C2 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 2012 SCOREBOARD LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER | KENTUCKY.COM NFL POWER 9, LEGENDS 7 Bengals’ Hall says recovery from injury ahead of schedule Legends fight from behind, come up short Special to the Herald-Leader Bengals cornerback Leon Hall will be limited to working on WEDNESDAY Johnson in HR Derby POWER 9, LEGENDS 7 The Lexington Legends the side during the Bengals’ three-day mini-camp that opened on West Virginia Power at Legends Zachary Johnson will be WEST VIRGINIA LEXINGTON collected 11 hits but couldn’t ab r h bi ab r h bi Tuesday at Paul Brown Stadium. Hall tore the left Achilles tendon on one of 10 players in the Miller overcome a 6-1 deficit in a When: 7:05 p.m. Hanson ss 4 1 2 0 DeShields 2b 4 2 2 2 Nov. 13, leaving questions about whether he’d be ready for the start High Life Home Run Derby as Singer 3b 3 0 1 1 Scott lf 3 0 0 1 9-7 loss to the West Virginia Pitchers: Power, Dodson (1-1); Polanco cf 4 1 0 0 Johnson dh 5 1 4 3 of the 2012 season. part of South Atlantic League But Hall has been running forward and backward without prob- Power on Tuesday night at Legends, Foltynewicz (8-1) Garcia lf 4 2 3 3 Gominsky pr-dh All-Star game festivities in Osuna 1b 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 lem, regaining his leg strength and flexibility faster than expected. Whitaker Bank Ballpark. Radio: WLXG-AM 1300 Charleston, S.C., next week. Lashmet dh 4 1 1 0 Duffy 3b 5 0 3 0 Instead of setting the opening game as the target for his return, The Legends, who won the Diaz c 5 2 2 1 Kvasnicka rf 5 0 0 0 The first round of the con- Mesa rf 3 1 1 0 Muren cf 5 0 0 0 Hall said he thinks he can be ready to take the first snap in practice opening game of the series on Sosa ph-rf 1 0 0 0 Wierzbicki 1b 5 1 1 1 when training camp opens on July 27. Monday, trailed the whole of the season. test will take place Monday, Aponte 2b 3 1 2 1 Pena c 4 1 1 0 Gamache ph-2b Howick ss 3 2 0 0 “Considering how I feel in mid-June, I feel like I will be OK,” Hall game after the Power jumped But the Power scored three June 18, on the deck of the said, after emerging from the trainer’s room. 1 0 1 1 out to a 3-0 lead in the third more in the top of the eighth USS Yorktown, which is sta- Totals 36 9 13 6 Totals 39 7 11 7 If the 27-year-old cornerback is fully recovered, the Bengals will inning. Willy Garcia had an to push their lead to 9-5. tioned in Charleston Harbor. West Virginia .........102 300 030—9 be in much better shape to make another run at the playoffs. The The championship round Lexington ............001 110 220—7 RBI single in the first and a The Legends weren’t E—Hanson (25), Aponte (3), DeShields (13). secondary struggled after Hall got hurt. Even though Cincinnati will be Tuesday, June 19, at Jo- made the playoffs as a wild-card team, the Bengals lost a first- two-run homer in the third. through yet, though. Delino DP—Lexington 1. 2B—Hanson (20), Diaz (8), seph P. Riley Jr. Park, home of Pena (8). HR—Garcia (9), Wierzbicki (1), Z. John- round game at Houston to finish 9-8. Lexington got one run back DeShields’ two-out double in son (10). SF—Singer, Scott. SB—Hanson (17), The Bengals took cornerback Dre Kirkpatrick in the first round, in the bottom of the third on the bottom of the eighth cut the Charleston RiverDogs and DeShields 3 (41), Scott (9). CS—Polanco (6). site of the All-Star game. West Virginia IP H R ER BB SO hoping he can team with Hall at cornerback at some point this Power shortstop Alen Han- the deficit to two. 1 Kingham 4 /3 4 3 3 2 2 Johnson, DeShields, Duffy 2 season. Hall’s progress could allow them to become a tandem at son’s 25th error of the season. Lexington threatened to Singh W, 2-1 2 /3 3 2 0 0 2 the start of training camp. But West Virginia responded score in the bottom of the and Legends pitchers Mike R. Kilcrease 1 2 2 2 1 2 “Leon has done very well,” Coach Marvin Lewis said. “He has N. Kilcrease S, 2 1 2 0 0 0 1 with three more runs in the ninth. Johnson led off with Foltynewicz, Carlos Quevedo, Lexington exceeded expectations by far. He’s done well. He’s excited with top of the fourth. a single and Matt Duffy