BROADVIEW HEIGHTS, Ohio - Brecksville-Broadview Heights wrestler Quinton Hiles, the Division I state runner-up at 160 pounds, has signed with Pennsylvania. Hiles went 44-6 this past season, including winning titles at the sectional and district levels.

Brecksville senior Quinton Hiles has decided to wrestle for Pennsylvania. - (Special to The Plain Dealer)

BROADVIEW HEIGHTS, Ohio - Brecksville-Broadview Heights wrestler Quinton Hiles, the Division I state runner-up at 160 pounds, has signed with Pennsylvania.

Hiles went 44-6 this past season, including winning titles at the sectional and district levels.

A three-time Southwestern Conference champ, he was named as the league's MVP his senior season. Among his other highlights were winning his weight class at the Jimmy Cook Invitational and Brecksville Holiday Tournament.

Watch as Cleveland Browns seventh-round pick Armonty Bryant as talks about his DUI arrest following the draft.

BEREA, Ohio -- Cleveland Browns Armonty Bryant talks about his DUI arrest he received after the Browns selected him in the seventh-round of the draft.

On draft day, he promised the team not to let them down on the heels of a marijuana arrest in October.

Bryant spoke after the Browns first day of rookie minicamp.

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Terry Francona has an indelible memory of a very young slugger at old Tiger Stadium.

View full sizeTerry Francona witnessed Prince Fielder's prodigious power many years ago. It was impossible to forget.Carlos Osorio, Associated Press 

DETROIT -- Seen and heard before the start of the Indians-Tigers weekend series.

Clubhouse confidential: There is film of Tigers first baseman Prince Fielder hitting balls out of old Tiger Stadium when he was 12. Tribe manager Terry Francona, a member of Detroit's coaching staff at the time, is the guy on film throwing batting practice.

"I remember he didn't pick up the balls," said Francona, with a smile. "I told him, 'No, matter how far you hit them, you have to pick up the balls.' We had a good laugh about that last spring [when Francona was working for ESPN]."

"I remember thinking, no 12-year-old should be able to hit a ball that far. Now he's 29 and I'm hoping he doesn't do it again."

Ahead of the curve: If lefty Scott Kazmir takes a regular turn in the rotation for the remainder of the season, the Indians will have to monitor his workload. He threw only 64 innings last season while pitching for the Sugar Land Skeeters in the Atlantic League.

"To your point, even this early in the season, we've tried to give him an extra day when it's been there," said Francona. "But it's a little different with Scott because he's a veteran pitcher. I don't think it will be an innings count, but we are aware of it."

Stat of the day: During their 8-1 homestand, the Indians hit 20 homers with Mark Reynolds leading the way with four.

Katie Kahler's recovery from stroke and kidney failure lies in faith, an extraordinarily close family and superb medical care. Oh, and the Michigan basketball team.

ATHENS, Ohio -- Katie Kahler was dying.

The 55-year-old wife and mother of four had suffered a massive stroke at her Athens home on April 25, 2012, and was flown by helicopter to Riverside Methodist Hospital in Columbus, where neurosurgeon Bill Zerick wasn't sure he could save her.

"She was already showing signs of early brain death," Zerick recalled.

As her husband, Jim, and youngest daughter, Caitlin, raced by car from Athens to Columbus, they started to call the three other Kahler children -- Pete in Ann Arbor, Mich., Meaghan in New York and Jimmy in Chicago. They, too, immediately headed for Columbus.

Pete Kahler, a former St. Edward basketball player and now the video analyst for the University of Michigan men's basketball team, drove through the pouring rain for three hours, crying and praying the whole time.

"The worst three hours of my life," he said.

Then his phone rang again. It was his dad telling him his mother had survived the very delicate initial brain surgery. Suddenly, the clouds parted, the sun shone brightly and Pete knew his mom was going to be all right.

He called a friend who is a nurse. "She said, 'That's sort of a miracle, Pete.'"

It was the first of many signs over the next few months that Katie Kahler would survive and recover. For that, she can thank an unshakeable faith, an extraordinarily close family and superb medical care. Oh, and the Michigan basketball team.

Don't stop reading. Frankly, Pete Kahler's family all over Ohio still isn't 100 percent comfortable with the notion that he's in his third season with the Wolverines, either.

"I cheer for Pete, not Michigan," said his cousin Katie Ann Colliflower Gerkin, who holds an Ohio State undergraduate degree and graduated from the OSU veterinary school.

But there's no denying that Michigan's run to the Final Four championship game was a huge part of Katie Kahler's recovery -- and helped Pete heal, too.

"There's so much we've been through as a family, but to be able to cap it off with a great run ..." Pete Kahler said, his voice catching.

"During the Louisville game, right before the [championship] game started, I turned around and saw the Fab Five coming down the stairs. They're sitting right in front of my parents. I'm thinking, 'Here we go. The Fab Five and Katie Kahler at the Final Four.'

"I never thought that would happen -- not because of the Fab Five but because Katie Kahler is sitting right there. That's the real story."

Another health challenge

View full size"If I was going to die, I'd have died a long time ago," says Kate Kahler. "I love living."Eli Hiller, Special to The Plain Dealer 

Katie Pearson, a Springfield native, and Jim Kahler, a St. Ed graduate and former senior vice president of sales and marketing for the Cavaliers, met at Xavier University, where they were both on the swim team. She was a junior who also played volleyball, softball, sailed and was on the cheerleading squad. He was a freshman. They were dating other people when they met, but friendship turned to love, and they were married in 1981. Pete was born two years later, followed by Meaghan (1986), Jimmy (1988) and Caitlin (1990).

Jim's jobs in sports marketing took the family from Cincinnati to St. Louis to Chicago to Cleveland and to Phoenix before returning to Ohio University, where he became the executive director at the Center for Sports Administration, the program from which he'd obtained his master's in 1981.

Pete graduated with a degree in marketing from Xavier, then started work on a master's in education at OU. While there, he became a graduate assistant video coordinator for basketball coach Tim O'Shea, then moved with O'Shea to Bryant University, where he became the director of basketball operations before joining John Beilein's staff at Michigan.

In the spring of 2012, the basketball offices were being remodeled so Beilein and his staff were holed up in the Michigan Stadium press box. That's where Pete Kahler got the call about his mom.

"I freaked out a little bit," he said. "I was in the corner by the glass, so guys could see me get emotional. Coach B came down and said, 'Do you need to go?' I said, 'Yeah.' He said, 'Can you drive?' I said, 'Yeah, I should be all right.'"

He wasn't, of course. Neither was his mom. Katie Kahler had faced other health challenges throughout her life. She was born with only one functioning kidney, and she'd been diagnosed with Wegener's granulomatosis, a rare disorder that causes inflammation and restricted blood flow to vital organs, including kidneys.

But those were nothing compared to what she was up against in the spring of 2012. She had survived the initial surgery to remove a blood clot, but the next day she had a second brain surgery to clip the aneurysm that caused the blood clot. Zerick, the neurosurgeon, warned the family that the next two weeks were critical because of the threat of vasospasms in the brain, which can cause death.

"But he also told us that 85 to 90 percent of patients would have [already] died from what mom went through," Pete Kahler said.

So the family settled into the waiting room for the long haul, with Pete apologizing to the staff for the fact that all the clothes he brought had the Michigan logo on them. Jim never left, and for the first few days neither did Meaghan. Eventually, the four children took turns taking shifts so that someone was holding their mother's hand at all times.

The changes in her physical appearance were shocking. She was swollen, especially on her right side. Her long blonde hair was gone as her head was wrapped in bandages. Her beautiful smile was twisted around a tube in her mouth.

But when she woke up two days after the initial surgery and looked him right in the eye, Pete thought she'd never looked more beautiful.

"That was the point I knew she was going to be all right," he said. "I didn't really care what anybody else told us. I just knew it at that point. I knew it wouldn't be easy. There would be setbacks. But I knew she was going to be OK -- and OK for me was alive."

Don't bet against Katie

View full sizeKate Kahler (right) and Caitlin Kahler serve a slice of cake during Caitlin's graduation party. Caitlin graduated in nursing on May 4 at Ohio University in Athens. Eli Hiller, Special to The Plain Dealer 

There were small victories in the next two weeks. She couldn't talk, but she'd move her lips when the family said the rosary. Eventually, she could receive the Eucharist. Soon, the swelling receded enough so she could wear her wedding ring again.

When she made it through the two weeks alive, the family was grateful.

"I always believed in the power of prayer, but to witness it is something completely different," said Pete Kahler, who'd begun wearing a rosary around his wrist. "I witnessed it with my mom."

Her doctor was stunned.

"I told him, 'Don't bet against Katie Kahler,'" Pete Kahler said. "He said, 'I won't. She's a survivor.'"

"It was pretty amazing," Zerick said in a recent phone interview. The neurosurgeon also was amazed at the devotion of her family -- husband, children, brothers and sisters, nieces and nephews.

"There was never a day, never an hour when I was in her room that there wasn't someone there from her family -- not one time in weeks," the doctor said. "You don't see that all the time."

After 16 days, she was moved from the ICU to the rehabilitation wing of the hospital and her recovery began in earnest with physical, occupational, speech and recreational therapies.

Then one week later, her spleen ruptured.

"I thought someone was joking with me," Zerick said. "How much can one woman have [go wrong]?"

It was only a temporary setback, though. That surgery delayed her homecoming by just a week. On June 1, 36 days after the stroke, Katie Kahler was back home. She had to wear a bicycle helmet to protect her skull, but that was nothing more than a little inconvenience.

She says now she remembers almost nothing of her time in the hospital. She hardly recognizes herself in pictures after her first surgeries.

"It's huge me, with a ditch in my head," she said.

But she always knew she was going to recover.

"I never thought I wouldn't make it," she said.

A gift for Mom

Most of the summer passed uneventfully, but bad news arrived in August. Her one kidney was failing. She would need a transplant, and she'd have to be on dialysis for four hours three times a week until a suitable donor could be found.

Once again her family responded, with two siblings and two children with the right blood type volunteering to be tested to see if they were a match. Katie's youngest sister, Sarah Beach, 45, went through the testing only to find out that she, too, had a brain aneurysm and needed surgery. One by one, family members were eliminated until only Pete remained. This was at the start of the college basketball season in October. He was swamped with work, but the possibility of being the donor consumed him and he had Beilein's full support.

"He never questioned anything," Pete Kahler said of Beilein. "He just looked at me and smiled and said, 'Man, what a gift. To be able to give that gift to your mother. What a gift.'"

Beilein, a deeply religious man, is one of nine siblings, so he understood Pete's feelings about his family.

"He never said, 'Woe is me,' because of the sickness in his family," Beilein said. "He came to me privately. He didn't want to use it as a crutch in every way. He didn't need everyone to know. I really tried to assist him in keeping things as quiet as possible and let him do the work he was doing behind the scenes -- the early morning blood tests and the other testing he was doing to see if he was a possible donor.

