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The speedy infielder stole secondand scored when A ltoona sB rettRo- neberg the game MVP, singled. he run gave Curve left- hander Shane ouman started the 0lead entered in the seventh and escaped aself inflictedjam started the inning with a walk and a single, forced a popup and induced twofielder choices to bridge a 4-3 lead to the last two innings Th eS outhernD ivisionscored three runs in thesixth byR oneberg stwo out run single. owie sJ amesJ ohnson pitched theeighth while Baysox teammate Marino Salas saved the win before a crowdo 0 8, the largestall star game crowd i nEastern League history. orresbatted threetimes second plate appearance went down as afielder choice after the urve sS imonP ondwas thrown out rounding third. He popped up in his third at-b a t.

ouzmanoffbatted fivetimes and singled once, toleft center in the fifth inning.H estruck out in the first, lined out in the third, flied out to left in the sixth and popped out in the eighth. orres was removed after the fifth inning, whileS mithdidn enter the game.I twa fasurprise that Akron and Altoona players created theaction since both teams have been the division selite heA eros swept the final three games of the 2000 regular season series to eliminate the urve from the playoffs, then knocked Altoona out of the outhernD ivision postseason in 2003 and 2005. like what (Ti m)L eiper theA ltoonamanager )said when both these teams are playing its own all star a ouzmanoffsaid In each year that Akron eliminated A ltoona the Aeros advanced to win the league championship got a ring last Bay said itching foranother Th eway the first half of the season has shapedu Aeros will be in the mix for their third championship in four seasons. aturally ltoona will be the biggest obstacle. The Curve are only games behind the A eros he series is tied ateight games apiece this year, with seven games left.

Akron hosts a three game seriesJ uly1 7-1 9and visits Altoona for afour game set August 28-3 next to last series of the season. haven tbeen playing our best Smith said, nice to get some rest and alittle break itcherY ouman spent all of last year with theC urve and is well aware of the battles the two teams have had. yhit the ball out ofthe ballpark get the runners over, steal bases, all the littlethings he said. guys make you pitch course he added, sure they say the same thing about our Triple-A All-Star Game IL shines in quick shutout urhamB ullsslugger goes 3-f r-3with one home run, three RBI By Stephanie Storm eaconJ ournalsportswriter OLEDO: Th eP acificC oastand I nternationalL eagueA ll tars swapped strengths Wednesday night in the riple AAl l-St a Ga e. hePCL known for its offensive prowess, managed just two hits and was shut out in the quickest game inT riple A Al l-St a rhistory (2 hours, 16min utes hepitching dominatedIL earned its 6-0 victory mainly on the strength of a slugging offense as the home team pounded out nine hits includingthree home runs.

would have been toughfor us beforehand to draw it up any better IL andT oledoM ud ensmanager Larry Parrish said evinW itt the sstarting first baseman, earnedhis league smost valuable player honors eD urhamB ullsveter an slugger went 3-f r-3with a home run and three RBI. was great, something I ll never forget, to be able to perform well in a game like this among all these all stars itt said itcherR ichH ill(6-1 with a 1.8 1ERA with theI owaC ubs was named the PCL most valuable player for starting thegame with two scoreless innings. eoutcome of the game is kind of Hill said. about going out there and showcasing your stuff and having heI LAll tars took a3-0 lead in the third inning withthe help of Wi runhomer eleads both leagues with23 home runs at the break. was kind of redemption for not doing well in the( home run )derby said itt bowed out of the event Tuesday night with just three homers.

itt who spent lastseason playing for theY okohamaBa y- tarsof the Japanese Central eague capped his bignight with a run scoring double in the fifth inning off Round Rock Express pitcher Jason irsh In the seventh inning, Kevin arker of the Syracuse ky hiefs who took Wi slot) and Ryan Raburn of the Mud enstook Sacramento River atspitcher Matt Roney deep for back to back home runs. uffaloB isons third baseman A ndyM arte who wonT ues a run derby with 29 homers took over at third inthe sixth inning.I nhis loneat batin the seventh, Marte flew out to left field. utfielderJ asonD ubois f- falo other all star entered asa pinch hitter in the sixthinning and was 1-f r-2with a single. tephanieS torm can be reached at sstorm thebeaconjournal com AREA BRIEFS luto to speak a tStow library eaconJ ournalsports columnist Terry Pluto will speak at 7 tonight at the Stow ublicL ibrary at 3512 Darrow Ro a d. A dmission is free.

Pluto will discuss books he has written including his latest work ealing an inside look at the front office of the I ndians A book signingand question and answersession will follow. oftballplayers bound for Walsh Th e2006 softball recruiting class at Walsh niversity includes several local players: Kar aHoller (El essicaH udnall (El icoleI rwin( anton So mandaP atrick loverleaf helsea aunders( ighland aura chmidt( ackson rystal herry( armaH olyNa e), hannonS pellacy runswick and Jodi Stanley indham oller hit .357 as a senior, with 25 hits and 34 RBI. She was named first teamAl l- ityS eries and Academic Al l- ityS eries for four years. udnall hit .350 as a senior and was named first team Al l-Ci yS eries and Academic Al l-Ci yS eries for four years. Sh eearned llet sD efense A ward four times.

