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Giant Eagle tickets
VIENNA -- Discounted season grounds books are available for the 2004 Giant Eagle LPGA Classic.
During this once a year holiday promotion, the grounds books are available through the tournament office by calling (330) 565-LPGA or by visiting the tournament web site at www.lpgaclassic.com.
Now in its 15th year, the upcoming tournament features first-time Giant Eagle winner Rachel Teske, who will defend her title July 12-18 at Squaw Creek Country Club.
The season grounds books, normally priced for $40 are available now for $30 and includes one ticket for all seven days of the tournament.
Poweski wins in debut
NEW CONCORD -- Muskingum College freshman Bobby Poweski, a Warren JFK graduate, won his first-ever college 197-pound match as he pinned Washington & amp; Jefferson's Phil McCormick in a 1 minute, 4 seconds..
Poweski's brother Jared, a sophomore heavyweight, decisioned Ken McDonald of W & amp;J 4-1.
Muskingum easily won the match 35-3.
Football coachesmeeting Monday
A meeting for all members of the Ohio High School Football Coaches Association in Region 8 will be held at Cardinal Mooney High School, room 142, Monday at 7 p.m.
The meeting is to nominate players for the Ohio All-Star Game.
Curbstoners
BOARDMAN -- WYTV-TV Channel 33 sportscaster Bill Castrovince will be the featured speaker at the Curbstone Coaches' noon luncheon Monday at the Lockwood House.
MUC inductees
ALLIANCE -- Eleven athletes have been inducted into the Mount Union College M-Club Hall of Fame.
The inductees include seven former Purple Raider football players, Tony Colao (Class of 1984), Victory Harris (Class of 1988), Russ Kring (Class of 1988), John Heather (Class of 1985), Ed Hogya (Class of 1989), Scott Gindlesberger (Class of 1987) and Mike Groff (Class of 1987).
Other inductees include Bruce Macker (soccer, Class of 1986), Sandra Kennedy (softball, Class of 1986), Cindy Bash Smalley (women's basketball, Class of 1987) and C. Jay Hines (wrestling, Class of 1987).
Speaking of Sportsmeeting set
WARREN -- The monthly meeting of the Trumbull County Speaking of Sports Club is scheduled Monday at 6:30 p.m. at the Ground Round Restaurant, Elm Road N.E.
Nominations for next year's class of inductees will be discussed during the meeting.
Nemergut helpsEdinboro in NCAA
RALEIGH, N.C. -- South Range graduate Julie Nemergut placed 109th overall to help lead Edinboro to a 13th place finish in Saturday's Division II women's cross country championship at St. Augustine College.
Nemergut ran a time of 24:04.6 to finish 92nd among team participants as Edinboro finished with 320 points. Adams State was first with 38 points.
Ramun wins
CUYAHOGA FALLS -- Poland High School boxer Dan Ramun evened his amateur boxing record at 1-1, winning a unanimous four round decision over Ryan Acre (0-2) from the Akron Rubber City Boxing Club Friday night.
Ramun who is trained at the Buckeye Elks by John Hobart, gained his first amateur victory with power punching in the first two rounds.
He knocked Acre down for an eight count with a left hook in round one and did the same thing with a right cross in the second round, easily winning the last two rounds as he scored with a series of combinations.
Both boxers came in at 141 pounds for the super lightweight bout.
"Dan showed great improvement from that first bout and I expect him to progress even more," said Hobart.
The fight was one of nine bouts on an amateur boxing show which had three Jack Loew fighters from the Southside Boxing Club in action. Junior Olympian Juan Salinas won a three-round decision over Trey Sales from the Akron Rubber City Boxing Club in a battle of 85 pounders.
Two other Southside Boxing Club fighters, 145-pounder Lou Zamudio and 119-pound Charlie Fagan, were stopped in bouts.
Zamudio, who had a great start in his four-rounder, ran into the thunderous punching of Shawn Porter from the Akron Fighters Against Drugs Gym which had the referee stop the fight in the first round. Fagan (6-2) was in a four-rounder against Mike Snyder from the Akron Rubber City Boxing Club and in that bout the referee stopped the contest, awarding the fight to Snyder with only five seconds remaining in round three.
The three Southside Boxing Club fighters and Ramun will all be on the Wednesday night "Thanksgiving Feast" amateur card at Krakusy Hall sponsored by Jack Loew and the Southside Boxing Club.
NATION
Jeter will not need thumb operation
NEW YORK -- Derek Jeter's injured left thumb will not need an operation.
The New York Yankees' shortstop was examined Friday by team physician Dr. Stuart Hershon and hand specialist Dr. Mel Rosenwasser.
The doctors determined the ligament Jeter sprained against Boston in the opener of the AL championship series Oct. 8 had healed, Yankees spokesman Jason Zillo said.
Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said Nov. 4 that Jeter ruptured a tendon against the Red Sox. The team captain played the rest of the postseason despite the injury.
U.S. men's team clinches berth
VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- American Shane Hamman finished ninth in the super heavyweight class at the World Weightlifting Championships on Saturday, earning 17 much-needed points and helping the U.S. men's team secure a berth in next year's Athens Olympics.
Officials initially said the U.S. team failed to clinch a berth in the 2004 Athens Games, but after recalculating the scores, officials said the Americans finished 23rd overall, good enough to send a three-man team to the games.
Hamman made just two of six attempts in the 231-pound class. His total lift of 929 1/2 pounds was 5 1/2 pounds less than last year, when he finished fifth at the worlds.
Iran's Hossein Reza Zadeh won the class for the second straight year. He failed in his attempt to break his own world record of 1,039 1/2 pounds on his next-to-last lift and stopped at 1006 1/2 pounds.
Artem Udachin, from the Ukraine, won the silver medal, and Bulgaria's Velichko Cholakov was third.
Qatar's Jaber Salem won the snatch, but was forced to withdraw before the clean and jerk because of an injury.
Vindicator staff/wire reports