Sports capsules DIVISION 1 FOOTBALL PLAYERS: Two members of the Stevens Point Area Senior High School football team signed national letters of intent Wednesday, Feb. 7, to play NCAA Division 1 football. Running back Cory Flisakowski signed his letter to attend the University of Illinois. Ryan Hoffman, kicker and punter for the Panthers, signed his letter to attend Illinois State University. Hoffman earned numerous awards during the football season as unanimous first-team kicker and punter in the Wisconsin Valley Conference, first-team punter and second-team kicker on the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel All-State Team, first-team kicker on the Wisconsin Prep All-State, second-team punter and kicker on The Associated Press All-State, Channel 9 Athlete of the Week and Channel 7 All-Star Team. Hoffman averaged 43.2 yards on 34 punts and kicked 14 field goals, including a 50-yarder for a conference record. He is the son of Bob and Cheryl Hoffman, Plover. * * * CLAUSEN WINS SECOND MlLLROSE CROWN: Two-time Olympian Curt Clausen of Stevens Point led from start to finish to win his second Millrose Crown in four years on Saturday, Feb. 3. Clausen's one-mile time of 5:53.05 was one second faster than his winning time in 1998 and two seconds faster than Al Heppner this year. In the 11-lap race, Clausen took the lead immediately, but was followed closely by Mike Rohl, Sean Albert, and Heppner. With seven laps to go, Clausen began to pull away from the pack and Heppner sprinted past Albert and Rohl, but Clausen had already opened a gap. Heppner spent the next four laps trying to peck into Clausen's lead and pulled right behind him with three laps to go. At that point Clausen put on a burst to open up a two-second lead and was able to hold it through the tape. Albert passed a fading Rohl for third, to complete the ARCO Olympic Training Center sweep. Albert and Heppner both established new personal records. "My goal was to break 6 minutes. I had to work a little harder than I envisioned, but I'm happy with my performance and the ARCO sweep," Clausen said. The ARCO group is not through racing this weekend. Sunday, the trio will enter a 3K race on Long Island and then prepare for Indoor Nationals in Atlanta on March 2.