MERCER RACEWAY

Mercer Raceway
MERCER, Pa. -- Mercer Raceway Park will return with the same weekly lineup for 2006 with the Luxaire Heating & amp; Cooling Sprint Cars, Campbell-Peterson Trail & amp; Turf Modifieds, Tire Express Stock Cars, and the Maurer's Trading Post Strictly Stocks.
The 2005 awards banquet will be Jan. 14 at the Normandy Banquet Center/Hickory VFW in Hermitage, Pa.
Jr. Phantoms
ROCKY RIVER -- Corey Barnhouse, Nick Malvasi, Ryan Demyen, and Mike Gorgacz scored goals as the Youngstown Jr. Phantom Pee Wee team defeated Rocky River 4-1 Sunday.
Riley Emery, Lucas Clarke, Jared Taylor and Neil Allen had assists for the Jr. Phantoms (4-1-1) and Brennan Allen allowed just one goal. The defense was led by Justin Hallapy, Brandon Nightingale and Zach Jones.
College roundup
*CLEVELAND -- Grove City fell to 2-5 with an 86-66 loss at Case Western Reserve Saturday.
The Wolverines shot just 9-of-31 (29 percent) from the floor in the first half and trailed 41-21 at halftime.
Joe Capotosta and Shawn Carr (Mohawk) each scored 14 points for Grove City.
Richard Mullen and Carson Oren each scored 22 points for Case Western Reserve (7-1).
*EDINBORO, Pa. -- Renee Farina scored 18 points as West Liberty defeated Edinboro 81-69 in a women's basketball game Saturday.
Farina is a graduate of Salem High. She made 6-of-11 shots, including 6-of-10 on 3-pointers.
Lena Kalvans led West Liberty with 23 points.
Both teams are 5-1.
*GREENSBURG, Pa. -- Seton Hill shot 50 percent from the floor and forced 26 turnovers in a 75-54 victory over Geneva Saturday.
Marcus Thompson scored 25 points to lead all scorers, as Seton Hill improved to 5-3. Jose Sanchez added 15 points and 10 rebounds for Seton Hill, which was 31-for-62 from the field. Geneva (5-5) was led by Kyle McDermott with 13 points and Nate Conley with 11.
*GREENSBURG, Pa. -- Jen Rawding had game-highs of 26 points and 13 rebounds as Geneva defeated Seton Hill 68-55 Saturday in a women's basketball game.
Rawding made 10-of-18 shots from the field. Allyson Clarke added 11 points and 11 rebounds for the Golden Tornadoes (4-2), who held a 50-24 edge on the boards. Ali Cananzi scored 10 points for Geneva, while Jackie Anthony had six assists and Megan Gallagher 10 rebounds. Seton Hill (3-7) was led by Autumn Hines, who scored 18 points.
Correction
Ursuline High senior Jerome Jones was incorrectly identified as Jerome James in Sunday's edition. The Vindicator regrets the error.
NATION/world
Orioles seek to soothe disgruntled Tejada
BALTIMORE -- Miguel Tejada and the Baltimore Orioles agree on this much: Both want to win.
There is still some question, however, whether Tejada will be a part of the team's quest to become a contender.
Frustrated over the team's failure to add quality talent during the off-season, the Orioles' shortstop said last week he would like to be traded. Baltimore has since received several trade offers, but executive vice president Mike Flanagan said Sunday the team wants to hold onto Tejada, who last year hit .305 with 26 homers and 98 RBIs for the fourth-place Orioles.
Columbia hiresnew football coach
NEW YORK -- Norries Wilson, the offensive coordinator at Connecticut, is the new football coach at Columbia.
He replaces Bob Shoop, who was fired on Nov. 20, a day after a 52-21 loss to Brown left the Lions with a winless Ivy League season and a 2-8 record.
UCLA kicker arrested
LOS ANGELES -- UCLA kicker Justin Medlock was arrested for investigation of drunken driving and felony hit-and-run after allegedly leaving the scene of the accident, which left a member of the school's women's golf team seriously injured, authorities said Sunday. The 22-year-old junior was suspended indefinitely from the team and will not play Dec. 30 in the Sun Bowl, coach Karl Dorrell said Sunday in a statement.
Medlock was driving a 1998 Toyota pickup on the San Diego Freeway about 3 a.m. Saturday with 20-year-old UCLA golfer Hannah Jun in the passenger seat when he hit a call box and the truck flipped over, said Officer Tariq Johnson, a spokesman for the California Highway Patrol.
Skiing roundup
*ASPEN, Colo. -- Two-time defending World Cup overall champion Anja Paerson of Sweden stormed back in the second run to edge Janica Kostelic by three-hundredths of a second Sunday to win the season's first women's slalom.
*VAL D'ISERE, France -- Austria's Michael Walchhofer won for the second time in two days, capturing a World Cup super-combined Sunday when Switzerland's Didier Defago was disqualified for using improper skis.
Austria's Rainer Schoenfelder was second while World Cup champion Bode Miller finished third to extend his lead in the overall standings. Ted Ligety, Miller's U.S. teammate, was 10th. The super-combined is split into a shortened downhill run of 1.83 miles, followed by a slalom.
Vindicator staff/wire reports