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PAC wrestling

The Presidents’ Athletic Conference Wrestling Championships came down to the final match to determine the team champion as host Thiel and Washington & Jefferson both scored 105.5 points and finished as co-champions.

The shared title was the second championship in a row and 24th in program history for Thiel, breaking their tie with former member John Carroll for the most in PAC history. It is W&J’s seventh conference championship and first since 2019-20.

Both Thiel and W&J had three champions through the first six weight classes. After the 174-bracket was won by Waynesburg junior Colby Morris, Thiel took a slight lead in the team standings following the 184 bout.

In the 197 final, W&J retook the lead when unseeded junior Jacob Duncan completed his run with a victory in the final. The Presidents carried a three-point lead into the the 285 bout, which pitted Thiel won by decision to give both a share of the PAC title.

Headlining the four champions for W&J was freshman Bryce Rodriguez-Uram, who won the 141 final by a 6-4 score in extra time. That effort led Rodriguez-Uram to be voted the PAC Newcomer of the Year. W&J’s other winners were Hunter Swedish (133) and Logan Marko (165).

The Most Outstanding Wrestler of the Tournament award went to Morris. The final major award went to W&J’s Sonnie Blanco, who was voted the PAC Coach of the Year.

In baseball

Frankie Montas needs shoulder surgery and will miss most or all of the New York Yankees’ season.

As pitchers and catchers reported to spring training on Wednesday, Yankees manager Aaron Boone said the 29-year-old right-hander will have right shoulder surgery Feb. 21. Boone said Montas could possibly return in the season’s second half.

Montas was acquired from Oakland on Aug 1.

  • Two-time Cy Young Award winner Jacob deGrom was held out of the first spring training workout for the Texas Rangers because their top free-agent acquisition felt some tightness in his left side.
  • Pitcher Mike Clevinger has reported to the Chicago White Sox for spring training, joining his new team amid an ongoing investigation by Major League Baseball into allegations of domestic violence.

White Sox general manager Rick Hahn told reporters the team’s “only option” was to allow the right-hander to come to camp while awaiting results of MLB’s investigation.

  • Washington Nationals right-hander Stephen Strasburg did not report with other pitchers to spring training after a recent setback in his comeback from a 2021 operation to correct thoracic outlet syndrome.

Strasburg, 34, had a nerve-related setback in a recent bullpen session, MLB.com reported. He made only one start in 2022. Strasburg has thrown only 31 1/3 innings over the past three seasons.

In college basketball

A Texas prosecutor on Wednesday moved to dismiss a felony domestic violence case against former Texas basketball coach Chris Beard, in part because of the alleged victim’s wishes not to prosecute.

Travis County District Attorney Jose Garza said that after a review of the evidence, and considering the wishes of Randi Trew, Beard’s fiancée, his office determined the charge of assault by strangulation/suffocation-family violence could not be proven beyond a reasonable doubt.

Beard was arrested Dec. 12 after Trew called 911 and told officers Beard strangled, bit and hit her during a confrontation in his home. Texas suspended Beard without pay the day he was arrested. He was fired Jan. 5.

In college football

Ohio State said Wednesday it has canceled a home-and-home football series with Washington that was scheduled for 2024 and 2025.

Ohio State initiated the move and will pay a $500,000 cancellation penalty to Washington, a Pac-12 member, by February 2025, athletic director Gene Smith said. The cancellation will allow the Big Ten program to add an eighth nonconference home game in both the 2024 and ’25 seasons.

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