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Junior golf camp set at Parto’s

COITSVILLE

Parto’s Golf Learning will hold a junior golf camp from Monday through June 24. The camp will run from 10:30 a.m. to noon daily, and cost to enroll is $55 per person.

Also, a junior golf league will be conducted on Mondays. The matches start at 10 a.m. Cost to join is $20 plus $4.50 weekly greens fees.

For information on both events, call Tom at 330-743-6718.

Canfield’s Hunter named captain

PROVIDENCE, R.I.

Canfield High graduate James Hunter was recently named captain of the 2011-12 Brown University swimming and diving team.

Hunter, who swims the 50-, 100- and 200-free relay, scored in all three events at last season’s Ivy League championships. A valuable relay contributor, Hunter has the sixth-best 200 free time in school history and also ranks in the top 25 in the 50 and 100 free.

Hunter is studying international relations — global security and is on track to graduate in 2012.

Champion to honor state softball champs

CHAMPION

The Champion Board of Education and the Champion Township Trustees will be hosting a celebration for the Lady Flashes Softball Team State Championship on Monday at 4 p.m. in the Champion High School Auditorium.

Velzaquez to receive OHSAA scholarship

COLUMBUS

Canfield swimmer Gia Velasquez is one of the 54 athletes who will receive a scholarship from the Ohio High School Athletic Association at tonight’s scholar banquet.

The scholarship winners were selected by each of the six OHSAA district athletic boards. Forty-two will receive $1,000 awards, including six (one from each district) that will be given an OHSAA Minority Scholarship presented by Farmers Insurance.

Twelve students (two from each district) will receive $2,000 awards made possible by the OHSAA Foundation and Taco Bell.

Nike and Molten have also contributed to the OHSAA scholarship program, as well as schools that participate in an OHSAA Foundation basketball game, which includes a fee given to the Foundation to fund their portion of the scholarships.

Derby winner has minor injury

NEW YORK

Animal Kingdom has a small fracture to the cannon bone in his left hind leg that will keep the Kentucky Derby winner out for several weeks.

The colt’s ownership, Team Valor International, said in a statement Thursday that Animal Kingdom had scans of the leg at the New Bolton Research Center in Kennett Square, Pa., after a disappointing finish in the Belmont Stakes.

Dr. Dean Richardson found a small “fissure” where the cannon bone joins the hock.

Veterinarians believe the 3-year-old colt will be sound in about two weeks, though there is the danger that the crack will become a larger fracture.

Animal Kingdom was bumped at the start of the Belmont by Isn’t He Perfect and nearly fell. He recovered to finish sixth.

NHL Game 7 rating highest since ‘74

NEW YORK

The Boston Bruins’ Stanley Cup-clinching victory over the Vancouver Canucks on Wednesday night earned the highest television rating for an NHL game in 37 years.

Boston’s 4-0 win in Game 7 on NBC earned a 4.8 rating and 8 share. That’s the best since a 7.6/27 for Boston-Philadelphia in 1974.

It’s up 2 percent from last year’s deciding Game 6 between Chicago and Philadelphia and up 12 percent from the most recent Game 7 in 2009 between Detroit and Pittsburgh.

The seven games averaged 4.6 million viewers on NBC and Versus, the most for a series split between network and cable involving a Canadian team.

The game earned a 43.4/64 in Boston.

Staff/wire report