SPORTS SOFTBALLGalveston College’s Alexis Dunn can do it all at the plate

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Gean Leonard is a colum-nist for The Daily News and can be reached at

Gean.GDNgolf@gmail.com.

As predicted in last week’s col-umn, a 6-foot

tall right handed player won the Masters.

More impressive was that a 14-year-old made the cut, playing the weekend as low amateur in the first of golf ’s four majors.

Also impressive was Houstonian Yurannu Yu’s victory in the girls age 13-15 division last week on the Florida Junior Tour.

But topping them all was 11-year-old Latana Stone, who posted a first-round 69 en route to winning the Girls 16-18 age division.

No misprint — she beat others as many as seven years her elder!

Although not a local player, her development is worth watching — and I’ll be watching it for you.

More winnersRight up there in the

rarefied air are Coach Karolyn Criado’s Lady Falcons, the Clear Lake golfers having won their 14th consecutive 24-5A title.

They are joined by the Clear Brook squad, both in action Monday and today in regional play.

Young Quincy Allen participated in the Shell Houston Open Chil-dren’s Challenge and was a winner represent-ing the Ambassadors Preparatory Academy via some great strokes and laserlike focus.

The APA will hold its first golf tournament, the “We Are Swinging” First Tee Golf Classic, in May. Stay tuned here for details.

The GCC ladies were rained out and their flamingoes apparently left the area as they all showed up dressed in black for a net par 4s game on Saturday.

Beth Epstein had a single-stroke win over Becky Rice and the rest of the field.

Rice also won the “chip-in” pot while Nancy Mafrige econo-mized on putts before spending the evening with husband Don en-joying Hal Holbrook as Mark Twain at the 1894 Opera House.

(Cheese) Head Golf Professional Rick Christ posted net 66 for a win in the Thursday Cash Game at MGGC, only to be outdone by First Assistant Chris Caldwell who won low gross.

Wayne McHenry, John Termini, Hal Greg-

Masters forecast correct

‘No Doubt’ Trout to fight Saturday in San AntonioBy JOHN DeLAPPThe Daily News

» GALVESTONWhen Austin “No

Doubt” Trout steps into

the ring against Canelo Al-varez on Saturday in hopes of unifying the super wel-terweight world boxing title, he will have a Galve-stonian in his corner.

Bob Spagnola of Bad Boyz Inc. has managed Trout since the Las Cru-ces, N.M., boxer turned professional.

It all goes back to a tip

from a former boxer, Lou-ie Burke.

“When he retired from boxing, he began to train fighters and years ago he told me, ‘I’ve got this kid you need to look at be-cause he’s going to be big,’ It turned out to be Austin,” Spagnola said.

Islander manages WBA belt holderTALE OF THE TAPE

CANELO ALVAREZ VS. AUSTIN TROUTJuly 18, 1990 ...........................BIRTH DATE .........................................Sept. 19, 1985Guadalajara, Mexico ..........BIRTHPLACE .....................Las Cruces, New Mexico22 .................................................................AGE .................................................................27154 ......................................................WEIGHT ..............................................................1545’9” .......................................................HEIGHT ............................................................5’10”72” ..........................................................REACH ............................................................... 72’’16” .............................................................NECK ...............................................................16”43” .....................................CHEST, NORMAL ......................................................... 391⁄2”44” ................................CHEST, EXPANDED ......................................................... 411⁄2”14” ................................................FOREARMS ......................................................... 113⁄4”7’3⁄4” .......................................................WRIST ..................................................................7”32” ...........................................................WAIST ......................................................... 311⁄2”24”...........................................................THIGH......................................................... 201⁄2”

By KRISTIE RIEKENThe Associated Press

» HOUSTONThe Houston Texans

are hoping two massive new video screens will help lure the 2017 Super Bowl to Reliant Stadium.

The Texans are in the process of installing the video boards, which will be ready for use in Houston’s first pre-season game in August. Cowboys Stadium in Arlington currently has the biggest screens, and Houston’s will be about 30 percent larger than those.

The two new boards will have about six times the area than the current video boards and will be

placed in each end zone.Each of Houston’s

boards will be 53 feet high and 277 feet wide, which is wider than the wing span of a 747 jet. The screens at Cowboys Stadium are each 72 feet high and 160 feet wide. Screens at both stadi-ums are manufactured by Mitsubishi Electric’s Diamond Vision.

Host sites for the 2016 and 2017 Super Bowls are expected to be vot-ed on by owners next month. San Francisco and Miami are finalists for the 2016 game, and Houston will vie with the runner-up for the 2017 game.

Texans new video boards to be world’s largest

AP PHOTO/Melissa Phillip, Houston ChronicleJon Deiuliis, Mitsubishi Electric Diamond Vision Systems project manager, talks about the Houston Texans’ new HD video screens Monday in Houston. The Texans hope the screens will help lure the 2017 Super Bowl NFL football game to Reliant Stadium. Cowboys Stadium in Arlington currently has the biggest screens, and Houston’s will be about 30 percent larger than those.

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By HOWARD FENDRICHThe Associated Press

A few hours after the Boston Marathon bombings, and more than 1,000 miles away, a police officer with a German shepherd patrolled near an entrance to the baseball stadium where Miami host-ed Washington on Monday evening — an unusual sight at Marlins Park.

Inside, on the field, two Marlins offi-cials gave a security supervisor a brief-ing about the ballpark’s layout.

“We are taking additional precautions and have intensified our security efforts in and around the ballpark to ensure everyone’s safety,” Marlins spokesman P.J. Loyello said.

The postponement of Monday night’s NHL game between the Bruins and Ot-tawa Senators, and the cancellation of Tuesday’s NBA game between the Celt-ics and Indiana Pacers — both events to be held in Boston — were the most tangible reactions by sports officials to

the explosions at the marathon finish line that killed at least three people and injured more than 140 others.

A makeup date for Bruins-Senators was not announced; no other events from top professional leagues around the country were immediately called off.

Still, other effects of the explosions could be seen quickly, such as bomb-sniffing dogs sweeping the arena before

the doors opened for an NHL game in Nashville between the Predators and Ca-nucks, and armed police officers posted in front of each dugout at the Padres-Dodgers baseball game in Los Angeles.

Fans heading into the NBA game be-tween the Washington Wizards and Brooklyn Nets in New York waited in long lines as arena security used wands to check people and thoroughly searched bags.

Security tightens upAP PHOTO/Kathy Willens

Police patrol the area in front of the Barclays Center basketball arena in New York on Monday before a Brooklyn Nets game after the two explosions at the Boston Marathon. Three explosions shattered the euphoria of the Boston Marathon finish line on Monday, sending authorities out on the course to carry off the injured while the stragglers were rerouted away from the smoking site of the blasts.

AP PHOTO/Charles KrupaRita Jeptoo of Kenya, left, and Lelisa Desisa of Ethiopia pose after winning the women and men’s division of the 2013 running of the Boston Marathon in Boston on Monday.

Bruins, Celtics affected after Boston Marathon bombings