Saturday, March 23, 2002
FAIRFAX, Va. -- Junior Zetta Dumkrieger collected two hits and drove in two runs in the Youngstown State University softball team's 5-4 to Rider Friday in the George Mason Patriot Classic.
Sophomore Amanda Berry hit a run-scoring single for the Penguins (4-9), who play Norfolk State and St. Peter's today.
Tennis teamcruises, 7-0
MOON TOWNSHIP, Pa. -- The Youngstown State women's tennis team posted a 7-0 victory over Robert Morris Friday.
Anne Marino and Jen Meister of the Penguins (4-4) won their doubles match 8-4. YSU's Leslie Banks and Sarah Rothenberg and sisters Jenny and Megan Vodhanel were each 8-0 doubles winners.
In singles, Heather Hagood posted a 6-2, 6-2 victory, while teammates Banks (6-1, 6-1), Marino (6-2, 6-1), Rothenberg (6-0, 6-0) and Jenny Vodhanel (6-0, 6-0) won.
Williams hiredfor football team
YOUNGSTOWN -- Terrell Williams has joined the Youngstown State University coaching staff as the defensive line coach it was announced Friday by Penguins head coach Jon Heacock.
Williams spent three successful seasons at North Carolina A & amp;T working as the defensive line coach and at YSU he will be in charge of the same unit..
He replaces George Small who recently left Youngstown State to pursue a coaching opportunity at another university.
AREA
Poland's DiNunzioselects Thiel
POLAND -- Defensive back Tony DiNunzio of Poland High's football team will continue his career at Thiel College in Greenville, Pa.
A two-year starter for the Bulldogs, the 6-1, 175-pound DiNunzio earned first team all-Metro Athletic Conference.
Barnes aceshole in Jamaica
MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica -- Paul Barnes of Canfield made a hole-in-one at Three Palms Ocean Course at Wyndham Rose Hall.
He made the ace on the 146-yard, par-three hole, using an 8 iron, while playing with Mike Narducci, Greg Mazzotti and Dave Daley.
Singleton againearns honors
OXFORD -- Mount Union College sophomore Eddis Singleton earned All-American honors in the 50 freestyle for the second consecutive year at the Division III Men's Swimming and Diving championships Thursday at Miami University.
Singleton won the individual national championship with a school-record time of 20.32 seconds in he finals of the 50 freestyle after he placed second (20.68) in the preliminaries earlier in the day.
He is competing in the 100 backstroke and 100 freestyle this weekend.
NATION
Vikings losetrial request
MINNEAPOLIS -- The Minnesota Vikings were denied their request to move a wrongful death lawsuit by Korey Stringer's family from Minneapolis to Mankato.
Judge Gary Larson ruled Friday the lawsuit will be heard where it was filed in January by Stringer's widow, Kelci Stringer, their son and the player's parents. A trial date has not been set.
Korey Stringer, a 335-pound Pro Bowl lineman from Warren, was stricken with heatstroke July 31 on the second day of training camp in Mankato, 75 miles from Minneapolis. He died about 15 hours later, on Aug. 1, at a Mankato hospital.
The Stringers are suing the Vikings for $100 million. The lawsuit contends Vikings coaches and medical staff didn't give Stringer the medical attention he required and failed to act quickly enough when his condition worsened. The Vikings insist he received good care.
The Vikings argued the lawsuit should be moved to Mankato County because Stringer died there.
NCAA ratingsup Thursday
NEW YORK -- Indiana's upset of Duke helped give CBS its highest overnight rating for the opening night of regional semifinals in the NCAA tournament since 1993.
Thursday's night broadcast, highlighted by Indiana's 74-73 win over the No. 1 team in the country, generated a 7.9 overnight rating with a 13 share, up 8 percent from last year's 7.3. It was CBS' highest overnight rating for the day since getting a 9.0 in 1993.
The first window Thursday night, which featured the Indiana-Duke game and Oklahoma's win over Arizona, got an 8.5 rating -- 13 percent higher than the 7.5 for Southern Cal's win over Kentucky and Maryland's victory over Georgetown last year.
The second set of games -- Missouri's win over UCLA and Kent State's victory over Pittsburgh -- got a 7.4 rating, 4 percent higher than Duke's win over UCLA and Stanford's victory against Cincinnati in 2001.
WORLD
Skating chiefto cooperate
NAGANO, Japan -- The president of the International Skating Union intends to hand over documents before next month's hearing into the Olympic figure skating scandal.
The ISU hearings are scheduled for Lausanne, Switzerland, on April 29-30.
Staff/wire reports