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Lordstown hires Flenoury as coach
LORDSTOWN -- Lordstown High School has hired Chris Flenoury to be the varsity boys basketball coach for the 2002-2003 season.
Flenoury, a Lordstown High graduate, was the junior varsity coach last year. He replaces Tom McClary, who resigned as Lordstown's varsity coach after one season.
"He is a perfect fit for our athletic department goals," Lordstown athletic director Ed Baldwin said. "We're very happy to have him."
Flenoury is also the varsity track coach. He ran track at Baldwin-Wallace before transferring to Youngstown State, where he earned his degree in engineering.
Olympic champat Mathews High
VIENNA -- Galaban Boevski, Olympic and world weightlifting champion, will appear at a weight lifting competition at Mathews High School on June 15 at 1 p.m.
The Pendragon Invitational is free to the public. In the 152-pound class, Boevski holds the world record in the clean and jerk with a lift of 431 pounds.
REGION
Aeros win 7-2
AKRON -- Nate Grindell drove in three runs to lead the Akron Aeros to their seventh straight victory, beating the Trenton Thunder 7-2 Monday night in the Eastern League.
Grindell hit two sacrifice flies, the second breaking a 1-1 tie in the bottom of the fourth. He also had an RBI double in the sixth.
Jody Gerut and Corey Erickson hit solo home runs for the Aeros.
Maicer Izturis and Victor Martinez each had two hits and scored two runs.
Wertz's TD catchhelps Fusion win
CLEVELAND -- Donna Wertz, a four-year member of the Youngstown State Univ. women's basketball team (1988-92), caught a 15-yard touchdown pass to highlight the Cleveland Fusion's 40-16 win over South Bend in the Women's Pro Football League Saturday.
Shannon Anderson and Lori Johnson, both Youngstown natives, caught touchdown passes of 68 and 14 yards respectively for the Fusion (4-1).
South Bend is 0-5.
NATION
NASCAR asksfor stoppage
LOUDON, N.H. -- NASCAR officials have asked the New Hampshire International Speedway to hold off on installing new "soft walls" until further testing determines they are as safe as possible for stock cars, track owner Bob Bahre said.
Ironman drowns
PROVO, Utah -- Preliminary autopsy results indicate a 53-year-old Californian man drowned during the swimming leg of the Ironman Utah Triathlon in Utah Lake on Saturday.
The autopsy found no signs of any other cause of death, Utah County sheriff's Detective Sgt. Neal Castleberry said Monday.
John Boland, from Redondo Beach Calif., was pulled from Utah Lake around 7:20 a.m.
WORLD
Tennis roundup
* LONDON -- Rain disrupted the opening day at the London Grass Court Championships at Queens Club on Monday, but two seeds managed to advance, as 1992 champion and No. 10 seed Wayne Ferreira ousted Irakli Labadze 6-4, 6-2, and 16th-seeded Sargis Sargsian beat Julian Knowle 7-6 (10-8), 6-1.
* HALLE, Germany -- Second-seeded Roger Federer beat Hendrik Dreekmann 6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-4 to advance to the second round of the Gerry Weber Open.
* TASHKENT, Uzbekistan -- Italy's Tathiana Garbin beat Uzbekistan's Akgul Amanmuradova 6-2, 7-5 to advance to the second round of the Tashkent Open.
Greene still fast
ATHENS, Greece -- Maurice Greene returned from a 10-month absence still looking like the world's fastest man.
The American sprinter blazed past big-name rivals in 9.97 seconds to win the 100 meters at the Athens Grand Prix, the event at which he set the world mark of 9.79 seconds three years ago.
Armstrong 8thafter first stage
PARIS -- Three-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong finished the first stage of the Dauphine Libere in eighth place, 49 seconds behind winner Jacky Durand of France.
The 684-mile Dauphine Libere ends June 16 in Geneva.
Vindicator staff/wire reports