Curbstone Coaches busy next two days

Curbstone Coaches busy next two days

The Curbstone Coaches High School Football All-Star Banquet will be held at The Georgetown today, starting at 6:30 p.m.

All-league players from the All-American Conference and Inter Tri-County League, as well as players who received first team All-Northeast Ohio district honors, will be recognized.

On Monday, the Curbstone Coaches weekly noon luncheon will resume with guest speaker Rob Todor, sports editor of The Vindicator.

Play4Kay basketball fund raiser Thursday

mineral ridge

When the East Palestine girl’s basketball team plays at Mineral Ridge on Thursday, there will be a fund raiser for the WCA/Kay Yow Cancer Fund.

This charitable organization is committed to being a part of finding an answer in the fight against cancer in women.

For details, call 330-652-1451.

North claims 23-13 Senior Bowl victory

MOBILE, Ala.

Michigan State’s Kirk Cousins and Wisconsin’s Russell Wilson threw touchdown passes to lead the North to a 23-13 victory over the South in the Senior Bowl on Saturday.

Purdue kicker Carson Wiggs put it away with his third short field goal, a 28-yarder with 4:11 left in the showcase for senior NFL prospects.

Boise State’s Kellen Moore led that clinching 13-play drive that consumed 8:36 with the help of a running clock.

It snuffed out a spark provided by South quarterback Nick Foles of Arizona, who started his career with Cousins at Michigan State.

Foles had gotten the South into the end zone by firing a 20-yard touchdown pass to Arizona teammate Juron Criner with 12:55 left in the game.

Big A Stakes

NEW YORK

Redding Colliery and Love and Pride raced to pacesetting victories Saturday in $75,000 stakes at Aqueduct.

Redding Colliery held off I Want Revenge, the 4-5 favorite, by 2 lengths in the Evening Attire, a race postponed last weekend because of snow. A gray 6-year-old trained by Kiaran McLaughlin and ridden by Alan Garcia, Redding Colliery won for the seventh time in 20 starts.

He ran the 1 1-16 miles in 1:43.05, and paid $6.90 to win as the 2-1 second choice.

Love and Pride had an easier time in the Affectionately for fillies and mares, beating Bahia Beach by 7 lengths.

World ski chief pushing 2022 bid for St. Moritz

ST. MORITZ, Switzerland

The president of the International Ski Federation has been to every Winter Olympics in his lifetime since the five-ring circus came to his hometown of St. Moritz in 1948 — one week after his fourth birthday.

The now 68-year-old Gian Franco Kasper plans to help bring back the games in 2022 as part of a planned joint bid with another ritzy Alpine resort, Davos.

Kasper acknowledges that the project to make St. Moritz the first three-time Winter Games host is an intensely personal one.

Kasper tells The Associated Press: “My grandfather was involved in 1928, and my father was president ... of the ’48 Olympics.”

Pair tied at 129 goals as US plays Canada today

VANCOUVER, British Columbia

Abby Wambach and Christine Sinclair have spent the last two weeks chasing each other, chasing history and chasing a place in the London Olympics.

Part three has been accomplished. Wambach and the U.S. women’s soccer team qualified for the Summer Games on Friday night by beating Costa Rica. Sinclair and the Canadians punched their ticket a couple of hours later with a win over Mexico.

The United States and Canada play each other today in the championship game of the qualifying tournament.

Wambach and Sinclair are tied with 129 career goals. They’re one behind Kristine Lilly — and still quite a few behind Mia Hamm’s world-record 158.

Vindicator staff/wire reports