{"id":73082,"date":"2016-02-03T09:16:29","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T14:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=73082"},"modified":"2016-02-03T09:16:29","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T14:16:29","slug":"ohio-sports-roundup-2316","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2016\/02\/03\/ohio-sports-roundup-2316\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio Sports Roundup 2\/3\/16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Associated Press sports information<\/em><\/p>\n<p>EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) \u2014 The Edmonton Oilers beat the Columbus Blue Jackets 5-1 last night to end a three-game skid. Connor McDavid had a goal and two assists for the Oilers in his return from a nearly three-month absence. Matt Calvert scored for the Blue Jackets, and Columbus had a two-game winning streak come to an end.<\/p>\n<p>CLEVELAND (AP) \u2014 The Cleveland Browns are close to releasing troubled quarterback Johnny Manziel&#8217;s, whose problems off the field have undermined their organization. New football head Sashi Brown says Manziel&#8217;s status with the team will be addressed when permitted by the NFL. Manziel was involved in a possible assault on his ex-girlfriend in Texas last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 The second leg of the United States&#8217; Olympic men&#8217;s soccer qualifying playoff against Colombia will be played March 29th at Frisco, Texas. The home-and-home, total-goals playoff opens March 25th at Barranquilla, Colombia, the U.S. Soccer Federation said Tuesday. The March 29th match will be part of a television doubleheader on ESPN2, with the Olympic playoff following the Americans&#8217; World Cup qualifier against Guatemala at Columbus, Ohio.<\/p>\n<p>ATHENS (AP) \u2014 In college men&#8217;s basketball, Akron pulled away late from the free throw line to beat Ohio, 80-68 last night. Josh Williams scored 20 points. The Zips grabbed the lead five minutes in and never relinquished it, but had trouble pulling away.<\/p>\n<p>TOLEDO (AP) \u2014 Toledo dominated Western Michigan in an 89-62 win last night. Jonathan Williams scored 24 points with three 3-pointers. Nathan Boothe scored 16 points and grabbed 10 rebounds, Jordan Lauf had 12, Nate Navigato added 12 \u2014 all on 3-pointers \u2014 and Zach Garber had a career-high 11 boards. Stuckey Mosley made a career-high nine assists for the Rockets.<\/p>\n<p>BOWLING GREEN (AP) \u2014 Ball State rallied from 13 down in the second half to beat Bowling Green 72-64 last night. Franko House and Francis Kiapway scored 16 points apiece for Ball State. Zack Denny made four 3-pointers and finished with 20 points and 13 rebounds to lead Bowling Green.<\/p>\n<p>YPSILANTI, Mich. (AP) \u2014 Eastern Michigan beat Miami (Ohio) 94-69 last night to snap a five-game skid. Raven Lee made nine 3-pointers and scored 46 points \u2014 both career highs \u2014 for Eastern Michigan. Chris Bryant scored a career-high 18 for Miami (Ohio).<\/p>\n<p>MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. (AP) \u2014 Central Michigan shot better than 60 percent from the field and rode a big second half to an 88-61 victory over Kent State last night. Josh Kozinski scored 17 points and led six players into double-figure scoring for Central Michigan. Jimmy Hall&#8217;s 24 points and nine rebounds paced Kent State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associated Press sports information EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) \u2014 The Edmonton Oilers beat the Columbus Blue Jackets 5-1 last night to end a three-game skid. Connor McDavid had a goal and two assists for the Oilers in his return from a nearly three-month absence. Matt Calvert scored for the Blue Jackets, and Columbus had a two-game [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-22 05:23:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}