Area Events Round Up

June 19, 2008 at 12:00a.m.

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Junior Olympics

YOUNGSTOWN — The Lake Erie Association Junior Olympics will be held on June 28 at Youngstown State University.

The meet begins at 9 a.m. for youths age 14 and under. Ages 15-18 begin at 1 p.m.

Cost is $5 per event, with registration online or through the mail. No day of meet registration.

The top six in each age group advance to a regional meet at Washington Courthouse on the weekend of July 6.

For more details, visit www.lakeerie.org or call Larry Seifert 440-842-2142 or Ed Wilson 330-719-4476 or 330-448-2632.

C-G Pro Shop girls bowling champion

YOUNGSTOWN — C-G Pro Shop Girls of Cindy Duncan, Jen Harris, Michelle Simcox and Tracie Robison rolled 2829 to win the team handicap event of the Youngstown-Salem Women’s Bowling Association’s 65th city tournament.

Flower Alternatives was team actual champion with 2553 through the efforts of members Paula Pecorelli, Lisa Pecorelli, Jennifer Gossett and Teri Haefke.

Mary Berquist and Yolanda Marshall was the doubles handicap winner with 1477, while Gossett-Haefke had the best doubles actual score of 1340.

Annie Bartoletti was singles handicap champion with 806 and Susan Mineo was singles actual queen with 741.

Marla Chicase rolled 2091 to win all-events.

Individual high games were registered by Samantha Gigax in team event (288), Haefke in doubles (279) and Haefke and Susan Mineo in singles (279).

Wedgewood Lanes was the host alley.

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Mo Hall camp

COLUMBUS — Mo Hall All Star football camp, ages 8-14, will be held July 12 from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. at the Woody Hayes Athletic Center.

The football camp will be coached by current NFL football players and former Ohio State players on the Buckeye practice fields.

Ohio State coach Jim Tressel will make an appearance and speak to participants.

Travis Hafner to get second opinion

CLEVELAND — Indians designated hitter Travis Hafner is getting a second opinion on his sore right shoulder.

Hafner is traveling to Birmingham, Ala., to be evaluated by renowned orthopedist Dr. James Andrews.

Indians head trainer Lonnie Soloff says Hafner is not progressing as quickly as hoped from the injury that landed him on the disabled list May 30.

Hafner is hitting .217 with four home runs this season and has been bothered by the shoulder since spring training. The 31-year-old Hafner is Cleveland’s career leader at DH with 134 home runs and 464 RBIs.

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Mixed martial arts

ALBANY, N.Y. — Efforts to get mixed martial arts legalized in the New York market stalled Wednesday when a key committee failed to advance legislation.

The Assembly Committee on Tourism, Arts Sports Development had the bill on its Wednesday agenda, but it was pulled without a formal vote. Assemblyman Bob Reilly, a panel member, says he opposes the “glorification of brutality.”

NBA finals

NEW YORK — Game 6 drew the highest NBA finals television ratings in eight years.

The Boston Celtics’ deciding victory over the Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday night earned a 10.7 rating on ABC, the network said Wednesday. It’s the highest since Game 6 of the 2000 finals on NBC between the Lakers and Indiana Pacers.

The series averaged a 9.3 rating, up 50 percent over the 6.2 last year, when the San Antonio Spurs swept the Cleveland Cavaliers. But it fell short of the last finals involving the Lakers in 2004, which averaged an 11.5.

10 cities vie to host NCAA Final Four

Indianapolis and New Orleans are among 10 cities that submitted bids Wednesday to host the 2012-16 NCAA Men’s Final Fours.

San Antonio, which hosted this year’s final won by Kansas; Detroit, the 2009 host; Houston (2011) and Indianapolis (2010), which has held more Final Fours than any other city — five — are all in the running again.

Vindicator staff/wire reports