Challenged athletes complete tough race Two challenged athletes completed the tough 58-mile Long Beach to Catalina and Back Offshore National Championship on July 12 with flying colors. La Jollan Warren Frank won the three-racer Challenged Athletes Division and Point Loman Ryan Levinson finished second.  “The race was grueling,” Frank said. “Much harder than I expected.” “The race was extremely challenging and a lot of fun,” Levinson said. “It was a very hot day and the water was moderately rough with a lot of chop.” Of the 40 racers who started the event, only 33 finished. Frank finished 16th overall and Levinson came in 21st overall. Both braved the high seas without suffering any major injuries. “At 65 miles per hour, the wind resistance is so great that I was leaning into the wind at a 45-degree angle and it was holding me up, giving me a little bit of rest,” Frank said. Both Frank, a single-leg amputee, and Levinson, who has muscular dystrophy, have plans to participate in open-ocean personal watercraft races in the future.  “It is an honor to race alongside Warren, David [Fekete, the other racer in the Challenged Athletes Division], and all the other athletes in this event,” Levinson said. “I look forward to helping the division and the sport grow in the future.” — Anthony Gentile Chargers individual tickets on sale Friday A limited number of individual game tickets for all 10 San Diego Chargers home games for the 2009 season will go on sale to the general public Friday, July 17 at 10 a.m. The home slate includes pre-season games with Seattle (Aug. 15) and San Francisco (Sept. 4), along with regular-season dates with Baltimore, Miami, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Washington, Denver, Kansas City and Oakland. Individual tickets to all Chargers home games will be available at www.Chargers.com, the Chargers ticket office at Qualcomm Stadium Gate C, by calling TicketMaster at (800) 745-3000, online at www.ticketmaster.com and at all TicketMaster outlets. Season tickets for all 10 Chargers home games, including preseason, are available now by calling 1-877-Chargers or logging onto www.Chargers.com. T he ticket office at Qualcomm Stadium Gate C is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. — Dave Thomas