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NASCAR-Xfinity Call811.com Before You Dig. 250 Results

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 19:52:24 GMT

SaturdayAt Martinsville SpeedwayRidgeway, Va.Lap length: 0.53 miles(Start position in parentheses)1. (2) John H. Nemechek, Toyota, 250 laps, 60 points.2. (7) Sammy Smith, Toyota, 250, 51.3. (1) Cole Custer, Ford, 250, 50.4. (6) Josh Berry, Chevrolet, 250, 42.5. (10) Brandon Jones, Chevrolet, 250, 38.6. (8) Justin Allgaier, Chevrolet, 250, 36.7. (13) Daniel Hemric, Chevrolet, 250, 40.8. (12) Derek Kraus, Chevrolet, 250, 30.9. (16) Brett Moffitt, Ford, 250, 28.10. (11) Chandler Smith, Chevrolet, 250, 32.11. (4) Parker Retzlaff, Chevrolet, 250, 28.12. (14) Ryan Truex, Toyota, 250, 29.13. (23) Blaine Perkins, Chevrolet, 250, 24.14. (31) Jeb Burton, Chevrolet, 250, 23.15. (19) Kaz Grala, Toyota, 250, 22.16. (15) Austin Hill, Chevrolet, 250, 21.17. (21) Parker Kligerman, Chevrolet, 250, 20.18. (17) Ryan Sieg, Ford, 250, 19.19. (20) Josh Williams, Chevrolet, 250, 18.20. (25) Jeffrey Earnhardt, Chevrolet, 250, 17.21. (36) Patrick Emerling, Ford, 250, 16.22. (26) Matt Mills, Chevrolet, 250, ...

NYCFC starts fast, holds off Nashville 2-1

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 19:52:24 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Keaton Parks and Maxime Chanot scored first-half goals to lead New York City FC to a 2-1 victory over Nashville SC on Saturday night.Parks gave NYCFC (3-2-3) an early lead when he took a pass from Mitja Ilenic and scored in the 14th minute.Chanot — with an assist from Richard Ledezma — scored in the 25th minute to send NYCFC into halftime with a 2-0 lead. Hany Mukhtar scored unassisted in the 81st minute to get Nashville (3-3-2) within a goal. It was just the second goal this season for the reigning MVP. The Golden Boot winner had a league-high 23 goals last season.Nashville got off one more shot than NYCFC with both clubs taking six on target. Luis Barraza finished with five saves for NYCFC. Joe Willis had four saves for Nashville.Nashville came into the match 2-0-1 all-time versus NYCFC. Nashville was attempting to become the sixth team to open a season with six shutouts in its first eight matches.Nashville returns home to host defending-champion LAFC on Saturday. ...

Ataque armado deja siete muertos en balneario de Guanajuato, México

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 19:52:24 GMT

(CNN Español) — Al menos siete personas murieron -entre ellas un menor de edad- y una más resultó lesionada este sábado en un ataque armado llevado a cabo en el balneario “La Palma”, en el municipio de Cortazar, en Guanajuato, en el centro de México, informó en un comunicado el Gobierno Municipal.“Elementos del Sistema de seguridad municipal arribaron al lugar donde encontraron casquillos percutidos y 3 mujeres sin vida, 3 hombres y 1 menor de 7 años de edad”, se explicó en el comunicado.Crédito: CNNEUna persona más -que presentaba lesiones de gravedad- fue trasladada a un hospital, explicó la municipalidad.Según el Gobierno Municipal, un testigo dijo que los sujetos llegaron armados al lugar a perpetrar el ataque y que, antes de marcharse, dañaron la tienda del balneario y se llevaron las cámaras y un monitor de seguridad del establecimiento.En el comunicado se explicó que se ha desplegado un operativo en la zona con fuerzas de seguridad pública y todavía no se re...

Nemechek dominates Xfinity Series race at Martinsville

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 19:52:24 GMT

MARTINSVILLE, Va. (AP) — John Hunter Nemechek held off Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Sammy Smith on Saturday night at Martinsville Speedway to secure his second win of the season in the NASCAR Xfinity Series.Nemechek dominated the race, leading 198 of the 250 laps at the paperclip-shaped half-mile racetrack.Smith finished second, followed by Cole Custer, Josh Berry and Brandon Jones.The only real drama came when Nemechek set the back of the car on fire during a lengthy burnout after crossing the finish line, forcing workers to use fire extinguishers. The fire left burn marks on the racetrack.“I can’t say enough about this team,” Nemechek said of his fourth career Xfinity Series win. “If you would have asked me yesterday, I would have said we were a 10th-place team. But our guys really made some great adjustments.”No Cup Series drivers participated because it was a Dash for Cash race, which Nemechek was eligible for and cashed in on winning $100,000.Nemechek and his No. 20 Toyota w...

