Sports digest 5/16/02

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Southeast athletes make Academic All-District

Two Southeast Missouri State University athletes, golfer Bryan Johnson and gymnast Amy Cole, have been selected for the Verizon Academic All-District VII University Division at-large team.

Johnson, a senior from Thayer, Mo., graduated earlier this month with a 3.835 grade point average in speech communication and was an all-Ohio Valley Conference selection. He was also a recipient of the 2001-2002 OVC Scholar-Athlete Award.

Cole, a junior from Palmyra, Ill., compiled a 3.988 grade point average in health management. She earned a spot as first alternate in all-around for the NCAA South Central Regional and recorded the second-highest bars score in school history with a 9.9.

Earlier this year, soccer player Nicole Thiele and softball players Emmy Kisaka and Katie Cerneka made the Academic All-District VII team in their sports.

Advance graduate earns Big 12 academic honor

Advance High School graduate Garrett Broshuis, a redshirt freshman baseball player at the University of Missouri, has been named to the 2002 Baseball Academic All-Big 12 Conference Team.

Broshuis, a pitcher who is a member of the Tigers' starting rotation, is the lone first-team selection with a 4.0 grade point average. He is majoring in psychology.

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Baseball

The Toronto Blue Jays traded left-handed pitcher Pedro Borbon to the Houston Astros for a player to be named.

Borbon, 34, is 1-2 with a 4.97 ERA in 16 appearances. He is 13-13 with a 4.28 ERA in 305 career major league games.

Basketball

Portland Trail Blazers guard Damon Stoudamire was booked and released from jail early Wednesday on a felony charge of marijuana possession.

Stoudamire posted the required 10 percent of his $50,000 bail and went home about 2 a.m. Reporters and camera crews were waiting for him when he arrived at the Clackamas County Jail shortly after midnight.

Reserve guard Duane John has been dismissed from the Missouri basketball team, coach Quin Snyder said Wednesday. The removal comes three days after John's arrest on marijuana possession charges.

John was arrested Saturday night in Columbia and charged with possession of less than 35 grams of marijuana after a campus police officer searched his dorm room. He is scheduled to appear in court June 14.

John, a 6-6 freshman, appeared in 24 of the Tigers' 36 games last season, averaging 0.8 points and 3.5 minutes per game.

-- From staff, wire reports