Sunday, February 24, 2013
Hunkus is golden
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Tealle Hunkus, a graduate of Girard High School, teamed with Summer Ross to capture gold at the NORCECA Beach Circuit volleyball tournament.
The American tandem defeated a pair of Mexican players who had won the past nine NORCECA event titles.
Basketball tickets
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Brookfield High School will sell tickets for its boys basketball tournament game on Monday from 8 a.m. until 3 p.m.
Brookfield plays Grand Valley on Monday at Howland High School at 8 p.m.
Curbstone Coaches
BOARDMAN
Reid Lamport of the Christian Ministry will be the guest speaker at the Curbstone Coaches meeting.
The group will meet at the Blue Wolfe Catering Centre Monday at noon.
Lamport coached softball at Poland High School.
Reporting prep results
The Vindicator encourages coaches and statisticians to report prep results by email (sports@vindy.com) or fax (330-747-6712).
Phone calls (330-747-1478) are also acceptable but emails and faxes are strongly preferred. Deadline is 10 p.m.
Pair win snowboard World Cup races
MOSCOW
Stanislav Detkov of Russia and Caroline Calve of Canada won parallel slalom races on Saturday for their first snowboard World Cup victories of the season.
On a huge ramp in downtown Moscow, Detkov edged Nevin Galmarini of Italy in the men’s final while Calve beat Aleksandra Krol of Poland for the women’s title.
Roland Fischnaller edged Justin Reiter of the United States for third and claimed the overall discipline title with 2,200 points. Zan Kosir of Slovenia had 1,617 points for second, while Aaron March of Italy finished third. This was the last parallel slalom events of the season.
Orb captures Fountain of Youth horse race
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla.
Orb was covered with gray dirt. So was his jockey, John Velazquez.
That’s what happens when horses are closer to last place than first. They get covered in whatever gets kicked up by the powerful, churning legs of the thoroughbreds racing in front of them.
Orb clearly doesn’t mind. For the third straight outing, he came from way back in the pack to win — his latest rally being on Saturday, when he took advantage of some blistering early fractions to catch and then hold off heavily favored Violence by half a length to win the Grade 2, $400,000 Fountain of Youth Stakes at Gulfstream Park.
Ive Struck A Nerve takes Risen Star Stakes
NEW ORLEANS
Long-shot Ive Struck A Nerve edged Code West at the wire in the $400,000 Grade II Risen Star Stakes on Saturday at the Fair Grounds.
Ive Struck A Nerve, Code West and Palice Malice were nose to nose down the stretch in the final prep for the Louisiana Derby. Code West overtook pacesetter Proud Strike at the half-mile pole, setting up the stretch run.
I’ve Struck a Nerve, ridden by James Graham, went off at 99-1 and paid $272.40, $110.60 and $42.40. Louisiana bred Ive Struck A Nerve broke a streak of Florida-bred horses winning the past three Risen Star Stakes.
N.F’s Destiny snares Big A feature event
NEW YORK
N F.’s Destiny extended his winning streak to three with another dominant victory, beating Dawly by 21/2 lengths Saturday in the $62,000 allowance feature at Aqueduct.
After 4-year-old gelding, ridden by Jose Ortiz and trained by Linda Rice, shook off an early challenge from Crown the Chief, the 3-5 favorite was unchallenged the rest of the way. The trio of wins by a combined 121/2 lengths lifted his overall record to 4 for 7.
Vindicator staff/wire reports