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Tom Miller is judgeat championship bout
PHILADELPHIA -- Tom Miller of Mineral Ridge was a judge Friday as Rogers Mtagwa of Philadelphia defeated Artyom Simonyan of Glendale California to retain his IBF/USBA featherweight championship. It was Miller's 38th title fight.
Miller is an international, amateur and professional judge and is sanctioned by the WBC, WBA, WBO, IBF, NABF, USBA and USA Amateur. His next assignment is the Salvation Army Boxing Academy amateur show in Cleveland Saturday.
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*WARREN -- Reds defeated Bob's Bail Bonding, 5-3, at Packard Park. Josh Shaffer and Rich Stout had two hits each for Reds. Stout and Paul Kalman had doubles. Andrew Burnett doubled and singled for Bob's.
*Ted Sulich singled twice and had two RBIs, and pitched a complete game to lead Metro Ice over P.I. & amp;I. Express, 10-2. Josh Lawrence added two hits for Ice. P.I. & amp;I. Express was led by Mike O'Neill, who tripled and singled.
*Mike VanDyke struck out 10 to lead Girard Hardware over Champion Molded Plastics, 3-2. Josh Camuso doubled for Girard. Champion's Jake Gross singled twice and Anthony Maruca doubled. Chris Palm was the losing pitcher but struck out eight.
*Metro Ice defeated Mahoning Valley Knights, 5-4, as Nick Pompeo had three hits. Brian George added two hits, while Nick Zajaczkowski doubled. Johnny Youngbluth had three RBIs. Steve Chinn had three hits for the Knights, including a triple, while Vasili Pahoulis and Mike Rupinsky both doubled.
*Joe Ross, Drew Mullee and Adam Morgan had two hits each for Bob's Bail Bonding in a 6-5 win over Ultimate Building Maintenance. Anthony Jones struck out nine in a complete-game win. Cedric Haynes fanned nine for Ultimate.
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Allmendinger's wild week ends with win
*PORTLAND, Ore. -- A.J. Allmendinger has been fired, engaged, hired and a winner -- all in the span of nine days.
Allmendinger capped his crazy ride Sunday with a victory in the Champ Car Grand Prix of Portland, his first series win.
Champ Car's lone American driver edged former teammate Justin Wilson by 5.420 seconds on the road course at Portland International Raceway.
Allmendinger also spoiled Sebastien Bourdais' bid for a fifth straight victory to open the season. The two-time defending series champion finished third in a race that had no cautions but was restarted after the drivers failed to line up correctly. Allmendinger's victory, in his debut for Forsythe Championship Racing, comes on the heels of a shakeup in Champ Car.
Last week, he was fired by the RuSport, which in turn hired Brazilian Cristiano da Matta, the defending Portland winner and the 2002 series champion. Wilson, who is English, also drives for RuSport.
Forsythe hired Allmendinger on Tuesday and let go of Mexico City native Mario Dominguez, who was driving Sunday for Dale Coyne Racing, da Matta's former team.
While Allmendinger was briefly unemployed, he became engaged to fiance Lynne Kushnirenk.
Rod Fuller champin Top Fuel
ENGLISHTOWN, N.J. -- Top Fuel driver Rod Fuller ended Larry Dixon's Father's Day winning streak at five Sunday, beating him in the final of the K & amp;N Filters NHRA Supernationals with a quarter-mile run of 4.692 seconds at 314.24 mph.
Dixon finished in 4.825 seconds at 299.73 mph.
Ron Capps won the Funny Car competition, Jason Line topped the Pro Stock field and Matt Smith took the Pro Stock Motorcycle title in the $1.8 million event.
In the Funny Car final, Capps had a 5.025-second run at 299.46 mph to edge Gary Scelzi (5.012 seconds at 301.81 mph.).
Steve Karsay retiresafter 11 seasons
OAKLAND, Calif. -- Steve Karsay had the rare luxury of beginning and ending his career with the same club.
Karsay announced his retirement from the Oakland Athletics Sunday, one day after pitching the A's to victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers in 17 innings with two innings of work -- his first victory since Sept. 11, 2002, with the New York Yankees.
The 34-year-old Karsay finishes his 11-year big league career with a 32-39 record, with 41 saves and a 4.01 ERA in 357 appearances and 40 starts.
Along with the A's, Indians and Yankees, Karsay pitched for Atlanta and Texas.
Vindicator staff/wire reports