D2 DIGEST PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL Green Bay Packer accused of sexual assault
Wisconsin community of Lake Delton say a Green Bay Packers player is under investigation for the alleged sexual assault of two women early Saturday. Police have not identified the
player and say no one has been arrested. Sgt. Gerald Grimsled says of-
ficers responded to a Lake Del- ton condo around 4:20 a.m. Sat- urday on a report that two women were sexually assaulted. He says seven players were questioned and all cooperated. He says they were all released but police are still investigating whether one of the players was involved in assaulting the wom- en.
Grimsled says the six others are not suspected of criminal activity. They
are Matthew
Flynn, Khalil Jones, Joshua Sitton, Korey Hall, Bradley Jones and Clay Matthews. ... Buffalo Bills rookie left tackle
Ed Wang was carted off the field at the end of a voluntary minicamp practice with a left leg injury. The fifth-round draft pick out of Virginia Tech was unable to put any weight on the leg after hurting it when he col- lided with a defender while pass blocking near the end of practice.
PRO BASKETBALL A group of Utah Jazz fans has sued the team’s corporate par- ent, claiming a new seating pol- icy has caused their VIP seats to plummet in value. Members of the Jazz 100
Club, in their complaint filed Friday in 3rd District Court, are seeking more than $19million in damages. The dispute stems from a
January policy change allowing all season-ticket holders to also transfer ownership rights to their seats at EnergySolutions Arena. Previously, only 220 court- side seats that were held by the 50 to 60 club members could be sold or bequeathed, an exclusiv- ity that increased their value. Club members say their seat positions that once sold for as much as $200,000 now go for $20,000, a drop of 90 percent. ...
Katie Douglas sank five three-pointers to finish with 19 points as the WNBA’s Indiana Fever (3-3) defeated the visiting New York Liberty, 78-73. Cappie Pondexter had 21 points for New York (2-3).
COLLEGES Taylor Floyd birdied the 18th hole of the Honors Course to win his match, while Henrik Norlander eagled the 17th to take another and send Augusta State to its first NCAA men’s golf final against powerhouse Oklahoma State in Chattanoo- ga, Tenn. The Jaguars are in the NCAA tournament for the 11th time while top-seeded Oklahoma State, winner of 10 national ti- tles, has appeared in every tour- nament in the championship’s 64-year history. . . . Buddy Sosnoski homered
twice and drove in six runs, and Ronnie Shaban added four RBI as Virginia Tech eliminated Bucknell from the NCAA base- ball tournament with a 16-7 vic- tory in Columbia, S.C. . . . Matt Wessinger homered
twice and drove in four runs, and St. John’s weathered a three-run ninth for Virginia Commonwealth to win, 8-6, in a Charlottesville region elimina- tion game of the NCAA tourna- ment. . . .
Garrett Wittels extended his
hitting streak to 56 games, but Florida International was elim- inated by Dartmouth with a 15-9 loss in the NCAA Coral Ga- bles regional. . . . Tyler Johnson pitched eight innings of six-hit ball and Stony Brook used a six-run first in- ning to eliminate North Caro- lina State, 6-2, at the Myrtle Beach regional. It was the first NCAA tournament win in Divi- sion I for the Seawolves (30-26), who had been 0-5 in college’s top tier before this victory. . . . Kenzie Fowler bounced back from a rocky Women’s College World Series debut and Karis- sa Buchanan scored twice as Arizona eliminated defending national softball champion Washington with a 4-3 win in Oklahoma City.
OBITUARY Former Virginia Athletics Di-
rector Jim Copeland has died. He was 65. The University of Virginia said Copeland died at his home in Charlottesville on Friday after a long battle with cancer.
Copeland was athletics direc-
tor at the University of Virginia from 1987 until 1994. He also had served as direc-
tor of athletics at the College of William and Mary, Utah and Southern Methodist. — From News Services
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SUNDAY, JUNE 6, 2010
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Edison’s Myah Hicks, center, breaks from the pack in outrunning Churchland’s Cydney Robinson, left, to win the 800-meter run at the Virginia AAA state championships in Richmond. Robinson led with 200 meters to go but Hicks surged ahead to win in 2:10.55.
