Joe Tait to speak

Joe Tait to speak

warren

Joe Tait, the radio voice of the Cleveland Cavaliers, will be the guest speaker at the Trumbull County Sports Hall of Fame induction banquet.

The event will be held at Divieste Banquet Center in Warren on Oct. 23, beginning at 2 p.m.

For details call 330-540-2733 or 330-856-6219.

Lordstown Invitational on Saturday

Lordstown

The 12th Lordstown “Jean Smith” Invitational cross country meet will be held Saturday at the Village Park on Ohio route 45.

Competing schools will be Western Reserve, Bristol, Brookfield, Jackson-Milton, LaBrae, Lordstown, Lowellville, Mineral Ridge, South Range, United and Warren JFK.

The high school races begin at 10 a.m., followed by the junior high races.

‘Ask the Doc’ benefits Peace Race runners

BOARDMAN

Ankle & Foot Care Centers will sponsor the “Ask the Doc” program, starting Saturday in Boardman.

Dr. Mari Wargo-Dorsey will be available from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Second Sole, 755 Boardman-Canfield Rd., to answer questions from local runners. The service is free.

The program will continue every Saturday through Oct. 22, the day before the Peace Race.

Rugby World Cup

AUCKLAND, New Zealand

Just before the halfway mark of the Rugby World Cup, defending champions South Africa have all but clinched a quarterfinal spot. And as a big weekend approached involving several key matchups, there was continuing debate Thursday over France’s supposed weakened team to play New Zealand.

The Springboks had an easy time beating their regional neighbors Namibia 87-0 at North Harbour Stadium in Auckland, their third win in three matches and giving them an eight-point lead over second-place Samoa.

Four teams made squad selection announcements Thursday.

AP Source: NBA to cancel training camps

NEW YORK

No labor deal, no training camps and no telling what else the NBA could lose.

The lockout is about to start inflicting damage on the preseason schedule — and neither players nor owners can say what will happen to the real games.

The league will cancel training camps and some exhibition games Friday after failing to reach a new collective bargaining agreement with its players, a person with knowledge of the plans told The Associated Press on Thursday on condition of anonymity because the league had yet to announce its plans.

Training camps were expected to begin Oct. 3, and the exhibition openers were set for Oct. 9.

Jenny Simpson returns to US a world champ

NEW YORK

Jenny Simpson returns to the United States as a world champion.

She hasn’t had much time to commemorate and contemplate becoming the first American woman since Mary Decker in 1983 to win the 1,500-meter title.

After her victory in Daegu, South Korea, on Sept. 1, Simpson had to hop on planes to Italy, Belgium and Morocco for races. She finally returned to the U.S. on Tuesday, flying into New York to run this weekend’s Fifth Ave. Mile.

Randal Lewis captures Mid-Amateur golf

RICHMOND, Texas

Randal Lewis became the oldest winner of the U.S. Mid-Amateur championship on Thursday, defeating Kenny Cook 3 and 2 in the final match.

Lewis, 54, a financial planner from Alma, Mich., earns an automatic bid to the 2012 Masters by capturing the national championship for amateurs 25 years and older.

Lewis won the first two holes and never trailed in the 36-hole final at Shadow Hawk. Cook, 31, made birdies on Nos. 13 and 14 in the morning to square the match. Lewis then made a birdie on the 16th hole and never looked back.

Vindicator staff/wire reports