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Golf

Knox's team earns third-place finish

Mike McCoy's eagle on the par-4 second hole carried his team to victory in the Southern International Four-Ball Championship in West Palm Beach, Fla.

McCoy, of West Des Moines Iowa, teamed with Buddy Marucci of Malvern, Pa., to shoot 6-under-par 66 and win by three shots. The winners finished at 25-under 263 for the 72-hole event at Emerald Dunes Golf Club.

Defending champions Jeff Knox of Augusta and Steve Johnson of Chattanooga, Tenn., closed with 70 and tied for third place, six shots out of first place.

Knox and Johnson were tied for the lead after the first and second rounds following rounds of 65-65.

- In New Orleans, South Carolina coach Puggy Blackmon has been inducted into the Golf Coaches Association of America Hall of Fame.

Blackmon, who coached Geor¤gia Tech from 1983 until coming to South Carolina in 1995, has led his teams to 20 consecutive postseason appearances.

At Georgia Tech, Blackmon won five Atlantic Coast Conference championships and was the ACC Coach of the Year four times.

Swimming

Panther/Pack meet scheduled for today

The eighth annual Panther/Pack Invitational High School Swim and Dive meet will be held today at Augusta Aquatic Center.

More than 500 swimmers from 19 Georgia schools are entered.

Many swimmers will be attempting to make state qualifying times in the individual and relay events in the meet, which is sanctioned by the Georgia High School Association.

Softball

Peach Belt coaches tab Kennesaw State

USC Aiken is eighth and Augusta State ninth in the Peach Belt Conference preseason poll of the league's 11 coaches.

Kennesaw State is the preseason favorite. The Owls received nine of a possible 10 first-place votes for 99 points. North Florida had two first-place votes and seven second-place votes for 91 points.

USC Aiken received 40 points and Augusta State 27.

Track and Field

Gold medalist from Georgia is arrested

Two-time Olympic gold medalist Angelo Taylor was arrested when a police officer allegedly found him having sex with a 15-year-old girl in a parked car.

Taylor, 26, of Decatur, Ga., was charged Thursday with one count each of child molestation and enticing a child for indecent purposes.

Taylor won gold medals in the 400-meter hurdles and 4x400 relay events at the 2000 Sydney Games.

The former Georgia Tech star placed second at the 2004 U.S. Olympic Trials in the 400 but didn't qualify for the final at the Athens Games.

Olympics

Hearings underway for Greek athletes

Greece's track and field federation opened hearings into doping allegations against two star sprinters who missed drug tests before the Athens Olympics.

Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou were forced to pull out of the Aug. 13-29 games after failing to show up for doping controls on the eve of the opening ceremony and being hospitalized after they said they were in a motorcycle crash.

The pair were suspended temporarily in December by the sport's world governing body pending a hearing by the Greek federation. They face a ban of up to two years if found guilty of evading drug tests.

Kenteris won the men's 200 meters at the 2000 Sydney Olympics and Thanou won silver in the women's 100.

l In Seoul, South Korea, suspended IOC vice president Kim Un-yong's two-year prison term for embezzlement and bribery charges was upheld by South Korea's Supreme Court.

Kim was sentenced to two years in jail and ordered to pay $759,000 in fines on corruption charges by an appeals court last September.