May 13, 2018 4 min read

Seton Hill wins PSAC title

Seton Hill won its second consecutive Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference baseball championship with its 5-1 victory against Millersville early Sunday morning at Point Stadium in Johnstown.

The game did not get underway until 10 p.m. following a six-hour rain delay. The final pitch was thrown at 12:59 a.m.

The Griffins (31-20) became the first team since Kutztown (2005-06) to win back-to-back crowns. The Marauders fell to 34-18 on the season with the loss.

SHU’s Tyler Sullivan was named Most Valuable Player for the tournament after going 7-for-14 with three doubles, six runs scored and seven RBI.

Pony baseball

Jaxson Price hit a walkoff single in the bottom of the seventh inning to give Washington Hyundai a 10-9 victory over Chambers Insurance in a Washington Pony League game Sunday.

Zack Krenzelak had a double and 2 RBI for Washington Hyundai (5-3).

Ty Banco hit a 2-run home run home run and Jake Pattison had a solo blast for Chambers Insurance (2-4).

Saint Peter’s losing

streak ends at 78

Saint Peter’s 78-game losing streak is finally over. Willie Krajnik pitched a three-hitter to lead the Peacocks to a 7-1 victory over Iona in the first game of a doubleheader. The Peacocks lost the second game 19-2.

The Jersey City, N.J., school was outscored an average of 12-3 over the 78 games and allowed 25 or more runs six times. The Peacocks were shut out 14 times.

Lomachenko stops Linares

Vasiliy Lomachenko had been down on the canvas and was even on the scorecards.

The tough test Lomachenko craved, the one he said would force him to finally unleash all his skills, had finally arrived.

Moments later, he ended it.

Lomachenko stopped Jorge Linares in the 10th round of their lightweight championship fight Saturday night, winning a title in his third weight class in just his 12th pro bout.

Lomachenko landed a hard left to the body during a flurry of precision punches that sent Linares to a knee. Linares finally got up just as the count was reaching 10 but referee Ricky Gonzalez called an end to the fight at 2:08 of the round.Linares knocked down Lomachenko in the sixth and the fight was all even after nine rounds before Lomachenko (11-1, 9 KOs) put an overpowering end to his first fight at 135 pounds, adding that title to his belts at 126 and 130 pounds.

Linares (44-4, 27 KOs) hadn’t lost since 2012.

Legally blind player wins case

For five years, Ryan Huizdos played Little League baseball with the help of a bright yellow ball.

He’s legally blind because of albinism, so he used an easier-to-see, optic-yellow ball.

No one complained. Not the coaches. Not the players. Not the parents. But then he made a Grosse Pointe/Harper Woods team that made it to a district tournament game in 2015. Ryan was lined up to pitch in the tournament when Little League found out about his yellow ball and banned it from being used because it wasn’t approved and licensed by the league.

In a showdown that pits a suburban family against the world’s largest youth sports program with millions of players in 80 countries, Ryan’s family has leveled the playing field for visually impaired kids everywhere in nationwide. But they had to get the help of the U.S. Department of Justice to do it.

After a three-year legal scuffle, Ryan, who is in his final year of Little League, heads into the 2018 season with a special waiver allowing the optic-yellow ball to be used when he’s at bat, pitching or playing infield.