EOAC MEET AT EAST PALESTINE

EAST PALESTINE — The eighth Eastern Ohio Athletic Conference Track and Field Meet will be held Saturday at Reid Stadium.

The field events and the 3200-meter relay finals will start at 10 a.m. The rest of the running events will begin after 11 a.m. as timed finals.

The Columbiana boys and girls have swept the team titles the past two years.

CATFISH TOURNAMENTS START SOON

CHESTER, W.Va. — Chester-Newell Sportsmen’s Club Ohio River catfish tournaments will begin at 7:30 p.m. on May 23. Sign up at Chaney’s Sunoco in Chester. Cost is $10 per fisherman. Fish measuring happens from 6:30 to 7 a.m. on Sunday morning at Chester City Park Marina. Other tournament dates are June 20, July 18 and Aug. 15. For more information call Chaney’s at (304) 387-3982 or Jim at (740) 296-0176.

OHIO STATE WRESTLING CAMP

CADIZ — Harrison Central High School will host a wrestling camp June 8-10. The camp will feature Ohio State head coach Tom Ryan as well as Ohio State wrestlers Brannon Cannon, Vincent Kilkeary, Seth Shumate and Carter Chase. Cost is $150 for grades 7-12 for six sessions and $75 for grades 2-6 for three seasons. Lunch will be provided for grades 7-12 and snacks will be served for grades 2-6. E-mail bbryant@hhcsd.org for a digital form.

MOUNT UNION BASEBALL OPENS NCAA

ALLIANCE — The Mount Union baseball team has earned one of 23 NCAA at-large bids to the 64-team NCAA Division III tournament.

The Purple Raiders (31-10) will travel to Salisbury, Maryland, to play the Hobart Statesmen (30-13) at 1:30 p.m. Friday.

Two area graduates are on the Mount Union roster — sophomore outfielder Aaron Tucker from West Branch and junior pitcher Nevin Hahlen from United.

Tucker has played in 31 games with 26 starts. He has 18 hits with 16 RBIs and 16 runs scored.

Hahlen pitched one inning, giving up one run with one strikeout.

SCHEFFLER STANDS OUT AT PGA

NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. (AP) — The biggest logjam in 57 years after the opening round of a major championship still had one name that stood out above the rest: Scottie Scheffler handled everything Aronimink threw his way Thursday in the PGA Championship.

Scheffler took advantage of two long birdie putts and one big break on the 17th hole for a 3-under 67 to share the lead with six other players — former PGA champion Martin Kaymer perhaps the biggest surprise — on a tough day in the Philadelphia suburbs.

It was the 13th round in the majors that Scheffler has had at least a share of the lead, and remarkably the first time after the opening round.

Joining them at 67 were Aldrich Potgieter, Stephan Jaeger, Min Woo Lee, Ryo Hisatsune and Alex Smalley. The seven-way tie was the largest since nine players shared the lead in the 1969 PGA Championship at NCR Country Club in Dayton, Ohio.

And to think it could have been eight players. Garrick Higgo had a 69, which included a two-shot penalty before he even hit a shot for being 10 seconds late to the tee for his group’s starting time.

Masters champion Rory McIlroy bogeyed his last four holes for a 74 that sent him to the practice range for most of the afternoon.

Not since Oakland Hills in 2008 — Jeev Milkha Singh and Robert Karlsson at 2-under 68 — has the low score to par after the first round of the PGA Championship been worse than 3 under.

SUPER HALFTIME SHOW

NEW YORK (AP) — The World Cup final will feature a star-studded halftime show headlined by Madonna, Shakira and boy-band BTS.

FIFA announced Thursday that, for the first time, the final at the MetLife Stadium in New Jersey on July 19 will include a Super Bowl-style concert.

Soccer’s governing body said the show would support the FIFA Global Citizen Education Fund, which is raising $100 million to help children access education and soccer.

FIFA president Gianni Infantino said it would bring together “music and football on the biggest stage in sport for a very special cause.”

“When you have a position of responsibility, you want to do everything you can to have a real impact,” Infantino said at the Global Citizen NOW conference in New York Thursday. “Not everyone can become a world champion, but everyone can become a little bit better by having the right education. So we embrace that.”

The show will be curated by Coldplay’s Chris Martin, who came up with the idea four years ago while watching the previous World Cup, said Hugh Evans, CEO of the nonprofit Global Citizen, which has partnered with FIFA on the halftime show and the education fund.