Dec 13, 2018 4 min read

W&J’s Wolf named first team All-American

The postseason awards continue to roll in for Washington & Jefferson College sophomore wide receiver Andrew Wolf, who was named Thursday to the Associated Press Division III All-America first team.

The recognition marks Wolf’s second All-America honor this week after the American Football Coaches Association named him to the first team on Monday.

Wolf is the 15th President to be acknowledged by the AP.

Wolf entered 2018 with only two career catches for four yards, had a breakout 2018 season with 79 receptions and led Division III with 1,339 receiving yards and 21 receiving touchdowns. His 21 touchdowns set both a W&J and Presidents’ Athletic Conference single-season records.

In wrestling

After Washington and Jefferson-Morgan spent the night swapping pins and forfeits, a fall by Prexies heavyweight Gerald Comedy secured a 36-30 victory over the visiting Rockets in a nonsection match at Wash High gymnasium.

There were only five bouts wrestled with each ending in a fall. Three were won by Washington but none was more important than Comedy’s victory in only 37 seconds. The pin broke a 30-30 tie.

Maddox Kehn (106) got Wash High off to a good start with a fall in the opening bout. Michael Ewing (152) also won by fall.

The Rockets received consecutive falls from Colby Rutan (160) and Justin Maddich (170).

In the NHL

Jeff Skinner scored his 22nd goal of the season and the Buffalo Sabres beat the Arizona Coyotes 3-1 Thursday night.

Casey Mittelstadt and Evan Rodrigues also had goals for the Sabres, who won their second straight following a five-game skid. Carter Hutton returned after missing Buffalo’s previous two games with an upper-body injury and made 25 saves.

The Sabres improved to 11-3-2 at home, matching their win total from last season at KeyBank Center. Artemi Panarin scored twice, Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 29 shots and the Columbus Blue Jackets beat the Los Angeles Kings, 4-1.

Lukas Sedlak and Josh Anderson also scored and Cam Atkinson had assists on both Panarin goals as the Blue Jackets snapped a two-game losing streak and held on to second place in the Metropolitan Division, three points behind Washington.

Dustin Brown had the lone goal and Jonathan Quick had 37 saves for the injury-ravaged Kings, who have lost three in a row and seven of their last nine while slipping to the bottom of the Pacific Division.

Report: Tear down Pimlico

The nearly 150-year-old Baltimore track that hosts one of America’s premier horse races should be torn down and rebuilt at a cost of $424 million, according to a report issued Thursday.

The Maryland Stadium Authority, in the second phase of a comprehensive study of Pimlico Race Course, recommends demolishing all existing structures at the historic track that hosts the Preakness Stakes, the middle jewel of the Triple Crown of thoroughbred horse racing.

The rundown condition of the aging Baltimore track presents challenges threatening the “continued existence and the success of the Preakness Stakes,” according to a summary of the conclusions.

The Maryland agency said that despite the track’s physical condition, there does not appear to be “situational factors” such as the surrounding city neighborhood of Park Heights and accessibility issues that would “negatively affect Pimlico Race Course’s ability to remain the long-term home of the Preakness Stakes.”

The Stronach Group, a Canada-based development company that owns and operates Pimlico, has looked at a fresher track it owns in Laurel Park – located about 30 miles south of the Baltimore track- as a viable option for the Preakness. Under state law, the race can be moved to another track in Maryland “only as a result of a disaster or emergency.”