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Football camps
YOUNGSTOWN -- Youngstown State's Kickers and Punters Camp is June 8-9 at YSU's Stambaugh Stadium. Former NFL kicker Paul McFadden will run the camp. Camp is for grades seven through 12. Cost is $150 for a resident camper and $90 for a commuter.
Youngstown State's O-Line and D-Line Skills Day is June 3 and June 10 at Stambaugh Stadium. Camp goes from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. each day. Cost of the camp is $30.
For details on either camp, call (330) 941-3478.
LOCAL
Pavlik to speakat Curbstoners
BOARDMAN -- Kelly Pavlik, Youngstown's ranked middleweight, will be the guest speaker at the Curbstone Coaches' noon luncheon Monday at the Lockwood House.
The unbeaten 24-year-old Pavlik (27-0) will be accompanied by his trainer, Jack Loew.
The luncheons are open to the public. For more, visit www.curbstonecoaches.org.
K.O. Drugs tourneyset for May, June
STRUTHERS -- The 19th K.O. Drugs high school boxing tournament is scheduled for the Struthers Field House in May and June. Registration and weigh-ins are taking place at Dick's Sporting Goods in Boardman and Niles.
Registration at the Boardman store will be held Thursdays in April, from 4 to 6 p.m.
Registration at the Niles store will be Wednesdays in April from 4 to 6 p.m.
The tournament is open to all boys and girls in grades 9-12 who have no prior amateur boxing experience.
The bouts will consist of three 45-second rounds. Fighters will use 18-ounce gloves and headgear, which will be provided.
The tournament is scheduled for Thursdays in May, with the finals June 1 for upperclassmen and June 2 for underclassmen and females.
For details, call (330) 757-7273 or (330) 727-0932.
Area ace
CANFIELD -- Mark Chambers made a hole-in-one at Diamond Back Golf Course on the 125-yard No. 8 hole with a pitching wedge. His partner was Bill Wilkenson.
Sharon Speedwaycancels racing
HARTFORD -- Saturday's opening race at Sharon Speedway was canceled due to poor weather.
Points races for all five divisions will begin April 15. Gates open at 4 p.m. Adult tickets are $11 and $5 for kids ages 12-15. Kids 11-and-under are free. For details, visit sharonspeedway.com or call 330-772-5481.
Bowling tournament
YOUNGSTOWN -- Entries for the Youngstown Women's Bowling Association city tournament are available at all area bowling centers.
The 64th annual tournament runs April 28-May 5.
The four-woman team event will be at Kay Lanes while the singles and doubles events will be at A-Plus Family Bowl. YWBA members may bowl more than once in the team event if there's a change of at least two bowlers. Members may bowl more than once in doubles by changing partners after the initial singles/doubles session has been completed. Entry fee for the tournament is $16 per event. Entries should be made payable to the YWBA and sent to 2703 Mahoning Ave., Suite 101, Youngstown, OH. 44509.
Entries close April 17.
NATION
Favre still unsureabout NFL future
TUNICA, Miss. -- There's only one sport Brett Favre definitively can say he's still playing: golf. Football? Well, that's the big question the Green Bay Packers quarterback still can't answer. Not when he isn't sure if he wants to risk another losing season, and he wonders whether his team improved enough this offseason to justify coming back for one more year.
"I'd like to say I think we are better, but I don't know if we are," Favre said Saturday at his charity golf tournament. "I don't make those decisions, never asked to. ... I know when we signed Reggie White (in 1993), we knew we were going to be better right away.
"We have to make a statement again," he added.
The 36-year-old Favre -- the NFL's only three-time MVP (1995-97) whose grit, durability and cannon arm have become his trademark -- said football is "in my blood."
Redick, Augustuswin Wooden awards
LOS ANGELES -- Duke's J.J. Redick and LSU's Seimone Augustus capped their exceptional college careers by winning the John R. Wooden awards, presented Saturday to basketball's players of the year. Redick, completing a sweep of the men's player of the year awards this spring, collected 4,646 points to edge Gonzaga's Adam Morrison by 74 points in the third-closest balloting by the panel of over 1,000 voters.
Duke's Shelden Williams finished third with 2,142 points, followed by Villanova's Randy Foye with 2,050 and Washington's Brandon Roy with 1,885.
"I'm extremely honored to received this award," Redick said. "All the candidates were very deserving. I never set out to win individual awards. To win is just a huge honor."
The award is named for the former UCLA coach who guided the Bruins to 10 NCAA championships in a 12-year span before retiring in 1975. UCLA's Marques Johnson was the first to win the award -- two years after Wooden stepped down.
Redick, a 6-foot-4 senior, averaged 26.8 points this season -- second in the country behind Morrison -- and leaves Duke as the leading scorer in Atlantic Coast Conference history.
He is the sixth Duke player to win the award, joining Christian Laettner, Elton Brand, Shane Battier, Jason Williams and Alana Beard, who won two years ago to become the first woman so honored.
Augustus, a 6-foot-1 senior, has won the women's award each of the past two years to join Virginia's Ralph Sampson (1982-83) as the only two-time winner.
Vindicator staff/wire reports