WPPA / T-102 SPORTS / Saturday

LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL

All Scrimmages 10 a.m. unless noted

Williams Valley at Mahanoy Area-WPPA Sports Saturday @ 9 a.m., Scrimmage 10 a.m.
Pottsville at Northwestern Lehigh
Blue Mountain at Salisbury
Mt. Carmel at Schuylkill Haven
Tri Scrimmage-Tri Valley, Holy Name at North Schuylkill
Tamaqua at Hamburg
Northern Lehigh at Marian
Shenandoah Valley at Pine Grove
Minersville at Fleetwood-11 a.m.
Jim Thorpe at Notre Dame - Green Pond-11 a.m.
Bucktail at Nativity-Noon

BIG DIAMOND RESULTS

On a last lap restart, Ryan Godown of Ringoes, New Jersey moved into the race lead and captured his first 358 Modified feature victory of the season Friday night at Big Diamond Raceway. Craig Whitmoyer of Hamburg took the lead on lap 6 of the Sportsman feature and cruised to a dominant victory, his second of the season. Kevin Olenick of Forestville was victorious in the Roadrunner feature and Tom Hablett of Schuylkill Haven was the overall winner of the Roadrunner Kauffman’s BBQ Chicken Run Challenge Match Races.

NASCAR-Sprint Cup-Irwin Tools Night Race Lineup

Saturday 7:30 p.m. At Bristol Motor Speedway

(Car number in parentheses)
1. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 123.475.
2. (99) Carl Edwards, Ford, 122.937.
3. (20) Joey Logano, Toyota, 122.764.
4. (14) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, 122.584.
5. (00) David Reutimann, Toyota, 122.497.
6. (39) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 122.372.
7. (1) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 122.287.
8. (42) Juan Pablo Montoya, Chevrolet, 122.248.
9. (56) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota, 122.178.
10. (43) A J Allmendinger, Ford, 122.154.
11. (9) Kasey Kahne, Ford, 122.131.
12. (98) Paul Menard, Ford, 122.131.
13. (5) Mark Martin, Chevrolet, 122.022.
14. (17) Matt Kenseth, Ford, 121.999.
15. (12) Brad Keselowski, Dodge, 121.999.
16. (31) Jeff Burton, Chevrolet, 121.968.
17. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 121.952.
18. (83) Reed Sorenson, Toyota, 121.89.
19. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 121.867.
20. (2) Kurt Busch, Dodge, 121.813.
21. (16) Greg Biffle, Ford, 121.79.
22. (47) Marcos Ambrose, Toyota, 121.651.
23. (82) Scott Speed, Toyota, 121.512.
24. (33) Clint Bowyer, Chevrolet, 121.474.
25. (77) Sam Hornish Jr., Dodge, 121.466.
26. (24) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 121.42.
27. (88) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, 121.382.
28. (29) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 121.29.
29. (78) Regan Smith, Chevrolet, 121.274.
30. (09) Bobby Labonte, Chevrolet, 121.113.
31. (26) Jeff Green, Ford, 120.999.
32. (66) Scott Riggs, Toyota, 120.953.
33. (34) Travis Kvapil, Ford, 120.915.
34. (38) David Gilliland, Ford, 120.915.
35. (55) Michael McDowell, Toyota, 120.915.
36. (64) Todd Bodine, Toyota, 120.816.
37. (07) Robby Gordon, Toyota, 120.763.
38. (6) David Ragan, Ford, 120.71.
39. (37) Tony Raines, Ford, 119.678.
40. (7) Kevin Conway, Toyota, Owner Points.
41. (19) Elliott Sadler, Ford, Owner Points.
42. (71) Landon Cassill, Chevrolet, Owner Points.
43. (13) Casey Mears, Toyota, 120.664.

Failed to Qualify

44. (36) Dave Blaney, Chevrolet, 120.286.
45. (87) Joe Nemechek, Toyota, 120.241.
46. (4) Kevin Lepage, Chevrolet, 119.269.
47. (46) J.J. Yeley, Dodge, 118.863.
48. (92) Brian Keselowski, Dodge, 117.957.
49. (32) Mike Bliss, Toyota, 112.997.

LITTLE LEAGUE WORLD SERIES

SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (AP) - Blake Toler and Jake Orlando homered in the first inning and Pearland, Texas beat Plymouth, Minnesota, 10-8 at the Little League World Series yesterday. The home runs set the tone for Texas' offense, which scored eight runs in the first two innings and had four homers in the game at South Williamsport, Pennsylvania.

SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (AP) - Jack Quinn's two-run double broke a 1-1 tie in the bottom of the fifth as Fairfield, Connecticut, beat Auburn, Washington, 3-1 at the Little League World Series. Connecticut's first two runners in the fifth reached base on an error and walk before Quinn worked a 3-2 count in yesterday's game at South Williamsport, Pennsylvania.

