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Auto racing Bradich keeps winning
Lou Bradich continued his fantastic season by winning for the sixth time in the Late Models Saturday at Pittsburgh’s Motor Speedway. Bradich started in the front row and held off the field to win the 25-lap feature for his 29th career victory.
Mike Cecere (Advance Auto Parts Crate Late Models) won for the third time. Wayne Tessean raced to his 62nd career Lincoln Welder E-Mod 15-lap feature. Jake Simmons (WBGN-TV Pure Stocks), Robby Torrens (Amateur Stocks) and Dusty Curry (Young Guns) were also victorious.
Ferguson holds off field
Jeff Ferguson started on the outside pole position, pushed right into the lead, and held on Saturday to win the Davies Ford Super Late Models 25-lap feature at Roaring Knob Motorsports Complex in Markleysburg.
Wayne Jordan moved into the lead in the 12th lap and never looked back to take the checkered flag in the 25-lap Garry’s Auto Sales Late Models. Tom Newman (GNH Trucking Street Stocks), Dennis Perigo (Jack’s Auto Crushing AMRA Modifieds) and Don Miller (Ft. Necessity Garage V-8 Chargers) were also victorious.
Basketball
Cremins at Charleston
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – Bobby Cremins is returning to college basketball as coach of the College of Charleston. He has not coached since retiring from Georgia Tech six years ago. “I just really missed the game and I’m thrilled to get a second chance here,” Cremins told The Associated Press.
Cremins said he agreed to a six-year contract. He’ll be formally introduced today.
Cremins spent 19 seasons with the Yellow Jackets, winning three Atlantic Coast Conference titles and reaching the Final Four in 1990. He has worked as a TV analyst on college basketball games since then.
Cremins takes over for Tom Herrion, who last month was bought out of the remaining four seasons of his contract with the Cougars for $787,000.
Cremins is known nationally for luring such stars as Kenny Anderson, John Salley and Stephon Marbury to Georgia Tech. But in South Carolina he’s best known for accepting the job at his alma mater, South Carolina, in 1993 and then going back to the Yellow Jackets three days later.