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LOCAL

Colin Clemente
picked all-MAC

CLEVELAND — Colin Clemente, a junior on the University of Akron golf team from Hubbard and Warren JFK High, was selected to the Academic All-Mid-American Conference team.

Clemente achieved a team-best 3.445 grade-point average in biology while also being a standout on the golf team. He was joined on the Academic All-MAC squad by teammate Brad Wright.

Clemente posted the second-lowest 18-hole average on the team this spring with 73.25 in seven competitions, and produced five top-five placements.

He twice was named MAC Golfer of the Week, and also scored his first collegiate win in a tri-match against Kent State and Miami (Ohio).

Correction

Cory Spinks was incorrectly referred to as Leon Spinks in a recent story about a possible middleweight title fight between Kelly Pavlik and Jermain Taylor.

Canfield claims
Penn-Ohio title

HERMITAGE — Canfield Golf Headquarters⁄Marlowe Coffee easily claimed the team championships in the Penn-Ohio Golf League Sunday at Hickory VFW Golf Course.

Canfield finished with 142 total points with Sharon Hickory VFW second with 82. Youngstown Ohio Carpet was third with 69 and Grove City TMS Physical Therapy fourth with 55.

Youngstown’s Brian Woods took medalist honors with a 68, while Bob Blaze finished with a 70 for Sharon.

Canfield’s Scott Porter finished with low average with a 70.75 and Jim Perry was top point getter with 24.

NATION

Miguel Cotto delivers
KO over Zab Judah

NEW YORK — The Puerto Rican Day parade can’t be any better of a show than what Miguel Cotto and Zab Judah put on at a raucous Madison Square Garden.

And Cotto gave the sellout crowd what it came for: a knockout of one of its own.

The popular Puerto Rican welterweight thrilled his fans, who made up a majority of the filled-to-the-rafters Garden Saturday night, by stopping Brooklyn’s Judah in the 11th round to keep his WBA welterweight title.

With chants of “Cotto! Cotto!” and “Puerto Rico! Puerto Rico!” rocking the building, Cotto knocked down Judah earlier in the round before finishing off his 30th straight win at 49 seconds. It was the third straight year Cotto fought in the Garden on the eve of New York’s Puerto Rican Day parade, and he gave the raucous crowd of 20,658 a terrific show.

Washington Wizards
aim to keep Arenas

WASHINGTON — The Washington Wizards are committed to keeping Gilbert Arenas on the team, even after the All-Star guard said he planned to opt out of his contract.

Arenas told The Washington Post and The Washington Times that he will get out of the six-year, $65 million contract he signed in 2003 and become a free agent.

WORLD

Cycling body plans
to work on image

BERLIN — Cycling’s world governing body has called a special meeting of all 20 ProTour teams before the Tour de France to discuss the sport’s growing image problem.

The UCI has convened the meeting in Geneva June 19 without outlining a specific agenda, German teams Gerolsteiner and T-Mobile said Sunday. Both teams believe the district attorney’s documents from the Spanish blood-doping scandal could be analyzed, while German media speculated a list of riders to be banned from the Tour might be named.

“There is no set agenda, it’s about the image of cycling,” Team Gerolsteiner manager Hans-Michael Holczer said. “I’m expecting before the Tour starts [that] something big will happen.”

Romario scores
milestone goals

SAO PAULO, Brazil — Veteran striker Romario scored the 1,001st and 1,002nd goals of his 23-year career to lead Vasco to a 4-0 win over Gremio in the fifth round of the Brazilian national championship this weekend.

Romario scored on a penalty shot in the 15th minute and again in the 46th minute Saturday in Vasco's Sao Januario stadium, helping his team rise to the top of the championship's standings.

Romario clinched his 1,000th goal on May 20, when Vasco defeated Sport of Recife in the second round of the championship.

Forward Andre Dias scored the second goal of Saturday's game in the 42nd minute and midfielder Abedi made it 4-0 in the 64th minute.

"It is a respectable number of goals," Romario told reporters after the game. "I am very happy and I am going to go after more goals."

Also Saturday, Palmeiras and Botafogo drew 1-1, with goals by defender Paulo Sergio in the 34th minute and by Botafogo striker Andre Lima in the 73rd.

Vindicator staff⁄wire reports