VIRGINIA AAA TRACK AND FIELD Walker runs career best, wins 3,200
Chantilly’s Foley wins boys’ 3,200; Osbourn Park girls fourth
by Carl Little
richmond — Katherine Walk- er doesn’t do tactical strikes. She’s all shock and awe. Walker blitzed the competition in the 3,200 meters at the Vir- ginia AAA championships on Sat- urday and won in a career-best 10 minutes 30.08 seconds. The Brooke Point senior made the other four girls who finished in under 11 minutes look rather or- dinary, beating runner-up Court- ney Dobbs of Deep Run by 11 sec- onds in the sweltering heat at Sports Backers Stadium. “This is awesome,” Walker said. Western Branch won the girls’ team championship in over- whelming fashion over Phoebus and Landstown. Osbourn Park was the top Washington-area team, finishing in fourth place.
Ocean Lakes won the boys’ title ahead of Western Branch and Landstown. Lake Braddock tied Meadowbrook for eighth place and was the top Washington-area boys’ team. Walker, a Virginia signee, rock-
eted to the lead in the 3,200 as soon as the pistol fired and never looked back. She finished the first mile in 5:11 with an 11-second lead over the field. “I like to cre- ate my own bubble and pretend nobody’s there,” she said. Pretending wasn’t necessary.
Many of the other girls were wilt- ing in the heat, but Walker stayed strong. After nearly eight laps of work, she beamed as she closed out the final 100 meters. Walker returned three hours
later in the 1,600 and placed fourth in 4:59.64. Kathleen Laut- zenheiser (Midlothian) was the winner in 4:56.22. Walker’s time in the 3,200 was
57 seconds faster than what she ran at the 2009 state meet. Satur- day was also the first time the four-year runner had qualified in the 1,600.
GOLF Police in the south-central ROUNDUP
Young Fowler enjoys 3-shot lead at Memorial
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Tyler Johnson pitches eight innings of six-hit ball to help Stony Brook eliminate N.C. State from the NCAA baseball tournament.
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Rickie Fowler showed poise be- yond his 21 years, unfazed by six hours of rain delays Saturday at the Memorial or a series of charg- es up the leader board to keep his three-shot lead at Muirfield Vil- lage in Dublin, Ohio. Another long day left him one round away from joining the PGA Tour youth movement. Fowler showed some imagina- tion with a cut 9-iron over the wa- ter to six feet for his first birdie of the round, and he kept bogeys off his card for the second straight day to shoot 3-under-par 69 to lead Tim Petrovic (68) and Ricky Barnes, who shot a tournament- best 62 while playing alongside Tiger Woods. Fowler was at 16-under 200 and had the largest 54-hole lead at the Memorial since Woods led by six shots in 2000. “I’m hitting the ball well,”
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Fowler said. “I kept it out of trou- ble, and I knew opportunities were coming around. It was a matter of waiting for them.” Patience doesn’t seem to fit with the trend toward youth. Fowler will try to become the third PGA Tour winner in the last six weeks age 22 or younger, join- ing Rory McIlroy, who won Quail Hollow two days before his 21st birthday, and Jason Day, who was 22 when he won the Byron Nel- son Championship. The largest crowd at Muirfield
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Village followed Woods, and the cheers were loud and frequent. They just weren’t for him.
21-year-old rookie
Barnes began his round my making a 40-foot birdie down the hill. Woods began his by walking to the hole as his birdie putt was about to drop, only to see it spin around the cup. Barnes holed out a 9-iron for eagle on No. 11 to reach 7 under for the day, and he kept right on going until he had the lowest round of his career, and the best score of the week. For the first time since Woods
returned to competition, he re- fused to speak to the media. “I’m done,” he said to a PGA Tour offi- cial before walking over a bridge toward the locker room, stopping to sign a few autographs at the top of a hill. Woods had a 69, which included a double bogey on the 10th hole. He was at 6- under 210, tied for 20th, well out of contention. A four-time winner at the Memorial, Woods has not been this far out of the lead since he finished 17 shots behind in 1998. CHAMPIONS TOUR: Nick Price shot a 6-under 65 to pull into a tie with Tommy Armour III after sec- ond-round play at the Principal Charity Classic in West Des Moines, Iowa.
