Sumter baseball falls to Dreher in tournament championship

CAMDEN - The Sumter High School baseball team lost to Dreher 4-0 in the championship game of the Kershaw Richland County Spring Break Tournament on Wednesday at the Camden High field.

The Blue Devils scored single runs in the first and fourth innings and put the game away with two runs in the sixth.

The Gamecocks, who fell to 7-8 on the season, finished with six hits. Sean Rouse and Austin Trapp both went 2-for-3. Rouse also had a stolen base.

Clayton Goff took the loss, working four innings. He allowed two runs, both of them earned. He gave up four hits and two walks while striking out two.

Trapp pitched the final three innings, allowing two earned runs. He gave up three hits, but no walks, and struck out two.

Former associate AD suing LSU

BATON ROUGE, La. - In a $50 million federal racketeering lawsuit, an associate athletic director at Louisiana State University accuses university officials of retaliating against her for reporting racist remarks and inappropriate sexual behavior by former head football coach Les Miles.

Sharon Lewis' lawsuit said she was denied pay raises and subjected to verbal abuse after going to officials with the allegations against Miles - including her accusation that he told her there were "too many Black girls" employed in athletics and an incident when a female student accused him of "getting on top of her" on his office couch. It also accuses LSU officials of working with a law firm to cover up allegations against Miles, including one that he engaged in "explicit sex acts" with a student.

"This lawsuit is a work of fiction eight years in the making," Miles' attorney, Peter Ginsberg, said in an emailed statement. Miles has denied allegations he made sexual advances toward students.

Lewis, a former LSU track and field star, is the associate athletic director for football recruiting and alumni relations at LSU. Her lawsuit, filed in Baton Rouge, is the latest blow to the university after an independent investigator determined the school mishandled allegations of sexual misconduct by student athletes and Miles.

French Open delayed

PARIS - For the second year in a row, the traditional French Open schedule is being disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic.

The clay-court Grand Slam tennis tournament said Thursday it will push back the start of this season's event by one week because of surging virus cases in France.

"This postponement will give us a little more time to improve the health situation and should allow us to optimize our chances of welcoming spectators at Roland Garros," said Gilles Moretton, the president of the French tennis federation. "Whether for the fans, the players or the atmosphere, crowd presence is essential to the tournament, the first international sporting event of the spring."

The French Open was scheduled to start on May 23, but first-round matches will now get underway on May 30.