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Boardman’s Schiffauer has big game

BOARDMAN — Boardman High School senior Courtney Schiffauer scored 18 points and collected eight rebounds and five assists in the North-South all-star game, sponsored by the Ohio High School Basketball Coaches Association.

Schiffauer, a Michigan St. recruit, was named the Div. I player of the year by the OHSBCA.

Fitch hall committee to meet Wednesday

AUSTINTOWN — The Austintown Fitch High School Athletic Hall of Fame’s selection and banquet committees will meet Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. in the high school cafeteria and Room 109.

Candidates will be accepted through June 1.

The next planning session occurs June 4 at 6:30 p.m. in the same school locations.

For details call Bob Gugliotti (330) 792-7497.

Grove City awards

GROVE CITY, Pa. — Grove City College selected senior men’s soccer player Michael Manahan and senior multi-sport athlete Brittany Anderson as its 2008 Omicron Delta Kappa/Mortar Board Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year, respectively.

Both student-athletes received their award Saturday during the College’s Recognition Convocation.

Anderson tied a school record by earning 11 varsity letters during her career — four letters in both volleyball and basketball and three letters as a thrower for the track and field squad.

Manahan started the last three seasons in goal for the men’s soccer team and helped the Wolverines advance to the ECAC Championship Tournament in both 2005 and 2006.

Purple Raiders softball

ALLIANCE — Mount Union College placed eight players on the 2008 Softball All-Ohio Athletic Conference Team, including senior pitcher Lindsey Royer who was named the Gayle Lauth OAC Player-of-the-Year and John Wells OAC Pitcher-of-the-Year.

Also, earning First-Team honors was freshman second baseman Alex Lucak. Lucak has a .295 batting average with 14 RBI and .960 fielding percentage.

Receiving Second-Team honors was sophomore third baseman Anna Horning, sophomore outfielder Meghan Allen, senior Erin Duignan and freshman catcher Mara Palombaro (Cardinal Mooney).

Palombaro is batting .329 with 13 RBI.

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Rare volleyball feat

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Rolling fields of grazing sheep and cows lie a five-minute drive away from Penn State’s home volleyball court. The campus may not look like volleyball country, but it is home to the best college teams in the land.

Five months after Penn State won the NCAA women’s volleyball title, the men’s squad repeated the feat by winning a national championship Saturday night. It’s just the second time a school has won both the men’s and women’s volleyball titles in the same academic year, following Stanford in 1996-97.

Penn State, now a two-time national champion in both programs, is already the only school outside of California to win both a men’s and women’s title. The men had previously won in 1994.

Archers return

PHOENIX — Butch Johnson is headed to the Olympics for the fifth time. Khatuna Lorig will represent her third country.

Johnson and Lorig are two of the five archers who will represent the United States in Beijing this summer. Brady Ellison, Vic Wunderle and Jennifer Nichols also qualified after a lengthy selection process that ended last week.

Johnson, who turns 53 in August, previously competed for the United States at the 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2004 Olympics.

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Soccer scandal

SAO PAULO, Brazil — A day after Ronaldo claimed in a TV interview to have worked as an ambassador for UNICEF, the United Nation’s children’s agency said the Brazilian soccer star has no official link to the organization.

In an interview on Brazil’s Globo TV on Sunday, Ronaldo said his encounter with prostitutes last week will “not interfere” with his post as a UNICEF ambassador.

The AC Milan striker said he wasn’t aware the prostitutes were cross-dressers until he got to a motel and discovered they were men.

Vindicator staff/wire reports