CHESTER WALKS OFF WITH WIN

GREENVILLE — Howard Williams hit a walk-off single in the 10th inning to give the Chester Old-timers a 4-3 win over Greenville, Pa., at Thiel College on Sunday.

Eric Sampson and Steve Bell had three hits for Chester. Kasey Arnott and Doug Comm had two hits apiece.

Dave Smith picked up the win in relief of Kevin Ferell.

Chester improves to 3-0 and will play Youngstown at 3 p.m. June 7 at Oak Glen.

BIG PAYDAY AT MANSFIELD

MANSFIELD — The 26 drivers at Mansfield Speedway’s 40-lap Blaster 57 Special preliminary race got a surprise announcement sitting on the backstretch waiting to start Friday night.

The $12,000-to-win race was increased to $100,000 after a donation from Mansfield real estate developers Dan and Brenda Niss.

They wanted to celebrate the reopening of the speedway after seven years.

Tyler Erb, 29, of New Waverly, Texas, won the World of Outlaws Late Model Series event.

The couple also raised Saturday’s feature payday from $57,000 to $100,057 to the winner.

Nick Hoffman, 34, from Mooresville, S.C., won the 57-lap race.

PURPLE RAIDERS ELIMINATED

SALEM, Va. — The University of Mount Union softball team lost a pair of games at the Division III College World Series at the Moyer Sports Complex.

Eighth-ranked Belhaven hit two home runs to account for three runs in a 3-2 win over 12th-ranked Mount Union, 3-2, in an elimination game Friday night.

Lydia Brunner from Minerva doubled and scored on a fielder’s choice by Sydney Mercer of West Branch for Mount Union’s first run in the fifth inning.

On Thursday night, Mount Union lost to Simpson, 4-3.

Kendyll Cahill hit a three-run homer that scored Mercer to give Mount union a 3-1 lead in the sixth inning. Simpson rallied with three runs in the bottom of the sixth.

The Purple Raiders finished with a 35-9 record.

TAYLOR WILL LEAD MOUNT UNION

ALLIANCE — John Carroll assistant Emily Taylor has been named the Mount Union women’s basketball head coach.

Taylor also has been an assistant at Cleveland State and Merrimack.

“We are excited to welcome Emily to Mount Union,” Mount Union director of athletics Mike Parnell said. “Her experience and success with NCAA Division I and III programs and her knowledge of the Ohio Athletic Conference make her an outstanding fit to lead our program. Emily understands what it takes to build a championship culture on the court while prioritizing the academic and personal development of her student-athletes off it.”

She earned All-Ohio Athletic Conference honors as a player at John Carroll in 2015.

HENLEY USES LATE RALLY

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Russell Henley went from standing in the rough and just trying to avoid going over par in the final round of the Charles Schwab Challenge to winning the tournament.

After saving par at the 15th hole Sunday to remain three strokes off the lead, Henley made four consecutive birdies. He finished regulation with three in a row to force a playoff with Eric Cole, then got his fourth with a 5-footer on the first extra hole.

“Still kind of speechless about it,” Henley said after a closing 3-under 67 and his sixth PGA Tour victory. “Hard to believe I’m sitting here.”

Henley’s late surge denied fellow 37-year-old Cole his first PGA Tour win on a day when Ben Griffin came up just short of a shot to become the only player other than Ben Hogan to win consecutive tournaments at Colonial.

Playing in the group ahead of Cole, Henley made 15-foot putts at the 171-yard 16th hole and the par-4 17th. He got to 12 under with a 17-footer on the par-4 18th.

Cole shot an even-par 70. He parred the final seven holes — eight counting the playoff.

Griffin (65), Alex Smalley (68) and Mac Meissner (69) finished 11-under 269 at Hogan’s Alley.

Henley, whose best finish this year had been a tie for third at the Masters, earned $1.78 million, the plaid jacket and a customized 1982 Jeep Scrambler vehicle.

“I’ve been playing really well the last three or four years, or even more, really. And even though I’ve been playing well, I still feel like I keep coming back to this realization that it’s just so hard,” Henley said. “So to get to win out here and to play consistently well, it takes everything out of me. … There’s just the mental grind of it as well. So just each time I’ve gotten over the finish line and gotten a win it’s just very special.”