Area sports in brief

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Gus Macker tournament

YOUNGSTOWN — Youngstown Christian School and the Covelli Centre are sponsoring the Gus Macker 3-on-3 basketball tournament that will be played at the arena on June 13-14.

Teams will be made up of four players and the cost for each team to enter is $124.

Online registration is due today and may be made at the website www.macker.com using the link to the Youngstown Tournament site.

For more information, contact Youngstown Christian basketball coach Dolph Carroll at (330) 727-1507.

Mill Creek Circuit race

CANFIELD — Three roads in Mill Creek Park will be closed on June 7 for the U.S. Cycling Federation annual criterium race, The Mill Creek Circuit.

Closed from 7 a.m. until 2 p.m. will be Bears Den Road between McCollum Road and West Drive; Cross Drive; and New Cross Road.

Eicher honored

NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. — Three Westminster College athletes have been named to ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District teams selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).

Senior men’s swimmers Conor Simpson and Chris Lehberger and senior men’s tennis player J.D. Eicher (Canfield High) were each named to the second team of the Academic All-District II College Division for men’s at-large sports.

Eicher, a business administration and music major, maintained a 3.95 cumulative GPA.

Eicher also earned Westminster’s Senior Scholar-Athlete award in 2009 after posting the highest cumulative GPA for a male senior varsity athlete.

Papa selected

LOCK HAVEN, Pa. — Slippery Rock Univ. head track and field coach John Papa has been named the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Women’s Coach of the Year, as selected by the league’s head coaches and announced Friday.

Papa, who earned the PSAC and Atlantic Region’s top women’s coaching honors during the indoor season and earned the Atlantic Region women’s award this outdoor season, adds the PSAC outdoor honor after guiding The Rock women to their fourth consecutive conference Championship, a top regional ranking and a fifth-place finish in the final NCAA Division II national poll.

Izzo is named

NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. — The Eastern College Athletic Conference named Westminster College senior baseball player John Izzo (New Castle Union High) an ECAC Div. III South All-Star as a first-team selection.

Izzo is the first Titan baseball player since 2002 to earn recognition on an ECAC All-Star team.

Izzo batted a personal-best .415 (56-for-135) and ranked fifth in the Presidents’ Athletic Conference with 56 hits, sixth in slugging percentage (.637) and total bases (86), and seventh in on-base percentage (.497) and home runs (6).

In the field, Izzo led the PAC with 298 putouts and 35 double plays while maintaining a .987 fielding percentage.

Cimino is recognized

MARIETTA — Cameron Cimino, senior third baseman for the Marietta College baseball team from Boardman High, continues to win postseason recognition.

Cimino, the 2009 Jack Rafeld Ohio Athletic Conference Player of the Year, was named first-team All-America by the America Baseball Coaches Association Rawlings and third-team All-America by D3Baseball.com.

Playing 49 games, Cimino led Marietta in batting average (.443), hits (81), doubles (19), triples (3), runs scored (57) and multiple-hit games (24). He also was second in home runs (11), RBIs (47) and multiple-RBI games (15).

Yeropoli takes 15th

BOARDMAN — B.J. Yeropoli of Boardman placed 15th in the Buffalo (N.Y.) Marathon last Sunday in a personal-best time of 3 hours and 7 seconds.

There were 894 entries and 752 finishers.

The winner was Jason Lokwatom of Troy in 2:24.44.

Yeropoli also placed second in his 30-34 age group out of 54 runners.

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Monmouth feature

OCEANPORT, N.J. — Lord Justice held off Santana Six in the stretch to score a half-length win in the $70,000 Spend a Buck Stakes at Monmouth Park on Saturday.

Trained by Todd Pletcher and ridden by Chris DeCarlo, it was the first stakes win for the 3-year-old colt, who covered the mile and 70 yards on the fast main track in 1:394‚Ñ5 and paid $15.60, $8 and $4.20.

Santana Six returned $5 and $4, while It Happened Again was three lengths back in third and paid $2.80.

In the co-feature, the $60,000 Wolf Hill Stakes, Smart Enough took the early lead and never trailed, beating Atticus Kitty by 13‚Ñ4 lengths.

Gozzip Girl prevails

NEW YORK — Gozzip Girl determinedly held off Warm Shower on Saturday, winning the $150,000 Sands Point Stakes for 3-year-old fillies on the turf by 11‚Ñ2 lengths at Belmont Park.

Caught three wide in the early stages, Gozzip Girl forged her way to the front down the backstretch. There was never any breathing room, as Bluegrass Princess immediately ranged up to contest the pace.

Gozzip Girl, with Kent Desormeaux aboard for trainer Tom Albertrani, finally shook loose in the deep stretch only to face one final challenge from Warm Shower.

Driver dies

KNOXVILLE, Iowa — A 34-year-old Kansas driver has died after crashing in a race at Knoxville Raceway in Iowa.

Chad McDaniel of Concordia, Kan., died after striking another car, injuring his head and neck during a U.S. Auto Club Midget Nationals race on Friday night.

Mercy Medical Center spokesman Gregg Lagan says McDaniel was pronounced dead at the hospital at 12:37 a.m. Saturday.

McDaniel had scored five top-10 finishes in six races this season.

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Chelsea beats Everton FA Cup soccer final

WEMBLEY, England — Chelsea recovered after conceding the fastest goal in FA Cup final history, beating Everton 2-1 Saturday to win the trophy a fifth time.

Louis Saha put Everton ahead after 25 seconds at Wembley, but Didier Drogba tied the score in the 21st minute and Frank Lampard delivered the winner with 18 minutes left.

Chelsea won its first trophy in two years, giving manager Guus Hiddink the perfect farewell before he resumes his job as coach of the Russian national team.

Vindicator staff/wire reports