Manny’s on the move. Junior, too. With more than 1,100 homers between them, two of baseball’s greatest sluggers switched leagues just before the trade deadline Thursday to play prominent roles for playoff contenders.
AUBURN - Bobby Wyatt of Mobile was crowned the 2008 Alabama State Junior Amateur champion Thursday. The 61st playing of the event was held at Saugahatchee Country Club in Auburn.
Trade frenzy: Ramirez goes to the Dodgers; Griffey now with White Sox. Phils make no deals. Manny’s on the move. Junior, too.
The Gwatney Chevrolet Junior Legion squad won two and lost two at Batesville, finishing fourth in the state tournament this weekend. The tournament marked the end of the Junior team’s season.
BATESVILLE — The Junior Legion Colts finished their season with two losses in the state tournament last week. The Colts began tournament play on Thursday with a loss to host Batesville, 11-7. David Hohn started on the mound for North Little Rock.
EDMONTON - Canada had 23 hits in a 25-1 pounding of the Czech Republic at the World Junior Baseball Championship on Thursday.
Less than two months removed from the Stanford St. Jude Championship, amateur golfers competed Thursday in the final round at TPC Southwind. The fourth annual Stanford Financial Junior Championship, hosted by former PGA Tour player David Gossett, provided a challenging course with fast greens.
HONG KONG (Reuters) - India’s junior finance minister said on Friday the country’s economy was strong despite inflation, currently at almost 12 percent, and said measures to curb rising prices would have an effect “a little later.”
The birthday celebration started one day early for Kearney native Ryan Zech, who on Thursday took home the Lockton/Capitol Federal Kansas City Junior Championship. Zech, who turns 16 today, shot a final-round 70 to finish with an 8-under 208 for the tournament, held at the Oakwood Country Club.
Brinson Paolini of Virginia Beach shot a bogey-free 6-under-par 66 in the final round today to win the 56th Virginia State Golf Association Boys Junior Amateur Championship in Blacksburg. Paolini, 17, finished the tournament at 12-under 204 — the lowest 54-hole total since the event went to all stroke play in 1964 — to record his second straight championship in the junior event. Also this …
