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Special Olympics meet set Saturday in Salem

COLUMBIANA — The Columbiana County Special Olympics Association will put on the Area 11 Spring Games Saturday at Reilly Stadium in Salem.

Teams from Ashtabula, Columbiana, Mahoning and Trumbull counties will compete in the qualifier for the Columbus Summer Games.

Competition begins at 10:30 a.m. For details call (330) 337-7962.

Five in a row

POLAND — The Poland High School tennis team edged Canfield 3-2 Tuesday to capture its fifth straight Metro Athletic Conference championship.

The Bulldogs are 9-0 in the MAC and 13-3 overall. The Cardinals slipped to 9-5, 6-3.

Oldtimers to meet

YOUNGSTOWN — Youngstown Baseball Oldtimers Association will conduct its monthly meeting on Thursday at Kramer Field at 2:30 p.m.

Plans will be finalized for the organization’s annual spring dinner which will be held May 18 at the Knights of Columbus Hall in Struthers.

All members are welcome to attend the spring dinner. Guests will be assessed a $5 fee, The social hour will begin at 5 p.m. and dinner at 6.

Mansky shoots 74

YOUNGSTOWN — Zack Mansky shot 37-37—74 in leading Youngstown Country Club to a 471‚Ñ2 -47 points victory over Canfield in the Penn-Ohio League at Tippecanoe Country Club.

Grove City, Pa. was second with 271‚Ñ2 and Boardman placed third with 20. Dan Goodman of Youngstown CC and Jim Perry of Canfield each carded 75.

Youngstown is in first place in the standings with 74 points, followed by Canfield 63, Grove City 431‚Ñ2 and Boardman 231‚Ñ2.

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Walsh injured; out of volleyball tournament

LOS ANGELES — Kerri Walsh and Misty May-Treanor, the defending Olympic beach volleyball gold medalists and the top-ranked qualifiers for the Beijing Games, withdrew from this weekend’s AVP tournament to allow Walsh to rest her surgically repaired shoulder.

May-Treanor said Tuesday she still would travel to Charleston to watch the tournament and meet the fans.

The pair, which has won all three regular stops on the AVP tour this season, also pulled out of a $25,000, winner-take-all event after Walsh “tweaked” her shoulder while winning last weekend’s Huntington Beach Open.

Ex-Vikings Scott charged with assault

MINNEAPOLIS — Former Minnesota Vikings defensive lineman Darrion Scott was charged with assault and accused of holding a plastic dry cleaning bag over the head of his 2-year-old son.

Scott was charged in Hennepin County Court with third-degree assault and domestic assault by strangulation, both felonies.

According to the complaint, the boy’s mother said Scott said he was playing with the child and wanted to see if the boy could get the bag off his head himself.

A faster track?

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Jimmie Johnson certainly knows how to go fast at Darlington Raceway. But 200 mph fast is hard for the two-time Darlington champ to comprehend.

“I can’t imagine going as fast as they say we are going to go on that small, little race track,” Johnson said this week.

The track “Too Tough To Tame” has been repaved for the first time since 1995. Johnson’s Hendrick Motorsports teammate — and seven-time Darlington winner — Jeff Gordon took part in a Goodyear tire test in March that found Sprint Cup cars hitting 200 mph at the end of the backstretch on the 1.366-mile superspeedway.

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Title fight postponed

FRANKFURT, Germany — WBA champion Ruslan Chagaev of Uzbekistan has a viral infection, forcing postponement of his May 31 heavyweight fight against 7-footer Nikolai Valuev of Russia.

Universum promotions said Tuesday it was talking to the WBA about a new date for the bout in Oberhausen.

Chagaev (24-1) won a majority decision against Valuev in April 2007.

Valuev (48-1) won a lopsided decision against former WBO champion Sergei Liakhovich in February.

Vindicator staff/wire reports