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DIVISION VII ALL-OHIO GIRLS BASKETBALL

COLUMBUS — The 2025-26 Ohio Prep Sports Media Association Division VII All-Ohio high school girls basketball team, as selected by a statewide media panel: Player of the Year: Lacie Allison, North Baltimore. Coach of the Year: Mike Bashore, Russia. FIRST TEAM Haylee Beachy, Plain City Shekinah Christian, 5-7, sr., 15.8; Hadli Gillum, Lancaster Fisher Catholic, 5-11, so., 22.1; Abbie Knapp, Franklin Furnace Green, 6-1, jr., 25.3; Hazel Francis, Russia, 6-0, jr., 10.3; Brooklyn Koester, Ottoville, 5-6, jr., 19.4; Lacie Allison, North Baltimore, 5-7, so., 34.2; Morgan Kern, McComb, ...

AROUND THE HORN

West Branch wins first two YOUNGSTOWN — The West Branch girls flag football team opened with a pair of victories Sunday. The Warriors defeated Rootstown, 32-2, and Newton Falls, 35-0, at Rayen Stadium. It was the first day for girls flag football games sanctioned by the Ohio High School Athletic Association. West Branch will play this Sunday at Liberty High School against Champion and Marlington. Rambo gets two firsts MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Westminster College senior thrower Shelby Rambo was a double-winner Saturday at West Virginia’s Marty Pushkin Invitational. Rambo, ...

Pirates rotation strong

CHICAGO (AP) — Alex Bregman, welcome to the NL Central. Welcome back, Eugenio Suarez. Bregman is hoping to lead the Chicago Cubs to their first Central title since 2020 after signing a $175 million, five-year contract with the North Siders in free agency. But the competition is tough in a division that put three teams in the playoffs last year. Cincinnati added a familiar face when it signed Suarez to a $15 million, one-year deal. The 34-year-old Suarez, who played for the Reds for seven seasons before he was traded to Seattle in March 2022, is expected to provide some protection ...

Questions after Ramirez

(AP) — The Detroit Tigers and two-time Cy Young Award winner Tarik Skubal have their sights set on winning the AL Central for the first time since 2014. The Chicago White Sox would love to simply get out of the division’s basement. As for the AL Central’s other three teams — the Kansas City Royals, Cleveland Guardians and Minnesota Twins — a wide range of outcomes seem possible. The Guardians have won two straight division titles and are going for a third despite one of the lowest payrolls in baseball. Here’s a look at one of baseball’s most unpredictable divisions ...

Nothing automatic this season

NEW YORK (AP) — Baseball is changing at a dizzying speed in 2026 with the arrival of robot umpires, the return home of the Tampa Bay Rays and an alphabet soup of networks televising games in perhaps the last season before a labor shutdown. Much has transpired in the 4 1/2 months since the Los Angeles Dodgers rallied in World Series Game 7 to beat Toronto in 11 innings and become the first repeat champion since the 1998-2000 New York Yankees. There was the usual free agent musical chairs that saw Kyle Tucker wind up with the Dodgers, Bo Bichette with the New York Mets, Alex Bregman ...

Trump’s changing course on Strait of Hormuz strategy raises questions about US war preparation

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — At war with Iran, President Donald Trump is cycling through an increasingly desperate list of options as he searches for a solution to the crisis in the Strait of Hormuz. He is jumping from calls to secure the waterway through diplomatic means to lifting sanctions and now escalating to a direct threat against civilian infrastructure in the Islamic Republic. Trump and his allies insist they were always prepared for Iran to block the strait, yet the Republican president’s erratic strategy has fueled criticism that he is grasping for answers after going to ...