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MANSFIELD — Sam Sharik had two goals and Tyler Lesh and Noah Phillips each scored one as the Lima Senior boys soccer team opened its season Saturday with a 4-0 victory against Mansfield Senior.
Ottoville 7, Spencerville 0
OTTOVILLE Ryan Suever had two goals and Evan Boecker, Carson Stoner , Jaden Schnipke, Drew Fisher and Josh Sarka tallied one each.
Elida 6, Miller City 0
ELIDA — Draek Littler had two goals and Jake Taylor, Cody Gay, Seth Mahlmeister and Corbin Fingerle scored one each.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Trevor Bauer pitched 6 1/3 innings as the Cleveland Indians beat the Kansas City Royals 5-0 on Saturday night.
Bauer (12-8) won his fifth straight decision — the longest winning streak of his career that started after a July 17 loss. He gave up seven hits, walked two and struck out four.
Relievers Bryan Shaw and Cody Allen did not allow a hit over the final 2 2/3 innings to complete the shutout.

ATLANTA — Scooter Gennett hit a grand slam and the Cincinnati Reds beat struggling Julio Teheran and the Atlanta Braves 11-8 on Saturday night.
Teheran, expected to be the Braves’ ace for a fifth straight year, set an Atlanta record by losing his ninth straight home decision. He dropped to 1-9 with a 6.98 ERA in 13 starts at SunTrust Park.

Last week wasn’t the first time Josh Mandel has been in West Central Ohio seeking campaign donations from wealthy Republicans. It was, however, the first time he arrived with a heavyweight such as U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz at his side.
Clearly, the national Republican Party has hung a target on the back of Sherrod Brown, the state’s longtime U.S. senator and ultra-liberal Democrat.

CINCINNATI — Rookie Patrick Mahomes threw a pair of touchdown passes, solidifying his spot as the Chiefs’ primary backup, and three Kansas City quarterbacks threw for a score on Saturday night during a 30-12 victory over the Cincinnati Bengals.
Kansas City (1-1) got a lot to like out of its offense overall and its top pick in particular.

I read with interest Larry Donaldson’s crie d’ coeur regarding the awfulness of Republicans in general and Donald Trump in particular. If Larry’s views are a bit outside the political mainstream, it must be understood that as a union official at the Lima Tank Plant, he spent years marinating in the intellectual sludge spewed out by the UAW International.

DAILY (Saturday)
Pick 3: 7-9-7 day; 2-3-0 night
Pick 4: 4-2-0-2 day; 0-7-8-6 night
Pick 5: 9-7-9-2-8 day; 1-5-8-1-3 night
Rolling Cash 5: 6-16-17-24-25
CLASSIC (Saturday): 25-26-28-32-36-38
KICKER: 047994
Next Jackpot: $18.1 million
LUCKY FOR LIFE (Thursday): 12-17-31-36-37
Lucky Ball: 9
POWERBALL (Wednesday): 9-15-43-60-64
Powerball: 4
Power Play: 3
Next Jackpot: $535 million
MEGA MILLIONS (Friday): 1-31-34-40-75
Mega Ball: 6
Megaplier: 3
Next Est. Jackpot: $25 million

LIMA — The Allen County Fair pleased a massive crowd of country fans Saturday with a country music concert featuring Neal McCoy and Dustin Lynch.
The grandstand and band pit were filled with country music lovers as McCoy went on first. Lynch followed him at around 9 p.m. and fans watched in anticipation as instruments for the country star were set up on stage and the smoke machine came on.

It’s not often — actually, it’s never happened before — that a Republican president gets dissed and dumped by corporate titans like Dow, Merck, Campbell Soup, the Blackstone Group, 3M, Intel, Ernst & Young, JP Morgan Chase, Johnson & Johnson, General Motors, PepsiCo, and IBM.

Many were not surprised by the prompt verdict Monday in the sexual-assault case in Denver involving Taylor Swift. A jury of six women and two men concluded within hours that a Denver radio host had groped Swift — grabbed her butt beneath her skirt during a photo shoot, as his wife stood on the other side of Swift.