Jul 29, 2018 2 min read

Pony baseball

Quad County North pounded out 17 hits in beating Mon Valley, 18-2, in the Pony Host Area Satellite Tournament championship game Sunday at White Park in Morgantown, W.Va.

Colon Patterson hit a three-run homer, three-run double, RBI single and sacrifice fly to finish with 8 RBI for Quad County North. Carson Knight hit a double. Winning pitcher Cooper Baxter struck out six.

Andrew Mackey had a double and Ryan Hamer had two singles, including one that scored Mackey. Jack Sacco stole home for the other run for Mon Valley.

Mon Valley went 2-2 in the tournament, defeating Connellsville and Morgantown and losing twice to Quad County North. Both teams advance to the Pony Host Area Tournament next weekend at McCandless, which also includes Peters Township, Youngstown and McCandless.

Nikolai Volkoff

dead at 70

Josip Peruzovic, the former pro wrestler known for playing beloved villain Nikolai Volkoff, has died. He was 70.

His wife Lynn Peruzovic confirmed his death Sunday. She says he has had heart problems, and that when she went to give him medicine he was not responsive.

World Wrestling Entertainment says Peruzovic was “one of the greatest villains sports-entertainment had ever seen.” He was known for singing the onetime Soviet Union’s national anthem before matches and for his tag team alliance with another wrestler known as The Iron Sheik.

WWE says his career spanned the better part of 40 years and featured showdowns with wrestlers such as Hulk Hogan.

In 2006, Peruzovic made an unsuccessful run for a House seat in the Maryland General Assembly.