The Elyria High School vs. Strongsville varsity football game is canceled this evening due to a number of the Elyria players being ill.

Additionally, the Elyria High School junior varsity football game is canceled tomorrow.

Thirty-eight of the teams’ 86 players came to school today and left with an intestinal illness, according to district spokeswoman Amy Higgins. One student had to be taken to the emergency room this morning, Higgins said. She said he is recovering but did not know if he had been released from the hospital.

Higgins said players had a team dinner last night but declined to speculate whether their sickness could be food poisoning.

“The symptoms of flu and food poisoning are so similar,” she said.

The varsity game will be played Sunday at 2 p.m. at Strongsville. The junior varsity game will not be made up.

The team dinner, which included both varsity and junior varsity players, was at the stadium and was hosted by parents, Higgins said.

Higgins said she believed coaches were at the team dinner but said she didn’t have any information regarding whether any of them were sick.

Kathryn Boylan, from the city health department, said she was aware of the situation but didn’t have any information to release at this time.

“We’re starting our investigation within the hour,” she said.

EMH Regional Medical Center is also investigating, according to Athletic Director Darren Conley.

Information on the game, if it is rescheduled, will be released at a later date.

LORAIN — A Lorain man who has been on the run from U.S. Marshals for a year was arrested this week in North Carolina.

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Luis Leiva, 49, was picked up Monday in Raleigh, N.C., using a fake identity, according to Marshals.

Leiva was wanted for charges of domestic violence, violating a protection order, burglary and assault stemming from an April 2009 incident and was added to the U.S. Marshals’ “Dangerous Dozen” most wanted list.

Deputy Tony Keffer, U.S. Marshals Service task force coordinator for Lorain County, said Leiva was taken into custody without incident by Marshals and Raleigh law enforcement. He was booked in the Wake County Jail.

When arrested, Leiva thought he was being arrested for an immigration violation Keffer said. Keffer didn’t have information on Leiva’s citizenship status but said Leiva was born in Peru. If convicted of a felony, it’s likely he could be deported, Keffer said.

Leiva’s year on the Dangerous Dozen list is long and is due to the fact that he left the area and changed his identity, Keffer said.

Keffer attributed his arrest to “a lot of investigating” and “good work by the Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S. Marshals.”

Following Leiva’s arrest, U.S. Marshals released their latest Dangerous Dozen list, which for the first time doesn’t contain any Lorain County criminals.

Keffer explained that while Marshals try to include wanted individuals from all areas the task force covers, there were more pressing needs elsewhere.

Four individuals are new to the list:

• Thomas Propst is a former corrections officer from Ashtabula County who is wanted for the murder of his wife.
• Derek Watson, from the Toledo area, is wanted for assault.
• Kennard Gay, from the Akron area, is wanted on two warrants for murder and attempted murder from two separate incidents that occurred over the last few months.
• Billy Farmer, from the Mansfield area, is wanted for sex offender registration violation.

View the entire Dangerous Dozen:

Download the list.

LORAIN — About 125 runners are expected to take part in a 5-K walk-run Saturday to benefit a scholarship fund established in memory of Lorain teacher Noemi Pagan.

The run will begin at 9 a.m. from the Black River Landing in downtown Lorain. Registration begins at 7 a.m.

The event is designed to raise money for the Noemi Pagan Scholarship which honors Pagan, 38, a fourth-grade teacher at Lorain’s Garfield Elementary School teacher who died from injuries sustained in a head-on collision on South Broadway in Sheffield Township in June 2010.

“This is a way to memorialize Noemi and keep her memory alive,” Michelle Nimene, Pagan’s sister-in-law said.

Families are welcome to join the event, as are pets, Nimene said.

The fund awarded two $750 scholarships to a pair of college-bound Lorain City Schools graduates earlier this year.

To register or for questions, call Nimene at (440) 258-9203.

ARLINGTON, Texas — The Cleveland Indians are resetting their goals for the final two weeks of the season.

Fausto Carmona reacts between pitches to the Texas Rangers in the first inning last night. (AP photos.)