"If you didn't know him, you wouldn't know anything was wrong. He just plowed through everything."

Jim Kahler suggested his children write three letters to their mother every week to help her pass the time during each dialysis session. Meaghan wrote about her move to Spain. Jimmy talked about his budding career as a comedy writer in Chicago. Caitlin discussed her senior year in nursing at OU.

Pete wrote about basketball.

"I started talking to her about the season," he said. "I'm thinking we have a really strong team. It reminded me so much of the team I played on at Ed's my senior year, when we went to the [state] final four in 2002. Everybody liked one another. There was that special chemistry among the guys that I know you need to win championships.

"So I was going to sit back and enjoy it. She'd call me and we'd talk about basketball. I can tell she's really getting into it. She became the biggest Michigan basketball fan. She hounded my dad to go to a game."

So the Kahlers drove to Ann Arbor for the Dec. 11 game against Binghamton, a 67-39 Michigan victory as the Wolverines improved to 10-0. While they were driving home on I-71 on Dec. 12, Katie asked to drive, which she'd been doing since September. The two were playing a game of Beatles trivia to pass the time when Jim asked how many Beatles were still living.

Katie answered, "Three." When Jim pointed out that John Lennon and George Harrison had died, he got no response. Then he noticed Katie go rigid. Fearing Katie was having another stroke, Jim managed to steer the car to the left berm and got Katie into the back seat.

Fortunately, they were just outside Columbus, so he headed for Riverside Methodist Hospital's emergency room. Doctors there discovered she'd had a seizure, not a stroke. After a one-night stay for observation, she was given some anti-seizure medication and was able to return home.

"I love living"

View full sizeAs Tim Hardaway and the Wolverines reached the Final Four and eventually the NCAA title game against Louisville, Kate Kahler enjoyed every minute. "I think we're going to have to find a dialysis place in Atlanta," she told her family.AP file 

A joyful Christmas followed in the Kahler household -- Pete took his mom to a 4:15 a.m. dialysis appointment after midnight mass -- and there was more joy in store for the Michigan faithful. Despite a 56-53 loss at Ohio State on Jan. 13, the Wolverines, 19-1, were off to the best start in school history and were ranked No. 1 in the AP poll for the first time since Dec. 5, 1992.

All the while, Pete Kahler is thinking his biggest victory will come off the court.

"All signs pointed to me," he said. "I really believe I'm going to be the donor. I'm thinking, 'I got this.'"

Then came the devastating news: He was not a match for Katie. He couldn't donate his kidney. He closed his office door and cried.

He still could donate a kidney to a stranger, and then his mother would get a kidney from another stranger in what is referred to as a paired donation, paired exchange or cross-transplant. But it was a crushing blow to him not to be able to directly help his mother.

His parents were the ones who helped him through his disappointment.

"My dad told me, 'You worked at places [Bryant] where you were 1-29. You might not ever get to be part of something like this again. You need to realize that and live in the moment.'" Pete said. "My mom's nodding and saying, 'Absolutely you do.'

"At this point, I don't think I was. I was a mess. But they gave me perspective about how fortunate I am. I can't not enjoy it."

As the season went on, Jim or Caitlin would send Pete videos of his mom during the games, cheering or jumping up and down. As soon as the tournament pairings were announced, she wanted to attend the first two games at The Palace of Auburn Hills. In her basketball pool, she picked Michigan to go to the Final Four, but losing to Miami.

"I was like, 'Mom, really?'" Pete Kahler said, laughing. "She said, 'Well, you're good but you're not that good.' I said, 'Thanks, Mom.'"

As it turned out, Michigan beat Florida to reach the Final Four. As soon as the game was over, Katie turned to Jim at their home and said, "I think we're going to have to find a dialysis place in Atlanta." She called Pete screaming, "We're coming. We're coming."

It was nearly midnight when Jim, Katie, Jimmy and Caitlin caught up with Pete the night before the national semifinal against Syracuse.

"She was so happy, jumping up and down," Pete recalled. "I got a little emotional because it was so close to the anniversary of the stroke. I kept thinking, 'Man, at this time last year, you were on your deathbed.' Now she's jumping up and down, making a big deal about it. Meaghan Skyped in from Spain. We were all together again.

"Jimmy stayed in my room and we couldn't fall asleep. He said, 'Man, you're in the Final Four tomorrow. How awesome is that? You barely got off the bench at Ed's.' I said, 'Yeah, it's pretty unbelievable.' To go to the final four in high school is cool. But this is something else. A year ago we were sitting next to my mom's bed, holding her hands and thinking, 'I hope she doesn't have a spasm tonight.' That really, really got to me.

"The fact that she was there ... nothing else mattered at that point. I looked at her in the stands [after beating Syracuse] and got a little choked up thinking, 'She's alive and she's here.' This [game] was just the cherry on top of everything.

"It made the whole experience that much more. After we lost [to Louisville in the championship game], she gave me a hug and said, 'I'm proud of you.' I told her, 'I'm proud of you, too, Mom, because you're here and you've been through a lot.'"

While the Michigan basketball season didn't have a happy ending, the Katie Kahler story does. After recovering from her brain surgery, Katie's sister, Sarah Beach, was declared healthy enough to donate a kidney to Katie on Friday at The Ohio State University's Wexner Medical Center. The family reported Friday afternoon that surgery went well and her new kidney was already functioning.

Everyday is a blessing, but today feels extra special. #God is Great

— Pete Kahler (@PJKahler) May 10, 2013

Katie said last week that she was not worried about her latest surgery.

"If I was going to die, I'd have died a long time ago," she said. "I love living."

Neurosurgeon Zerick can only marvel.

"She has to be a tough lady," he said. "She had so many high emergent things happen, and she just sailed through it. You talk about the cat with nine lives? She's that person.

"It's a miracle. She's a miracle."

Phil Handy, a developmental coach with the Lakers, is a candidate for a spot on Mike Brown's staff with the Cavaliers.

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The Los Angeles Lakers have confirmed that the Cavaliers have received permission to interview developmental coach Phil Handy, who was hired by Mike Brown during his first season in L.A. in 2011-12.

The story was first reported by Mark Medina of InsideSoCal.com. The Cavs have not confirmed the report.

According to an article on the Lakers website, Handy played at the University of Hawaii and then was briefly with Golden State and Portland before shifting to the CBA and, eventually, Europe, where he played eight years in Israel, France, England, Germany and Italy. He also played in Australia.

In the story, Handy said he met Brown through a mutual friend, Randy Bennett, who coaches at St. Mary's. At one point, Brown's oldest son, Elijah, was considering St. Mary's before signing with Butler. Handy said in the story that he trained the players from St. Mary's for about five years in the off-season.

Handy is the first known candidate the Cavs plan to interview. Brown would seem to have at least two openings on his staff after the Cavs cut ties with Paul Pressey and Joe Prunty in the wake of Byron Scott's firing.

Assistant coach Nate Tibbetts is a candidate for the vacant head coaching position in Charlotte. He also interviewed with the Bobcats last year.

Browns first-round pick says he can add some pounds but believes he can do the job. "You hit, you catch, you tackle."

BEREA, Ohio – In his first day of rookie camp, outside linebacker Barkevious Mingo exhibited the quickness that helped make him the No. 6 overall pick.

While speed is one of Mingo’s greatest assets – particularly his initial burst – he can’t outrun questions about his weight. His lean frame became the topic of conversation again Friday as he donned a Browns helmet for the first time and joined fellow rookies on the practice fields.

Some believe the edge rusher must pack on pounds to play effectively at the NFL level. He is listed at 6-4, 240 pounds. Six of the 25 questions Mingo answered Friday concerned his weight and his diet.

“Whatever they ask me to do I’ll do,” Mingo said about the potential of bulking up. “As far as how much, I think I can hold a pretty good bit and still be effective. “

Mingo added he doesn’t consider himself “skinny” and that he eats whatever he desires, although he’s eliminated fast food. Asked if too much was made of his slender frame, Mingo responded: “Exactly. You hit, you catch, you tackle. It’s football.”

Coach Rob Chudzinski downplayed the issue, but said players will be assigned optimal weights before training camp. He’s not looking for Mingo to add 15 or 20 pounds.

“Different guys have different body types and different weights they play the best at,” Chudzinski said. “You look at guys from Jason Taylor (who played at 6-6, 244) all the way to some of the bigger guys. It’s a matter of getting him in here and spending time with (strength coach Brad) Roll. All those things will work themselves out.”

Injury update: Neither safety Jamoris Slaughter (torn Achilles) nor offensive lineman Chris Faulk (knee) was a full participant Friday. Chudzinski expects both players to be ready for the start of training camp.

Oh brother: The weekend camp might be for rookies, but two veterans attended practice Friday. Joe Haden and Paul Kruger were spotted on the sidelines watching their younger brothers performing drills.

Dave Kruger (6-5, 285) is an undrafted defensive lineman from Utah. Josh Haden (5-9, 190) is a camp tryout .

"The big brothers were real interested in those guys,” Chudzinski said. “Josh came running by and I think I asked him who was faster, him or Joe. I made sure Joe heard it when I asked him. He moved around, he can run, he's quick and he made a couple nice runs out there. Dave, I didn't notice him as much but it's harder until you get a chance to watch the tape.”

Jackson joins cause: Linebacker D’Qwell Jackson and former teammates Chris Gocong and Eric Barton have joined Athlete Ally, an organization dedicated to ending homophobia in sports.

Recently-retired Browns linebacker Scott Fujita is an Athelte Ally ambassador and recruited Jackson, Gocong and Barton. In a statement released by the Athlete Ally, Jackson indicated he would welcome a gay teammate.

“I believe that everyone should be treated the same,” Jackson said in the release. “That's my thought as a person and as a teammate. Joining Athlete Ally is my way of letting it be known that I would respect any teammate -- gay or straight. It just doesn't matter.”

Dream opportunity: As a child, Midpark standout Jamaine Cook attended some Browns training-camp sessions and also participated in a youth camp. Years later, Cook has an opportunity to make his favorite team.

The Youngstown State running back is one of 18 undrafted free agents taking part in rookie minicamp. He’s downplaying the fan-boy angle.

“I don't want that to be a distraction,” said the 5-9, 210 pound back. “I want to come out here and work and compete. That's the stamp of Jamaine Cook.”

Cook was asked if he even imagined buckling a chinstrap to one of the orange helmets. “I never thought about it,” he said. “God works in mysterious ways. This is obviously a blessing. I just love being here. This is my comfort zone because this is where I'm from.”

He is motivated and encouraged by the fact players such as linebacker L.J. Fort, who he faced in college, have taken a similar path to the NFL. Fort told Cook to work hard and study the playbook.

