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Curbstoners

BOARDMAN — Former YSU trainer Dan Wathen will be the guest speaker at Monday’s noon Curbstone Coaches luncheon at the Blue Wolf banquet center. The meeting is open to the public.

Correction

NORTH LIMA — South Range soccer player Joe Beike’s name was misspelled in a recent edition.

Boardman eliminated

STOW — The Stow-Munroe Falls High volleyball team eliminated Boardman in Saturday’s Division I district semifinal.

Stow won by scores of 25-16, 25-15 and 25-21. Details of the match were not reported.

Winslow update

CLEVELAND — The Browns have agreed to rescind Kellen Winslow’s one-game suspension, but the Pro Bowl tight end will still miss Cleveland’s game today.

The team said in a statement Saturday night that Winslow will return on Monday, following the Browns’ game against the Jacksonville Jaguars.

The franchise said it has worked through its differences with Winslow and looks forward to his return.

Winslow was suspended last week after he made critical comments about the Browns’ handling of his hospitalization with a staph infection.

He later appealed the suspension.

College tennis

ERIE, Pa. — April Scudere, a junior on the Westminster College women’s tennis team from Brookfield High, teamed with Amanda Redhair to win the No. 1 doubles championship at the Presidents’ Athletic Conference Tennis Championships Saturday.

Scudere-Redhair defeated Tamara Nations-Kait Garcia of Grove City College, 8-5, for the Titans’ only title in the meet again dominated by the Wolverines.

Grove City won all six singles matches and two of the three doubles duels to sweep their 22nd straight championship with 52 points.

Westminster took runner-up for the third straight year with 38.

Scudere lost to Nations in the No. 1 singles final, 6-2, 6-1.

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Boxing canceled

Wladimir Klitschko’s upcoming heavyweight title defense against Alexander Povetkin has been canceled after Povetkin tore a ligament in his left foot during a training run.

Klitschko, the IBF and WBO champion, was scheduled to fight Povetkin, the IBF’s undefeated No. 1 heavyweight contender, in Mannheim, Germany, on Dec. 13.

Scott Shaffer, a lawyer for fight promoter Sauerland Event, told The Associated Press on Saturday that Povetkin tripped over a tree root while running in his native Kursk, Russia.

The ligament injury requires Povetkin to wear a brace that will prevent him from training until late November.

Knickerbocker race

NEW YORK — Formal Decree set all the fractions Saturday in the $111,400 Knickerbocker Handicap, beating Strike a Deal by three lengths at Belmont Park.

The 5-year-old gelding ran the 1 1-8 miles in 1:47.57 on the firm turf. Jean-Luc Samyn was aboard for trainer Saeed bin Suroor as Formal Decree got his eighth win in 26 starts.

Formal Decree paid $9.30, $4.70 and $3.70.

Exhibition basketball

DURHAM, N.C. — Kyle Singler and Elliot Williams each scored 15 points to lead Duke past Virginia Union 114-50 on Saturday in an exhibition game at Cameron Indoor Stadium.

Gerald Henderson and Miles Plumlee added 14 points apiece for the Blue Devils, who had six players score in double figures.

Gregg Thondique scored 13 points to lead the Division II Panthers.

Duke, which never trailed, shot 56.7 percent from the floor and made 10 3-pointers while the Panthers made just 18 of 66 field goal attempts and had 24 turnovers.

Jankovic ends No. 1

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Jelena Jankovic of Serbia will end the season at No. 1, outlasting four other players who held the top ranking during the year.

Jankovic’s 4,555 points give her a commanding lead over Dinara Safina (3,782) and Serena Williams (3,716). She will retain the top spot regardless of the outcome of the season-ending Sony Ericsson Championships in Doha, the WTA Tour announced Saturday.

The 23-year-old, who hasn’t won a major, lost to Williams at the U.S. Open final in September. She won four titles and is 63-17 so far this year.

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Soccer violence

LONDON — Sunderland fans threw bottles and coins at an opposing player Saturday, and hundreds stormed the field after the victory over rival Newcastle in the Premier League. There were 29 arrests and no serious injuries.

Police officers on horseback were attacked with fireworks outside the stadium and one horse sustained minor burns.

The violence came during and after the 2-1 victory in northern England, Sunderland’s first at home over Newcastle in 28 years.

Spectators pelted Newcastle midfielder Joey Barton as he prepared to return in the game’s last six minutes after serving a six-game ban. Police had to protect him while he warmed up on the sideline. Barton angered fans in his response by kissing Newcastle’s club badge.

Kessler retains title

OLDENBURG, Germany — Mikkel Kessler of Denmark retained his WBA super middleweight title Saturday by knocking out Danilo Haeussler of Germany in the third round.

Kessler caused Haeussler’s left eye to start swelling in the second round. The Dane ended the fight with a left to Haeussler’s chin. He went down flat on his back and could not beat the count.

Kessler improved to 41-1, with 31 knockouts. Haeussler fell to 29-4 with one draw.

Kessler lost his WBA and WBC titles in a unification bout with Joe Calzaghe last November, then won back the vacant WBA belt with a knockout of Dimitri Sartison in June.

Vonn finishes 9th

SOELDEN, Austria — Lindsey Vonn made a satisfying start to a World Cup season in which she begins as the defending overall champion.

She matched the best result of her career in the giant slalom by finishing ninth Saturday in a race won by Kathrin Zettel of Austria.

Zettel was fastest in the second leg of the season opener, completing the two runs in 2 minutes, 22.99 seconds to beat first-run leader Tanja Poutiainen of Finland by 0.98 seconds.

Vindicator staff/wire reports