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CLUTTER INDUCTED INTO HALL OF FAME
CLERMONT, Fla. -- Mike Clutter, a 1965 Oak Glen High School graduate and former Beaver Local basketball coach, was recently inducted into the East Ridge High School Hall of Fame in Clermont, Florida. Clutter spent 21 seasons as the Knights head coach and grabbed 267 wins and was also named Coach of the Year seven times. Through 51 years of basketball coaching Clutter retired with 697 wins.
LISBON HOF DINNER COMING UP
LISBON -- The Lisbon Athletic Hall of Fame dinner will be held on Saturday, Sept. 12 in the high school cafeteria. Social hour will begin at 6 p.m. with dinner at 7 p.m. The inductees are Kenadee Pezzano, Josh Liberati, Avery Andric, Josh Craig, Austin Rutecki and Chris Huckshold. Meals are $25 for adults and $15 for children. Reservations are due by Aug. 31, with checks payable to Lisbon DAHS Athletic HOF, c/o Kyle Bing, 260 West Pine St., Lisbon, OH 44432.
TIMPSON POWERS FEVER
ATLANTA (AP) -- Makayla Timpson scored a career-high 20 points, including Indiana’s first three field goals in overtime, and the Fever beat the Atlanta Dream 95-91 on Sunday to protect their hold on fourth place in the WNBA standings.
Indiana (23-12) held off Atlanta (21-13) despite Allisha Gray matching her career high with 32 points. The top four teams have homecourt advantage in the first round of the playoffs.
Kelsey Mitchell’s layup with 13.6 seconds remaining in overtime gave the Indiana guard 20 points, her 19th consecutive game scoring at least 20.
Caitlin Clark scored 26 points, including two free throws after Atlanta trimmed Indiana’s lead to 93-91, with nine assists.
Mitchell’s 3-pointer for Indiana with 1:05 remaining tied the game 81-81. Atlanta had three misses on its final possession to end regulation.
Indiana’s Sophie Cunningham, celebrating her 30th birthday, gave Indiana a 78-77 lead with a basket and free throw.
The Dream announced minutes before the game point guard Jordin Canada was unavailable due to an illness. Jaylen Sherrod made her first career start in her third WNBA season.
Atlanta forward Brionna Jones also missed the game with a left leg injury. Coach Karl Smesko said before the game there is no timetable for Jones’ return. “Hopefully we’ll get her back soon,” Smesko said.
The short-handed Dream trailed 36-27 in the second period before Angel Reese, who had 15 points, 14 rebounds and six assists, led the comeback. Atlanta used a 17-4 run to lead 44-40 at halftime.
Mitchell needed the overtime to extend her streak of scoring at least 20 points. After scoring only five points in the first half, Mitchell had two early baskets in the second half before picking up her third foul midway through the third period.
SCHEFFLER BACK TO NORMAL
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- Scottie Scheffler was back to his dominant form Sunday, turning a two-shot lead into a runaway in the FedEx St. Jude Championship. He closed with a 4-under 66 for an eight-shot victory, the largest in the 68-year history at the TPC Southwind.
Scheffler ended nearly seven months without winning, a season that has been marked by astonishing consistency but only one trophy to show for it from his season opener at The American Express in the California desert.
This was only close for a fleeting moment. After months of little things getting in the way, Scheffler hit a bunker shot on the par-5 third that would have settled a few feet away for a tap-in birdie. But it landed on a sprinkler head, took a hard hop and rolled through the green into the water for bogey.
“I was like, ‘Man, when is this going to stop happening?'” Scheffler said.
That shrunk his lead to one shot over Sungjae Im. Then Scheffler made consecutive birdie putts on the fifth and sixth holes and was on his way.
He finished at 17-under 263, eight shots clear of his Dallas neighbor Si Woo Kim, who closed with a 68 to finish eight shots behind. The previous record was John Cook winning at TPC Southwind by seven shots in 1996.
Scheffler now has 21 career victories on the PGA Tour, 10 of them by four shots or more.
Sam Burns, one of Scheffler’s best friends in golf, played with him in the final group and took double bogey on the par-5 third hole. He shot 73 and tied for third with Alex Noren (69).
“I don’t think it would have mattered if I played well,” Burns said. “He was going to be tough to beat today.”
Scheffler won $3.6 million from the prize fund, and he clinched an additional $23 million in bonus money for being No. 1 in the FedEx Cup through next week’s BMW Championship. No one can catch him. No one is particularly close in the game at the moment, even when he’s not piling up trophies.
LOGANO TRIUMPHS AT RICHMOND
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- Joey Logano delivered a warning to his NASCAR rivals after his victory Saturday night at Richmond Raceway.
“Don’t let the boys get hot,” the driver of Team Penske’s No. 22 Ford said after fending off a late charge by Chase Briscoe to earn his 39th career win by 0.392 seconds. “We’re pretty strong right now. It’s awesome to see the speed in the 22 again.”
After falling as low as 20th in the points standings at the season’s halfway mark, the three-time Cup Series champion is surging toward the NASCAR Chase. Two races remain until the title run featuring the top 16 drivers.
With two victories in the past four races (after only one win in his previous 56 starts), Logano has jumped to ninth in the points standings and established himself as a championship contender again.
It’s no surprise given that it’s the 2026 season. Since 2014, Logano has either won the Cup title or advanced to the championship round in every even-numbered year, and he typically does it with a late-season spree. In his last title run, the 36-year-old won three of the final 10 races.
“We’ve seen it a lot over the years once he gets that confidence,” crew chief Paul Wolfe said. “He’s very good under pressure situations.”
Logano scored his third Richmond win Saturday but his first in nine years at the track.
“Gosh, it was a great car,” he said. “We’ve had a great car here the last five races, and we haven’t been able to capitalize on the win. We’ve been so close, but it was sweet redemption today.”
Logano capitalized on the final strategy call by Wolfe, who pitted his driver just after taking the lead from Briscoe with 39 laps remaining. Logano needed only 15 laps to retake the lead from Christopher Bell, who was trying to stretch his tires to the finish on Richmond’s abrasive surface over the last 57 laps.
Briscoe led a race-high 171 of 400 laps. He had a best finish of 11th in nine previous starts at Richmond, one of only three active tracks where he had yet to score a top 10. After qualifying second, he passed pole-sitter Ryan Blaney on the first lap to lead the first lap of his career on the 0.75-mile oval.
“This place has been a real struggle to me,” said Briscoe, who clinched a spot in the Chase with his sixth top 10 in the past seven races. “To get close and not get it done is so frustrating. We had a great points night, but just frustrating to say the least to have one slip away like that at the end.”