Puerto Rico 11, Germany 0, 4 innings
Tokyo 4, Mexico 2

Saturday's Games

Toms River N.J. vs. Hamilton Ohio, 11 a.m.
Panama vs. British Columbia, 1 p.m.
Columbus Georgia vs. Waipahu Hawaii, 3 p.m.
Taiwan vs. Saudi Arabia, 6 p.m.
Auburn Washington vs. Plymouth Minnesota, 8 p.m.

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

NATIONAL LEAGUE

Friday's Games

Philadelphia 1, Washington 0

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Roy Halladay pitched seven shutout innings to lead the Philadelphia Phillies to a 1-0 victory over the Washington Nationals last night. The Phillies have won 13 of their last 17 games. They're 2 1/2 games behind the Braves in the NL East.

CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) - Authorities in Florida say Philadelphia Phillies' pitching prospect Tyson Gillies has been arrested for having cocaine. The Pinellas County Sheriff's Office says his
arrest today stemmed from an incident in June. He was released on $2,000 bond. The Phillies declined to comment.

N.Y. Mets 7, Pittsburgh 2

PITTSBURGH (AP) - David Wright and Jose Reyes each had three of the Mets' slump-ending 15 hits to lead the team past the Pittsburgh Pirates 7-2 last night. Mike Pelfrey pitched eight innings and New York assured the Pirates of their record-extending 18th consecutive losing season.

PITTSBURGH (AP) - Pittbsurgh Pirates president Frank Coonelly says he expects the team's payroll to increase next season - but not to the point where the last-place team can afford to sign a premium free agent. The Pirates began the season with a major league-low $34 million payroll, though Coonelly says the end-of-season figure will be about $44 million.

Atlanta 5, Chicago Cubs 3
Florida 9, Houston 0
Milwaukee 10, San Diego 6
San Francisco 6, St. Louis 3
Arizona 4, Colorado 3, 10 innings
Cincinnati 3, L.A. Dodgers 1

Saturday's Games

Atlanta (Hanson 8-8) at Chicago Cubs (Gorzelanny 6-7), 4:10 p.m.
N.Y. Mets (Niese 7-5) at Pittsburgh (Ja.McDonald 2-2), 7:05 p.m.
Washington (Strasburg 5-3) at Philadelphia (K.Kendrick 8-5), 7:05 p.m.
Houston (W.Rodriguez 9-11) at Florida (Volstad 6-9), 7:10 p.m.
San Diego (Correia 10-7) at Milwaukee (Narveson 9-7), 7:10 p.m.
San Francisco (Lincecum 11-7) at St. Louis (C.Carpenter 13-4), 7:15 p.m.
Colorado (Jimenez 17-3) at Arizona (Enright 3-2), 8:10 p.m.
Cincinnati (Cueto 11-3) at L.A. Dodgers (Billingsley 9-7), 10:10 p.m.

AMERICAN LEAGUE

Friday's Games

Detroit 6, Cleveland 0
Seattle 6, N.Y. Yankees 0
Texas 2, Baltimore 0
Toronto 16, Boston 2
Minnesota 7, L.A. Angels 2
Chicago White Sox at Kansas City, ppd., rain
Oakland 5, Tampa Bay 4

Saturday's Games

Seattle (J.Vargas 9-5) at N.Y. Yankees (Vazquez 9-9), 1:05 p.m.
L.A. Angels (T.Bell 1-3) at Minnesota (Slowey 11-5), 4:10 p.m.
Texas (Cl.Lee 10-6) at Baltimore (Bergesen 4-9), 4:10 p.m.
Cleveland (Tomlin 1-2) at Detroit (Scherzer 8-9), 7:05 p.m.
Chicago White Sox (F.Garcia 10-5) at Kansas City (Humber 0-0), 7:10 p.m., 1st game
Toronto (R.Romero 10-7) at Boston (Matsuzaka 8-4), 7:10 p.m.
Tampa Bay (Price 15-5) at Oakland (Bre.Anderson 3-4), 9:05 p.m.
Chicago White Sox (T.Pena 3-2) at Kansas City (Bullington 1-2), 10:40 p.m., 2nd game

NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE PRESEASON

Cincinnati 22 Philadelphia 9

CINCINNATI (AP) - Terrell Owens put some bite back into the Bengals' offense. Owens caught a 43-yard pass along the sideline, setting up the only touchdown by Cincinnati's starting offense last night in a 22-9 preseason victory over the Philadelphia Eagles.

Saturday's Games

Baltimore at Washington, 7 p.m.
Pittsburgh at N.Y. Giants, 7 p.m.
Miami at Jacksonville, 7:30 p.m.
St. Louis at Cleveland, 7:30 p.m.
Kansas City at Tampa Bay, 7:30 p.m.
N.Y. Jets at Carolina, 8 p.m.
Houston at New Orleans, 8 p.m.
Oakland at Chicago, 8 p.m.
Dallas at San Diego, 9 p.m.
Detroit at Denver, 9 p.m.
Green Bay at Seattle, 10 p.m.

WOMEN'S NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION

Friday's Games

Washington 75 New York 74
San Antonio 75 Indiana 61
Connecticut 78 Chicago 71
Seattle 78 Phoenix 73
Los Angeles 98 Minnesota 91