Brownies: Owner Jimmy Haslam, whose family-owned Pilot Flying J company is the target of a federal probe, attended practice on Friday but did not speak to the media. ... Mingo does not plan to return home until after the NFL rookie symposium in late June. ... The rookies will practice again Saturday and Sunday.

Former Indian Victor Martinez is back with the Tigers after missing the 2012 season with microfracture and ACL surgeries on his left knee.

DETROIT -- It was about 4:30 p.m. Friday and Victor Martinez was riding a stationary bike in the Tigers clubhouse. He was getting loose for batting practice.

"It's good to be back," said Martinez. "Last year was a long year."

Martinez missed the entire 2012 season after having two operations on his left knee. He had microfracture surgery on Jan. 27. Then he had the anterior cruciate ligament repaired in the same knee on April 4.

"I'm OK now," said Martinez, who clearly is tired of talking about his knee. What he really wanted to talk about was the Indians and manager Terry Francona.

"The Indians have put a great team together," he said. "The city deserves it. Now they just need some support from the fans."

Martinez played for the Indians from 2002 until they traded him to Boston on July 31, 2009 for Justin Masterson, Nick Hagadone and Bryan Price. Francona was Boston's manager.

"I love Tito," said Martinez. "The little time I spent with him in Boston, he's a great manager and a great man. He gives you confidence. He let's you go out and play and have fun."

Martinez played a year and a half with the Red Sox before signing a four-year, $50 million deal with Detroit on Nov. 29, 2010.

"Victor did something that was hard to do when he traded for him," said Francona. "We were in the middle of a pennant race and Victor became a leader in about two hours. That's hard to do because we had a veteran team.

"But guys starting following Victor's cue very quickly. It's a hard thing to do unless you're legit."

Martinez, who DH'd on Friday, is hitting .217 (26-for-120) with six doubles, one homer and 14 RBI.

Back in Detroit: Ryan Raburn was not the most popular Tiger last year. After winning the second-base job with a great spring, he hit .171 (35-for-205) and was released at the end of the year.

Tigers manager Jim Leyland took responsibility for some of Raburn's struggles.

"I think I probably screwed him up last year making him a second baseman," Leyland told the Detroit Free Press. "If I'd played him part-time in the outfield and moved him around and not had high expectations, he'd have probably been fine. So I'll take the responsibility for that."

Raburn said he appreciated Leyland's comment. "He always had my back," said Raburn, "but he wasn't responsible for my season. It was nobody's fault. It was just the nature of the game. ... Hey, I was the one on the field."

Secret stuff: The youngest member of the bullpen always carries a pack of goodies to the pen before the game. For the most part it's been Cody Allen's job.

"The thing is heavy," said Allen, still considered a rookie. Asked what is in the pack, Allen said, "Everything."

He received a break when lefty Scott Barnes was called up from Class AAA Columbus on Sunday. Since Barnes has less time in the big leagues than Allen, the pack belonged to him.

"I think my velocity went up because I didn't have to carry that pack," said Allen, who pitches his way out a no-out, bases-loaded jam Thursday against Oakland.

Unfortunately, Barnes was optioned to Columbus on Thursday to make room for Michael Bourn, which means Allen once again is carrying extra luggage.

Easy does it: Bourn hit leadoff and played center field Friday night in his return to the Tribe after being sidelined since April 15 with a spike wound in the index finger of his right hand.

With the Indians scheduled to play seven games in six days through Wednesday, look for Bourn to get a rest, probably in Monday's doubleheader against the Yankees at Progressive Field.

Finally: Tigers shortstop Jhonny Peralta came to spring training 10 pounds lighter and it looks like he's kept the weight off. "They felt it would help me move around a little better," said Peralta, who played with the Tribe from 2003 until he was traded to the Tigers in 2010.

There are 18 players within five shots of the lead as pro golf's "fifth major" enters its third round on Saturday.

View full size"I don't have to measure myself against anybody," Players Championship leader Sergio Garcia said Friday of playing with Tiger Woods in the third round. "I know what I want to try to do, and any given day I can shoot a round like this and any other day he can shoot a good round and beat me."John Raoux, Associated Press 

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. -- Sergio Garcia had one of those stretches where it felt like every putt was going to drop. He needed every one Friday for a 7-under 65 to match his best score on the TPC Sawgrass and take a one-shot lead over Tiger Woods at The Players Championship.

Next up is Woods and Garcia in the final group on the weekend, which is sure to add even more attention to the stage that is Sawgrass.

Garcia didn't miss a fairway and putted for birdie on every hole on the back nine and wasn't gaining any ground. That changed on the front nine when he made seven straight putts -- five from about 15 feet or longer -- to race by Woods and into the lead.

"When you start going like that, obviously it feels great," said Garcia, who was at 11-under 133. "Everything seems kind of clearer in your head. You seem to see the break. You seem to feel like everything is a little bit easier, a little bit smoother, and you hit the putt and it manages to go in.

"If it was easy, we would have plenty of those, but it's not," he said. "Enjoy them while you have them."

Woods looks like he's having a good time on the course that has vexed him more than any other on the PGA Tour, and he could be the greater threat on the weekend. Already a three-time winner this year on tour, Woods has rarely put himself in trouble and had his second straight 67.

Woods was at 134, his best 36-hole total by six shots at this tournament, including the year he won.

He tied for the lead with a 5-wood into 20 feet for eagle on the par-5 second hole, and then took the lead alone with a short birdie on the fourth. But it didn't last long. Garcia, playing in the group ahead of him, ran off five straight birdies, finishing that stretch with a 20-foot putt on No. 5 and a 25-footer on No. 6.

Woods and Garcia have played together on big stages -- Bethpage Black, Royal Liverpool -- with a big edge for Woods. They first were linked when the Spaniard was 19 and gave Woods all he could handle at Medinah in the 1999 PGA Championship. They were paired in the final round of the 2002 U.S. Open and 2006 British Open, both won by Woods.

Asked about the possibility of playing with Woods on Saturday, Garcia said he wouldn't see it as anything but another round of golf.

"I don't have to measure myself against anybody," Garcia said. "I know what I want to try to do, and any given day I can shoot a round like this and any other day he can shoot a good round and beat me. Like we always say, it's not a sprint, it's a marathon. So there are going to be good days and not so good days, so just got to enjoy the good ones as much as possible."

Woods again handled the par 5s and now has played them in 8-under for the week, including his eagle. What impressed him more was his overall game. He was asked if there was any part of his game that made him unhappy.

"No, I'm pretty pleased with where it's at right now," Woods replied.

The reporter looked at him, waiting for more. Woods looked back and finally added with a grin, "Did I answer that?"

View full sizeA second-straight 67 moved Tiger Woods to 10 under and is his best start ever at The Players.Chris O'Meara, Associated Press 

With the tournament only halfway over, this is far more than a duel between Woods and Garcia. The 18 players within five shots of the lead include three current major champions -- Adam Scott, Webb Simpson and Rory McIlroy -- along with Lee Westwood, Henrik Stenson, Steve Stricker, Hunter Mahan and Zach Johnson.

Westwood chipped in from 100 feet for eagle on the 11th hole and was atop the leaderboard until making pars on his last eight holes. He had a 66 and was two shots behind, along with Kevin Chappell (66) and Stenson, who had two eagles on the front nine in his round of 67.

Ryan Palmer, who learned Thursday night that one of his best friends died in a car accident in San Antonio, had two eagles in a round of 69 and was three shots behind. Defending champion Matt Kuchar birdied three of his last four holes for a 66 and was at 7-under 137, along with Scott, Mahan and Johnson.

McIlroy was coming off back-to-back bogeys when he chose to go for the green in two at the par-5 ninth -- he had planned to lay up each day. He hit the trees and got into a mess, and McIlroy made his third straight bogey. He rallied on the back for a 72 and was in the group at 6-under 138.

"I've made the cut, which I'm delighted about," said McIlroy, who had missed the weekend his three previous times. "But I am in there with a chance."

Woods won The Players in 2001, highlighted by that 60-foot putt on the island green described by NBC Sports analyst Gary Koch as "better than most." But he has only seriously contended twice, and he has failed to crack the top 20 eight times in 15 appearances.

Woods is accentuating only the positive.

"Even though I haven't played well in the past, I've still won here," he said. "Actually, I've won here twice, technically."

He was referring to the U.S. Amateur in 1994, the first of his three straight titles.

"I haven't played my best here, but I've always felt that courses, even though it's been a while I've won on them, I've still won on them," Woods said. "I know how to get around this golf course. This course, more than most, really tests every facet of your game. You have to drive the ball well. You have to hit your irons in the correct spots, and if you don't hit your irons in the correct spots, you're going to have some really funky up-and-downs.

"It's trying to manage the ball in the correct spots, and I've done that the first two days."

Woods twice made bogey, both times missing the fairway to the right on No. 14 and No. 7. He finished with a 20-foot birdie putt.

Garcia, for two hours, looked like he couldn't miss.

His streak began with a 15-foot birdie putt on the par-5 second. He stuffed his tee shot into 6 feet on the third, and hit wedge to 8 feet on the fourth. He followed that with his two long birdie putts, made a putt just inside 15 feet for par on the seventh and ended his big run with the 40-footer on No. 8.

Garcia also is a past champion, winning a playoff in 2008.

"Fortunately for me, I've managed to play quite decent on this golf course," Garcia said. "So any good thing that you can get in your head, it's obviously positive and those kind of things always help. But it's a different year. We'll see if we can manage to do something similar."

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BASEBALL Note: Games start at 4:30 unless noted and are subject to weather and field conditions. Contact the host school for updates.

BASEBALL

Note: Games start at 4:30 unless noted and are subject to weather and field conditions. Contact the host school for updates.

Nonleague

Akron East at Timken, 11

Buchtel at Collinwood (DH), 11 a.m.

Conneaut at Beachwood (DH), 11 a.m.

Rocky River at Chagrin Falls, 11 a.m.

SOFTBALL

Note: Games start at 4:30 unless noted and are subject to weather and field conditions. Contact the host school for updates.

Nonleague

Akron North at Streetsboro (DH), 11 a.m.

Andrews Osborne Academy at Fairport (DH), 11 a.m.

Bedford at Cleveland Heights, 12

Berea at Rocky River (DH), 10 a.m.

Brooklyn at Independence, 11

Magnificat at Notre Dame-Cathedral Latin

Our Lady of the Elms at Berlin Hiland (DH), 11 a.m.

Rhodes at Fairview (DH), 11 a.m.

Shaker Heights at Beachwood (DH), noon

St. Joseph Academy at Firelands, 9 a.m.

St. Thomas Aquinas at Firestone (DH), 9 a.m.

St. Vincent-St. Mary at Wooster (DH), 9 a.m.

Strongsville at Revere, 10 a.m.

Walsh Jesuit at Hoover (DH), 10 a.m.

