Sports shorts Cleveland State advances to final

Kenny Carpenter scored 16 points, Anthony Wright added 12 and No. 8 seed Cleveland State upset No. 4 seed Oakland 4443 in the Horizon League Tournament semifinals on Monday night.

Tyree Appleby scored on a short baseline jumper with 32 seconds left to give the Vikings (12-22) the lead.

Cleveland State then got a stop with 14.5 seconds left, Appleby missed the front end of a 1-and1, and the Vikings got another stop as time expired to secure the win.

The Vikings, who upset top-seeded Northern Kentucky on Saturday, will face the winner of Wright State and Milwaukee in the championship on Tuesday.

Oakland (19-14) had the largest lead of the second half at 31-26 on Kendrick Nunn’s layup with 12:47 to go.

Nunn, the nation’s second-leading scorer entering the game (26.1 per game), finished with 19 points on 7-of-24 shooting. Veteran cornerback Antonio Cromartie announced his retirement from the NFL on Monday.

The 11-year pro with four franchises posted a message on Instagram saying “after 27 years of playing football, today I say farewell.”

An All-Pro with San Diego in 2007, when he led the league with 10 interceptions, Cromartie was one of the NFL’s best cover cornerbacks for much of his career, making four Pro Bowls. He also scored the longest touchdown in league history, returning a missed field goal by Minnesota for a 109-yard score in 2007.

Cromartie, 33, spent his first four seasons with the Chargers, making the playoffs each year. He then joined the Jets and made the AFC championship game with them in 2010, his first of four straight seasons as a starter in Rex Ryan’s defense.

He spent 2014 with Arizona, returned to the Jets in 2015, and finished his career in 2016 with Indianapolis.

The Ohio Attorney General and the city of Columbus have 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 Cleveland 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.

They also must allow cities or residents near sports facilities a chance to buy the team.

Crew owner Anthony Precourt announced the possible move last fall.

Messages were left for Precourt and for Major League Soccer seeking comment.