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Smail winsdiving events
YOUNGSTOWN -- Senior Mandi Smail won the 1-meter and 3-meter diving events Friday, but the Youngstown State women's swimming team fell to Ohio 124-85.
Smail took the 1-meter with a score of 253.50 and the 3-meter (253.60) while YSU's Kalyn Leveto was second in both (200.75 and 248.15).
Danielle Blagg won the 100 butterfly (1:13.67).
AREA
Lyden takesfirst in lifting
YOUNGSTOWN -- Mathew Lyden, 12, a student at St. Christine Elementary School, competed in a power lifting world meet and took first place in the Youth Division 12-13 year olds at the Metroplex.
Competing in the 115-pound class, Lyden won the bench press with a lift of 120 pounds, the squat at 200 and deadlift 260 for 580 points.
Special teamearns gold
COLUMBUS -- The Columbiana County Special Olympics team participated in the state bowling tournament on Oct. 27.
In the Open category of Division 25, Jeff Bevington, Tom Eddy, Shaun Mattern and Art Rhodes won a gold medal while competing against five other teams.
In Division 26, with five teams vying, Brian Andrix, Barry Bevington, Joe Halstead and Chris Wooley brought home a silver medal as runner-up.
In Division 24, with four teams competing for the gold, Diane Bunfill, Joanne Chettle, Deanna Filippula and Kim Rudibaugh received a third-place medal while Cindy Harrold, Amanda Elliott, Robin Gallagher and Ruth Ann Baker placed fourth.
In Division 28, with four teams competing, Jeremy Carr, Sara Toot, Joe Moyer and Karen Grubbs took a bronze medal after placing third.
North Lima girlwins golf event
SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- Ariel Witmer of North Lima won the 8-11 year-old division of the Plantations Junior Golf Tour Tournament played at Warren Golf Club here.
She fired an opening round 93 and followed that with a 92 to take the championship.
Austintown boyfinishes third
KALAMAZOO, Mi. -- Donald Yeager, a fourth-grade student in Austintown, placed third in the 8-9 year old division of the USA Gymnastics Region V Future Stars competition.
Also from Austintown, Zach Leger placed ninth in the 12-year old division.
NATION
Yankees raiseticket prices
NEW YORK -- Despite failing to make the World Series for the first time since 1997, the New York Yankees are raising the price of their best seats by $10, blaming the increase on baseball's labor deal.
The price of the field and loge box seats, which include waiter service, will be $72 per game next season, the team said Friday. The seats, which are available only as part of season plans, had a $65 face value this year but in effect cost $62 because season packages contained discounts.
New York, which paid $29 million in revenue sharing in 2001 on $242 million in income, estimates it will pay $32 million to $34 million this year on revenue of $226 million. The Yankees drew a team record 3.47 million fans.
Under the new labor agreement, the Yankees estimate their revenue-sharing bill will increase to about $46 million next year and are projecting a $9 million luxury tax payment, which means the payroll for their 40-man roster, including benefits, would be at about $170 million, roughly where it was this year.
Increasing by $10 will be field and loge boxes with waiter service ($72) and main level boxes with waiter service ($58).
Increasing by $5 will be main level infield box ($52), field level outfield box and loge infield box ($47), and main and loge outfield box ($42).
McKinnie signswith Vikings
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. -- First-round draft pick Bryant McKinnie ended his 98-day holdout Friday, agreeing to a five-year, $13.3 million contract with the Minnesota Vikings that includes a $9.35 million signing bonus.
The All-American offensive tackle out of Miami was the seventh pick of the first round in April. He became the only unsigned first-rounder when Wendell Bryant, signed with Arizona on Sept. 12.
The Vikings had until Nov. 12 to sign McKinnie -- otherwise he would have been ineligible to play this season.
Agents turned down what the Vikings declared a final offer on Aug. 1, a five-year, $13.1 million contract that included an $8.1 million signing bonus. The No. 8 pick, Dallas safety Roy Williams, got a bonus of $9.3 million.
Nikolishintraded
CHICAGO -- The Chicago Blackhawks acquired center Andrei Nikolishin and left wing Chris Simon from the Washington Capitals for center Michael Nylander and a third-round draft pick Friday.
The 29-year-old Nikolishin has not played this season because of a contract dispute. He has 58 goals and 113 assists in 407 games.
Staff/wire reports