GATOR INVITATIONAL

Hawken at Laurel, 12

TAY-SACHS CLASSIC

North Royalton at Olmsted Falls, 12

TRACK

Clipper Invitational at Columbiana (Berkshire, Columbiana), TBA

Knoll Invitational at New London (Keystone, New London), 9 a.m.

Lake Center Invitational (Open Door), 10 a.m.

Woodridge Invitational (Brecksville-Broadview Heights, Copley, CVCA, Our Lady Elms, Stow, Woodridge), 9 a.m.

Boys track VERMILION INVITATIONAL

Boys track

VERMILION INVITATIONAL

How they finished: 1. Warrensville Heights 86; 2. Mansfield Madison 83; 3. Vermilion 69; 4. John Adams 59; 5. North Ridgeville 56; 6. Clearview 55; 7. Margaretta 50.5; 8. Berea 40.5; 9. Garfield Heights 24; 10. Oberlin 16; 11. Brookside 7; 12. Lutheran East, Cleveland MLK, Wellington 0.

Shot put: 1. Bowden (North Ridgeville) 50-3; 2. Karres (Vermilion) 49-6; 3. Bartlett (Vermilion) 43-1. High jump: 1. Williams (Clearview) 6-4; 2. Burghard (Mansfield Madison) 5-9; 3. Hudson (Garfield Heights) 5-6. 4x800: 1. Clearview (Hollingsworth, Santos, Parsons, Hollingsworth) 8:55.78; 2. North Ridgeville 8:59.92; 3. Vermilion 9:00.79. 110H: 1. DeMoss (Warrensville Heights) 15.09; 2. Beechler (Margaretta) 16.07; 3. Harper (Mansfield Madison) 16.54. 100: 1. Thomas (John Adams) 10.88; 2. McCall (North Ridgeville) :11.24; 3. Hundley (John Adams) :11.51. 4x200: 1. John Adams (Smith, Hall, Turner, Thomas) 1:31.75; 2. Warrensville Heights 1:32.34; 3. Mansfield Madison 1:35.97. 1600: 1. Lucas (Berea) 4:44.70, 2. Hollingsworth (Clearview) 4:45.60, 3. Perales (Oberlin) 4:47.40. 4x100: 1. John Adams (Turner, Thomas, Smith, Hundley) 44.0, 2. Garfield Heights 45.23, 3. North Ridgeville 45.43. 400: 1. Sonego (North Ridgeville) :51.03, 2. Roberts (Warrensville Heights) :52.02, 3. Edwards (Warrensville Heights) 53.23. 300H: 1. Douglas (Madison) :39.57, 2. DeMoss (Warrensville Heights) :39.82, 3. Schwensen (Vermilion) :42.40. 800: 1. Taylor (Madison) 2:07.38, 2. Bedell (Berea) 2:11.92, 3. Hollingsworth (Clearview) 2:12.41. 200: 1. Turner (John Adams) :22.92, 2. Farmer (Warrensville Heights) :23.09, 3. Hundley (John Adams) :23.23. 3200: 1. Perales (Oberlin) 10:31.63, 2. Safer (Vermilion) 10:37.51, 3. Jensen (Brookside) 10:39.52. 4x400: 1. Warrensville Heights (Farmer, Edwards, Roberts, DeMoss) 3:28.76, 2. Madison 3:38.74, 3. Margaretta 3:38.90.

Girls track

Vermilion Invitational

How they finished: 1. Vermilion 124; 2. Mansfield Madison 107; 3. North Ridgeville 75; 3. Brookside 55; 5. Laurel 50; 6. Garfield Heights 45; 7. Margaretta 37; 8. Clearview 13; 9. Lutheran East 7; 9. Wellington 7; 11. John Adams 5; 12. Warrensville Heights, Oberlin, John Adams, Cleveland MLK 0.

Shot put 1. Sarvas (Brookside) 32-11, 2. Mowry (Vermilion) 32-0.5, 3. Johnson (Mansfield Madison) 31-10. High jump: 1. Bartlome (Vermilion) 5-0, 2. Morris (Vermilion) 5-0, 3. Howe (Mansfield Madison) 4-6. 4x800: 1. Mansfield Madison (Lodwick, Clow, Baker, Musgrove) 11:04.3, 2. Laurel 11:16.2, 3. Vermilion 11:34.5. 100H: 1. Parkhurst (Margaretta) :16.46, 2. Heuss (Mansfield Madison) :16.81, 3. Bodeker (Vermilion) :16.91. 100: 1. LaForce (Vermilion) :13.09, 2. Dwulat (North Ridgeville) :13.12, 3. Holley (Brookside) :13.17. 4x200: 1. Vermilion (Bodeker, LaForce, Morris, Bartlome) 1:50.02, 2. North Ridgeville 1:51.14, 3. Margaretta 1:51.62. 1600: 1. Zingale (North Ridgeville) 5:56.48, 2. Baker (Mansfield Madison) 5:58.88, 3. Schillero (Garfield Heights) 6:08.31. 4x100: 1. Vermilion (LaForce, Rossi, Morris, Bartlome) :51.17, 2. Brookside :52.77, 3. Mansfield Madison :54.14. 400: 1. Turner (Laurel) 1:02.35, 2. Zehner (Mansfield Madison) 1:03.15, 3. Denman (Margaretta) 1:03.35. 300H: 1. Young (Laurel) :48.77, 2. Bodeker (Vermilion) :49.20, 3. Rossi (Vermilion) :49.77. 800: 1. Nicoll (Vermilion) 2:35.97, 2. Musgrove (Madison) 2:36.79, 3. Taylor (Laurel) 2:42.31. 200: 1. Gregory (Garfield Heights) :26.94, 2. Dwulat (North Ridgeville) :26.99, 3. Morris (Vermilion) 27.34. 3200: 1. Baker (Madison) 12:35.79, 2. Lowery (North Ridgeville) 13:36.58, 3. Clow (Madison) 13:55.85. 4x400: 1. Laurel (Young, Hata, Taylor, Turner) 4:24.02, 2. Madison 4:28.93, 3. Garfield Heights 4:34.60.

Boys tennis

North Canton 4, Westlake 1

Singles: Michelich (W) d. DeMarco 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (12-19); O'Connor (NC) d. Craven 6-2, 6-2; Bruin (NC) d. K. Shah.

Doubles: Yearly/Oaks (NC) d. Wang/Kharche 6-4, 7-6 (7-4); Ocrainiciuc/Cross (NC) d. Reusser/Am. Shah 6-2, 6-0

Girls lacrosse

Brecksville 14, Beachwood 5

Br: Harris 5, Kuharich 3, Jirousek 2, Klonowski 2, Eastman, Wolf. Be: Stovsky 3, Isradelstam, Komich.

Goalies: Br, Gee (5 saves), Ring (7). Be, Greer-Jones (6)

Magnficiat 9, Shaker Heights 8

M: Zavoda 3, Kilbane-Meyers 3, McQuinn 2, Cintron. SH: Morrison 3, Bliss 3, Anderson 2.

Goalies: M, Stafford (11 saves); SH, Rush (8).

PAINESVILLE TOWNSHIP, Ohio - It was tough enough for Brindi Kandel to coach girls basketball at Riverside with just one assistant coach and help with fundraising due to the school's pay-to-pay without going to school. Knowing she'll soon be working towards her administrative license and continue her intervention specialist role at the high school, Kandel has resigned after three...

Brindi Kandel resigns as Riverside's girls basketball coach after three seasons.

PAINESVILLE TOWNSHIP, Ohio - It was tough enough for Brindi Kandel to coach girls basketball at Riverside with just one assistant coach and help with fundraising due to the school's pay-to-pay without going to school.

Knowing she'll soon be working towards her administrative license and continue her intervention specialist role at the high school, Kandel has resigned after three seasons and posting a 23-33 record.

"It costs $1,000 to play (girls) basketball so fundraising is crucial,'' said Kandel, whose team is coming off a 12-11 campaign. "If I could have three assistant coaches and help with some of the fundraising, maybe I could keep coaching but right now it's impossible and it wouldn't be fair to the kids.''

Riverside graduates six players.

"We're losing some talent players but there's talent coming up,'' Kandel said. "I just don't have the time to do the job that's needed to do.''

Highlights include Indians' game at Detroit; NHL and NBA playoffs; Colorado at Columbus Crew soccer; third round of golf's The Players Championship.

CLEVELAND, Ohio

Today's TV and radio sports listings

AUTO RACING

8 a.m. Spanish Grand Prix qualifying, NBCSN

6:30 p.m. Southern 500, WJW

8 p.m. TORC, Speed Channel

ARENA FOOTBALL

7 p.m. Chicago at CLEVELAND GLADIATORS, FM/92.3

9:30 p.m. Jacksonville at San Antonio, CBSSN

BASEBALL

4 p.m. Milwaukee at Cincinnati, MLB Network

6:35 p.m. AKRON AEROS at Reading, AM/1350

7 p.m. L.A. Angels at Chicago White Sox, MLB Network, WGN

7:05 p.m. CLEVELAND INDIANS at Detroit, SportsTime Ohio; AM/1100, FM/100.7

8:05 p.m. LAKE COUNTY CAPTAINS at Bowling Green, AM/1330

BULL RIDING

4 p.m. Last Cowboy Standing (tape), WOIO

COLLEGE BASEBALL

1 p.m. LSU at Texas A&M, ESPN

3 p.m. Oklahoma State vs. Oklahoma, Fox Sports Ohio

4 p.m. Air Force at San Diego State, CBSSN

COLLEGE SOFTBALL

Noon Conference USA final, CBSSN

1 p.m. Oklahoma State vs. Oklahoma, Fox Sports Ohio

3 p.m. Big Ten semifinal, Big Ten Network

4 p.m. Big East final, ESPN2

5:30 p.m. Big Ten semifinal, Big Ten Network

6 p.m. ACC final, ESPN2

8 p.m. SEC final, ESPN2

GOLF

2 p.m. The Players Championship, WKYC

NBA CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS

5 p.m. Game 3, Oklahoma City at Memphis, ESPN

8 p.m. Game 3, New York at Indiana, WEWS

NHL FIRST-ROUND PLAYOFFS

7 p.m. Game 6, Pittsburgh at N.Y. Islanders, NBCSN

HOCKEY

5 a.m. World Championships, U.S. vs. France, NBCSN

MAJOR LEAGUE LACROSSE

11:30 p.m. OHIO at Chesapeake (tape), SportsTime Ohio

MEN'S COLLEGE LACROSSE

Noon Division I playoffs, ESPN2

NATIONAL LACROSSE LEAGUE

7 p.m. Championship game, CBSSN

SOCCER

7:30 a.m. Premier League, Chelsea at Aston Villa, ESPN2

Noon FA Cup final, Manchester City vs. Wigan, WJW

1:30 p.m. MLS, Philadelphia at Chicago, NBCSN

7:30 p.m. MLS, Colorado at COLUMBUS CREW, Fox Sports Ohio

Detroit dominates in the opener of a three-game weekend series at Comerica Park.

