May 31, 2018 4 min read

WVU to host 3 night football games

West Virginia’s football team will have several night games at home this fall.

The Big 12 released the game times Thursday for three of those contests.

The Sept. 8 home opener against Youngstown State will kick off at 6 p.m. The game against Baylor Thursday, Oct. 25, will start at 7 p.m., and the game against Oklahoma Friday, Nov. 23, will start at 8 p.m.

Starting times for WVU’s three other home games will be announced on a 12-day or six-day window starting in September.

Delaware casinos to begin sports betting

Delaware will begin full-scale sports betting next week, wasting no time after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling cleared the way for states to implement wagering schemes.

Full-scale sports betting will begin at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at Delaware’s three casinos, officials said Thursday. The offerings will include single-game and championship wagering on professional baseball, football, hockey, basketball, soccer, golf and auto racing.

That means Delawareans will be able to make legal wagers on the NBA finals, which were to begin Thursday night and could run through June 17 if the championship series goes to a seventh game.

Delaware was able to get a quick start because of prewritten sports betting legislation that was passed in 2009 and a pre-existing wagering system that offers multigame parlay bets on National Football League games.

By virtue of a failed sports lottery experiment in 1976, Delaware was one of only four states, along with Nevada, Montana and Oregon, that received grandfathered exemptions from the 1992 federal ban on sports gambling that was recently struck down by the Supreme Court.

168-1 longshot wins at The Meadows

Dismissed at an eye-popping 168-1, Tell Me Something moved willingly without cover and pulled off the shocking upset Thursday at The Meadows. The winner returned $390.80 for a $2 win-place-show ticket and completed a $1,155.40 daily double payoff. No one correctly picked the trifecta, which returned a 2-of-3 payoff of $1,279.20, and not a single superfecta ticket had the winner on top, setting up a carryover.

Tell Me Something was off the board in each of her four previous 2018 starts. But in Thursday’s non-winners of a race event for fillies and mares, Tell Me Something chased on the rim for driver Dan Charlino, got back to the cones for a brief breather after the break of the 1-9 favorite, Enough Of That, and scored in 1:59.3. Early leader Winning Grace was second by a neck, with Ad Hoc Hanover third. Jim Daugherty trains Tell Me Something for Michele Daugherty.

Mike Wilder piloted three winners on the 12-race card.

Pony baseball

Preston Burgard hit a grand slam to help Ace Sporting Goods rout Chambers Insurance, 22-9, in Washington Pony League action.

Connor Roberts went 3-for-3 and Michael Shallcross went 3-for-4 with 2 doubles and 3 RBI for Ace (5-4).

Ty Banco hit a 3-run home run and John Henry had a double and single for Chambers Insurance.

Softball world series

Washington freshman Gabbie Plain threw 5 2/3 shutout innings, and the Huskies defeated two-time defending national champion Oklahoma 2-0 on Thursday in the Women’s College World Series.

Oklahoma senior pitcher Paige Parker, who had an 8-0 career record in WCWS play, got the loss after giving up three hits and one run in six innings. The Sooners (55-4) had won 16 straight games but will now play Arizona State in an elimination game on Saturday. Washington will play Oregon Friday.

• Shannon Rhodes’ three-run homer in the sixth inning helped top-seeded Oregon defeat Arizona State 11-6 in seven innings.