Sports briefs
College baseball
Three Washington & Jefferson pitchers combined on a five-hitter and Roman Samson singled home the go-ahead run in the sixth inning as the Presidents edged Wooster 2-1 Wednesday at Chain O Lakes Stadium in Winter Haven, Fla.
Winning pitcher Jameson Campbell gave up four hits and one run while striking out six over six innings. He was followed on the mound by Henry Litman and Dante DiMatteo, the latter getting his fourth save with two scoreless innings that included five strikeouts.
After Wooster took a 1-0 lead in the first inning, Peter Kalinski’s sacrifice fly in the third tied the score.
Men’s lacrosse
Washington & Jefferson won its fourth straight game Wednesday afternoon, routing La Roche, 24-2.
Alex Strain scored a career-high eight goals while Carter Watts had a career-high of six goals and also added six assists. Sean McCaffrey and Zach Mey each tallied three goals. Sam Snider and Parker Lucas each scored two goals.
College softball
Washington & Jefferson College lost a pair of games at the PFX Spring Games on Wednesday. The Presidents fell to Union, 8-1, and 10-2 to Carleton.
W&J trailed 2-1 before Union tacked on six runs late in the game. Austine Kinney had an RBI single for the Presidents.
Carleton scored six times in the first inning. Sarah Labbe’s two-run single accounted for W&J’s scoring.
In baseball
Rachel Balkovec, hired by the New York Yankees as the first woman to manage a minor league affiliate of a Major League Baseball team, was hit in the face by a batted ball during a drill and will be sidelined for up to a week.
Balkovec was struck Tuesday. She will not be available for her first scheduled spring training game Thursday with Class A Tampa.
The 34-year-old Balkovec didn’t sustain a concussion but has facial swelling, the Yankees said Wednesday. She was involved in a hitting drill in an indoor cage at the minor league complex when she was hurt.
In the NFL
The Tennessee Titans have traded for wide receiver Robert Woods in a deal sending a sixth-round pick in the 2023 draft to the Los Angeles Rams.
In the NHL
The NHL scrapped the trade of winger Evgenii Dadonov from Vegas to Anaheim over his no-trade list on Wednesday in an embarrassing end to a saga that dragged on more than 48 hours past the deadline and left the Golden Knights in a salary cap bind as they fight for a playoff spot.
The league voided the deal and said Dadonov’s limited no-trade clause “had not been complied with.” Under the terms of his contract originally signed in 2020 by Ottawa, the 33-year-old Russian winger submitted a list of 10 teams to which he would not approve a trade.