Brandi Brown selected
Brandi Brown selected
Youngstown
Youngstown State sophomore women’s basketball player Brandi Brown has been named to the preseason Horizon League second team, according to a poll released by the league on Wednesday.
Brown, a forward from Pomona, Calif., was an all-newcomer team selection last season when she was the only league player to average a double-double.
The league’s coaches, women’s basketball sports information contacts and a media member from each market participated in the poll.
Brown set a YSU freshman record with 318 rebounds, and her 342 points ranked as the third-best total by a freshman.
Quaker City Raceway
SALEM
Quaker City Raceway was auctioned to Norm Fox of Malvern who outlasted two other bidders at $460,000.
Fox, a former SCCA racer, owns Fox Auto Parts Inc. in Malvern.
The track, located, three miles north of Salem on state Route 165, has been owned by Dan and Patricia Swindell since 1999.
Fox said he would continue operating the quarter-mile drag strip on the 160-acre property and expected to open in the spring under a new sanctioning body, possibly the NHRA or the IHRA, the two largest drag racing governing bodies in the world.
Cahalin in regatta
Cambridge, Mass.
Ben Cahalin, formerly of Newton Falls and currently a senior Dublin Coffman High School, has been selected to compete this weekend at the world’s largest regatta, The Head of the Charles in Cambridge, Mass.
The nationally televised event is expected to draw upwards of 300,000 spectators, and boasts an international field of over 8,000 rowers.
Cahalin attended Newton Falls schools grades 1-8 before the family relocated to the Columbus area.
He is Captain of Dublin Crew, and his eight-man boat broke a Dublin Crew speed record last Saturday at the Speakmon regatta in Columbus.
Kahne released
CHARLOTTE, N.C.
Kasey Kahne was released from Richard Petty Motorsports on Wednesday night, clearing the way for him to join Red Bull Racing for the final five races of the season.
RPM announced Kahne was out of the No. 9 Ford effective immediately, and Aric Almirola would drive the car this weekend at Martinsville Speedway. Almirola had been on NASCAR’s entry list to drive the No. 83 Toyota for Red Bull.
But the plans apparently were scrapped after Kahne’s blowup Saturday night when his brakes failed at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Kahne exploded in anger on the radio when his brakes failed for the third time this season, second time in two races.
Holidaysatthefarm takes Keenland feature
LEXINGTON, Ky.
Holidaysatthefarm won the $49,000 Hamburg Purse for 2-year-old fillies by three-quarters length Wednesday at Keeneland.
The winner, ridden by Garrett Gomez, stayed near the back in the field of 12 before making a move on the turn for home.
Holidaysatthefarm covered the mile on the turf in 1:39.79 for her second win in five starts.
Holidaysatthefarm paid $6.60, $3.80 and $2.80, while Bellaridge returned $6.80 and $4.60.
Lucky Strikes Gold was one-half length back in third and paid $4.
London 2012 Olympic budget maintained
LONDON
The British government has decided to keep the London 2012 Olympics budget unchanged despite wide-ranging budget cuts to reduce the country’s deficit.
The Olympic budget is protected at $14.7 billion despite a 28 percent cut in funding to UK Sport, the country’s primary sports agency.
UK Sport chief executive Liz Nicholl says “this settlement represents a positive outcome in difficult times.”
The government announced Wednesday that it is cutting its departments’ budgets by an average of 19 percent.
Vindicator staff/wire reports