Sports briefs
Boys soccer
Arlo McIntyre and Dylan Klinger combined for four goals, powering Charleroi to a 7-2 win over California in a Class A Section 2 match Tuesday night.
The win keeps Charleroi (5-1, 8-1) on the heels of first-place Greensburg Central Catholic in the section. It also was the 100th career victory for Cougars head coach Jon Ducoli.
McIntyre and Klinger each scored two goals to lead the Cougars. Jake Chambers, Bryce Large and Ty Patterson each tallied one goal.
- Washington and Mount Pleasant played to a 1-1 tie in a pivotal Class 2A Section 3 match.
Mount Pleasant (6-1-2, 6-4-2) entered the night in second place in the section. Washington improved to 3-4-2 in the section and 4-6-2 overall.
Both teams scored a goal in the first half.
- Class A Section 2 leader Greensburg Central Catholic scored seven goals in the second half to pull away for a 10-3 win over Bentworth.
GCC (8-0, 11-1) led 3-2 at halftime before breaking the game open after the break.
Andrew Vipperman (2) and Ryan Colbert scored the goals for Bentworth (4-3, 8-4), which had a five-game winning streak snapped.
- Bethel Park defeated Trinity 2-1 in overtime in a Class 3A Section 3 match.
Faiden Hodgson gave Trinity (5-4, 7-4) a 1-0 lead on a goal with 36 minutes left in regulation.
Miles Jackson scored both goals for Bethel Park (7-2, 8-3), which has won eight straight.
Girls soccer
Peters Township fell a half-game behind first-place Mt. Lebanon after playing to a 2-2 tie with Canon-McMillan on Monday night.
PT’s Cam Klein scored off a corner kick feed from Ella Neupaver and Atleigh Ciprich also scored a goal for the Indians (6-1-1, 7-1-2).
In college football
Florida, South Carolina and South Florida took steps Tuesday to salvage home football games as Hurricane Ian approaches.
The Gators moved their game against Eastern Washington from Saturday to Sunday at noon. The Gamecocks will host South Carolina State on Thursday night, two days earlier than previously scheduled. And the Bulls relocated their Saturday game against East Carolina from Tampa, Florida, to Boca Raton.
No. 23 Florida State and 22nd-ranked Wake Forest, meanwhile, are “closely monitoring” the storm and hoping to play as planned Saturday in Tallahassee.
In the NFL
Veteran wide receiver Sterling Shepard tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee on the New York Giants’ final offensive play in their loss to the Dallas Cowboys, coach Brian Daboll said Tuesday.
Daboll had indicated after Monday night’s game that the injury to New York’s leading receiver was serious.
Shepard was jogging down the right hashmark when he suddenly fell to the artificial turf at the MetLife Stadium and grabbed his knee with both hands. He was taken off the field on a cart.
In golf
Phil Mickelson, the driving force among PGA Tour players in the rival LIV Golf series, and three other players asked a federal judge Tuesday to remove their names from the antitrust lawsuit against the PGA Tour.
Talor Gooch, Hudson Swafford and Ian Poulter filed separately to have their names removed. That leaves only three players – Bryson DeChambeau, Peter Uihlein and Matt Jones – and Saudi-funded LIV Golf as plaintiffs in the lawsuit filed in early August.
The trial is not scheduled to begin until January 2024.
In college basketball
The NCAA put Memphis on three years of probation with a public reprimand and a fine Tuesday, but declined to punish Tigers coach Penny Hardaway or hand down an NCAA Tournament ban.
The NCAA had accused Memphis of four Level I and two Level II violations, considered the most serious infractions, and a total of seven alleged violations including lack of institutional control, head coach responsibility and failure to monitor.
The Independent Accountability Review Panel put the blame on Memphis failing to monitor Hardaway as an athletics booster or educate him better after hiring him as the Tigers’ men’s basketball coach. The panel also ruled Memphis provided impermissible benefits of meals to athletes and publicity benefits to recruits.
The panel also ruled Memphis failed to cooperate with the investigation by delaying handing over requested documents but decided these were Level II and III violations.