Irwin was second teamAl l-N Cand a member of the 2006 NBC championship team. atrick was an Academic A ward winner and a second- team A ll uburbanL eague selection aundersearned first teamA ll uburban eague and second teamAl l- istrict ehit .352 and compiled more than 100 hits in her career. Schmidt hit .341 as a junior. Sherry was 17-1 0 as a senior, with a 1.0 8ERA and 204 strikeouts and a state- record 13 home runs, while hitting 524 ewas named second team Al l-Oh i o. pellacy hit .337 as a senior and .343 career in her career.

tanley hit .407 as a senior and earned these awards: OHSAA Courageous tudent resident sE ducational xcellence and Archie Griffin portsmanship Denso Japan 1, Racers 0 omeya spitching shuts down Racers ack of offense leads to fifth loss in a row By Nat eUlrich pecial to the Beacon Journal hecontrasting styles of softball that were on display ednesdaya tFirestone tadi um appeared to come from two different worlds. A lthough the Akron Racers (1 3-1 1)didn actually play a team from another planet, they did face Denso apan a professional team from the Japanese oftballL eague ensoJ apan relies on speed and defense rather than the power hitting game on which its American counterparts thrive. peed conquered power in the opener of the four games e- ries as Denso Japan defeated the Racers 1-0. ensoJ apan starting pitcher ikaS omeya prevented the acers offense from doingany damage he threw a perfect game through four innings and finished with a one hitshutout ethrew Racers manager Judy Martino said of omeya ehad a varietyof pitches she was throwing a rise ball and her drop was off- speed which gave us heR acers have an excellent opportunity to break the game open with the bases loaded and no outs in the bottom of the fifth. Howev omeya worked out of the inning unscathed.

omeya fielded aground ball and threw home torecord the force out. Th acers catcher Kristen Butler was caught stealing home in ahit and run that wenthaywire acerspinch hitterS tephanie omes grounded out to shortto end the inning. estruggling at bat, and sunusual for ourteam because we have somevery good Martino said. inally when we did getrun ners on, we execute ensoJ apan second baseman Mayuko Matsuo singled to left field to drive in Kumi Ki n- ugasa for the lone run. acers pitcher Brandee A rthur allowed one run, four hits and struck out eight in seven innings, but she get the run support neededto register the win.

A rthur said theR acers need a spark to end theirfive game losing streak. ometimesit takes something random to changethings around A rthursaid ea good hitting team, and I think we will come around WKNR radio plans to drop Mi By David Le eMorgan Jr. eaconJ ournalsportswriter ports talk radio listeners who regularly tune in to WKNR (8 5 0-A M)to listen to ESPN Mike inthe orning show soon will need to search for it on a different station WKNR programdirector ichaelL uczak said the ike Mike show aired weekdays m6t o9a.m., will be dropped this fall, alongwith other ESPN programming. Th emorning show, broadcast on ESPN radio affiliates and shown on ESPN television hosted by Mike reenberg and formerfoot ball star and Clevelander ikeG olic nWKNR the fourth hour of the ESPN show ispre empted for local programming that features host Greg rinda from 9 a.m. to noon.

nthe WKNR radio station Web site, the ike show is not listed with the rest of the daytime and early evening programming. here has beenspecula tion that an existing radiosig nal has been acquired and will feature ESPN programming. owever particular station has not been identified. elearned thatESPN will be going 24 hours, seven days a week to a new owner that we anticipate will pretty much present ESPN 24 hours a Luczak said. we at WKNR thought that putting on ESPN 24 hours a day would be profitable and productive in terms of ratings and revenue, we would ve made that move a long time uczak said exploring options for the 6t o9a.m.

time slotwhen Mike is taken off the air. avidLe eM organJr. can be reached at 330 996 3824or dlmorgan thebeaconjournal com MLB notebook evilR ays send Huff oAstros for prospects A ssociatedP ress heH oustonA strosa c- quired third baseman Au ufffrom the Tampa Ba yDe vi lRays for two minor league prospects ednesday uff can help revive the Astros struggling offense, which is tied for last in the National eague in batting average. Hu went to high school and junior college in exas hit .283 with eight home runs and 28 RBI in 63 games for the Devil Rays this season. I nhis sixthmajor league season uff has a career batting average of.

287 with 128 home runs and 449 RBI. heD evilR aysreceived right handerM itchT albotand infielder Be nZobrist omake room for uff ouston will send Jason Lane oTriple AR oundRo k. A fungo accident hicagoC ubsright handed pitcher Carlos Zambrano was accidentally hit in the elbow by the fungo bat ofA merican eague coach Joey Cora atthe Al l-St a rG ameo nTuesday ambrano was near the batting cage to do an interview with Venezuelan reporters when ora sbackswing inadvertently hit him. X-rays were negative and he has a bruise. ubsG eneralM anagerJi endry said Wednesday that ambrano was OK.

