SPORTS DIGEST | Children’s Olympics set

Children’s Olympics set

WARREN

The YWCA Warren Children’s Olympics will be at 8:30 a.m. June 4 at the Howland Middle School Track, 8100 South Street SE in Howland.

The event features children in grades 1 through 6 competing against others in their own grade in track and field events. Tennis shoes are required.

Cost to compete is $10 per child. Registrations can be picked up at the YWCA Warren and must be received by 4 p.m. May 9 to receive a T-shirt and by 4 p.m. May 30 to participate.

Registration forms can be picked up at Saratoga Restaurant, Satolli Carpet and YWCA Warren. For more information call 330-373-1010 Ext. 13.

Spaghetti dinner

BOARDMAN

The Boardman football spaghetti dinner will be Sunday at St. Charles Church from noon until 4 p.m.

Tickets are $7 with children under 12 $5.

NILES

The Mahoning Valley Scrappers are looking for host families for the upcoming season.

Families have the opportunity to host a Scrappers player during the season and receive complementary tickets to each home game as well as a discount on team merchandise.

Scrappers host families share their home with a Scrappers player from June through mid-September.

The schedule has 38 home games.

For details contact Drew LaFollette at 330-505-0000 or email at dlafollette@mvscrappers.com.

USHL honors listed

CHICAGO

The United States Hockey League announced that Indiana Ice defenseman Nick Mattson has been selected the league’s defenseman of the year and Brady Hjelle of the Cedar Rapids RoughRiders was picked the goaltender of the year.

Mattson totaled 36 points (6g, 30a) in 57 regular season games for the Ice, ranking second in scoring among USHL defensemen.

Hjelle was an iron man for the RoughRiders appearing in 53 of the team’s 60 regular season games and posting a 40-8-5 record. He played nearly 230 minutes more than any other USHL goaltender this season.

Dr. Ferrari wants to meet with prosecutor

ROME

A banned Italian physician who was once Lance Armstrong’s training adviser has asked for a meeting with a prosecutor investigating a widespread doping ring in cycling.

A statement released by his lawyer Tuesday says that Dr. Michele Ferrari would like to meet with Padua prosecutor Benedetto Roberti “as soon as possible to clear up his position.”

Ferrari was cleared on appeal in 2006 of criminal charges accusing him of distributing doping products to athletes, but he remains barred for life by the Italian Cycling Federation.

Richie set to take over as WNBA president

NEW YORK

Laurel Richie wasn’t looking to leave her job as a senior vice president with the Girl Scouts of the USA.

A chance encounter with Seattle Storm CEO Karen Bryant at a luncheon in February led to the WNBA’s interest in the veteran marketing executive. Two months later she was hired as the league’s third president.

Zbikowski disputes positive drug test

THACKERVILLE, Okla.

An adviser to Tom Zbikowski says the Baltimore Ravens safety is disputing a positive drug test administered after a weekend boxing match in Oklahoma.

Zbikowski fought Saturday at the WinStar World Casino in Thackerville, knocking out Blake Warner of Oklahoma City in the first round and improving his record to 4-0.

Sixteen fighters underwent drug tests and five of them came back positive. A tribal spokeswoman says the Chickasaw Nation Gaming Commission suspended those fighters for 45 days.

Vindicator staff/wire reports