Sep 8, 2021 4 min read

Girls soccer

Chartiers-Houston remained undefeated by winning its Class A Section 2 opener, blanking visiting Beth-Center, 6-0, Wednesday night.

Ella Richey led the way with two goals and Ashley Horvath had a goal and two assists. Lexi Durkacz and Kayla Brose each contributed a gola and an assist, and Desiree Hancq had the Bucs’ other goal.

Goalkeeper Grace McAvoy made two saves for the Bucs (1-0, 3-0).

• Charleroi won its Class A Section 2 opener, defeating Bentworth 4-2 on the Bearcats’ home field.

Tessa Charpentier scored both goals for Bentworth.

• Lola Yendell and Hayleigh Maxwell scored goals in the second half to give McGuffey a 2-0 victory over South Allegheny in a nonsection match.

The Highlanders improved to 2-1.

• Lexi Twaddle scored three goals and assisted on another as Canon-McMillan overpowered host North Hills 7-0 in a nonsection match.

Isabel Lewis had a goal and an assist, and Sarah Powell, Rachel Rukowski and Kristen Smith each tallied a goal. Goalkeeper Cianna Butera had the shutout for the Big Macs (2-0), who have outscored their opponents 16-0.

Boys soccer

Eban McIntyre scored five times to pace Charleroi to a 7-0 shutout of Mt. Pleasant in the nonconference season opener for both teams Tuesday night.

Jake Caruso and Landon Barcus also scored for the Cougars Nate Mazon got the shutout.

• Andre Bekavac scored late in the game to assure a 1-1 tie for Thomas Jefferson against Trinity on Tuesday.

Owen Baker scored in the first half for Trinity.

• Chartiers-Houston and Brownsville played to a 0-0 tie on Tuesday at C-H.

The Bucs outshot Brownsville 9-2. It was the second consecutive shutout for C-H goalkeeper Landon Oliverio.

NBC urged to bypass Olympics

Some of the world’s largest broadcasters including American network NBC are being asked by human rights groups to cancel plans to cover next year’s Winter Olympics in Beijing. The Winter Games are scheduled to open on Feb. 4.

The request comes in an open letter from rights groups representing minorities in China, including Uyghurs, Tibetans, Hong Kong residents and others.

The letter, obtained by the Associated Press, was sent Tuesday to NBC Universal chief executive officer Jeff Shell and other international broadcast executives. NBC is paying $7.75 billion for the rights to the next six Olympics and works closely as a partner with the Switzerland-based International Olympic Committee.

In golf

Equipped with the most captain’s picks in Ryder Cup history, Steve Stricker added four more rookies to his American team that included a mixture of obvious choices and perhaps a surprise, but no Patrick Reed.

Stricker filled out his 12-man team with Tony Finau, Xander Schauffele, Jordan Spieth and Harris English. They were the next four in the Ryder Cup standings. The other two picks went to Daniel Berger and Scottie Scheffler.

Reed has a history of thriving in team events with his personality and short game. He has a 7-3-2 record in the previous three Ryder Cups and is undefeated in singles. But he has had a poor summer, and Reed couldn’t play the final two qualifying events while hospitalized with pneumonia that made him fear for his life.

He returned to play the Tour Championship and tied for 17th in the actual score from the 30-man field.

Europe’s qualifying ends after this week’s BMW PGA Championship in England, and then Padraig Harrington announces three captain’s picks. The Ryder Cup is Sept. 24-26 at Whistling Straits in Wisconsin. Europe not only is defending champion, it has won nine of the last 12 times dating to 1995