LOCAL NOTES : SUPPAN RECALLED BY RED SOX.Byline: Daily News Former Crespi High School pitcher Jeff Suppan will start on the mound for the Boston Red Sox against the Minnesota Twins today in the second game of a doubleheader at Fenway Park. Suppan, 21, was recalled from Triple-A Pawtucket Friday. He was 10-6 and led the International League in strikeouts. ``He's ready for the majors,'' Red Sox general manager Dan Duquette said. Baseball team in final: The Westlake Senators have advanced to the championship game of the National AAU baseball tournament for 13-year-olds in Chickasha Chickasha (chĭk`əshā), city (1990 pop. 14,988), seat of Grady co., S central Okla., on the Washita River; inc. 1898. It lies in an agricultural area. Chickasha manufactures furniture, medical equipment and supplies, house trailers, fabricated metal products, and animal feeds. The Oklahoma College of Liberal Arts is in Chickasha., Okla. Marshall Plouffe hit a game-winning two-run home run in the bottom of the seventh inning to give the Senators an 11-10 win over the Southern California Rebels on Friday. Fab 50 picks: Westlake's Jason Lee, Notre Dame's Bro Richmond, Harvard-Westlake's Jason Morrow, Granada Hills' Donald Puathasnanon and Thousand Oaks' Scott Sheridan have been selected to Volleyball magazine's Fabulous 50, a list of the top high school graduating seniors in the nation. Golf: Russell Surber from La Canada Flintridge and Jason Semelsberger from Newhall are 13 shots off the pace after three rounds of the American Junior Golf Association boys' junior championship in Trophy Club, Texas. Both are at 221. The leader, Charles Howell of Augusta, Ga., is at 208. Basketball benefit: L.A. sports and entertainment personalities will be participating in the second annual Friends of Belize Celebrity Basketball Game Aug. 10 at 3 p.m. at Crenshaw High School. Former Notre Dame High star Nigel Miguel, Belize's Goodwill Ambassador to the United States, is helping organize the event that will include Clippers guard Pooh Richardson, ex-UCLA star Marques Johnson and actor Mark Curry. Admission is $10 for adults, $5 for students. Girls' volleyball: Providence and Sylmar won summer girls' volleyball league championships. Sylmar defeated Granada Hills 16-14 in the championship match of one league, with Providence beating Canoga Park in the other. City to start football workouts: City Section football teams are allowed to begin physical conditioning drills on Monday. The first day for full pads and uniform workouts is Aug. 19. Southern Section teams begin fall workouts on Aug. 26. |
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