Two-way P.G. Open tie
Jin Park and B.J. Staten will head into Sunday’s final round with a one-shot lead at the Na- tionwide Tour Prince George’s County Open at University of Maryland Golf Course. Park fired a 5-under-par 66, while Staten finished with a 3-under 68, both a shot ahead of Justin Peters. Former University of Maryland
golfers George Bradford and Bob- by MacWhinnie are at 3 under, 11 shots back. Tee times for Sunday’s final round have been moved up because of potential afternoon thunderstorms. The leaders go off at 9:20 a.m.
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The Flyers’ Chris Pronger, right, battling with Chicago’s Dustin Byfuglien, has been a defensive stalwart in the Stanley Cup finals.
Philadelphia at Chicago
What: Game 5, Stanley Cup finals. Series tied 2-2. Where: United Center. When: 8 p.m. TV: WRC (Channel 4), WBAL (Channel 11). Pronger on the prowl: After four games, there’s no debating that towering Flyers D Chris Pronger has had the biggest impact on the Stanley Cup finals. The 35-year-old leads the finals in plus-minus rating (plus-7), time on ice (twice he’s skated more than 32 minutes) and has 17 hits and 13 blocked shots. Most important, though, his 6-foot-6 frame is a major reason Blackhawks stars Patrick Kane and Jonathan Toews have been limited to a total of three points and spent the third period of Game 4 on separate lines. “He’s one of the best of all time,” Chicago center Patrick Sharp said. “He managed to do it under the old rules before the lockout and he’s been able to change his game a little bit and still be a dominant defenseman today.” Special stuff: The Flyers are dominating the special teams battle. Their penalty kill is 13 for 14 (91.6 percent) while the Scott
Hartnell-led power play has a 31.3 percent success rate (5 for 16), the highest since Wayne Gretzky’s Oilers connected at a 32 percent clip in 1988. Philadelphia is also getting plenty of help from the Blackhawks, who have taken six slashing penalties, three roughings and two cross-checking infractions. “We can be a bit smarter with our sticks,” Blackhawks winger Kris Versteeg said. “Sometimes it’s a careless penalty.” Not so Buff: Chicago’s Dustin Byfuglien was a terror in front of the net in the second and third rounds, recording a hat trick and four game winners. But the 6-4, 257-pound winger has been limited to a single assist against the Flyers and hasn’t spent much time near the crease, an area patrolled by a snarling Pronger. Byfuglien, in fact, has only six shots on goal. Pronger “is what he is,” Chicago Coach Joel Quenneville said when asked what Byfuglien needs to do differently against Philadelphia’s top defenseman. “We have to be more physical and we have to be harder on him and make it tougher.” —Tarik El-Bashir
“I never dreamed in a million
years I’d be here,” Walker said. It was a Northern Virginia sweep in the 3,200 as Chantilly senior Chris Foley won the boys’ race in 9:08.43. The Virginia sig- nee had the lead at the halfway point, broke away from his last competitor with about 125 meters to go and lifted his hands in cel- ebration as he crossed the line. Northern Virginia athletes also swept the shot put. Freedom sen- ior Tiera Williams won the girls’ competition with a throw of 40 feet 9.5 inches. Woodbridge jun- ior Isaiah Simmons, Friday’s dis- cus champion, was the top boy with 60-2. Stafford senior Matt Hazelgren won his first pole vault champi- onship with 15-6. Lake Braddock senior Matt Hoogland was run- ner-up with 15-0. Back on the track, Myah Hicks (Edison) and Cydney Robinson (Churchland) danced in the 800- meter run, but couldn’t agree on who would lead. Hicks had the better footwork, so she had the fi- nal say.
Generational speed: Annandale sophomore Ahmed Bile was second in the boys’ 800 meters in 1:54.21 and got a warm greeting at the finish line from his dad, Abdi Bile, the gold medalist in the 1,500 at the 1987 world championships. Gray area: Brooke Point junior Roderque Gray earned all-state honors in three events, finishing fourth in the boys’ 100 (11.11), 200 (22.10) and 4 x 100 relay (42.28).
MORE PHOTOS See a picture gallery from the AAA track meet
at
AllMetSports.com Robinson pulled ahead of
Hicks with about 200 meters to go, but Hicks surged one last time, re-took the lead for good and drove through the line in a state-leading 2:10.55. “I wanted to challenge anyone who came up next to me,” said Hicks, who finished the season undefeated. “I was scared a little at first, but I just pushed all the way.”
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