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High School Sports Roundup from May 29

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BASEBALL DISTRICT FINALS DIVISION V Northeast 1 Poland 13, Crestview 0 (5 Inn.) — Poland threw a combined no-hitter to claim the district title at Bob Cene Park. Further stats were not reported by print deadline. Northeast 2 Lakeview 6, Triway 3 — Triway took a 3-2 lead in the top of the third inning, but Lakeview answered with two runs in the bottom half of the inning to take the lead for good. Brandon Cash led the Bulldogs offense with four hits. Eli Gough and Jacob Shaker added two hits and two RBIs each and Nicolas Aho struck out six for the Bulldogs. L. Starr had ...

Life, art and fishing lures

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Fishing lures have been works of art for as long as people have applied their imagination to fashion bone, wood, feathers, metal and string into tools capable of convincing wild animals to attempt to eat them. Inanimate though they are, lures come alive in the hands of skilled anglers who know how to drift or drag them in the vicinity of fish. The familiar saying that life imitates art came to mind recently when I spied a sunfish on the surface of the lake. While playwright Oscar Wilde was not discussing fishing when he famously wrote “Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates ...

Reynolds’ homer lifts Bucs past Twins

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PITTSBURGH — Bryan Reynolds hit a two-run homer with one out in the ninth inning — after Oneil Cruz hit a mammoth shot early — to give the Pittsburgh Pirates a 6-5 victory over the Minnesota Twins on Friday night. Reynolds launched a 422-foot shot to left field off Taylor Rogers (1-2), ...

Guards hold on for win over Red Sox

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CLEVELAND — Angel Martinez had an RBI single during Cleveland’s four-run first and made a key defensive play in the second inning as the Guardians held on for a 4-3 victory over the Boston Red Sox on Friday night. Cleveland’s Chase DeLauter and Kyle Manzardo broke out of slumps with ...

MLB needs to end CBA with a cap and floor

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It’s that time of the decade again. The point where finances seep into America’s past time. Over the last couple days, the MLB Players Association and Major League Baseball submitted their initial proposals for the upcoming Collective Bargaining Agreement, with the current CBA set to expire on Dec. 1. The expectations have been that there could be a work stoppage – more than likely a lockout, honestly – due to the relationship between the union and the owners still resembling a couple filing for a ugly divorce. Before getting into the meat of it, I come from a union family. ...