municipal Court on felony fleeing and eluding and misdemeanor inciting to violence, inducing panic and disorderly conduct charges in an Oct. 3 altercation involving a gun aimed at Valley Christian High School football players at a practice.

The incident caused an Eastern Ohio Athletic Conference game between Valley Christian and Columbiana to be canceled and later ruled a forfeit in favor of the Clippers.

Agee was booked into the Mahoning County jail Friday, arraigned and released the same day, according to jail records. His bond was $7,500, and he returns for a preliminary hearing on the felony and a pretrial on the misdemeanors at 9:30 a.m. Nov. 3. If he is convicted, he could get several years in prison.

A Youngstown police report states that about 3:42 p.m. Oct. 3, a Youngstown police officer was “looking in on” the football team at 1833 Market St., the former South High School, when a coach pointed to Agee, who appeared to be running with an all-black bag with a strap, which the officer stated was later identified to be a rifle.

Agee ran to a car, got in and “drove straight towards me to hit me,” but the officer moved his cruiser out of the way, and Agee drove out of the parking lot and directly onto Market Street without stopping and turned onto Falls Avenue and into Mill Creek Park.

The officer chased the vehicle to Old Furnace Road, but after it turned east onto Volney Road, the officer lost sight of the vehicle, the report states.

The officer then returned to the former South High School and learned from two other officers who had spoken with the football coach and a player, that Agee and two others came to the football field with a rifle, “threatening to kill everybody.”

While Agee was pointing the rifle at the people on the football field, the other two males “tried to fight victims,” the report states.

The officers were told that the three suspects had seen the first officer when he arrived at the facility, and that is when they “took off on foot in different directions and Agee, with the rifle, ran to the vehicle.

One of the football players said he had been in a fight with the three suspects the day before on Carroll Street on the South Side. Officers went to two locations looking for Agee but did not locate him.

A short time later, officers found the car Agee was driving on West Evergreen Avenue on the South Side and had it towed to investigate.

Because of the gun, the football game the next night between Columbiana and Valley Christian was canceled.

Capt. Jason Simon of the Youngstown Police Department said Monday that warrants have been issued for the two other suspects, but they had not yet been apprehended.

Blue Jays not ready to lay down

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Vladimir Guerrero Jr. hit a two-run homer off Shohei Ohtani, Shane Bieber pitched four-hit ball into the sixth inning, and the Toronto Blue Jays shook off their epic 18-inning loss to even the World Series with a 6-2 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 4 on Tuesday night.

Addison Barger had two hits and drove in a run for the AL champion Blue Jays, who coolly rebounded from their heartbreaking, late-night defeat in Game 3 with stellar work at the plate and on the mound.

By sending the defending champion Dodgers to just their third loss in 14 games this postseason, the Blue Jays reclaimed homefield advantage and guaranteed the World Series trophy will be won at Rogers Centre.

Game 5 is Wednesday at Dodger Stadium, with Game 6 in Toronto on Friday.

Ohtani redefined the concept of short rest by taking the World Series mound just over 17 hours after he reached base nine times and smashed four extra-base hits in the Dodgers’ stirring victory.

Ohtani yielded six hits and four runs while pitching into the seventh inning with six strikeouts in Game 4. After Guerrero hit his majestic seventh homer of the postseason in the third, the Blue Jays added two more while chasing Ohtani during their four-run seventh inning.

Ohtani couldn’t make up for it at the plate, going 0 for 3 with a walk and two strikeouts. He was on deck when the game ended.

The Dodgers’ two-way superstar was outpitched by Bieber, the Blue Jays newcomer who returned from Tommy John surgery in late August. The 2020 AL Cy Young Award winner gave up just one run in a resilient World Series debut.

An Orange County native with friends and family roaring for him from the loge level at Dodger Stadium, Bieber issued three walks, but repeatedly got out of trouble. He stranded four runners before Mason Fluharty relieved him in the sixth and stranded two more — and the Blue Jays took control moments later with their seventh-inning rally.

Ohtani took the mound again 11 days after he hit three homers and struck out 10 Milwaukee Brewers in arguably the greatest single-game performance in baseball playoff history to clinch the NL pennant.

Ohtani threw his first pitch to the Blue Jays 17 hours and 21 minutes after celebrating with his teammates when Freddie Freeman’s walk-off homer cleared the fence. Although his fastball velocity was down to 97.6 mph from his season average of 98.5, Ohtani largely stayed out of trouble with effective breaking stuff.

Ohtani also drew a six-pitch leadoff walk to reach base for the 11th straight time, extending his World Series record — but he didn’t get on base again.

The Dodgers scored first for the fourth consecutive game when Kiké Hernández’s sacrifice fly brought home Max Muncy in the second. But the Blue Jays finally got to Ohtani in the third, ending their 13-inning scoring drought with a big swing from their star slugger.

Nathan Lukes got a one-out single before Guerrero hammered a breaking ball from Ohtani over the left-center wall. Guerrero has set Toronto franchise postseason records with seven homers and 14 RBIs this month.

Ohtani retired 11 of 12 after Guerrero’s homer, but the Blue Jays chased him with Daulton Varsho’s single and Ernie Clement’s double off the wall to start the seventh. Toronto scored on Andrés Giménez’s single and Ty France’s groundout off Anthony Banda before Bo Bichette and Barger added RBI singles off struggling Blake Treinen.