Detroit -- If the Indians were looking to make a statement Friday night, well, perhaps they need a new speechwriter.

Still, they did find something out in the chill of Comerica Park -- not a whole lot has changed about the Tigers.

Detroit, looking for its third AL Central championship and a return trip to the World Series, still has Prince Fielder and Miguel Cabrera. Not to mention undefeated right-hander Max Scherzer.

Those three did the heavy lifting in Friday's 10-4 victory to momentarily cool the streaking Indians. It was only the Tribe's second loss in their past 11 games.

"Obviously, coming into their ballpark, you want to make a statement," said DH Nick Swisher, "but they put it on us pretty good tonight. We've got to brush that off and come back tomorrow."

The first-place Tigers, who had lost two straight, stretched their lead over the third-place Indians to two games. They did it in familiar ways.

Corey Kluber (2-2, 5.64 ERA) pitched up in the strike zone and was hurt. Fielder hit a 460-foot homer in the third inning, and Cabrera hit a three-run homer in the fourth for a 7-2 lead.

• Indians-Tigers boxscore | Scoreboard | Standings

"[Kluber's] stuff was crisp coming out of the bullpen, but as we got into the game, he made some mistakes up to the wrong hitters," said Indians manager Terry Francona. "That lineup will make you pay for mistakes."

The Indians took a 1-0 lead against Scherzer (5-0, 3.61) in the first on doubles by Jason Kipnis and Swisher, but no one was fooled.

"One run is not going to beat that squad," said Swisher.

The Tigers took a 3-1 lead in the second. Former Indians Victor Martinez and Jhonny Peralta started the rally as Martinez walked and Peralta doubled him to third with one out.

Alex Avila, swinging on a 3-0 count, doubled down the right-field line to score Martinez and Peralta for a 2-1 lead.

Then Omar Infante sent a fly ball to shallow right. Jason Kipnis rushed out from second as center fielder Michael Bourn and right fielder Drew Stubbs converged. The outfielders let Kipnis try to make the play. The ball bounced off Kipnis' glove for a double, as Avila went to third.

"It was tough play," said Stubbs. "The wind probably had an affect on it, too.

"Kipnis had a better attempt on it than we could have done. . . . We weren't able to get there in time to make the call."

Torii Hunter then singled sharply to right to score Avila, with Infante following right behind. Infante never scored because Hunter took too wide of a turn at first and Mark Reynolds tagged him after taking Stubbs' relay to end the inning before Infante touched home.

Fielder and Cabrera homered on Kluber's first pitch.

"I was having some trouble with my delivery," said Kluber. "I was getting ahead of myself. The pitches I did get too quick on were cutters or breaking balls, and I left them over the middle of the plate and they didn't miss them."

In the fourth, the Indians made it 4-2 when Swisher tripled past first and scored on Carlos Santana's grounder to second. Cabrera, however, dropped the hammer with his three-run homer in the fourth.

"The three-run jack by 'Miggy' really hurt," said Swisher. "Until then, we were right in that game."

Cabrera has seven homers this season. In his career against the Tribe, Cabrera has 27 homers and 85 RBI.

Kluber's night ended in the fifth when Avila singled to score Peralta, who doubled with two out, for an 8-2 lead. Kluber allowed eight runs on 11 hits in 4 innings.

The Indians scored twice in the seventh off Scherzer to make it 8-4. Scherzer, who has won four straight starts, is 6-4 lifetime against the Indians. He allowed four runs on five hits in eight innings, striking out seven to give him 61 strikeouts in 471/3 innings.

Swisher led the Indians with three hits, falling a homer shy of the cycle. In the ninth, looking for the homer against Joaquin Benoit, Swisher worked the count full before striking out.

"He threw me a 3-2 changeup," said Swisher in amazement. "I didn't think that was coming in a million years. I got some good pitches to hit. I was really putting the ball in play hard."

But he didn't see the 3-2 changeup coming.

The Indians could not say the same thing about the Tigers.

To reach this Plain Dealer reporter: phoynes@plaind.com, 216-999-5158

On Twitter: @hoynsie

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Terry Francona believes attendance at Progressive Field will get better if the Indians continue to improve.

DETROIT -- It's never a good thing for a manager to talk about attendance unless he's thanking the hometown fans for filling the ballpark every night.

That's not happening in Cleveland, where the Indians just concluded an 8-1 homestand at Progressive Field. They rank last in the big leagues in attendance at 239,765, an average of 14,104 for 17 games. Saturday, manager Terry Francona says he's more concerned about getting the Indians to play consistently good baseball than how many people are coming to the ballpark right now.

"It's early in the year. It's cold. It's during school," said Francona before facing Detroit. "I guess I feel my responsibility is to try to get this team to play the best baseball we can. If you're an Indians fan, you'll be proud of your team."

Francona believes attendance will increase if the Indians continue to improve.

"If we get to the point where we're backing it up, and just not on a hot streak, our attendance will get better," he said. "Everybody keeps talking about 'let's get back to where it was in the 1990s.' That's not fair. The city's not where it was in the 1990s.

"These people have hit some hard times. I don't show up and rate our team by attendance. I want our team to play good baseball."

Bauer Power: Francona said rookie Trevor Bauer will be recalled from Class AAA Columbus on Monday to start the second game of the makeup doubleheader against the Yankees at Progressive Field.

Justin Masterson will start the first game of the traditional doubleheader, that begins at 12:05 p.m.

GM Chris Antonetti was in Columbus earlier in the week and talked to Bauer. The Indians don't want to hurt his development yo-yoing him between Triple-A and the big leagues.

"Chris talked to Bauer for a long time," said Francona. "Part of the conversation was, 'Do you think this hinders your development?' He was all on board with it.

"As long as he can handle it, I think it's good for his development. As long as he doesn't view it as an interruption."

Bauer is 1-1 with a 2.70 ERA in two starts for the Indians. The team's biggest concern is his lack of control. He's walked 13 in 10 innings, while allowing three runs on three hits.

When Francona managed Boston, they acquired Josh Beckett in a deal with Miami.

"I remember saying about Beckett, 'he's stubborn and I think there will be a time when we like that,'" said Francona. "And it happened. I feel a little bit like that with this kid, too.

"He's a little stubborn, but I think there will come a day when we're glad he is."

Bauer is 1-0 with a 2.55 ERA in four starts at Columbus.

Streak-buster: In the seventh inning Friday, Andy Dirks homered off Rich Hill. It was the first homer the Tribe's left-hander has allowed since July 21, 2009, a streak of 51 consecutive games and 40 2/3 innings without a homer.

"Yes, I was aware of the streak," said Hill. "But if you hang 'em they're going to hit 'em. I would be happy to go another four years without giving up a homer."

Hill had Tommy John surgery in 2011 and only made nine appearances in the big leagues. Francona said he talked to Hill, who pitched for him in Boston, more than any other free agent this winter. Hill wanted a big-league deal, but Francona finally got him to come to camp on a minor-league deal which was upgraded during camp.

"I think he just got tired of me calling," said Francona.

Take it easy: Right fielder Drew Stubbs was out of the lineup Saturday. It was the first time he didn't start since April 14 as Francona loaded the lineup with eight left-handed hitters against Justin Verlander.

Look for Stubbs to start in center Sunday as Michael Bourn gets a rest after coming off the disabled list Thursday.

Finally: Francona on facing Detroit's 3-4 combo of Miguel Cabrera and Prince Fielder: "They've very dangerous. It's a lot like when we had David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez in Boston. ... You can shift [the defense] all you want, but unless you put someone in the bleachers, you're not going to have the field fully covered."

The third round was suspended because of darkness after being delayed nearly two hours because of threatening storms.

View full sizeDavid Lingmerth of Sweden eagled the 16th and birdied the 17th to take the lead at The Players before darkness called a halt to the third round Saturday evening. John Raoux, Associated Press 

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. -- A rift between Tiger Woods and Sergio Garcia attracted all the attention on a stormy day at Sawgrass. Swedish rookie David Lingmerth quietly went about his business and wound up atop the leaderboard Saturday in The Players Championship.

Lingmerth finished a wild day with an 8-foot eagle putt on the par-5 16th and a 10-foot birdie on the island-green 17th to reach 12-under par when the third round was suspended because of darkness. It was delayed nearly two hours because of threatening storms.

Woods, Garcia and Henrik Stenson -- all former Players champions -- were two shots behind. Eight players had to return Sunday morning to complete the round.

The Woods-Garcia relationship already was frosty, and an incident on the par-5 second hole was sure to add another layer of chill. Garcia was hitting his second shot from the fairway when he was disrupted by a burst of cheers from the large crowd gathered around Woods in the trees. Garcia snapped his head over to the left and glared.

The cheer was for Woods taking a fairway metal from his bag, a risky shot because he had only a 15-foot gap to escape the woods.

During the storm delay, Garcia suggested in a television interview that Woods was the instigator.

"Well, obviously Tiger was on the left and it was my shot to hit," Garcia said. "He moved all of the crowd that he needed to move. I waited for that. I wouldn't say that he didn't see that I was ready, but you do have a feel when the other guy is going to hit and right as I was in the top of the backswing, I think he must have pulled like a 5-wood or a 3-wood and obviously everybody started screaming. So that didn't help very much."

Woods was aware of the comments and said Garcia didn't have his facts straight.

"The marshals, they told me he already hit, so I pulled a club and was getting ready to play my shot," Woods said. "And then I hear his comments afterwards, and not real surprising that he's complaining about something."

Asked if they talked it over when play resumed, Woods replied, "We didn't do a lot of talking."

View full sizeSergio Garcia had an emotional round as he fell two shots out of the Players lead Saturday, blaming Tiger Woods for not controlling the gallery. "He gets a lot of people following, and I think you have to be very careful because there's another guy playing."Chris O'Meara, Associated Press 

Garcia wound up making a bogey on the second hole to lose the one-shot lead he had at the start of the round. Woods pulled off his shot, and then blasted out of the bunker to about 10 feet and made birdie to take the lead.

When storm clouds moved in, Garcia already hit a tough shot onto the green at No. 7, and Woods had to mark his ball in the fairway when the siren sounded to stop play. When they resumed, Wood hit onto the seventh green, and Garcia putted before Woods got there.

They were on the 15th hole when play was stopped because of darkness. Woods gave a brief TV interview, and Garcia came over to shake his hand.

Garcia didn't back away from his TV interview.

"It happens to me when I'm in Spain," he said of the large crowds. "Obviously, it happens to him everywhere he goes. He gets a lot of people following, and I think you have to be very careful because there's another guy playing. Sometimes you have to pay attention to what's going on because if the other guy's hitting and you do something when you're in the crowd, the crowd is going to respond and it's going to affect the other player.

"I think sometimes you have to be a bit more careful."

