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BRIDGEPORT, W.Va. — Butler Country Club's Rob McClellan placed second among professionals at Monday's Oxford Golf Pro-Scratch Amateur event with a 2-under 70, three strokes behind Totteridge Golf Course's Ryan Sikora.

McClellan also teamed with George Bilowick to tie for fifth in the pro-amateur standings after the duo shot a 68, eight shots off the pace.

NEW YORK — Marion Jones gave back the five medals she won at the Sydney Olympics and agreed to forfeit all other results dating back to Sept. 1, 2000, further punishment for her admission that she was a drug cheat.The three gold medals and two bronzes were turned over by her attorneys in Austin, Texas Monday. They are en route to U.S. Olympic Committee headquarters in Colorado Springs, and the USOC will return them to the International Olympic Committee.After long denying she ever had used performance-enhancing drugs, Jones admitted Friday that she'd taken the designer steroid "the clear" from September 2000 to July 2001.

CARNEGIE — Four Butler County Horseshoe League players won a seven-team tournament Saturday.The four players — Guy Rider, Butch Neff and Ed Cypher of O'Donnell's, and Vern Schrecengost of Keihl Tire — entered under the name of O'Donnell's and tallied 726 points.

CLARION — Karns City junior quarterback-defensive back Anthony Stimac was named Clarion Hospital Athletic Medicine Program KSACPlayer of the Week.Stimac completed nine of 17 passes for 193 yards and three touchdowns, rushed eight times for 55 yards and intercepted a pass in the Gremlins' 31-7 win over Clarion.

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