Briefs
Boys soccer
Waynesburg picked up a Section 3-AA victory at home Thursday with a 6-1 triumph over Washington.
Dalton Woods tallied a hat trick for the Raiders (8-2, 9-3), while Gavin Benson scored a pair of goals. Jack Church scored the other marker for Waynesburg. Dalton Watson recorded two saves in net.
The loss drops Washington to 0-8 in section and 0-9 overall.
- Canon-McMillan rallied for a 2-1 Section 2-AAA win on the road at Baldwin.
Nino Civitate grabbed the game-winning goal for the Big Macs (7-2, 10-2) with four minutes remaining in the second half.
Trailing 1-0 in the second half, Joey Fonagy garnered his 16th goal of the season to knot the contest. Thomas Samosky and Luke Gladden had the assists on the goals, while Alex Hibert registered the win in net.
Joey Moeller had the lone goal for the Highlanders (3-4-1, 5-5-1).
- Austin Arnold scored three goals and Matt Bucha scored the tie-breaking goals as Chartiers-Houston knocked off visiting Carlynton 5-3 in a nonsection match.
Chartiers-Houston (3-6-2) scored consecutive goals to open a 3-1 lead before Carlynton (6-4-1) battled to tie the score at 3-3. Bucha’s goal put C-H back in front for good at 4-3. Bucha also had two assists.
C-H goalkeeper Wilbert Cruz had a busy night and made 13 saves.
- Bishop Canevin was a 3-0 winner over California in Section 4-A.
Bishop Canevin improved to 4-1-2 in section and 5-3-2 overall. California is 0-8, 0-12.
Girls soccer
Canon-McMillan received goals from seven different players and crushed winless Brashear 7-0 Thursday night in a Section 2-AAAA match.
The Big Macs (4-4-1, 6-4-1) moved back to the .500 mark in section play and have beaten Brashear (0-9, 0-13) twice this season by a combined 29-0.
Kierstin Bennett, Emily Clopp, Maddie Joyce, Annabel Thomas, Sydney Snyder, Maura O’Donoaghue and Lindsay Adams each tallied one goal for Canon-McMillan. Goalkeeper Paige John had the shutout.
HBO drops boxing
HBO is getting out of the live boxing business after more than 1,000 fights over four decades of telecasts.
The network will televise the Oct. 27 middleweight title fight between Danny Jacobs and Sergiy Derevyanchenko, then bow out from a sport of which it has long been a leading proponent.
Showtime, HBO’s main competitor for cable boxing telecasts, plans to enhance its schedule for 2019.
Since its first fight Jan. 22, 1973 – a huge one in which George Foreman knocked out Joe Frazier for the heavyweight crown in Jamaica – HBO televised a symmetrical number of 1,111 bouts, some pay-per-view, the rest on the cable channel. That includes a high of 32 appearances by Oscar de la Hoya and Roy Jones Jr.
Other champions with regular appearances on the network have been Floyd Mayweather (27), Manny Pacquiao (24), Bernard Hopkins (23) and Mike Tyson (17).
NHL investigating Flyers’ Lehtera
The NHL said Thursday it is investigating Philadelphia Flyers forward Jori Lehtera after a report he is being questioned in connection with a drug bust in his native Finland.
Deputy commissioner Bill Daly said the league is investigating the situation. Lehtera’s lawyer, Ari Nieminen, said he expects police to release a statement clearing up some things that came out of the report.
“Police is giving this brief statement about this because this is getting out of hand,” Nieminen said by phone. “They are going to clear some things up because there’s some kind of misunderstanding about his case.”
Finnish news agency MTV reported Wednesday that Lehtera is connected with an investigation into a cocaine ring. Nieminen said no charges have been filed against Lehtera.
“He’s only suspected,” Nieminen said.