Told about Woods' comment regarding Garcia complaining, the Spaniard replied, "That's fine. At least I'm true to myself. I know what I'm doing, and he can do whatever he wants."

Meanwhile, The Players Championship was shaping up to be quite a finish.

Lingmerth, who began his rookie season by losing in a playoff at the Humana Challenge, poured in par putts along the back nine to stay around the leaders, and then he raced by them with his eagle-birdie finish. He returns Sunday to play the 18th hole.

Stenson was the first to reach 12 under when he made a 20-foot birdie putt at the par-5 ninth, but what appeared to be a shoo-in birdie on the par-5 11th turned into a bogey when his second shot when just long and down a steep slope. It took him two chips to reach the green and he made bogey, and Stenson made another bogey on the 15th.

Garcia made par from deep in the woods and bogey from the middle of the fairway. He came close to a hole-in-one on the 13th hole, and went bunker-to-bunker for bogey on the 14th hole. Woods was far steadier, though certainly not spectacular. That birdie he made on No. 2 was his only one of the day.

Jeff Maggert, who also had a share of the lead at one point early in the day, bogeyed the last hole for a 66 and was the clubhouse leader at 9-under 207. Casey Wittenberg and Ryan Palmer also were at 9-under and still had to finish their rounds.

Lee Westwood whiffed a shot on his opening hole then his club nicked a pine tree on his downswing and the club went nearly a foot past the ball, leading to double bogey. Westwood was 6-under with three holes to play.

Baseball NORTHEAST OHIO CONFERENCE

Baseball

NORTHEAST OHIO CONFERENCE

Valley Division

Twinsburg001 200 2--5 8 3

Solon000 200 0--2 6 1

T (15-7): Washington (W, 3-0). S (5-17): Keckler (L, 0-4).

Notable: Rea (T) 3-4, RBI.

Crossover

Normandy104 404 --13 13 0

Parma000 000 -- 0 2 4

N (10-10): Kern (W). P (11-10): Zeck (L). HR: N, Raimondo.

Notable: Kern (N) 11K; 4-5, 2B, 3 RBI

Parma043 010 7--15 14 1

Normandy102 014 5--13 14 1

P (11-9): Tippy (W). N (9-10): u/a. HR: N, Mikulski.

Notable: Mikulski (P) 4-5, 2B, 3 RBI.

NONLEAGUE

Lincoln West202 310 1--9 10 1

Rittman000 002 0--2 3 0

LW (8-8): Ortiz (W, 2-1). R (14-8): Phillips (L, 3-2). HR: Ortiz (LW); Heater (R).

Notable: Ortiz 6.1 IP, 13K, 2-3, 2B, 2 R, 2 RBI.

Lincoln West010 031 0--5 9 0

Rittman000 002 0--2 10 1

LW (9-8): Roldan (W, 3-1). R (14-9): Thomas (L, 2-2).

Notable: Roldan (LW) 5 IP, 1 ER, 6K.

Harvey260 020 3--13 11 1

Gilmour002 020 0-- 4 7 5

H (6-14): Ornelas (W). G (15-4): Hurley (L, 1-1).

Notable: Ornelas (H) 5K; 2 RBI

Lake223 013 0--11 10 0

Copley200 000 0-- 2 6 2

L (17-4): Criswell (W, 3-2). C (5-17): Hovorka (L, 0-1).

Lake030 000 0--3 5 2

Copley100 000 0--1 2 2

L: Carl (W, 4-1). C: Deagan (L, 0-3).

Aurora130 000 1-- 5 9 3

Olmsted Falls000 010 0-- 1 7 1

A (21-4): Berger (W, 7-1). OF (6-19): Storc (L, 0-1).

Notable: Janoch (A) 3-1B, 2-SB, R, RBI.

WRA002 000 0-- 2 3 0

Benedictine021 020 x-- 5 10 3

WRA (16-9): J. Mylott (L, 2-3). B (12-11): Woodson (W, 3-1).

Notable: Pecoraro (B) 2-3, R, 2B, 2 RBI, SF.

SVSM000 000 0--0 1 2

Walsh Jesuit020 020 x--4 4 0

SV (9-13): Farrell (L, 2-4). WJ (21-4): Machamer (W, 2-0).

Notable: Minorik (WJ) 1B, RBI.

Padua010 010 0-- 2 2 1

Kenston012 060 x-- 9 14 2

P( 14-3): Fender (L). K: Kruger (W, 4-1).

Notable: O'Connor (K) 3-4, R, 2 RBI.

N. Royalton000 050 0-- 5 5 0

Midview000 102 0-- 3 5 0

NR: Kossman (W). M (17-6, 10-2): Milam (L, 2-4).

Notable: Travers (NR) 2B, 3 RBI.

Solon220 020 0-- 6 4 1

Shaker Heights000 010 0-- 1 8 4

So: Merner (W). SH (13-7): Carter (L, 0-2).

Notable: Sutyak (So).

Notable: Sutyak 2 RBI.

Twinsburg000 101 0-- 2 4 1

Shaker Heights103 101 x-- 6 10 0

T: Bass (L). SH (14-7): Smith (W, 2-1).

Notable: Smith CG, 3K.

Valley Forge212 23 --10 13 0

Lorain010 00 -- 1 5 2

VF: Petruska (W). L (14-9): Andujar (L, 2-3).

Notable: Petruska 6 IP, 3-4, 1B, 2B, 3B, 2 R, RBI.

Valley Forge003 011 0--5 11 3

Lorain100 301 1--6 9 2

VF: Panico (L). L (15-9): Velez (W, 4-1).

Notable: Hisle (L) 3-4, 2 R, RBI, 2-1B, 3B, GWRBI.

Bay400 001 3-- 8 10 3

Berea005 000 2-- 7 7 3

Bay: Johnson (W, 1-0). Ber: Miller (L).

Notable: Lamb (B) 2B.

Rocky River100 10 -- 2 4 2

Chagrin Falls141 15 --12 9 1

RR (5-18): Hendricks (L, 0-1). CF (18-7): Gorman (W, 4-2).

Notable: Thombs (CF) 1-2, 3 R, SB, 3 RBI.

St. Edward000 000 0--0 6 1

St. Ignatius010 000 0--1 4 0

SE (11-13): Knowles (L). SI (18-6): Margevicius (W, 6-0).

Notable: Margevicius (SI) 5K, 0 ER

Softball

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Crossover

Hudson100 000 0--1 3 1

Medina310 101 x--6 8 0

H (5-11): N. Turner (L). M (18-6): Paradise (W, 15-4).

Notable: Tata (M) 3-4, 2B, R, 3 RBI

WEST SHORE CONFERENCE

Avon213 500 0--11 10 0

Midview010 013 4-- 9 12 1

A (17-6, 12-2): Edwards (W). M (15-9, 9-3): Hamker (L, 15-9). HR: M: Morton, sumser, Beltz.

Notable: Morton 3 RBI.

NONLEAGUE

Hathaway Brown000 000 0--0 2 1

Berlin WRA001 043 x--8 11 1

HB (17-9): Paul (L, 16-7). WR: Kreitzeurg (W)

Walsh Jesuit000 000 0--0 2 1

N. Can. Hoover200 010 x--3 3 0

WJ (18-5): Rahach (L, 12-5). NC (26-0): Thacker (W, 15-0). HR: NC, Lilley

Westlake710 70 --15 16 2

St. Joseph Ac.011 00 -- 2 6 4

W (15-10): Zale (W, 4-2). SJA (5-12): Heffernan (L).

Notable: K. Tinline (W) 3-4, 2B, 2R, 4RBI.

Westlake710 70 --15 10 1

St. Joseph Ac.011 00 --2 4 5

W: Brown (W, 4-1). SJA: Murphy (L, 1-5).

Notable: Tinline 3-4, 2B, 3 RBI.

Andrews Osborne000 000 0--0 0 5

Fairport221 013 0--9 0 1

Andrews Osborne140 100 0--6 0 0

Fairport270 001 0--10 0 0

Howland121 00-- 4 5 3

Walsh Jesuit533 21--14 16 1

H: Kowach (L). WJ (18-4): Navratil (W, 6-0). HR: WJ, Ries

Notable: Ries (WJ) 3-3, 2B, 2R, 5 RBI.

Hawken040 010 0-- 5 6 3

Normandy245 020 x--13 14 4

N (9-11): Dzurisin (W, 4-7). N: Oliver (L).

Notable: Gainer (N) 3-4, 2B, 3B, 2 R, 4 RBI.

Hathaway Brown100 003 0--4 6 0

Clearview100 100 0--2 8 0

HB (17-8): Paul (W, 16-6). C (14-9): Kaya (L).

Notable: Paul (HB) 16K; 2-3, 2-3B, R, 3 RBI

Magnificat001 00-- 1 1 3

NDCL197 0x--17 18 0

M (8-11): Grgash (L). NDCL (20-7): Hetki (W, 17-6). HR: ND: Raguz, 2, Carbaladda.

St. Joseph Ac.012 033 0--9 10 3

Firelands000 000 4--4 5 2

SJA: Hefferhnan (W, 7-9). F: Hribal (L).

Notable: Funari (SJA) 3-4, R, 3 RBI.

Normandy103 140 0--9 16 1

Lutheran West000 000 0--0 3 2

N (8-11): Hester (W, 5-4). LW: Mystic (L). HR: Gainer (N).

Notable: Kovach (N) 3-3, R, SB, RBI.

Berea301 440 0--12 12 2

Rocky River313 020 0--9 10 4

B (7-16): Hopperton (W, 5-7). RR (5-16): Ihnot (L, 5-14). HR: Host (B), 2.

Notable: Host 3-4, 1B, 3 R, 6 RBI.

Berea212 400 2--11 11 1

Rocky River000 020 0-- 2 7 4

B (8-16): Alward (W, 3-9). RR (5-17): Ihnot (L, 5-15). HR: Vodan (B).

Notable: Vodan 2-4, 2B, R, 3 RBI.

Westlake013 102 0--7 13 3

Vermilion100 000 2--3 5 2

W (14-10): Lew (W, 6-6). V (13-12): Tucker (L, 10-8).

Notable: Screen (W) 4-4, 2R, 2 SB

Boys track

EAST CANTON RELAYS

How they finished: 1. Western Reserve Ac. 91; 2. Boardman 85; 3. Midpark 70; 4. Hoover 60; 5. East Canton 43; 6. Tuscarawas C.C. 38; 7. St. Thomas Aquinas 8.

