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Inside Boxing

AUSTINTOWN — A radio show, Inside Boxing (1240 AM), will be held at O’Donold’s tonight from 6 to 9 p.m. to promote Saturday’s benefit for Rocky’s Gym that will be hosted by Kelly Pavlik.

Appearing at tonight’s show will be Tim Minona, a former Cleveland Browns and Penn State Univ. football player, John Deltorio, Pavlik and there will be a call in from Ray Mancini and many local boxers and celebrities in attendance.

Dean is selected

BEAVER FALLS, Pa. — Junior runningback Matt Dean (New Castle) ran for touchdowns of 17 and 1 yards and had 84 yards on 13 carries as the Geneva College football team defeated Thomas More 17-13.

For his accomplishment, Dean was named the national player of the week by the National Christian College Athletic Association.

Trio receive honors

BEAVER FALLS, Pa. — Three members of the Geneva College volleyball team received all-conference coaching honors.

Junior setter Brandi Snavely (Columbiana), sophomore outside hitter Adriane Blake and freshman outside hitter Rachel Kuegler received honors after Geneva went 22-11.

Conti all league

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Ashley Conti (Canfield) was named an honorable mention all-Empire 8 League soccer goalie as a part of the Rochester Institute of Technology team.

Conti, a senior, had a 5-6-1 record and allowed 1.82 goals per game.

RIT was 9-7-2 this year.

Pair picked all-OAC

ALLIANCE — Mount Union College junior Melissa Mahnke and senior Sarah Parker were named to the all-Ohio Athletic Conference volleyball team.

Mahnke, an outside hitter, made the first team. She led the team with 3.71 kills per set.

Parker, a middle hitter, made second team. She led the team with 96 blocks.

All-PAC volleyball

WEXFORD, Pa. SEmD Traci Hassell (Hubbard) of Westminster and Abbey Kiger (Mineral Ridge) of Thiel were picked first team members of the Presidents’ Athletic Conference volleyball team.

Rachell Storm (Crestview) of Waynesburg made second team.

Megan Kay (Girard) of Thiel received honorable mention honors.

Struthers basketball

STRUTHERS — The Struthers all-alumni basketball game will be played Friday at 7 p.m.

There will be a sock hop after the game. Tickets will be available at the door.

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Soccer player of year

LOS ANGELES — Landon Donovan has been voted the top U.S. soccer player of 2008, becoming the only five-time winner of the Honda Player of the Year award.

Donovan led Major League Soccer in scoring this year with the Los Angeles Galaxy. He is the career scoring leader for the United States and is now training in Germany, with the possibility of playing in Europe again.

In a vote by a nationwide panel of journalists announced Tuesday, Donovan finished with 297 points.

Big East promotion

NEW YORK — The Big East will promote senior associate commissioner John Marinatto to replace Mike Tranghese, who is retiring after 19 years leading the conference.

A person with knowledge of the decision told The Associated Press on Tuesday that Marinatto would be introduced Wednesday as the Big East’s third commissioner. The person requested anonymity because the official announcement had yet to be made.

Jockey’s big day

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — At one point during Julien Leparoux’s record-tying day, a rider approached him in the jockey’s room at Churchill Downs and made a simple request.

“Someone said, ’You going to let one of us win one today?”’ Leparoux said Tuesday with a sheepish grin.

The answer: not really.

The 25-year-old Frenchman tied Hall of Famer Pat Day’s track record with seven wins on one card, narrowly missing a chance to make the record his own when 3-year-old gelding Sinister came up just short in the final race of the day.

Marshall sets record

After missing out on the Beijing Olympics, Peter Marshall planned to swim a few more meets, then call it a career.

He might want to reconsider. With little training, the 26-year-old American set a short-course world record Tuesday in the 100-meter backstroke at a World Cup meet in Stockholm, Sweden. He touched in 49.94 seconds, breaking Ryan Lochte’s record of 49.99 set two years ago.

Vindicator staff/wire reports