area

area

Gholston to appear

NILES — Vernon Gholston, an All-American football player at Ohio State, will appear at a Meet and Greet session at the Everything Buckeyes Store in the Eastwood Mall.

The appearance is scheduled for May 17 from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m.

Gholston was the sixth overall pick in the NFL draft, taken by the New York Jets.

Merchandise will be available and, for a fee, there will be autographs available. For details call (330) 533-9125.

Lowellville golf

LOWELLVILLE — The Lowellville Gridiron golf classic scramble will be held Saturday at Bedford Trails Golf Course in Coitsville.

The event will have a 10 a.m. shotgun start and each team will include three amateur golfers and one NFL player from either the Cleveland Browns or the Pittsburgh Steelers or other local pro players.

The entrance fee is $100 per golfer and the first 30 teams committed will make up the field. There will be an autograph session from 5 to 6 p.m.

For information about the tournament call (330) 536-2234 or (330) 509-2974.

Sharon Speedway

HARTFORD — Brian Swartzlander, Bob Felmlee, Andy Paden, Alan Dellinger and Shaun Hooks won feature races as Sharon Spedway opened its car-racing racing season.

Femlee of Franklin, Pa., won the Warren Harley-Davidson 410 Sprint Division opener for the second consecutive year.

Swartzlander, the 2006 divisional champion, won the Gibson-Governor Insurance Agency Big Block Modified feature.

Paden of Greenville, Pa., won the Limited Sprint Division, passing up Nick Miller and outlasting Guy Griffin at the end. Miller built a big lead but flipped wildly on lap 11 to give Paden the lead.

Dellinger of Hermitage took the lead on lap four of the 15-lap Tom’s Sewer and Drain Service E-Mod feature event.

Hooks of New Castle led every lap of the Tight-Seal Glass Block Pure Stock main event.

Baseball regional

GROVE CITY, Pa. — The Grove City College baseball team will make its first ever appearance in the NCAA championship tournament at the Ithaca College regional.

Grove City (18-16), the eighth seed, will face top-seeded Cortland State (36-3) Wednesday at 1:15 p.m.

Raiders place three

ALLIANCE — Three members of the Mount Union College baseball team were selected to the all-Ohio Athletic Conf. team.

Cory Slaybaugh, Paul Mariotti and Greg Ferrell received all-OAC honors.

nation

Taylor suspects won’t face execution

MIAMI — Prosecutors in Miami say they won’t seek the death penalty against four people charged with murder in the case of Washington Redskins star Sean Taylor if they are convicted.

Miami-Dade County prosecutor Reid Rubin said in a letter to lawyers for the suspects that the four will face a maximum sentence of life in prison if convicted.

Taylor’s alleged shooter was only 17 when the crime was committed in November. Minors are ineligible for the death penalty.

The 24-year-old Taylor was shot at his Miami-area home.

world

WADA spent $1.3 M in Landis case

LONDON — The World Anti-Doping Agency has spent more than $1 million helping fight the appeal by Floyd Landis of the decision stripping him of the 2006 Tour de France title for a doping offense.

WADA president John Fahey said Monday that the organization has contributed $1.3 million — 5 percent of its total budget of $26 million — to the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency’s case against the American cyclist.

Vindicator staff/wire reports