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JA Bowl-A-Thon

BOARDMAN — Junior Achievement will hold its annual Bowl-A-Thon at Camelot Lanes, May 3, from 4-7 p.m.

Companies form five-person teams with each bowler collecting a minimum of $40 in pledges. Bowlers don’t have to be from the same company, and don’t have to be regular bowlers.

Incentive prizes are offered for individuals raising $50, $100, and $200.

For more, contact Patti Edwards at (330)-539-5268 or e-mail: jamvpatti@onecom.com.

Jake Giuriceo in GG title match

CLEVELAND — Jake Giuriceo of Campbell advanced to the 152-pound open division championship of the Golden Gloves Boxing Tournament after beating Kameel Hughes Saturday night during a quarterfinal bout at Masonic Hall.

The 23-year-old Giuriceo, who trains at the United Boxing Gym (old Sam Camens Hall on Steel Street), improved to 16-2 after defeating Hughes. The beaten Cleveland fighter had 120 amateur fights.

For the championship at Cleveland Browns Stadium on April 27, Giuriceo will face Eduardo Alicea.

Alicea of Cleveland lost to Giuriceo via unanimous decision at McMenamy’s on March 29.

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Big A stakes

NEW YORK — Like A Rose and Fort Drum won divisions of the New York Stallion Stakes on Sunday, giving trainer Gary Contessa a sweep of the $100,000 stakes for 3-year-olds at Aqueduct.

Like A Rose, ridden by Channing Hill, beat Study Aboard by a nose in the Park Avenue Stakes for fillies. She ran 7 furlongs in 1:25.31 on the fast track and paid $18 to win.

Like a Rose finished third, giving Contessa a 1-3 finish in the stakes.

Eibar Coa was aboard as Fort Drum completed the Contessa sweep with a half-length win over Express to Thewest in the Times Square Stakes for colts and geldings.

Wrestling discipline

GREAT FALLS, Mont. — Wrestling star Mike Zadick said disciplinary action against him by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency was prompted by a procedural mistake in the documentation process of obtaining an exemption for the drug triamcinolone acetonide.

The anti-drug agency said Friday that the Great Falls athlete tested positive for the drug at the recent Pan Am Championships.

“I have had an injury and was given the drug Kenalog from my physician to help the healing process,” Zadick said.

Curling championship

GRAND FORKS, N.D. — Canadian skip Kevin Martin won his first title in the Canada World Men’s Curling Championship on Sunday, scoring two points in the ninth end in a 6-3 victory over Scotland in the final.

The 41-year-old Martin finished second in 1991 and fourth in 1997.

The Canadian team breezed through the draws with a 10-1 record, but lost to Scotland in the first playoff game. Martin’s team came back to beat Norway.

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London Marathon

LONDON — Martin Lel is thinking big after winning his second straight London Marathon. There’s the Beijing Olympics this summer and maybe another London title next year. And somewhere along the way he senses a world record to be had.

The Kenyan set a course record of 2 hours, 5 minutes, 15 seconds Sunday to capture his third London Marathon in four years. His victory came despite wind and rain that hit the field late in the race and a slightly altered route because of a gas leak on a road just over Tower Bridge.

Paris-Roubaix cycling

PARIS — Tom Boonen of Belgium won his second Paris-Roubaix race Sunday, beating former champion Fabian Cancellara of Switzerland in a sprint finish.

Boonen looked in control throughout and his superior acceleration took him past Cancellara heading into the final turn of the Roubaix velodrome.

Soccer scandal

WARSAW, Poland — The Polish soccer federation’s governing board will resign in September because of a game-fixing scandal that has caused a public outcry.

Prosecutors in Wroclaw began investigating in 2005. Authorities have charged 117 people — including federation members, coaches, referees, players and club officials — with rigging matches in the top domestic leagues. Twenty-nine clubs have been implicated.

Vindicator staff/wire reports