Al l-St a rratings up elevision ratings forthe Al l-St a rG ame were up 15 percent over last sgame the largest increase in 24 years. he game itself hada 9.3 rating and 16 share with an average of 14.4 million viewers. astyear game got an 8.1 a ting and a 14 share, thesecond year in a row that the game had plummeted to record low. lementehonored aseballpaid an emotional tribute to Roberto Clemente in front of his hometown fans in ittsburgh during Tuesday night sAl l-St a rGa e. efore the fifth inning lemente swidow era c- cepted the historic achievement award from commission- rBu dSelig in an on field ceremony that had AL manager zzieG uillen wipe away tears.

one of my uillensaid eof my kids is named Roberto and why this means a lot to eligsaid Clemente was selected because of his enormous historical impact on the game of baseball. Clemente was killed in a plane crash on New Ye a e1972 while on a humanitarian mission, delivering relief supplies after an earthquake in icaragua auerbeck gets orders aklandA thleticsleft hand rScott Sauerbeck was ordered to speak to children about alcohol for fleeing police along with a woman charged with driving his car while drunk. heformer Tribe pitcher pleaded guilty in Avon Lake unicipalC ourtto obstruction of official business and permitting an intoxicated personto drive his car.H ewas fined $1,7 5 0and ordered to address students about alcohol use. Cavaliers Gooden talks have accomplished little ontinued from Page C1 ooden scase is that more valuable than his numbers because he tget plays run for him and hisplay ing time dwindled after the arrival of Donyell Marshall and the maturation ofA nderson arejao big men who put up near double double numbers have beengetting paid big money because they are hard to find. An isproving hard to keep rownimpressing I tis still just uly but the avscouldn tbe more pleased with first rounddraft pick hannonB rownin thesummer league fter scoring 12 points in the s78-7 0win over the Ne wOrleans klahoma ityH ornets rownis averaging 13.3 points three rebounds and three assists in four games.

onday rown a shooting guard was pressed intop i guard duty when fellow rookie anielG ibson missed ag a with a soreknee handled it very well, hinting he could play some minutes there during the regular season. still has a way to go and to prove he cansustain this level of play when we get to training Cavs coach ikeB rownsaid twhat eseen sofar ebeen very impressed ibson returned ednes day and scored 10 points and is averaging 9. 3points and four assists in three games. ameshonored ames was awarded the ommunityA ssist A ward for June on ednesday Hi ssecond annual bikeathonin A kron was a great success, involving more than 3 000chil dren rianW indhorst can be reached at bwindhor thebeaconjournal com heck out indhorst sC avaliers weblog at http blogs ohio com cavaliers blog NBA Free agency begins with flurry of activity ontinued from Page C1 It was widely reported in recent days that Wade agreed to sign a five year extension with the eat but no such pact was ever in place. I nstead this deal givesW ade the chance to secureanother long term extension beforethe collective bargaining agreement expires.

inrich replaces Redick hicagoB ulls guard Kirk inrichwas added Wednesday to the U.S. national team, which needs another outsideshooting threat with J.J. Redick injured. inrichaveraged a career best1 5.9points last season and was even better in the playoffs 20. 5points and 7.7 assists as the Bulls pushed eventual champion Miami to six games in the first round.

A ble to play either guard spot inrich shot 37percent from 3 point range duringthe regular season. edick one of the original 23 players chosen, has said he be available for trainingcamp because of a backinjury he team reports to camp in La sVe- gas onJ uly1 9.Th eroster eventually will be reduced to 12play ers for the Au g.1 9-Se t.3 world championships in apan otebook The Los Angeles Clippers gave a two year deal to guard Sa mC assell who sparked them to within a game of the Western onference finals last season. utforward Vladimir adma novic opted not to returnand will try to provide a perimeter threat forK obeB ryant and the Lo sA ngelesL akers The New Orleans Hornets acquired sharpshooter Peja St o- jakovic and cash considerations from the Indiana Pacers in exchange for the draft rights to Andrew etts Guard Speedy laxton runner up for the ssixth man award last season, left the ornets for afour yeardeal worth about $2 5.5million with the Atlanta awks The Uta hJazz sent guards evinB rown eithMcLe and Andre Owens to the Golden tateW arriors for guardD erek isher heJ azz fell just short of a playoff berth last season also re signed forward Matt arpringto a four year 5mil lion deal. The Memphis Grizzlies acquired and then signed Rudy Ga eighth pick in the draft, along with Stromile Swift for forward Shane attier etrade means that five of the first eight players selected on draft night have been dealt. The Dallas Mavericks got A ustinC rosherefrom the Pacers for Marquis Daniels in a previously agreed to trade.

MADALYN RUGGIERO A ssociatedP ress Be nH endrickson of the Nashville Sounds hangs out in the dugout during the riple AAl l-St a rG amea tFifth Third ield home of the oledoMu dHe nWednesday MINOR MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL RACERS was great, something never forget, to be able to perform well in a game like this among all these all stars KEVIN WITT IL starting first baseman and league most valuable player www.Oh i o.c mA kronB eaconJ ournal hursday uly1 3,2006 C5 Story System AKRE by BSHELLIT Time 2:41 Date Color layer: Black 54X Pg. Date Topic: INL TAKES Keyword INL TAKEPage 1 C5, Black, EDITION 4X, DAY 13.