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Tennis
Roddick won’t play French Open
Andy Roddick withdrew from the French Open on Monday because of a right shoulder injury and hopes to be ready for Wimbledon.
The sixth-ranked American, who lost in the first round at Roland Garros the last two years, retired from the semifinals of the Rome Masters on May 10. He skipped the Hamburg Masters last week, but had been expected to play this week at the World Team Cup in Duesseldorf.
Roddick won his only Grand Slam title at the 2003 U.S. Open. He has reached three other major finals, losing to Roger Federer twice at Wimbledon and once at the U.S. Open.
Baseball
Stew Davis leads Linfield
Ex-Freeman and Central Valley athlete Stew Davis was named to the all-tournament team and Linfield rebounded from a first-round loss to win the Central Region for a berth in the NCAA Division III World Series.
The eight-team tournament is May 23-27 at Fox Cities Stadium in Appleton, Wis. Linfield’s last regional championship was in 1971. Former major leaguer Scott Brosius is the Wildcats’ first-year coach.
Davis, a junior outfielder, batted .526 in five games as Linfield (34-11) won four straight in the tournament at Augustana College in Moline, Ill., after its opening 2-1 loss to Wisconsin-Stevens Point.
He singled in a run during a victory over top-ranked Illinois Wesleyan’s previous unbeaten pitcher, and had three hits in a 7-5 victory over Wartburg, including a double.
Davis was 3 for 4 in a 10-1 win over Augustana and added two more hits in the title-clinching, 4-3 victory over Webster.
Track and field
Javelin nails photographer
A newspaper photographer got a little too close to the action at the Utah state high school championships in Provo – and was speared through the leg by a javelin.
Ryan McGeeney of the Ogden Standard-Examiner was spared serious injury Saturday, and even managed to snap a photo of his speared leg while others tended to him.
“If I didn’t, it would probably be my editor’s first question when I got back,” McGeeney said.
The 33-year-old McGeeney, an ex-Marine who spent six months in Afghanistan, was taking pictures of the discus event and apparently wandered into an off-limits area set aside for the javelin.
Striking just below the knee, the javelin tip went through the skin and emerged on the other side of his leg.
“It wasn’t real painful. … I was very lucky in that it didn’t hit any blood vessels, nerves, ligaments or tendons,” McGeeney said.
Much of the javelin was cut off at the scene. The piece in McGeeney’s leg was removed at a hospital, and he received 13 stitches.