Angels draft
SSU’s McGowin
LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Savannah State pitcher Kyle McGowin was selected as the 157th pick in the fifth round of the Major League Baseball Draft by the Los Angeles Angels on Friday.
McGowin was the Angels’ fourth pick in the draft and third right-handed pitcher. The Angels also picked up 17-year-old southpaw Hunter Green out of Kentucky in the first round. L.A. grabbed RHP Keynan Middleton and RHP Elliot Morris prior to drafting McGowin.
The 6-foot-3, 180-pound, Sag Harbor, N.Y., native, pitched the Tigers to their first Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Championship in May, and the program’s first Division I NCAA Regional bid.
McGowin was named the MEAC Pitcher of the Year after ending the regular season with an 1.49 ERA in 96 1/3 innings pitched and a 12-1 record. He led the MEAC in strikeouts (111) and wins, and was ranked sixth nationally after the end of the regular season.
McGowin is the third SSU player to be drafted. In 2003, Jeff Urgelles was drafted by the Cincinnati Reds in the 26th round. Clay Cleveland was also picked up by the Reds in the 2003 draft, going in the 39th round.
Police arrest
UNC’s Hairston
DURHAM, N.C. — Officers seized a 9mm handgun and ammunition when North Carolina’s leading scorer, P.J. Hairston, was arrested on a marijuana possession charge, according to a police report released Friday.
Durham police stopped Hairston on Wednesday for a routine license check during which he was arrested. Police spokeswoman Kammie Michael says the pistol was found on the ground outside the rented 2013 GMC Yukon during the search. Also seized were three cigars and two plastic baggies containing more than 1 1/2 ounces of marijuana.
Hairston, 20, and his passengers — Miykael Lael Israel Faulcon, 20, and Carlos Devone Sanford, 23, both of Durham — were each charged with possession of less than one-half ounce and released on $1,000 unsecured bonds.
Faulcon is a basketball player at Elizabeth City State University.
No occupation was listed for Sanford.
on the police or arrest reports.
Michael said Hairston was also charged with driving without a license, though that charge wasn’t listed in records on file at the Durham County courthouse.
PSU officials lose appeals
HARRISBURG, Pa. — The state’s highest court on Friday turned down appeals by two of the three former Penn State administrators facing criminal charges alleging they covered up child abuse complaints against former football assistant coach Jerry Sandusky.
The state Supreme Court issued a pair of unsigned orders that denied petitions for review filed by former university vice president Gary Schultz and former athletic director Tim Curley.
The court orders say the justices were not preventing the two men from raising the same issue during their criminal prosecution.
Curley and Schultz filed the sealed appeals after the grand jury supervisory judge ruled in April that he did not have jurisdiction to consider their request to have charges thrown out. At issue was the role played in their prosecution by Penn State’s then-general counsel, Cynthia Baldwin, who accompanied them to grand jury appearances.
Precisely what they argued is unclear, however, because all of the documents in the Supreme Court appeal were sealed.