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Logan Hill is heading home. Happily.

The former Jackson High hoops standout is transferring from Toledo to Mount Union, giving Purple Raiders coach Mike Fuline a dynamic inside presence for the next three years.

When asked if he was excited about Hill’s decision, Fuline shouted, ”(Heck) yes, brother! Come on, man. This is huge.”

A's extended their winning streak to five games with a 5-3 win over the Cleveland Indians on Tuesday night. Pinch-hitter Mark Canha replaced Davis in the third inning and connected on a two-run homer off struggling Cleveland starter Trevor Bauer (4-3), who hung around for six innings despite early wildness.

The Akron RubberDucks climbed out of an early three-run deficit to knock off the Eastern League-leading Harrisburg Senators 7-3 Tuesday evening at Canal Park in the opener of a three-game set between the clubs and a seven-game homestand for the RubberDucks.

CLEVELAND -- Brett Anderson had a quick reaction when the baseball and both pieces of a broken bat came sailing at him in the fifth inning.

Get out of the way.

Oakland's left-hander managed to do that, but left the game in the following inning with a cervical strain, and the Athletics hung on to beat the Cleveland Indians 6-4 on Monday.

With a plan to partner him with new coach John Beilein, the Cleveland Cavaliers have hired J.B. Bickerstaff as associate head coach.

The Cavaliers will make Bickerstaff one of the NBA's top-paid assistant coaches, league sources said.

Cleveland Browns general manager John Dorsey and coach Freddie Kitchens attended Kareem Hunt's baptism ceremony Sunday in support of the running back, who is trying to turn his life around in his hometown of Cleveland.

The Richmond Flying Squirrels scored five runs in the first two innings and combined to shut out the RubberDucks on one hit after a third-inning home run by first baseman Nellie Rodriguez in a 5-2 Richmond victory in the series finale to split the four-game series at The Diamond in Richmond, Virginia, on Sunday afternoon.

Shane Bieber was determined to finish what he started, even if it meant playing hide-and-seek with his pitching coach.

Bieber struck out a career-high 15 in his first major league complete game and the Cleveland Indians routed the Baltimore Orioles 10-0.

Kipnis homered twice and drove in a career-high six runs as Cleveland showed more signs of busting out at the plate by hammering the Baltimore Orioles 14-7 in the opener of a four-game series Thursday night.

Akron RubberDucks center fielder Daniel Johnson hit his sixth home run in seven games - and team-high ninth this season - to tie Thursday's series opener, 2-2, leading off the sixth inning, and he led off the eighth inning with a triple before scoring the go-ahead run on right fielder Connor Marabell 's sacrifice fly in a 4-2 win over the Richmond Flying Squirrels at The Diamond in Richmond, Virginia. Akron has won back-to-back games and four of its last five.