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Scrappers’ Hernandez spent years taking chances

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At 20-years-old, Julian Hernandez is easily the youngest player on the Mahoning Valley Scrappers roster. Hernandez is also the only player on the Scrappers roster without any college baseball experience. Yet despite his youth, Hernandez came to the MLB Draft League with an impressive resume. A native of Venezuela, Hernandez and his family moved to Miami when he was 8-years-old. By then, he was already “totally in love” with baseball. He described the game as not only the national pastime of Venezuela, but “an obsession” throughout the entire country. Hernandez brought ...

High School Sports Roundup from Aug. 25

High School Sports

BOYS GOLF The South Range boys golf team hosted an invitational tournament at the Youngstown Country Club on Wednesday. Tyler Guerrieri from Cardinal Mooney led all golfers with a score of 73. Guerrieri’s score helped lead Mooney (Mason McClure 79, Michael Kravec 85, Andrew Bushey 93, Christian Stamp 100) to first overall as a team with a score of 330. Canfield Black placed second, led by Danny Chaplow with a 74 and Columbiana took third place with an 80 from Trenton Hall. 19 teams competed in total. The top scorers from each team outside of the top three include: Andrew Wludgya 76 ...

Canfield overcomes slow start to beat Cardinal Mooney

High School Sports

CANFIELD — A week after earning a clean sheet in its first match of the season, Canfield finished with another clean sheet in its second win, a 2-0 victory vs. visiting Cardinal Mooney on Tuesday. After more than 25 minutes of a 0-0 stalemate, Canfield, much to the pleasure of head coach ...

Thompson sees path to win with Miami

National Sports

MIAMI — Klay Thompson says he already feels right at home in Miami, and there are reasons why that makes perfect sense. Mychal Thompson, his father, starred for a team that won a high school state title at Miami Jackson High in 1974. Mychel Thompson, his brother, went to the same high school in Oregon that Heat coach Erik Spoelstra attended. He’s never had a chance to live this close to the many relatives he has in the nearby Bahamas. And if all that wasn’t enough, the news conference where Thompson was getting introduced Tuesday as the newest Heat player started a bit late ...