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Youngstown Hardhats
YOUNGSTOWN -- Danny Williams threw a 53-yard touchdown pass to Walt Lacey and Dajuan Underwood added a 58-yard interception return for a touchdown to lead the Steel Valley Hardhats to a 16-0 victory over the Trumbull County Raiders in a semi-pro football game Sunday at Chaney High School.
Steve Rankin added a 43-yard field goal and an extra point for the Hardhats (1-0), while Antonio Edwards added 74 yards on 12 rushes. Frank Harris had four carries for 52 yards.
Backup quarterback Tim Goforth was 3 for 10 for 53 yards and Jerome Betts had an interception for Steel Valley, which held the Trumbull offense to fewer than 80 yards of offense.
Track and field
MILLERSBURG -- Alexandra Rathburn and Jeff Harper each won two events to highlight Austintown Community Track Club performances at the 28th annual U.S.A. Track and Field Lake Erie Association meet held Saturday at West Holmes High.
Rathburn won the shot put (40-31/2) and the discus (127-5) in the women's 17-18 class, while Harper won the shot put (31-3) and discus (75-9) in the boys 11-12 age class.
Rathburn and Harper were among six Austintown club members who qualified for the five-state USATF Regional meet slated July 6-9 at West Holmes High.
The other Austintown club regional qualifiers were Pete Mahoney, Lauren Lotz, Amanda Liston and Mary Dean.
Mahoney won the javelin (80-3), was third in shot put (31-3) and fourth in discus (79-4) in boys 13-14.
Lotz won the javelin (89-7) and was fifth in the shot put (29-2) in girls 17-18.
Liston was second in the discus (89-7) and fourth in the shot put (25-9) in girls 15-16.
Dean placed third in the javelin (66-8) and fourth in the discus (72-5) in women's 17-18.
REGION
James leadsbike-a-thon
AKRON -- A group of 300 school children on shiny new bicycles rode with LeBron James and other NBA players as part of the Cleveland Cavaliers star's charity bike-a-thon.
The children were selected to ride with James on Saturday based on their character. They also received Schwinn Sting-Rays -- made to look like motorcycles with gleaming studs and chrome chain guards -- and helmets.
All the players who rode in the second "King For Kids Bikeathon" also wore helmets, including the Miami Heat's Dwyane Wade, the Detroit Pistons' Richard Hamilton, the Phoenix Suns' Amare Stoudemire and the Cavaliers' Eric Snow. A group of volunteers busily covered up the helmet manufacturers' names with "King for Kids" stickers to avoid competition with the players' corporate sponsors.
Sean Greene, 10, was chosen by his principal to be one of the children who rode with James.
The bike-a-thon includes an 8-mile course for adults and a 3-mile family ride. Participants were encouraged to raise $100 in pledges for the James Family Foundation to benefit the Akron Area YMCA and the Akron Urban League.
NATION
Harris wins
EAST MEADOW, N.Y. (AP) -- John Harris won the Commerce Bank Championship for his first Champions Tour title, birdieing the first hole of a playoff with Tom Jenkins.
Harris, the former Minnesota college hockey star who had an outstanding amateur career, had eight top-10 finishes in his four-plus year on the tour. He matched the tournament's best round with a 64 Sunday after bogeying the 18th hole in regulation.
He holed a 6-foot birdie putt on that same par-4 in the playoff, taking home the winner's share of $225,000 from the purse of $1.5 million.
Jenkins, who had a one-stroke lead after completing the rain-delayed second round Sunday morning, parred the 18th with a tap-in to cap a 69 and tie Harris at 11-under 202 after three rounds on the Red Course at Eisenhower Park.
Lagat sweepsat U.S. meet
INDIANAPOLIS -- Two years after becoming an American, Bernard Lagat made history in his first U.S. track and field championships.
The two-time Olympic medalist for Kenya is the first runner to sweep the 1,500 and 5,000 meters at the U.S. meet.
Lagat, who has lived in the United States for a decade and makes his home in Tucson, Ariz., took the lead on the first lap, then outsprinted a charging Gabe Jennings over the final 50 meters to win the 1,500 in 3 minutes, 39.29 seconds.
Six athletes had world-leading performances on the final day of competition at the U.S. meet.
The meet was suspended for nearly four hours because of a slow-moving afternoon thunderstorm.
Vindicator staff/wire reports