Riverhounds SC clash is a draw
Pittsburgh ties Tampa Bay, 0-0
The third clash of the year between the Atlantic Division leaders had a playoff feel, and Riverhounds SC and the Tampa Bay Rowdies finished 90 minutes deadlocked with a 0-0 draw at Highmark Stadium.
The match saw the Riverhounds (10-6-4) hold 66 percent of possession, but the Rowdies (11-6-1) came out ahead in the shot count, 8-3, and the corner kick total, 43.
Danny Vitiello made three saves to record his fourth shutout of the season for the Riverhounds, while Tampa Bay goalie Evan Louro did not record a save while picking up the clean sheet.
Baseball
Shortstop Andrew Sohn hit a single to drive in Joe Campagna in the third as the Washington Wild Things (38-35) defeated the visiting Lake Erie Crushers (34-39), 1-0, in the first game of the doubleheader. With a two-run seventh inning Lake Erie secured a lead and didn’t let it go in the nightcap, earning a doubleheader split with Washington by a final of 3-2.
• Brownsville, Texas, got two runs in the top of the eighth to secure an 11-10 win against Youngstown, Ohio, to win the PONY League World Series in Washington County. Jeremiah Vela earned the extrainning win for Brownsville.
Basketball
Betnijah Laney scored 17 points, including the goahead basket from the top of the key with 17.6 seconds left, to lift the host New York Liberty (11-12) to an 8379 WNBA victory against the short-handed Seattle Storm (16-7).
Tennis
Second-ranked Naomi Osaka was tested in her first WTA Tour event since the French Open by 17-yearold Coco Gauff, winning in three sets at the Western & Southern Open tennis tournament in Cincinnati.
• Two-time champion Venus Williams will be back at the U.S. Open after being given a wild card into the Grand Slam tournament.
High schools
Pine-Richland is looking for an athletic director. Tom Salopek left the job after just a few months and was named Wednesday as assistant principal at North Allegheny.
Colleges
Duquesne women’s basketball head coach Dan Burt announced that former Western Kentucky guard Fatou Pouye has been added to the roster. Pouye, a 6-foot guard, will join the Dukes as a graduate transfer and will be immediately eligible with one year of eligibility remaining.