IronBirds to honor military as Star-Spangled Banners
The Aberdeen IronBirds, the Orioles’ Short-A affiliate, will change their name to the Aberdeen StarSpangled Banners this season for Sunday home games and Military Appreciation Night on Aug. 9 to honor the military and Maryland as the birthplace of the national anthem. The IronBirds will wear uniforms that feature a patch for the branches of the military and the lyrics to the anthem on the jersey’s tail. They will be auctioned later in the year to benefit the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors, a nonprofit that offers care to those who have lost a service member. The IronBirds will be again be called the Steam Crabs for one game, Aug. 24. The team will release a schedule of all-you-can-eat crab feasts Friday, which is National Crab Meat Day. tended his record to 12-0 with a second-round knockout of Tim Washington on Saturday night in New York. The fight, on the undercard of the Sergey Kovalev-Igor Mikhalkin main event on HBO, was Chaney’s second under the tutelage of Baltimore trainer Calvin Ford. Chaney grew up in Baltimore but moved away when he was14 and only returned last year to work with Ford at the Upton Boxing Center. Chaney had been knocked down in his previous fight but quickly backed Washington (6-6, four knockouts) into a corner in the second round and pummeled him with head and body shots. He landed a clean right hand with 1 minute, 28 seconds left in the round, and the referee waved off the fight without a count. HORSE RACING: Jorge Vargas Jr. rode three straight winners late in Monday’s card to punctuate a four-win afternoon at Laurel Park for the current winter-spring meet’s leading jockey. Vargas picked up his first winner with Belfour ($3.20) in the second race and Mila Jane ($10.80) in the sixth, firsttime starter Three Hawk ($7) in the seventh and Kaitain ($4.40) in the eighth. Vargas leads apprentice Weston Hamilton atop the jockey standings, 32-19. The winter-spring meet runs through March 31. ... The 20-cent Rainbow 6 went unsolved, growing the jackpot carryover to $42,563.90 for the return of live racing Friday. MEN’S COLLEGE LACROSSE: Ethan Walker scored three goals and Trevor Baptiste went 12for-20 on faceoffs to lift visiting No. 4 Denver (4-1) to a 10-6 win over No. 9 North Carolina (6-1). WOMEN’S COLLEGE LACROSSE: Kylie Ohlmiller had four goals and two assists to lead No. 1 Stony Brook (5-0) to a 16-3 rout of host Michigan (2-5). WOMEN’S COLLEGE VOLLEYBALL: Maryland hired AJ Bonetti as an assistant coach. Bonetti, a graduate of East Stroudsburg and George Washington, previously served as an assistant at Tennessee for two years. Before his stint at Tennessee, Bonetti spent seven years at UNC Wilmington. MEN’S COLLEGE TRACK AND FIELD: Stevenson freshman Dimeon Wright ( Winters Mill) qualified for the NCAA Division III indoor championships in the long jump, becoming the first male Mustang to qualify for nationals. — began play in 2013. The Huskies play South Florida in the AAC championship game at 5 p.m. Tuesday. Kitija Laksa scored 20 points and Laura Ferreira added 17 to lead the No. 19 Bulls to a 74-59 win over rival UCF in the other semifinal. ... Jessica Lindstrom scored 17 points and set a program Division I record with 1,000 career rebounds and No. 22 Green Bay reached the Horizon League championship game for the eighth-straight season with a 66-45 victory over Youngstown State in Detroit.
The Ohio attorney general and the city of Columbus sued Major League Soccer and the owner of the Columbus Crew to stop a proposed move to Austin, Texas. The lawsuit cites a law enacted after the original Browns moved to Baltimore in 1996 that prohibits sports teams that have received public money from moving unless certain conditions are met. The law says Ohio sports teams using publicly supported facilities must provide six months of advance notice of a move. ... Nemanja Matic scored a stunning long-range goal in injury time as Manchester United came from two goals down to beat Crystal Palace 3-2 in an English Premier League game and reclaim second place. The win lifted United back above Liverpool in the race for Champions League qualification. ... An 89th-minute goal by midfielder Pablo Hernandez helped Celta Vigo come from behind to beat relegation-threatened Las Palmas 2-1 in the Spanish league. Celta moved up to ninth place, not far from the clubs fighting for a Europa League spot next season. ... Costakis Koutsokoumnis, the president of the Cyprus Football Association for the last 17 years, died at 61 in Nicosia, Cyprus, after a battle with cancer.