Area finishers

Discus: 2. Sladick (Mid) 137-9. High jump: 1. Bryant (WRA) 5-9; 2. Kramer (WRA) 5-6. Long jump: 1. Hassell (WRA) 19-01/4; 3. Riehart (Mid) 18-4. Pole vault: 1. Owens (Mid) 13-6. 4x800: 1. Mid 8:51.41; 2. WRA 8:58.26. 4x200: 2. Mid 1:37.38; 3. WRA 1:38.28. 4x100: 2. WRA 46.55; 3. Mid 46.85. 4x400: 3. WRA 3:39.44. 4x1,600: 2. WRA 19:06.73. Distance medley: 1. WRA 10:10.57; 3. Mid 10:14.88

BOB KNOLL INVITATIONAL

How they finished: 1. New London 111; 2. Cloverleaf 98; 3. Western Reserve 79; 4. St. Paul 70; 5. South Central 59; 6. Monroeville 511/2; 7. Black River 421/2; 8. Keystone 20; 9. St. Peter's 19; 10. Plymouth 8.

Area finishers

Shot put: 2. Wangler (Clov) 44-2; 3. . High jump: 1. Podolak (Clov) 5-10; 3. Whalen (Key) 5-8. Long jump: 2. Laux (Clov) 19-83/4. Pole vault: 1. Andrews (Clov) 12-0; 3. Jarrett (Clov) 10-0. Triple jump: 1. Laux (Clov) 37-01/2; 2. Beard (BR) 35-10; 3. Sturgill (Key) 35-8. 110H: 3. Laux (Clov) 16.92. 100: 3. Podolak (Clov) 11.68. 4x200: 1. BR (Varney, Bacisin, Beard, Phillips) 1:37.22. 1,600: 3. Jarrett (Clov) 4:50.09. 400: 2. Podolak (Clov) 54.19; 3. Bacisin (BR) 54.59. 800: 3. Laux (Clov) 2:10.90. 200: 2. Phillips (BR) 23.52; 3. Podolak (Clov) 23.66. 3,200: 3. Jarrett (Clov) 10:56.41.

WOODRIDGE WRAP-UP

How they finished: 1. Copley 120; 2. Cuyahoga Valley Christian Academy 113; 3. Woodridge 83; 4. Cuyahoga Falls 81; 5. Stow 78; 6. Chagrin Falls 52; 7. Brecksville 48; 8. Buchtel 33; 9. Walsh Jesuit 30; 10. Canton C.C. 11; 11. Nordonia 10.

Shot put: 1. Toth (Breck) 45-11/2; 2. Woods (Buch) 44-11; 3. Moorer (Cop) 43-11. Discus: 1. Johnson (Cop) 148-7; 2. Woods (Buch) 145-01/2; 3. Toth (Breck) 139-6. High jump: 1. Conte (Ch. F) 6-51/2 (meet record); 2. Moll (CCC) 5-8; 3. Lawson (Stow) 5-8. Long jump: 1. Mosher (CVCA) 19-101/2; 2. Jenkins (Wood) 19-61/4; 3. Conte (Ch. F) 19-01/2. Pole vault: 1. Francetic (WJ) 13-0; 2. Sprague (CVCA) 13-0; 3. Kahwaji (Cop) 12-6. 4x800: 1. Stow (Horning, Ahmed, Bauman, Loveell) 8:09; 2. Cuy. F 8:18; 3. Wood 8:19.7. 110H: 1. Carroscia (CVCA) 15.0 (meet record); 2. Harnett (Cop) 15.32; 3. Thurman (Wood) 15.50. 100: 1. Harris (Cuy. F) 11.32; 2. Turner (Cop) 11.37; 3. Hamilton (Cuy. F) 11.64. 4x200: 1. Cuy. F (Leymon, Breiding, Hamilton, Lewis) 1:32.76; 2. Cop 1:33.91; 3. CVCA 1:34.18. 1,600: 1. Adams (CVCA) 4:27.42; 2. LeBay (CVCA) 4:33.20; 3. Horning (Stow) 4:34.26. 4x100: 1. Ch. F (Iammarino, B. Munday, Wallace, M. Munday) 43.87 (meet record); 2. CVCA 44.22; 3. Cop 44.49. 400: 1. Philpot (Stow) 51.49; 2. Greer (Cop) 51.52; 3. Ward (Cuy. F) 52.27. 300H: 1. Harris (Cuy. F) 40.24; 2. Harnett (Cop) 41.12; 3. McCann (Wood) 42.09. 800: 1. LeBay (CVCA) 1:59.60; 2. Faiken (Wood) 2:01.20; 3. Onyak (Cop) 2:01.88. 200: 1. Harris (Cuy. F) 22.60 (meet record); 2. Munday (Ch. F) 22.63; 3. Breidling (Cuy. F) 23.16. 3,200: 1. Korodi (Nord) 9:50.15; 2. Scourfield (Wood) 9:54.03; 3. Bauman (Stow) 9:57.84. 4x400: 1. CVCA (Schwarz, Adams, LeBay, Kortze) 3:27.63 (meet record); 2. Stow 3:30.36; 3. Cuy. F 3:32.76.

Girls track

EAST CANTON RELAYS

How they finished: 1. Boardman 88; 2. Western Reserve Ac. 86; 3. Hoover 72; 4. St. Thomas Aquinas 67; 5. Midpark 38; 6. Tuscarawas C.C. 31; 7. East Canton 13.

Area finishers

Long jump: 1. Carter (WRA) 15-03/4. Pole vault: 2. Buckholz (Mid) 8-6; 3. Iannaggi (Mid) 7-6. 4x200: 1. WRA 1:51.52. 4x100: 1. WRA 51.83 (meet record). 800 sprint medley: 1. Midpark 2:02.92. 4x400: 1. WRA 4:15.85 (meet record). Distance medley: 2. WRA 12:29.67. 4x100SH: 2. WRA 1:13.26

BOB KNOLL INVITATIONAL

How they finished: 1. Cloverleaf 117; 2. Keystone 112; 3. Western Reserve 111; 4. St. Paul 89; 5. Monroeville 36; 6. New London 33; 7. Plymouth 23; 8. South Central 18; 9. Black River 12; 10. St. Peter's 7.

Area finishers

Shot put: 3. Landrum (Clov) 32-6. High jump: 1. Quillen (Key) 5-0; 2. Andrews (Clov) 4-10. Long jump: 1. Gates (Key) 17-1 (meet record). Pole vault: 1. Martz (Clov) 9-6; 2. Brandt (Clov) 9-0; 3. Schmitt (Key) 7-6. Triple Jump: 1. Gurschow (Clov) 28-113/4 (meet record); 3. Winnicki (Clov) 26-23/4. 4x800: 2. Clov (Winnicki, Gutschow, Murray, Swain) 10:42.31. 100H: 1. Quillen (Key) 16.48; 3. Brandt (Clov) 16.94. 100: 1. Peters (Key) 13.03 ; 2. Gates (Key) 13.44. 4x200: 2. Key (Gates, Tuttle, Plas, Peters) 1:51.95. 1,600: 1. Murray (Clov) 5:23.37 (meet record); 2. Wargo (Key) 5:35.48. 4x100: 2. Key (Kasnyik, Plas, Yusko, Hogan) 55.45. 400: 2. Swain (Clov) 1:05.36. 300H: 1. Quillen (Key) 48.28. 800: 2. Winnicki (Clov) 2:34.97; 3. Wargo (Key) 2:35.67. 200: 2. Quillen (Key) 27.67. 3,200: 1. Murray (Clov) 11:27.22 (meet record). 4x400: 3. Clov (Swain, Hamilton, Frank, Winnicki) 4:23.32.

WOODRIDGE WRAP-UP

How they finished: 1. Stow 126; Cuyahoga Falls 90; 3. Brecksville 78; 4. Walsh Jesuit 72; 5. Cuyahoga Valley Christian Academy 68; 6. Buchtel 56; 7. Woodridge 49; 8. Chagrin Falls 37; 9. Copley 30; 10. Nordonia 25; 11. Canton C.C. 13; 12. Berea 8; 13. St. Joseph Ac. 6.

Shot put: 1. Roberts (Breck) 35-0; 2. Okeafor (Breck) 33-6; 3. Lewis (WJ) 33-3. Discus: 1. King (Cuy. F) 121-6; 2. Winters (Stow) 109-7; 3. Erdie (WJ) 99-1. High jump: 1. Lawson (Stow) 5-2 (meet record); 2. McGuire (Ch. F) 5-0; 3. Grimone (Breck) 5-0. Long jump: 1. Hess (CVCA) 16-23/4; 2. Aldridge (Breck) 16-21/4; 3. Payne (WJ) 15-81/2. Pole vault: 1. Rozsa (Cuy. F) 11-6 (meet record); 2. Waibel (Cuy. F.) 11-6 (meet record); 3. Gillespie (Wood) 9-6. 4x800: 1. WJ (Audino, Mirka, Onders, Renuart) 9:49.29; 2. CVCA 9:52.89; 3. Wood 9:53.96. 100H: 1. Green (Buch) 15.98 (meet record); 2. Mitchell (Cuy. F) 16.03; 3. Pryce (Stow) 16.52. 100: 1. Shaver (Stow) 12.51; 2. Mokros (CCC) 12.53; 3. Green (Buch) 12.83. 4x200: 1. Buchtel (Oliver, R. Green, Tate-Lockett, S. Green) 1:47.97; 2. Breck 1:48.65; 3. Cuy. F 1:48.92. 1,600: 1. Bockoven (CVCA) 5:08.29; 2. Renuart (WJ) 5:10.59; 3. Vasarhelyi (Nord) 5:19.49. 4x100: 1. Buchtel (Oliver, R. Green, Dent, S. Green) 50.34 (meet record); 2. Stow 51.18; 3. WJ 51.26. 400: 1. Kotchman (Breck) 59.90; 2. Krieger (Cuy. F) 1:00.55; 3. Tate-Lockett (Buch) 1:02.59. 300H: 1. Lawson (Stow) 45.91 (meet record); 2. Waibel (Cuy. F) 47.38; 3. Caja (SJA) 48.46. 800: 1. Bockoven (CVCA) 2:23.33; 2. Pryce (Stow) 2:25.37; 3. Blair (CVCA) 2:25.43. 200: 1. Shaver (Stow) 26.01 (meet record); 2. Paster (Ber) 26.66; 3. Krieger (Cuy. F) 26.96. 3,200: 1. Risley (Nord) 11:37.96; 2. Onders (WJ) 11:38.95; 3. Pasicznyk (CVCA) 11:45.38. 4x400: 1. Stow (A. Pryce, Lawson, Stout, T. Pryce) 4:12.52; 2. Ch. F 4:16.38; 3. Cuy F. 4:16.58.

Boys tennis

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TOURNAMENT

RIVER DIVISION

How they finished: 1. Twinsburg 52; 2. Strongsville 51; 3. Mayfield 46; 4. North Royalton 40; 5. Cuyahoga Falls 35; 6. Brunswick 11.

First singles -- First place: Fukamachi (M) def Doherty (T) 6-0, 6-1. Third place: Green (CF) def Bringman (S) 6-2, 6-3; Fifth place: Kurela (B) def Anand (NR) 6-4, 7-6(1).

