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College Golf

Pacers' Burkhart leads team to win

USC Aiken's Dane Burkhart followed his opening 66 with a second-round 71 to lead the Pacers to a three-shot win at the Kiawah Island Invitational on Tuesday.

Burkhart posted 137 to also win individual medalist honors by four strokes over Carson Newman's Tylor Lane.

The Pacers' Scott Brown also had 71 and tied for third with a total of 146.

College Baseball

Freeman injured in freak accident

Former Evans football and baseball star Brad Freeman is scheduled to be released from MCG today despite having part of his skull fractured when a rake hit him in the head Saturday, said Freeman's father, Darrell Freeman.

Darrell Freeman said his son, a freshman on the baseball team at Middle Georgia College, was driving a cart performing routine field maintenance work on the baseball diamond. A rake, which was in the back of the cart, hit a gate as Freeman entered the field, swung to the front of the cart and, according to Freeman's father, penetrated about three centimeters through Freeman's skull.

Brad Freeman, who was awake and complained only of a headache Tuesday night, said doctors are still unsure whether he will have any permanent damage from the accident.

College Football

Watch list selected for Ray Guy Award

Clemson's Cole Chason and Georgia's Gordon Ely-Kelso, both juniors, are among 40 punters who have been named by the Greater Augusta Sports Council to the 2005 Ray Guy Award watch list.

The list will be narrowed to 10 semifinalists in early November, with the winner announced Dec. 8 at the Home Depot College Football awards show.

The award recognizes the top collegiate punter of the year.

NFL

Johnson arrested for domestic abuse

In Kansas City, Mo., running back Larry Johnson was arrested Monday night after an altercation with his girlfriend early Saturday morning at a Kansas City bar, the latest in a series of troubles with the law for Kansas City Chiefs players.

Police Department spokesman Darin Snapp said Johnson turned himself in and was cited for domestic abuse assault.

Johnson ran for 110 yards and two touchdowns against the New York Jets the next day.

- In Vienna, Austria, Toni Fritsch, who went from Austrian soccer player to place-kicker for the Dallas Cowboys, died Tuesday. He was 60.

Fritsch still holds an NFL record by having kicked a field goal in 13 straight playoff games.

- Former Pittsburgh Steelers lineman Terry Long died from a brain inflammation that resulted, in part, from repeated head injuries suffered while playing football. Long, 45, died at UPMC Passavant Hospital on June 7, a few hours after paramedics found him unconscious at his home.

- In Tampa, Fla., Buccaneers cornerback Torrie Cox was jailed early Tuesday after being charged with driving under the influence, his second drunken driving arrest in nine months.

NBA

Heat's Shaq helps police in an arrest

In Miami Beach, Fla., Shaquille O'Neal provided an assist to police over the weekend, trailing a man who allegedly assaulted a gay couple before alerting an arresting officer.

The 7-foot-1 Miami Heat center, who is in the process of becoming a Miami Beach reserve officer, was driving on South Beach at about 3 a.m. Sunday. He saw a passenger in a car yell anti-gay slurs at the couple, who were walking, said Bobby Hernandez, a spokesman for the Miami Beach Police Department.

The man then got out of the car and threw a bottle, hitting one of the pedestrians. The man got back in the car, which sped off. O'Neal followed, flagging down an officer who made an arrest.