fol- Nick Tropeano and Jason Tropeano L, 5-4 4 8 6 5 2 2 where he is. What he hasn’t had to do is the day-to-day stuff — how Garcia 3 2 1 1 0 2 The Legends trimmed into Chowning were all named All- many snaps, how many plays. lowed with another base hit. Quevedo 1 3 2 2 1 2 Stars. Chowning, a Louisville Pettus 1 0 0 0 2 2 “He’s been impressive, but we expected that from Leon. That the Power’s 6-1 lead with runs But Power reliever Nathan native, was later promoted to WP—R. Kilcrease, Tropeano, Quevedo, Pettus. doesn’t surprise anybody.” in the fourth and fifth and two Kilcrease worked out of the Bk—Pettus. Ejection—Power Manager Rick Sofield ■ How has Peyton Manning’s arrival affected his teammates in more in the seventh on Zach- jam for his second save of the High-A Lancaster and will not by home-plate umpire Drew Maher (9th). participate. Umpires—Home, Maher; First, Junior Valentine. Denver? Veteran running back Willis McGahee said: “I’m not going ary Johnson’s 10th home run season. T—3:15. A—3,970. to sit here and lie to you, I really haven’t been going to (organized team activities), so it’s very much different for me. I’ve been here and participating a lot more than I have in my whole career.” NASCAR Transactions WEDNESDAY’S LINEUP BASEBALL Focus on: Golf this week Busch keeps ride with Phoenix Racing American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES—Activated U.S. GOLF ASSOCIATION TV, radio Kurt Busch will return to Phoenix Racing when his one-week 2B Brian Roberts from the 60-day DL. U.S. OPEN BASEBALL NASCAR suspension ends Wednesday. Busch met Tuesday with Transferred OF Nolan Reimold to the Where: San Francisco team owner James Finch, and the duo agreed to move forward to 60-day DL. Optioned SS Steve Tolleson 7 p.m. MLB: Yankees at Braves ESPN to Norfolk (IL). When: Thursday-Sunday this weekend’s race at Michigan International Speedway. CLEVELAND INDIANS—Acquired Course: The Olympic Club, Lake Course (7,170 7:05 p.m. SAL: West Virginia at Lexington WLXG-AM 1300 “At the end of the day, we are racers so we’re going racing RHP Esmil Rogers from Colorado for yards, par 70) 7:10 p.m. MLB: Indians at Reds FS Ohio, WVLK-FM 101.5 together with Kurt and the No. 51 Phoenix Racing Chevrolet,” Finch cash considerations. Designated C Purse: TBA ($7.85 million in 2011) Luke Carlin for assignment. BASKETBALL said in a statement. “We know adjustments have to be made but CHICAGO WHITE SOX—Agreed to Winner’s share: TBA ($1.44 million in 2011) how we fix that is between Kurt and myself. We’re going to go to the terms with 1B Keon Barnum, 2B Joey TV: ESPN (1-3 p.m., 5-10 p.m. Thursday-Friday; 8 p.m. WNBA: Los Angeles at Connecticut ESPN2 DeMichele, SS Nick Basto, RHP An- noon-2 p.m. for Monday playoff, if necessary); NBC-18 track, work hard, race hard and work on trying to attract a sponsor CYCLING — and we’re going to do that together.” thony Bucciferro, 1B Alex Williams, (3-5 p.m. Thursday-Friday; 4-10 p.m. Saturday-Sunday; RHP Adam Lopez, OF Kale Kiser, 2B 5 p.m. Tour de Suisse: stage 5 (taped) NBC Sports Busch’s status with Finch seemed shaky following his one-week Eric Grabe, RHP Storm Throne, RHP 2 p.m.-conclusion for Monday playoff, if necessary) suspension for verbally abusing a media member. Finch indicated James Hudelson, SS Jake Brown, 3B Last year: Rory McIlroy won at Congressional in HORSE RACING in several interviews his patience was being tested by the 2004 Corey Thompson and 3B Steve Nikorak Bethesda, Md., shattering the tournament scoring 12:45 p.m. Live racing begins TVG NASCAR champion. Busch landed with Phoenix Racing in Decem- and assigned them to Bristol (APPY). records at 16-under 268. He shot 65-66-68-69 for an Agreed to terms with RHP Chris Beck, eight-stroke victory. McIlroy became the second player SOCCER ber after parting ways from Penske Racing because of a series of RHP Brandon Brennan, RHP Zach Isler, from Northern Ireland to win the event in three years, 11:45 a.m. UEFA Euro 2012: Denmark vs. Portugal ESPN incidents mainly related to Busch’s temper. In signing to drive for 2B Micah Johnson, RHP Brandon Har- din, 1B Abe Ruiz, 3B Thomas McCarthy, following Graeme McDowell in 2010 at Pebble Beach.