Montreal suffers third straight shutout in loss to DC United

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 19:52:24 GMT

MONTREAL (AP) — Lewis O’Brien scored unassisted in the first minute of the second half to spark D.C. United to a 1-0 victory over CF Montreal on Saturday night.Tyler Miller finished with two saves to earn the clean sheet and help DC United (2-4-2) win for just the second time in its last 14 road matches.Montreal (1-6-0) has dropped three straight and been outscored 11-0. Montreal has scored just three goals this season and they all came in a 3-2 victory over the Philadelphia Union in mid-March. The club entered play with a minus-13 goal differential — the worst through six matches in league history.Montreal had an 11-7 advantage in shots with both teams taking two on target.Jonathan Sirois had one save for Montreal.Montreal swept DC United last season and was trying to make it three straight for the first time.DC United travels to play Orlando City on Saturday. Montreal will host the New York Red Bulls on Saturday.____AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccer and https://twitte...

Murphy and Albies each have 4 RBIs as Braves beat Royals 9-3

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 19:52:24 GMT

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Sean Murphy homered among his three hits and drove in four runs, Ozzie Albies also had four RBIs, and the Atlanta Braves beat the Kansas City Royals 9-3 on Saturday night.Murphy had RBI doubles in the first and third innings, a solo homer in the fifth and a bases-loaded walk in the eighth. The homer went 395 feet over the left field fence for his third of the season and his second consecutive game. In the first two games of this series, he is 5 for 7 with two homers and seven RBIs.“Getting hit is always good, but doing it early and just showing the rest of the guys that you belong with them,” Murphy said. “It’s going well right now but just trying to stay consistent. I’ve been just trying to do my thing and not take too much stock in whatever pressure is coming from the outside.”Albies had a two-run double in the third inning opening up a four-run lead early in the game. In the eighth inning, he singled in two more runs to put the game out of reac...

George Washington University board says some GWPD officers will begin carrying firearms

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 19:52:24 GMT

Interim George Washington University President Mark Wrighton announced in a letter on Thursday that the Board of Trustees has directed the university to equip specially trained GW Police Department officers with firearms.Wrighton said the board has come to this decision “after more than a year of careful consideration and deliberation, review of safety data and best practices, and input from experts.”He also said the board partly made this decision in response to “too many tragic instances of mass gun violence in communities and on college campuses.” He cited the recent shootings at Michigan State University and the University of Virginia and that there “have been more than 140 mass shootings already in 2023,” according to the Gun Violence Archive.Wrighton also referenced the university’s setting in the middle of a densely populated city and how unarmed GWPD officers cannot respond to life-threatening incidents when weapons are involved. He ...

Zawadzki scores late, pulls Crew to 1-1 draw with Revolution

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 19:52:24 GMT

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Sean Zawadzki scored late in stoppage time to pull the Columbus Crew into a 1-1 draw with the New England Revolution on Saturday night. The Revolution (5-1-2) went ahead on an own-goal in the 58th minute then played the final 25 minutes down a man after Dylan Borrero was sent off with his second yellow card. The Crew (4-2-2) have not lost a match at Lower.com Field this season, but the draw snapped a three-game winning streak. Defender Milos Degenek gave the Revs the goal. The last five meetings between the two teams have been draws. Only three other series between two teams have gone to five straight ties in MLS history. New England, coming off a 4-0 victory over Montreal last weekend, has won five of their first eight games this season. New England had an opportunity in the 42nd minute with a free kick just outside of the 18-yard box, but Carles Gil’s attempt went over the goal. ___More AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccer and https://twitter.com/AP...

April snowfall makes for a snow-covered final weekend at Eldora Mountain

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 19:52:24 GMT

BOULDER COUNTY, Colo. (KDVR) -- A higher-than-average snowpack has been good to ski areas around the state.The latest round of snowfall was a welcome sight for the Eldora Ski Mountain Resort, which will close for the season on Sunday."Snow coverage was decent all year long, we never got a big, whopping storm but we had a great, consistent coverage, two to three inches every couple of days," Sam Bass, at Eldora, said.That was enough snowfall to mark the end of a good year at the ski resort."It was better than last year," Bass said. "I think we ended up totaling about 200 inches, just over 200 inches this year. Last year was a little closer to 150." Moffat County declares disaster emergency ahead of expected flooding The state saw 130% more snowpack than usual, all of it amounting to a longer-than-usual ski season, Eldora included."We opened earlier than we thought we were going to be able to because we had some nice, cold weather and we were able to make some snow," Bass said.This ...

Loveland Ski patrollers form union for first time ever

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 19:52:24 GMT

SUMMIT COUNTY, Colo. (KDVR) -- Ski patrollers and paramedics at Loveland Ski Area voted to unionize with CWA 7781, the United Professional Ski Patrols of America, an organization supporting hundreds of ski patrollers.    This marks the first time in the 85 year-history of Loveland Ski Area that patrollers have formed a union. Kevin Donaldson has been a key contributor in the push for unionization. He’s been a ski patroller at Loveland Ski Area for seven seasons. “It’s a really exciting time at Loveland,” Donaldson said. “We created a dialogue and now we have that voice with management and amongst our peers.” More than 70% of patrollers and paramedics at Loveland Ski Area signed the petition to unionize which was submitted on Feb. 14. The results were finalized on Friday, April 14.  April snowfall makes for a snow-covered final weekend at Eldora Mountain “We’re all sort of one now, one collective group of people that are going to have that voice to express what we wa...