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AWC volleyball beats Yavapai
The Arizona Western volleyball team dropped the first set, but rebounded to win the next three and take the season series against Yavapai.
AWC faced an 8-2 deficit in the second set and railled to take an 11-8 advantage. The Matadors would end the second set on an 8-2 run to tie the match.
In the third set, the Matadors benefited from several RoughRider errors and took the set 25-19.
AWC would win the fourth and final set, 25-19. Led by Garciglia Banuelos’s 20 kills, the Matadors were able to extend their win streak to four. Penina Matau finished with 11 kills and two blocks.
AWC will host Yavapai on Nov. 5 for the Region 1 Division 1 Championship.
Falcons’ Ryan won’t play against Seahawks
ATLANTA — Atlanta Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan won’t play Sunday against Seattle, ending his 10-year streak of consecutive starts.
Ryan sprained his right ankle last week in a loss to the Los Angeles Rams. He had limited participation in Friday’s practice and was listed as questionable on the team’s injury report.
The team announced Saturday that veteran Matt Schaub will start and Ryan won’t play against the Seahawks.
Ryan ran in Friday’s practice, raising hopes that he would be able to play. However, coach Dan Quinn said a key would be how Ryan responded on Saturday after “we pushed it really hard” on Friday.
Chargers elevate left tackle Russell Okung to active roster
COSTA MESA, Calif. — Russell Okung has been moved up to the Los Angeles Chargers’ active roster. The offensive tackle is expected to see his first action of the season Sunday against Chicago.
Okung had been on the nonfootball injury list since the start of the season after he suffered a pulmonary embolism during a June 1 offseason workout at the team facility.
Okung’s addition should help bolster an offensive line that has struggled all year. The Chargers have lost three straight and five of their last six.
The Chargers placed safety Nasir Adderley on injured reserve Saturday to add Okung. Adderley, a second-round pick in last April’s draft, has been plagued by a hamstring injury most of the year.
WASHINGTON — José Urquidy outpitched all those big-name aces who preceded him, the unheralded Houston rookie quieting Washington’s bats and the Nationals Park crowd, too.
Houston and Washington are all even in a World Series that has been one big road show.
Alex Bregman busted out of his slump with a goahead single in the first inning and a grand slam in the seventh, and the resurgent Astros routed the Nationals 8-1 Saturday night to tie the Series at two games apiece.
“We did a great job today coming out and applying pressure,” Bregman said. “I think Urquidy was fantastic to start us off and got us on the right foot.”
Game 1 winner Max
Scherzer takes the mound Sunday night hoping to get Washington a home Series victory for the first time since the Senators at Griffith Stadium in 1933.