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LOCAL
Champion hires coaches
CHAMPION -- The Champion board of education awarded supplemental contracts to the following: Jeffrey L. Smith, junior varsity volleyball; Margi Paukovich, seventh grade volleyball; Marcus Kubancsek, junior varsity baseball; Timothy Cope, assistant athletic director and varsity baseball; Jon Moscora, assistant varsity football; Sean Borawiec, assistant varsity football Coach, and Charles Stingel, assistant varsity boys basketball.
Springfield wins
BROOKFIELD -- John Morgan hit a grand slam home run in the first inning and Howard Merritt hit a three-run home run in the second as the Springfield Old Timers topped Penn-Ohio 12-7 at Brookfield Park.
Dan Dunleavy, Cy Rachic, Ron Taylor, Morgan and Merritt each had two hits for Springfield (2-5). Merritt worked 5 1/3 innings in relief as he scattered two hits and didn't allow a run to pick up the win.
REGION
Aeros fall
BOWIE, Md. -- The Bowie Baysox snapped a seven-game losing streak as they slipped past the Akron Aeros in the 10th inning, 6-5 Tuesday night.
Bowie third baseman Napolean Calzado slammed a hit to center field to drive in left fielder Scott Hunter for the win. The Aeros had tied the game in the top of the eighth.
Jeff Wilson (2-2) picked up the win for the Baysox. Ryan Larson (0-2) took the loss for Akron.
Women's amateurpairing is set
PEPPER PIKE, Ohio -- Former two-time champion Diana Schwab of Beavercreek and medalist Gabby Wedding of Wilmington were paired in today's second round of the 79th Women's Ohio women's amateur golf tournament.
Katie Redeker, the current club champion at The Country Club in Pepper Pike, where the tournament is being held, was to face Katy Loomis of Canterbury, a two-time Cleveland Women's Golf Association champion, in the match play event.
Redeker carded a 3-and-2 opening round victory over Jenna Cox of Lima.
Loomis beat former champion Mary Ann Bierman, 5-and-4.
Tuesday's round was just the fourth in competition this year for Loomis, who gave birth to her first child, a daughter, four months ago.
Former champion Mary Ann Bierman of Chagrin Falls and two-time winner Pauline Whitacre of Canton were both first-round losers.
Other past champions advancing were 1997 winner Jamie Rishel of Westerville and Pat Milton of Munroe Falls, who was runner-up last year to Emily Bastel of Upper Sandusky. Bastel is not defending her title.
NATION
Ex-wife: McEnroetook steroids
NEW YORK -- Tatum O'Neal says ex-husband John McEnroe took steroids while he was on the pro tennis tour, and used cocaine and marijuana -- but only off the court.
She said McEnroe used steroids "when he was coming back after Sean [their son] was born" in 1987.
WORLD
Ferrari, driversfined $1 million
PARIS -- The Ferrari racing team and drivers Michael Schumacher and Rubens Barrichello were fined $1 million today for their conduct on the victory stand after last month's Austrian Grand Prix.
FIA, the sport's governing body, did not sanction Ferrari for its orders during the May 12 race. Barrichello was instructed to let Schumacher overtake him in the final stretch.
Ferrari was intent on strengthening Schumacher's lead in the Formula One standings.
After his second-place finish, Barrichello stood on the top step of the podium while the German national anthem was played for Schumacher.
After the race, Schumacher took the trophy from Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel. Without acknowledging the chancellor, he handed the trophy to Barrichello.
FIA ruled "it is the duty of each team to ensure that its contracted drivers observe the podium procedures and do not in any way embarrass the national authorities of the countries where a Grand Prix takes place."
The racing body said it deplored the way in which Ferrari ordered its drivers. However, it said it could not sanction the two drivers because they were contractually bound to carry out the instructions.
Vindicator staff/wire reports