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Softball
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Junior Tiffany Patteson went 5-for-7 with two doubles and a triple as the Penguins split two games Tuesday in the Rebel Games, defeating Fairleigh Dickinson 4-3 before losing to IUPUI 3-2 in eight innings.
Against the Knights, the Penguins (6-6) scored two runs in the first and two more in the third. Senior Ashley Lockmiller tossed four innings in relief to pick up the victory. Patteson went 2-for-3 with a double and two runs against FDU.
In the nightcap, Patteson went 3-for-4 with double and a triple and tied the YSU record for most triples in a career with 13.
Freshmen Sarah Berry and Jamie Fornal each had RBIs for the Penguins.
YSU plays Fairleigh Dickinson at 10:40 a.m. and Army at 2:20 p.m. today.
On Monday, freshman McKenzie Bedra hit a walk-off home run to lift the Penguins past Northern Colorado, 6-5, and sophomore Karlie Burnell fired a five-hitter in a 3-1 win over Tennessee-Martin to collect the 100th win at YSU for coach Christy Cameron.
Against Northern Colorado, Bedra went 2-for-3 with a double and home run while Patteson went 2-for-3 with a triple.
Junior Kelly Murphy picked up her fourth win of the year, tossing a complete game and scattering seven hits.
Freshman Bethany Hafley paced the Penguins against Tennessee-Martin, going 1-for-3 with a triple.
Men's tennis
PENSACOLA, Fla. -- The Penguins lost their Horizon League opener on Monday, falling 6-1 to UW-Green Bay.
Ryan Trapp picked up the Penguins' lone point with a victory at No. 4 singles, defeating Eric Hines.
At No. 1 singles, Tom Barth went three sets with Jarett Cascino before losing 6-4, 2-6, 7-5. At No. 2 singles, Brian Meek lost to Tyler Dorn 6-2, 6-0, at No. 3 singles, Scott Kathery dropped a 6-0, 6-1 decision to Tim Prudlow, at No. 5 singles, Jason Trapp lost to Mark Goldin 6-1, 6-3 while at No. 6 singles, Zach Landgraf lost to Scott Dickert 6-0, 6-0.
In doubles, Kathery and Meek lost 8-7 (7-4) to Dorn and Cascino while the Trapps earned an 8-7 (7-5) decision over Goldin and Prudlow. In No. 3 action, Hines and Dickert beat Barth and Landgraf 8-1 to give the Phoenix the doubles point.
The Penguins will face defending Division III national champion West Florida at 2 p.m. today.
LOCAL
Junior volleyball
YOUNGSTOWN -- The Trumbull Volleyball Club's Trumbull Blue 17's won the Youngstown State University 17-and-under Junior Olympic tournament on Sunday.
Members of the team include Maggie Bogdan (Hubbard), Kim Budd (Hubbard), Corrie Gasser (Hubbard), Maddie D'Orio (LaBrae), Jennifer Gahagan (Southeast), Markie Negrea (West Middlesex), Courtney Christy (Brookfield) and Andrea Gladis (Brookfield). The coach was Jason Jones.
NATION
Pacific Life Open
INDIAN WELLS, Calif. -- No. 1 Roger Federer and No. 2 Lleyton Hewitt won in straight sets Tuesday to advance in the Pacific Life Open.
Federer, winning for the 22nd time in 23 matches this year, defeated Gilles Muller 6-3, 6-2 to move into the fourth round.
Hewitt had a slightly more difficult time, beating Michael Llodra 6-2, 7-6 (3).
On the women's side, former No. 1 Kim Clijsters continued her comeback from a wrist injury by defeating Evgenia Linetskaya 6-2, 6-1 in their fourth-round match. No. 5 Elena Dementieva advanced with a 2-6, 6-4, 6-4 victory over Tatiana Golovin.
Bonds could playon opening day
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Barry Bonds might be in the San Francisco Giants' lineup on opening day even though he hasn't played in a spring training game yet.
"One of the things I've said from the beginning is that he doesn't need a whole lot of competition," Giants trainer Stan Conte said Tuesday. "He still has time to make opening day."
Bonds, who is rehabilitating his right knee after undergoing arthroscopic surgery during the offseason, spent Tuesday afternoon in the training room and didn't work out on the field.
He left Scottsdale Stadium without commenting about 3 1/2 hours before the Giants' night game against the Milwaukee Brewers.
"He has done some baseball work all along," Conte said. "It's not like he hasn't been doing anything."
Sabres experimentwith blue ice surface
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- If the ice is colored a soft shade of blue, what does that make hockey's blue lines? Orange of course.
Don't adjust your TV sets -- the Buffalo Sabres are using Rochester, their AHL farm club, to try out a new colored ice surface that could become the standard once the NHL resumes playing.
The first test comes Sunday, when Rochester plays Cleveland at Buffalo.
"It's an experiment, let's leave it at that," Sabres managing partner Larry Quinn said Tuesday while watching Rochester practice.
Quinn said the test came after NHL officials discussed whether changing the ice color from white would enhance how the game is viewed by fans in arenas and on television.
The Sabres offered to try it and, after some experimentation, settled on painting the sheet in what they call "electric powder blue." To offset the new colored surface, arena officials decided to make the blue lines fluorescent orange, which is also the color used for the faceoff circles.
The center line, normally red, is now dark blue.
NHL officials will attend the game to study the changes and how the new colors might affect the play or change the viewing experience.
Staff/wire reports