LOCAL

LOCAL
Mount Unionreceives bye
ALLIANCE -- Mount Union College (10-0), the defending NCAA Division III national football champion, drew a bye for the first round of this years playoffs.
On. Nov. 30, the Purple Raiders will play host to the winner of the Alma (Mich.)-Wheaton (Ill.) game. Kickoff at Mount Union Stadium will be at noon.
Ticket telephone lines will be open weekdays from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. at (330) 821-6759. Season ticket holders and football parents only should call today. Others may call the same number beginning on Tuesday.
Tickets will cost $9 for covered stands and the press box reserved section and $8 for general reserved seats.
Fight night
CHESTER, W.Va. -- Olympic hopeful Verquan Kimbrough of Aliquippa, Pa. will take on John Swanson of Youngstown in a four-round bout at Mountaineer Race Track and Gaming Resort on Nov. 27.
The amateur, professional show in Mountaineer's Grande Ballroom will include nine fights, seven of them pro bouts.
Meet E.P.
EAST PALESTINE -- The East Palestine athletic department will be holding a "meet the team" event on Wednesday at 7 p.m. at the high school gym.
All boys and girls basketball players and cheerleaders will be recognized.
NATION
U.S. wins finale
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. national team wrapped up its most successful year with a 2-0 exhibition victory over El Salvador. The United States finished 13-6-1 this year, setting a national record for victories.
Morales beatsPaulie Ayala
LAS VEGAS -- Erik Morales, showing little respect for Paulie Ayala's punching power, scored repeatedly with right hands against his smaller opponent to win the vacant WBC featherweight title with a unanimous 12-round decision.
WORLD
Golf roundup
* ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. -- Tom Lehman twice teamed with Raymond Floyd to beat Ryder Cup captain Sam Torrance and Ian Woosnam. Both Americans won their singles matches to go undefeated, and the United States beat the Rest of the World team by 141/2-91/2 to retain the UBS Warburg Cup.
* DANA POINT, Calif. -- Rich Beem and Peter Leonard defeated defending champions Fred Couples and Mark Calcavecchia 2 and 1 to win the PGA Tour portion of the Hyundai Team Matches.
Lorie Kane and Janice Moodie successfully defended their LPGA championship, and Dana Quigley and Allen Doyle retained their Senior PGA title.
* DONGGUAN, China -- Colin Montgomerie shot a 5-under 67 for a two-stroke victory at the TCL Classic, winning back-to-back titles for the second time in his career.
MLB starswin 4th straight
TOKYO -- The major leaguers defeated the Japanese stars 4-2, winning for the fourth consecutive time after three straight losses to capture the seven-game exhibition series. The major leaguers have not lost an all-star tour of Japan since 1990, and this was their fifth straight series win.
Two boats out
AUCKLAND, New Zealand -- The America's Cup campaigns of France's Le Defi and Britain's GBR Challenge ended when both boats were beaten by 4-1 margins in best-of-seven challenger quarterfinals.
New York's Stars & amp; Stripes, which beat GBR by 1 minute, 42 seconds, and Sweden's Victory Challenge, which beat Le Defi by 2:34, progress to quarterfinal repechages starting Saturday.
Beard winssecond gold
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil -- Amanda Beard won her second gold medal in the 200-meter breaststroke and was one of four Americans to win races at the FINA World Cup. Haley Cope won the 100 backstroke; Gabrielle Rose prevailed in the 100 individual medley; and Rachel Komisarz won the 400 freestyle.
Athletes of year
MONTE CARLO, Monaco -- Middle distance star Hicham El Guerrouj and marathon record-holder Paula Radcliffe were chosen Athletes of the Year by track and field's governing body.
Vindicator staff/wire reports