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Track & amp; field
YOUNGSTOWN -- Junior thrower Bethany Anderson was named Horizon League women's athlete of the week for the second this season.
Anderson (Jamestown, N.Y.) broke her own school record and won the weight throw Saturday at the All-Ohio Championships with a distance of 60 feet, 10 inches.
Anderson also finished seventh in the shot put and she was third in the weight throw a day earlier at the Findlay Open.
Anderson was also named athlete of the week Jan. 17.
STEELHOUNDS
Salute to NASCAR
YOUNGSTOWN -- The Youngstown SteelHounds' game Friday night against the Wichita Thunder will be NASCAR Night at the Chevrolet Centre.
Game time is scheduled for 7 p.m.
The SteelHounds will wear special NASCAR jerseys both Friday and Saturday and fans can bid on the jerseys after Saturday's game.
Seniors bowling
YOUNGSTOWN -- John Doughton Jr. is leading the John Bossone Memorial Senior Masters with a score of 2,004 through two rounds.
Currently second in the event at Amron Lanes and Bell-Wick Bowl is Bruce Curall with 1,870. Dave Shevetz is third with 1,826, Rex Rager fourth (1,824) and Tom Smith fifth (1,823).
Other top bowlers are Jim Calabretta (1810), Steve Pecorelli (1793), Joe Nuzzo (1782) and Lou DiNardo (1776).
The final two rounds will be Feb. 17 (Holiday Bowl) & amp; Feb. 18 (Wedgewood) at 1 p.m.
The next scheduled tournament will be the senior doubles on March 10 & amp; 11 at Boardman Lanes and Bell-Wick, open to bowlers 55 and older.
Cancellations
Wednesday's entire schedule of high school games were canceled because of the snow and cold in the area.
The schedule of announced makeups is in the prep sports at a glance on page C3.
Also, these college games were postponed Wednesday and rescheduled for tonight: Allegheny at Hiram, women (6 p.m.) and men (8 p.m.); Grove City at Washington & amp; Jefferson, women (6 p.m.) and men (8 p.m.); Geneva at Notre Dame (Ohio), women (6 p.m.) and men (8 p.m.); Mount Union at Marietta, women, 7:30 p.m., and Marietta at Mount Union, men, 7:30 p.m.
NATION
Vazquez to defend WBC title
LOS ANGELES -- Israel Vazquez will defend his WBC super bantamweight championship against Rafael Marquez March 3 in suburban Carson.
Vazquez will take a 41-3 record with 31 knockouts into the bout against Marquez (36-3, 32 KOs) at the Home Depot Center.
Also on the card, IBF flyweight champion Vic Darchinyan (26-0, 21 KOs) faces Victor Burgos (39-14-3, 23 KOs).
BALCO attorneyto plead guilty
SAN FRANCISCO -- Two San Francisco Chronicle reporters will avoid jail time under a plea agreement by a criminal defense lawyer who admitted leaking them secret grand jury documents from the BALCO steroids investigation.
In court papers filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court, attorney Troy Ellerman said he allowed reporters Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru-Wada to view transcripts of the grand jury testimony of baseball players Barry Bonds, Jason Giambi and Gary Sheffield, and sprinter Tim Montgomery.
Ellerman had represented Victor Conte, founder of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative, the Burlingame supplements lab that allegedly provided performance enhancing drugs to the elite athletes, as well as BALCO vice president James Valente.
Illini player drove away from accident
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- The University of Illinois basketball player at the wheel during an accident that injured him and a teammate drove away from the scene before police were called, a university spokesman said Wednesday.
A 1996 Lexus driven by sophomore guard Jamar Smith, 19, struck a tree in Champaign late Monday night, campus police have said. It was snowing heavily at the time.
"Jamar, after the accident, actually drove the car to the apartment complex, about a mile away," said Kent Brown, the university's sports information director. He said the complex where Smith lives is in the town of Savoy, just outside Champaign.
Brown said Smith called an ambulance from the complex.
Police cited Smith for improper lane usage. They have declined comment on the details of the investigation.
Chargers interviewMike Singletary
SAN DIEGO -- The San Diego Chargers began their coaching search so quickly that the first candidate to be interviewed ran into the guy he hopes to replace.
Hall of Fame linebacker Mike Singletary met with team executives Wednesday, less than 48 hours after Marty Schottenheimer was fired.
The former Chicago Bears great said he crossed paths with Schottenheimer, who was still cleaning out his office.
"I saw him and said hello," Singletary said.
Vindicator staff/wire reports