Sports briefs

CH football has schedule change

The Central Heights High School football team’s scheduled game with Uniontown in the season opener has been pushed back a day with a change of venue.

The game, originally scheduled for Thursday, Sept. 4, at Ottawa University’s Peoples Bank Field, will be 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 5, at Central Heights.

Scramble to benefit White family

A four-person scramble will benefit the family of Rodney “Hot Rod” White, the five year old son of Dana and Scott White who is battling cancer.

The golf tournament will be Sept. 14 at Lamont Hills at Lake Pomona. The fee is $160 per team. Food will be available and golfers need to call (785) 828-3131 for carts.

For more information, call Denise or Dwayne Woods at (785) 418-1790 or (785) 242-7074.

OHS coaches to have softball clinic

Ottawa High School softball coaches Corey Katzer and JR Daugharthy will have a softball clinic 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday for girls ages 8 to 12 years old at Orlis Cox field 7.

This is a free clinic and will focus on fielding, hitting and pitching. For more information, call (785) 242-8019.

Foursome wins senior scramble

The foursome of Ned Parker, Karon Crosby, Eldon McCurdy and Dick Potter shot a minus-5 to win Monday’s senior scramble at Hickory Hollow. John Lovgren (No. 3) and Lynn Willhite (No. 7) were closest to the pin winners.

KU’s Reesing on Camp list

LAWRENCE — University of Kansas junior quarterback Todd Reesing is one of 35 players Monday named to the 2008 Walter Camp Player of the Year watch list. The award is the nation’s fourth-oldest individual college football honor.

Reesing set 21 school records last year en route to throwing for 3,486 yards and 33 touchdowns in his first year as a starter. He was an All-Big 12 second team selection in 2007 while leading the Jayhawks to a 12-1 record.

This preseason, Reesing has already been named to the Maxwell Award and Davey O’Brien Award lists. The Maxwell is given to the nation’s top player, while the O’Brien honor is awarded to the country’s top quarterback.

Among his school records are career marks for passing yards per game (230.6), 300-yard passing games (five) and touchdown passes (36). In 2007 he set KU season bests in a number of categories, including completions percentage (61.9 percent), passing yards (3,486), 300-yard passing games (five) and 200-yard passing games (10).

His 213 consecutive pass attempts without an interception late last year not only set a Kansas record, but a Big 12 mark as well.

U.S. women advance to semifinals

BEIJING (AP) — Sylvia Fowles scored 26 points and grabbed 14 rebounds to help the U.S. women’s basketball team beat South Korea 104-60 on Tuesday night and advance to the semifinals.

The Americans will face either Russia or Spain in the semis Thursday night.

China plays Australia in the other semifinal.

The U.S., which has now won 31 straight Olympic games, led by four after the first quarter before Fowles took over on both ends of the court. She keyed a 18-4 run to start the second period, dominating both ends of the floor.