Fausto Carmona, far from the All-Star season he had a year ago, gave up six runs over six innings and the Indians lost 7-4 to the AL West-leading Texas Rangers, wrapping up a three-game series sweep.

That cut Detroit’s magic number for clinching the AL Central to one.

“All you can think is you failed to achieve your goal, which is to win the division,” Indians manager Manny Acta said. “You play to win the division. So you get your head up, play for second place or above .500. You have to shift gears and have another goal.”

Cleveland (72-75) and the Chicago White Sox (73-76), who lost earlier at Kansas City, are fighting for second place in the AL Central. The Indians have a three-game series at Minnesota before going home for a makeup game Monday against Seattle and then four games against the White Sox.

“All we can do is keep showing up and try to win as many games as we can. We have to finish this season with pride,” second baseman Jason Kipnis said.

“We know we could have been playing better. … Nobody on this team enjoys losing. It’s not time to start now. We’ll battle the rest of the way and finish with our heads held high.”

The Rangers led 1-0 with one out in the fifth before Cleveland opted to walk reigning AL MVP Josh Hamilton to load the bases.

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Michael Young then delivered a three-run double to go over 100 RBIs for the second time in his career, and Adrian Beltre immediately followed with a two-run homer for a 6-0 lead.

“I don’t take those things personally. I just try to focus on my job,” Young said. “At that point we’re really making sure we’re trying to push one across. I was just trying to get something to the outfield, worst-case scenario sacrifice fly scores a run.”

Texas (86-64) moved 22 games over .500 for the first time since 1999, and now plays nine of its final 12 games on the road, starting Friday night at Seattle. The Rangers extended their division lead over the idle Los Angeles Angels to 3 1/2 games.

Hamilton hit his 22nd homer in the seventh. He went deep in all three games of the series, including a grand slam Wednesday.

Carmona (6-15) is 0-3 with a 6.97 ERA over his last six starts. Against the Rangers, the right-hander struck out three and walked five while giving up seven hits and five earned runs over six innings.

“Carmona was overthrowing. He didn’t have good sink,” Acta said. “The ball was going side to side. He had one real bad inning and that ended up hurting him.”

Shin-Soo Choo was back in the Indians’ lineup after being activated from the disabled list, but reaggravated his strained left oblique on a swing when he batted in the first. Acta said Choo is done for the season.

Alexi Ogando (13-8) allowed only two singles while throwing six scoreless innings. The All-Star right-hander struck out four and walked two while winning for the first time in a month. He had been 0-3 in five starts since his last win Aug. 15 at the Angels.

The Indians failed to take advantage when they loaded the bases and forced Ogando to throw 39 pitches in the second inning. That is when Ogando had both of his walks, gave up a single and there was a fielder’s choice before Lonnie Chisenhall and Lou Marson both struck out.

“That was our best chance. We had him on the ropes there,” Acta said. “He was a little bit divorced from the strike zone, bases loaded, but we chased some pitches out of the strike zone. It could have been a moment where we chased him out of the game but we couldn’t take advantage of it.”

Ogando faced the minimum three batters the other five innings he pitched, getting Ezequiel Carrera to ground into an inning-ending double play after Kipnis singled in the sixth.

Ogando had already thrown 52 pitches after two innings, then needed only 40 to get through the next four innings.

Shelley Duncan had a bloop RBI single with two outs in the seventh off Darren Oliver for the Indians’ first run. Carrera had an RBI single in the eighth and Cleveland scored twice in the ninth off closer Neftali Feliz, who was getting some work after last pitching Saturday.

Notes

• The Indians were 1-9 against Texas this season and were outscored 68-32. Texas has won 21 of 25 in the series over the past three seasons.
• Andrus has hit in all 23 of his career games against Cleveland.
• Texas had only nine hits, ending its club-record streak of consecutive 12-hit games at seven.
• Actor Jonah Hill, a co-star in the upcoming movie “Moneyball,” threw out the ceremonial first pitch.
• Texas is 49-29 at home.