Second singles -- First place: Moskowitz (CF) def Dalessandro (M) 6-0, 6-3; Third place: Soster (NR) def Arnev (S) 6-2, 7-5; Fifth place: Bartulovic (T) def Canterbury (B) 6-4, 6-7(5), 6-3.

Third singles -- First place: Peterjohn (NR) def Hja (S) 6-3, 6-3; Third place: Liflyandchick (T) def Green (CF) 6-4,6-0; Fifth place: Curtin (M) def Brunswick default.

First doubles -- First place: Gulden/Hayak (S) def Khoncarly/Shinheart (T) 6-1, 4-6, 6-4; Third place: Faddoul/Elliot (M) def Marsh/Patel (NR) 6-2, 6-2. Fifth place: Boyer/Carpenter (B) def Garberoglio/Reinhold (CF) 6-4, 6-0.

Second doubles: Peketi/Whitney (T) def Tomcko/Dahman (S) 6-3, 6-0; Third: Gladkiv/Gagliardo (M) def Clegg/Hajovsky (NR) 6-3, 6-4; Fifth: Bell/Greear (CF) def Emert/Horvat (B) 6-3, 6-1.

VALLEY DIVISION

How they finished: 1. Solon 57; 2. Hudson 48; 3. Medina 28; 4. Shaker Heights 19; 5. Mentor 8.

First singles -- First place: Boslet (Hud) d. Yang (Sol) 6-1, 6-4; Third place: Liebler (Med) d. Sackett (Men) 6-2, 7-3.

Second singles -- First place: Le (Sol) d. Polifrone (Hud) 6-1, 6-2; Third place: Varney (Med) d. Arora (SH) 6-2, 6-3.

Third singles -- First place: Goldberg (Sol) d. Wolowiecki (Hud) 6-3, 2-6, 7-5; Third place: Yoder (Med) d. Lin (SH) 7-5, 7-3.

First doubles -- First place: O'Brien/Shankman (Sol) d. Kemper/Tiemann (Hud) 6-4, 6-1; Third place: Bachir/Martinez (Med) d. Foremski/Burrull (SH) 6-4, 6-2.

Second doubles -- First place: Shah/Rizkala (Sol) d. Graham/Basu (Hud) 6-2, 7-3; Third place: King/Pazgan (Med) d. Ragab/Evans (SH) 6-4, 7-6, 7-3.

Boys lacrosse

Solon 11, North Canton 5

S (10-4): Littman 4, D. Barksdale 2, Caito, Madry, Rodriguez, Sensibaugh, Slagle. H (7-8): Nickel 4, Grandjean.

Goalies: S, Karn (12 saves); H, Gerber (9).

University School 12, Kenston

US (10-4): McGinley 5, Strang 3, Jones 2, Samar, Lee. K (7-5): Lambert 3, Kinney, Tomcufcik, Boadway.

Goalies: US, Almudallal (12 saves); K, Ostoyic (7).

Girls lacrosse

Chagrin Falls 10, Hudson 8

CF (13-2): Mackin 3, Manchester 3, Hendricks, Magyaros, Owen, Walker. H (7-9): Russell 3, B Drohan 2, J Kisthardt 2, H Alvey

Goalies. CF, Wilson (6 saves), Price (7)

Hathaway Brown 14, Hoover 7

HB (9-6): Brockett 5, Strang 3, Benjamin 3, Heyside, Nook, Warner. Ho (5-8-1): Grahjean 2, Jajack 2, Lehmier 2, Eastmen 1.

Goalies: HB, Dumas (5 saves); Ho, Enot (10).

The Cleveland Indians scored early against Justin Verlander and Ubaldo Jimenez pitched six strong innings in a 7-5 victory over the Tigers.

DETROIT -- Ubaldo Jimenez out-pitched Justin Verlander on a cold Saturday night in a ballpark that has caused him a great deal of misery.

Chris Perez walked a tight-rope across the ninth inning, pitching around what could have been a devastating error by first baseman Nick Swisher.

Asdrubal Cabrera had three hits, two of them driving in runs with two outs, but the play that gave the Indians a 7-6 victory over the AL Central-leading Tigers and yet another former Cy Young Award winner was turned in by second baseman Jason Kipnis with the game teetering in the ninth at Comerica Park.

Perez, who earned his sixth save, started the inning by striking out red-hot Jhonny Peralta. Brayan Pena sent a grounder to Mike Aviles at third. Swisher, who moved in from right field to first in the eighth inning to protect his cranky left shoulder, dropped the ball for what should have been the second out.

"I just dropped it," said Swisher. "I was staring at the ball cussing. I told Perez, 'You've got to pick me up, dog.' "

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Omar Infante followed with a single to put runners on first and second. Fleet Austin Jackson followed with a grounder over the mound toward second. Kipnis tracked it down behind the bag and flipped it behind his back to Cabrera, who forced Infante for the second out. Jackson beat Cabrera's relay to first, but the Indians were only one out from victory.

"Amazing play," said Cabrera. "That play won us the game."

Torii Hunter, after the force, singled to score Pena, cutting the Tribe's lead to 7-6. One other ramification of Hunter's single was that Perez had to faced Triple Crown winner Miguel Cabrera with runners on first and second and a sellout crowd of 41,438 stomping and screaming.

"I always seem to end up facing him with the game on the line," said Perez.

Cabrera worked the count full before chopping a grounder to third. Aviles fired to Swisher at first for the final out as the Indians won for the 11th time in their past 13 games. The victory put them one game behind the Tigers.

Perez earned his sixth save, but gave credit to Kipnis.

"That play saved me," said Perez. "It make up for Swisher's play. Baseball works out that way."

It was a down-and-dirty night for Kipnis. In the second, he singled with two outs. Cabrera followed with a double to right and Kipnis scored all the way from first, dodging catcher Alex Aviles with a head-first slide to the outside part of the plate that left him covered in dirt and grime.

"He's such a scrappy player," said Swisher. "He's like one of those dirt-ball guys. After every game, his uniform has some kind of stain on it."

Jimenez (3-2, 5.55 ERA) held the Tigers to one run on three hits. He tied a season-high with eight strikeouts and walked just one.

The victory was Jimenez's third straight, a first since he joined the Indians on July 31, 2011. It was also his second win in eight career starts at Comerica Park.

"That's the best I've ever pitched here," said Jimenez.

The Indians took a 2-0 lead against Verlander in the first. Michael Bourn opened with a single and scored on Swisher's double. Verlander followed with walks to Carlos Santana and Jason Giambi to force home Cabrera. It was only the third time in his career that Verlander (4-3, 1.93) has walked a batter with the bases loaded.

The Tribe led 4-1 after the fifth. They squeezed Verlander, the 2011 Cy Young winner, for 110 pitches as he allowed six hits, four runs, three earned, and walked five. The Indians, by the way, are 6-1 against Cy Young Award winners this year.

Jimenez tired after the sixth and manager Terry Francona went to the bullpen with a 6-1 lead. With the Joe Smith-Vinnie Pestano-Chris Perez relay team jumbled because of Pestano's right elbow injury, Francona used lefty Nick Hagadone to start the seventh. Victor Martinez greeted him with a double and Matt Tuiasosopo and Peralta walked to load the bases.

Cody Allen was the next arm out of the Tribe pen.

Pena hit a sacrifice fly to make it 6-2. Infante followed with a two-run triple to the gap in right center. Jackson delivered Infante with a ground ball to turn the Indians' comfortable 6-1 lead into 6-5 white-knuckler.

The Indians stretched the lead to 7-5 in the eighth on Giambi's sacrifice fly. They needed the extra run, too.

Former Ohio State kicker Aaron Pettrey made a 19-yard field goal as time expired for the Gladiators' first home win.

Gladiators backup QB Chris Dieker sparked the first home win of the season.AFL photo 

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Chris Dieker, who lost a competition to be the Gladiators' quarterback in training camp, needed to wait until Week 8 for another opportunity.

He maximized it.

Dieker's work in relief of ineffective Brian Zbydniewski propelled the Gladiators to a 53-50 victory over the Chicago Rush on Saturday night at The Q. Former Ohio State kicker Aaron Pettrey made a 19-yard field goal as time expired.

The Gladiators enjoy playing horn-beaters against Chicago at The Q. In their previous meeting, the finale of the 2012 regular season, the Gladiators won, 60-54, on a TD pass off the net as time expired. The Gladiators (2-5) snapped a two-game skid, winning for the first time in four home games.

Chicago (4-4) lost for the first time in four road games.

"We needed a win badly, and it feels that much better to finally get that first home win," Gladiators coach Steve Thonn said. "It was a little ugly, and Chicago was beat up a bit, but we'll take it."

Thonn inserted Dieker for Zbydniewski late in the second quarter. The Gladiators trailed, 20-13.

"We were just struggling on offense, and I felt like we needed a spark," Thonn said. "Chris came in and did a good job."

Dieker completed 19 of 26 passes for 206 yards and three touchdowns. He was not sacked or intercepted. He rushed five times for 47 yards and two touchdowns.

"The biggest thing I was impressed with was his poise," Thonn said. "He made some very good throws, scrambled great and was patient."

Dieker made two sub-par throws to begin his first series, then played like he belonged. Thonn said he won't decide who starts next Saturday against San Antonio until sometime this week.

"I've been preparing myself every week so that, if it came time, I'd be ready," Dieker said. "As soon as I got the call, I was ready to prove what I could do. I had fun doing it. It's just a good feeling to get a win."

Dieker stunned the Rush with a 32-yard scramble for a score with 3:33 remaining in the fourth quarter. Pettrey's extra point gave the Gladiators a 50-42 lead.

"They took away the play we wanted, and the O-line had great protection," Dieker said. "I slid left and saw an opening. Being able to run a little bit -- that's another part of my game."

Chicago answered with a 15-yard TD pass from Carson Coffman to Jared Jenkins at 1:15. Reggie Gray's two-point conversion tied the score. The Gladiators returned the kickoff to their 17. They carefully moved the ball and managed the clock before putting the game on Pettrey's leg on second-and-goal from the Chicago 4.

"I wanted to get as close to an extra point as possible," Thonn said. "And I wanted to make sure we didn't give them the ball back."

Pettrey's kick was true -- but not before Dieker reeled in a high snap. The loudspeakers played the Ohio State fight song afterward. Last season, Pettrey played 11 games for the Gladiators before being reassigned. He joined them this season after Week 6, the Gladiators having parted ways with Ross Gornall.

"It feels good to be back in Ohio, playing football," Pettrey said.

Other standouts for the Gladiators included receiver Jamar Howard, who caught nine passes for a team-high 114 yards and a TD. Howard, listed at 6-4, 215, entered with 15 receptions for 184 yards in three games.

"We need to get Jamar in," Thonn said. "He gives the opponents matchup problems."

Former Glenville and Michigan standout Pierre Woods, a defensive lineman for the Gladiators, did not play his second straight game because of an ankle injury.