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Brad Smith Youth Sports Festival

YOUNGSTOWN — The Brad Smith Youth Sports Festival will be held today.

At the old West Junior High, the free football and cheerleading camp for grades 1-8 will begin at 9 a.m. Space is limited to 200.

At 6 p.m. students can participate in a 3-point shooting contest.

An hour later, the NFL vs. Local Joes celebrity basketball game will be held at the Chaney High School gym.

There will be a 20-minute autograph session immediately following each event.

Titan soccer recruits

NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. — The Westminster College men’s and women’s soccer teams have recruited six area players who are recent high school graduates.

Playing for coach Girish Thakar will be the following men: Joshua Auden of Jackson-Milton High School; Cody Culp of East Liverpool High; Branden Huff of Wilmington Area; Zach Meluch of Southeast; and Brad Thomas of Champion.

Joining the Titan women will be Chelsea Harding of Laurel High.

Football camp rescheduled

YOUNGSTOWN — The Sparq Rating-authorized speed and agility football camp that was postponed has been rescheduled for Sunday at noon at Mollenkopf Stadium.

The one-day, non-contact camp for players entering grades 9-12 stresses fundamentals and technique, and is aimed at improving quickness.

For details, call Gary Thornton Jr. at (330) 519-8487.

Boggs brothers race

DAYTON — Local runners and brothers Josh and Justin Boggs will be running in the United States Air Force Marathon in Dayton at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base on Sept. 19.

Their hopes are to re-qualify for the third time for the Boston Marathon so they may run it in 2010.

The brothers are running for Team Fisher House to help military families in need of lodging while a loved one receives medical care.

Tamer Win tournament

CORTLAND — Vincenzo Romeo of Howland carded a 74 to win the age 16-18 division of the Tamer Win junior boys golf tournament.

In the 14-15 division, Dino DePasquale of Hubbard turned in a first-place 76 while Charlie Loomis of Canfield defeated Nick Durst of Lakeview in the 12-13, after each shot 47.

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Stallworth released

MIAMI — Cleveland Browns wide receiver Donte’ Stallworth has been released from a Miami jail after serving 24 days for DUI manslaughter.

His attorney, Christopher Lyons, says Stallworth was released from the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center early Friday.

The 28-year-old Stallworth served 24 days of the 30-day jail sentence after pleading guilty to DUI manslaughter. Stallworth struck and killed a pedestrian in an early morning crash March 14. Police said he had spent the night drinking at a swank Miami Beach nightclub.

Shooting plea

CLEVELAND — A man in Ohio has pleaded not guilty to aggravated murder 27 years after he fired a gunshot that investigators say caused a former NFL player’s kidney-infection death this year.

Forty-four-year-old Victor Gomez was arraigned Friday morning in Cleveland in the death of 54-year-old Michael Woods. The Cleveland-born Woods went to college at Cincinnati and played for the Baltimore’s Colts from 1978 to 1981.

Ryan Church traded

NEW YORK — The free-falling Mets finally made a move, trading Ryan Church to the Atlanta Braves for Jeff Francoeur and cash on Friday in a swap of outfielders who had fallen out of favor with their teams.

Discussions began only this week, and Church was told when he came in from batting practice Friday, just before he was to get taped up. The Mets receive $270,218 as part of the trade to equalize salaries.

Church, a former player for the Mahoning Valley Scrappers, is hitting .280 with two home runs and 22 RBIs.

Vindicator staff/wire reports