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Giants promote GreenJackets' Holm

The San Francisco Giants announced Monday that they promoted Augusta GreenJackets catcher Steve Holm to Double-A Norwich.

Holm was batting .233 with five home runs and 31 RBI for Augusta. Rookie Greg McCarthy will replace Holm on the GreenJackets roster. McCarthy batted .333 with four doubles, two home runs and 11 RBI in 18 games with the Giants' rookie team in Arizona.

Hockey

Rookie defenseman signs with Augusta

Ken Scuderi signed with the Augusta Lynx after four collegiate seasons with the Clarkson Golden Knights in Potsdam, N.Y.

The 6-foot-2, 205-pound defenseman scored four goals and 24 points and had a plus-19 rating in 133 career games.

- The Florida Panthers signed four-time All-Star center Joe Nieuwendyk and left wing Gary Roberts away from the Toronto Maple Leafs less than two hours into the free agent signing period.

Both players were unrestricted free agents and the first to agree to contracts after the signing period began Monday at noon. Nieuwendyk and Roberts will both receive $4.5 million over the next two years from Florida, which hasn't won a playoff game since 1997.

Nieuwendyk had 22 goals and 28 assists in 64 games with the Maple Leafs in 2003-04. Roberts, 39, had 20 goals and 28 assists with the Maple Leafs in 2003-04.

- Former Norris Trophy-winning defenseman Randy Carlyle was selected as the new Anaheim Mighty Ducks coach, completing the makeover of a team that also has changed owners and general manager this year.

Carlyle, 49, replaces Mike Babcock, who left the Ducks to become the Detroit Red Wings' coach. He had a 222-159-52-7 record in five seasons as coach at Manitoba, while the team was in the IHL and later the AHL.

- The Boston Bruins acquired forward Brad Isbister from the Edmonton Oilers in exchange for the Bruins' fourth-round draft pick in the 2006 NHL draft.

Isbister has 93 goals and 90 assists in 409 games in seven NHL seasons.

Isbister, a fourth-round pick in the 1995 draft, played for the Phoenix Coyotes and New York Islanders before he was traded to Edmonton in March 2003.

Junior Golf

Local girls excel at world championship

In Williamsburg, Va., North Augusta's McKenzie Talbert and Martinez sisters Taylor and Ashlan Ramsey each finished in the top 10 of their respective age groups at the U.S. Kids World Championship over the weekend.

McKenzie finished fourth in the girls 10-year-old division by shooting 38-40-37-115. Ashlan shot 38-37-37-112 to finish eighth among 9-year-olds, and older sister Taylor finished ninth in the 11-year-old division.

Taylor shot 70 - the lowest round in her division - on Friday, which was her 11th birthday. She shot 80-70-42-192 with rain shortening the final round to nine holes.

- Augusta's Laura Coble opened with 82 at the 105th U.S. Women's Amateur Championship at Ansley's Settindown Course in Roswell, Ga.

Whitney Simon, of Aiken, carded 6-over-par 78 and Alina Lee, of Evans, finished with 81.

Coble (T-124), Simon (T-88) and Lee (T-114) need to move into the top 64 in today's final round of stroke play to advance to the event's match play portion.

Football

Westwood breaks Canadian record

In Toronto, Winnipeg's Troy Westwood kicked his way into the Canadian Football League record book, converting his 561st consecutive extra point.

Westwood broke the previous record, held by Hall of Famer Lui Passaglia, when he made an extra point after a 32-yard touchdown run by Charles Roberts in the first half of the Blue Bombers' game against Toronto.

Westwood's last miss came in a win over the Ottawa Rough Riders on July 23, 1993 - a span of 218 regular-season games.