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McKnight commits

YOUNGSTOWN — Lamar McKnight, who will be a senior forward at Bedford St. Peter Chanel, has made a verbal commitment to play basketball at Youngstown State according to his high school coach Bernie Tarr.

The 6-5 McKnight, who will major in graphic design, averaged 17 points, 11 rebounds, and three blocks for Chanel, while shooting 58 percent from the field and was 14-for-26 from 3-point range.

Tarr, a Girard High graduate who coached at several high schools locally, said that McKnight narrowed his list to YSU, Wagner and Radford before finally choosing the Penguins.

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Softball scramble set

HUBBARD — The Ursuline High School softball team offers a four-person golf scramble on Sept. 27 at Pine Lakes Golf Course. A 2 p.m. shotgun is planned.

Cost is $65 per golfer or $260 per team. For more information, contact Barb at (330) 509-3957.

Football tickets

YOUNGSTOWN — Cardinal Mooney High School will be selling tickets for Friday’s football game against Mentor Lake Catholic today through Friday at the High School office from 7:30 a.m. until 3 p.m. Adult tickets are $6 and student tickets $4.

McLaughlin honored

BEAVER FALLS, Pa. — Maura McLaughlin, a freshman tennis player at Geneva College, was named the national tennis player of the week.

In a match against Chatham College, McLaughlin won her singles match 6-0, 6-0 and was part of a doubles team that won 8-1.

Local officials busy

CANTON — Seven local high school football officials worked a game in the Herbstreit Classic at Fawcett Stadium.

Officiating in the game were Eric Marino, John Vicarel, Joe Bettura, Jim Ferraro, Larry Griffiths and Anthony and Patrick Montana.

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Dodge official expects GEM to remain

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Dodge officials expect Gillett Evernham Motorsports to remain with the manufacturer next season, despite reports the team wants to abandon the slumping automaker for a deal with Toyota.

Mike Delahanty, senior manager for Dodge Motorsports programs, called a possible GEM switch to Toyota “nothing but pure speculation.”

GEM is believed to be in talks to purchase Bill Davis Racing.

Calzaghe eyes Jones

NEW YORK — Joe Calzaghe is definitely watching tapes of Roy Jones Jr.

The rapid-fire puncher from Wales can’t afford any early mistakes in his long-awaited light heavyweight fight against Jones on Nov. 8 at Madison Square Garden.

In April, Calzaghe hit the canvas just 70 seconds into the fight against Bernard Hopkins before winning by split decision.

“I didn’t watch any tapes of Hopkins, and that may have been a mistake,” Calzaghe said Tuesday at a news conference. “I underestimated him.”

Calzaghe (45-0, 32 KOs) relinquished his WBC super middleweight title to face Jones in a fight nearly a decade in the making.

Pistorius wins 3rd

BEIJING — Oscar Pistorius completed his gold-medal haul at the Paralympics on Tuesday, winning the 400 meters to go with sprint victories in the 100 and 200.

The South African double amputee known as “The Blade Runner” finished in 47.49 seconds, a world record for his disability class.

Jim Bob Bizzell of the United States won the silver medal at the Bird’s Nest National Stadium, the venue for Olympic track and field. Ian Jones took the bronze.

Pistorius was cleared in May to run in the Beijing Olympics by the Court of Arbitration for Sport. This followed a decision by track and field’s governing body that said he was ineligible.

Gold medal is back

PHILADELPHIA — U.S. Olympic swimmer Brendan Hansen lost his gold medal from the Beijing games during a weekend flight from Philadelphia to Texas, but got it back a day later.

“For about 18 hours, I was sweating bricks,” the breaststroke specialist said in an interview Tuesday. “What a roller coaster of emotions the last few days have been.”

Vindicator staff/wire reports