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Kehres namedcoach of the year
ALLIANCE -- Mount Union College football coach Larry Kehres was named the American Football Monthly/Schutt Sports Division III Coach of the Year.
Kehres led the Purple Raiders (12-1) to a 10th consecutive undefeated regular season and 13th consecutive playoff appearance this fall.
Over his 19-year career as the Raiders coach, Kehres is 217-19-3 (.914).
Jr. Phantomsextend win streak
The Youngstown Jr. Phantoms bantam travel hockey team won their seventh straight regular season game on Saturday. beating Elyria, 8-3.
Leading Youngstown with five goals was John Vanasdale. Also scoring goals were Don Super with two and Ryan Taylor with one.
Steve Cornich, Ryan Rinko, Jimmy Lacko, Ryan Taylor and Adam Hogan all had two assists. Jared Pack had 20 saves.
Phantoms snaplosing streak
BOARDMAN -- The Youngstown Phantoms snapped a season-long four-game losing streak with a 5-0 win over the Soo Kewadin Indians at The Ice Zone in a North American Hockey League game Sunday.
Dale Michonski and Bob Collar each scored twice and goaltender Jerry Kuhn made 32 saves for his second shutout of the season.
After a scoreless first period, the Phantoms (17-10-2) exploded for four goals, handing Soo goaltender Jason Kearney his first loss as an Indian since being acquired last month.
Bob Collar scored two goals that period, the first at 1:05 off a feed from Shane Lennox to open the scoring.
Jeremy Smith pushed the lead to 2-0 after Anthony Canzoneri moved the puck from behind the goal to the left side.
His shot was deflected in traffic, and Smith trailed in the low-center slot and beat Kearney glove side.
Later in the period, Marc Menzione broke up a blue-line pass in the Youngstown zone. Menzione pushed the puck out of the zone, and it redirected off an Indian's skate to a breaking Dale Michonski. Michonski skated in uncontested, waited until Kearney committed, and wrapped the puck past the goalie's left skate for a 3-0 lead at the 13:33 mark. Then, just 49 seconds later, the Phantoms capitalized again. After Mike Maltese won a faceoff in the Soo zone, he pushed it ahead with one hand on his stick, split two defenders, and backhanded the puck to a streaking Collar, who easily beat Kearney, and gave the Phantoms a commanding 4-0 lead.
In the third, Michonski redirected a Jeremy Smith slapshot, right in front of Kearney, for his second goal of the night, at the 15:39 mark to finish the scoring.
Anthony Ciraulo had two assists, as the Phantoms had four players register two points in the win. Kuhn improved his record to 11-7-1, snapping a personal three-game losing streak.
The Phantoms play host to the Toledo Ice Diggers on Wednesday at 7 p.m. at The Ice Zone.
Stanford, Spivain Malone hall
CANTON -- Two local men were recently inducted into the Malone College Athletics Hall of Fame.
Dwayne Stanford, a 1993 Malone graduate from Woodrow Wilson High, was a four-year participant in track and field and a three-year letterman in basketball at Malone.
He was a five-time NAIA track and field All-American. In 1990, Stanford set a Malone high jump record at the NCCAA national meet, clearing 7 feet, 2 inches, a school record that stands today.
Keith Spiva, a 1994 Malone graduate from Warren Harding, competed in track and field and was a four-year letterman.
At Malone, Spiva won four NAIA national sprint crowns and six NAIA All-America honors, which is the most by any Malone athlete.
DeMarco elected into Beaver Hall of Fame
BEAVER FALLS, Pa. -- Geneva College football coach and athletic director Geno DeMarco will be inducted into the Beaver County Sports Hall of Fame.
DeMarco has been coach at Geneva for 12 seasons, with a record of 83-44.
A standout linebacker at New Brighton High and Geneva, DeMarco was the first Geneva player to be named an academic All-American in 1982. DeMarco was also honored as one of the top 100 players at Geneva during the era of 1976-2000.
Surfer claims sixth Triple Crown
HALEIWA, Hawaii -- Sunny Garcia of Hawaii won a record sixth Triple Crown of Surfing title on Sunday when he placed second in the Rip Curl Pro Pipeline Masters.
"I'm about to tear up right now," said Garcia, who won his first Triple Crown title since 2000. "I had to sit out for an entire year after having knee surgery, and watching the Triple Crown last year was hard. My main goal coming back this year was to be ready for it again, so to win is incredible."
Garcia, 34, has finished second five times in the Rip Curl Pro Pipeline Masters, the last event of the season.
Jamie O'Brien took first place in the event, held in 6-foot surf along Oahu's North Shore, and Kalani Robb placed third.
Vindicator staff/wire reports