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Canfield hockeyimproves to 4-1
MENTOR -- The Canfield Developmental Hockey Club improved to 4-1 with a 9-3 victory over the Mentor Bantams Saturday.
Riley Emery and Mike Gorgacz scored three goals each. Jared Taylor, Brandon Nightingale, and Bryan Clark also scored goals, while Taylor and Emery had three assists each.
Tyler Emery assisted on two goals while Clark and Nightingale also added assists. Brennan Allen stopped 18 of 21 shots for Canfield.
Thiel losesto Wooster
WOOSTER -- Thiel's women's basketball team suffered a 78-65 loss to Wooster in the championship game of the Nan Nichols Tournament Sunday.
Thiel (1-1) was paced by freshman forward Amber Bodrick (Mooney) and senior guard Nicole Valentino (Sharon). Bodrick scored a game-high 35 points and corralled 11 rebounds while Valentino added 17 points, six rebounds and four assists. Both Bodrick and Valentino earned spots on the all-tournament squad.
NATION
Baseball roundup
*CHICAGO -- Alfonso Soriano, one of the game's top offensive players, has agreed to an eight-year contract worth about 136 million, a major league official told The Associated Press Sunday.
The deal is contingent on Soriano passing a physical, according to the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the deal had not yet been announced.
*ARLINGTON, Texas -- Free-agent outfielder Frank Catalanotto has agreed to a three-year, 13 million deal to return to the Texas Rangers after playing the last four seasons for the Toronto Blue Jays.
The deal includes a team option for a fourth year, and was confirmed by a Rangers official who spoke on condition of anonymity because the contract is pending a physical that is expected to be conducted Tuesday.
*CINCINNATI -- Left-handed reliever Mike Stanton has reached a tentative two-year agreement with the Cincinnati Reds, a person familiar with the discussions said on Sunday.
Stanton, 39, played for Washington and San Francisco last season, making 82 appearances that proved he hadn't lost his knack for pitching often.
Golf roundup
*WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Julieta Granada gave herself the perfect birthday gift, surely not minding that it arrived a bit late.
Two days after turning 20, the LPGA Tour rookie from Paraguay got her first victory -- and, perhaps more importantly, took home the first 1 million prize in women's golf.
Granada shot a bogey-free round of 68 Sunday, beating an eight-player final-round field to win the ADT Championship at Trump International and take home most of the event's 1.55 million purse.
The win pushed her season's earnings to 1,633,586 -- not bad for someone who finished outside the top-10 finishers in 23 of 30 events this year.
Player of the year Lorena Ochoa (70) was second, earning 100,000 and securing the top place on the season-ending money list. Karrie Webb (71) was the only player who could have passed Ochoa in that department, needing a win to do so. But Webb went home with 20,500 -- meaning she and Granada were separated, essentially, by 326,500 per shot.
*PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. -- Jason Bohn sank a 25-foot putt on the 17th hole and edged Scott Simpson by one stroke to win the Callaway Golf Pebble Beach Invitational on Sunday.
Bohn, whose lone victory in three years on the PGA Tour came at the 2005 B.C. Open, shot a 1-under 71 and finished at 14-under 274.
He earned 60,000 of the 300,000 purse in the unofficial tournament that featured 81 players from the four major tours, plus mini-tour players, club pros and amateurs.
Collegiate HOF
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- John Wooden still gets around, albeit with the help of a well-worn cane and a good friend like Denny Crum.
The former English teacher still teaches in that articulate, deceptively powerful voice that he lent to the ears of youngsters first at Indiana State and later UCLA.
Wooden joined Russell, Oscar Robertson, Dean Smith and Dr. James Naismith as the founding class of the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame during a ceremony Sunday at the Crown Center Exhibit Hall.
The five basketball luminaries represent an inaugural class of 152 players who already are members of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass. The class was chosen by a committee based upon their collegiate careers, rather than professional accolades.
WORLD
B.C. Lionswin Grey Cup
WINNIPEG, Manitoba -- Paul McCallum kicked a Grey Cup record-tying six field goals, and the British Columbia Lions defeated the Montreal Alouettes 25-14 to win the Canadian Football League championship on Sunday night.
Ian Smart scored a touchdown for the Lions, who had the best regular-season record and won their fifth Grey Cup. It is their first title since beating Montreal in 2000.
Lions quarterback Dave Dickenson was chosen as the game's outstanding player after going 18-for-129 yards for 184 yards. He also ran for 53.
Vindicator staff/wire reports