Sep 29, 2022 4 min read

In the NFL

Sunday night’s game between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Kansas City Chiefs will be played at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa as scheduled.

The Bucs announced the game will be played in their home stadium after assessing damage caused by Hurricane Ian.

• Cleveland Browns All-Pro Myles Garrett returned to the team’s headquarters but didn’t practice Thursday while recovering from injuries sustained in a car crash earlier this week, when police said he lost control speeding on a rural road.

Garrett veered his Porsche off the hilly road near his home Monday, flipping the vehicle and hitting a fire hydrant. The defensive end suffered a sprained shoulder, strained biceps and several cuts and bruises from the wreck.

He has not yet been ruled out for Sunday’s game at Atlanta.

The Ohio State Highway Patrol cited Garrett for speeding, saying he was going 65 mph in a 45 mph zone.

Garrett, who had a female passenger in his car, told an officer he was accelerating up a hill when he saw a vehicle coming in the opposite direction but didn’t make any type of swerving maneuvers. The officer said Garrett couldn’t exactly recall how he went off the road.

In college football

The Air Force football program received two years of probation from the NCAA and had its squad size reduced by 10 for four years as part of its sanctions for recruiting violations.

The penalties were announced Thursday after Air Force and four individuals reached an agreement with NCAA enforcement staff on recruiting violations. A fifth individual in the case has contested their role and will be heard by the committee on infractions.

The sanctions also include a fine and a reduction of 46 total official visits for the football program in the 2022-23 and ’23-24 academic years.

Boys soccer

Larry Goodman scored two goals, Dylan Stewart had a hand in three scores and McGuffey kept its Class 2A Section 3 title hopes alive with a 4-1 win over visiting Washington Thursday night.

Stewart scored one goal and assisted on two others, Nate Kler had one goal and an assist, and Eddie Goodman had a goal for the Highlanders, who are 8-2 in the section and 10-3 overall.

• Charleroi was a 10-0 winner over Beth-Center in Class A Section 2 as Arlo McIntyre scored two goals and Bryce Large and Landon Barcus each had a pair of tallies.

Ty Patterson, Dylan Klinger and Al Marsich scored the other goals for Charleroi (6-1, 9-1).

• Bishop Canevin earned its first Class A Section 4 win, 1-0, over Chartiers-Houston. The Bucs slipped to 2-5 in section and 3-8 overall.
• Ringgold scored seven goals in the second half and routed Uniontown 10-3 in Class 3A Section 3. Nick Evans, Juraj Stasko and Zach Alvarez each had a hat trick for the Rams (6-4, 6-7) and Eli Callaway had the other goal.
• Trinity traveled all the way to Albert Gallatin and came back with a 3-1 win over the Colonials in Class 3A Section 3.

Talon Gardner, Tyler Johnson and Braeden Knight did the scoring for the Hillers, who are 6-4 in section and 8-4 overall.

• Travis Kikel scored two goals and Belle Vernon pulled away in the second half for a 5-0 win over visiting Waynesburg in Class 2A Section 3.

The Leopards led 2-0 at halftime. Kikel, Brandon Yeschenko and Tim Reda each had a goal after halftime. Trevor Kovatch had a tally in the first half, helping Belle Vernon remain atop the section at 9-1. The Leopards are 10-2 overall.