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Cross country
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- Senior Emily Cicero finished 67th with a time of 22 minutes, 31 seconds in the women's A race, and Nick Kruse led the men's squad to a 32nd place finish at the Penn State National Invitational Saturday.
Kruse finished with an 87th-place time of 26:46.
Dave Mealy finished 137th (27:12) and Nick Smith finished 151st (27:22). Freshman Dan Nemergut placed 206th (28:05) and R.D. Goodright placed 225th (28:35).
Senior Gina Mavrikis finished 196th (24:05) in the A race, while Amy Moore, Madelyn McGhee and Debbie Breunig competed in the & quot;B & quot; race. Moore finished 87th (26:51), McGhee placed 91st (26:55) and Breunig finished 93rd (27:03).
Volleyball
YOUNGSTOWN -- Youngstown State lost 5-0 to Illinois-Chicago Friday night.
The scores were 28-30, 24-30, 30-22, 30-22, 16-14.
UIC is 10-11 overall and 6-0 in the Horizon League.
Soccer
MILWAUKEE -- Youngstown State (1-13, 1-3 Horizon League) could not stop UW-Milwaukee's offense (7-4-3, 4-0-1) as the Penguins lost 7-0 Friday.
LOCAL
Basketball officials
YOUNGSTOWN -- The business meeting for the Mahoning Valley Basketball Officials Association will be Wednesday at 7 p.m. at Volney Rogers Junior High.
Curbstoners
BOARDMAN -- SteelHounds general manager George Manias, coach Jean LaForest and public relations director Bob Hoffman will speak at the Curbstone Coaches' noon luncheon Monday at the Lockwood House.
Buick Scramble
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Fonderlac Country Club from Poland turned in a second round 13-under-par 59 Friday for a two-round score of 23-under-par 121 at the 2005 Buick Scramble National Championships.
Copeland Hills Golf Course from Columbiana turned in a second round 11-under-par 61 for a two-round score of 24-under-par 119.
Marrow named by SVC
YOUNGSTOWN -- Desmond Marrow, defensive back for Mooney High was named Steel Valley Conference player of the week.
He had two interceptions, three break-ups and five tackles in the Cardinals' 7-0 victory over Akron St. Vincent-St. Mary.
Hole-in-one
NILES -- Jonathan Newman used a driver and 6-iron for a double eagle on the 175-yard No. 1 hole at Sugarbush.
Correction
Liberty High's football team was in fourth place in Division III, Region 9 of the OHSAA computer ratings this week. A story in Saturday's edition incorrectly had the Leopards in Division IV, Region 13.
REGION
Penguins lose 3-1
PITTSBURGH -- Vincent Lecavalier scored a goal and set up two others and the Tampa Bay Lightning extended Pittsburgh's season-opening winless streak to a franchise record-tying six games by winning 3-1 Saturday night.
The Penguins -- the league's only winless team -- are 0-2-4 during only the second winless six-game start in team history, The other came when they were 0-3-3 in 1969-70, the franchise's third season.
Crosby set up Ziggy Palffy's slap shot from the top of the slot in the third for the Penguins' only goal, and the 18-year-old rookie now has at least one point in all six Penguins games, with two goals and seven assists.
But Crosby contributed to the flurry of Penguins penalties that kept Tampa Bay on the power play for much of the Lightning's decisive two-goal second period. He drew a slashing penalty at 12:17 and then complicated it by complaining, and was also given an unsportsmanlike penalty that gave the Lightning a four-minute power play.
Crew ties D.C. United
WASHINGTON -- Jaime Moreno's penalty kick in the 75th minute left D.C. United and the Columbus Crew tied 2-2 Saturday night in the teams' MLS regular season finale.
Crew goalkeeper Matt Jordan leaned left and Moreno shot to his right to remain perfect on nine penalty kicks this season for defending MLS Cup champion D.C. United (16-10-6). United will face Chicago in the conference semifinals.
The goal was Moreno's team-leading 16th of the season. However, he came up short in his bid for the MLS Golden Boot award as New England's Taylor Twellman scored his 17th goal Saturday night against the Fire.
Edson Buddle scored his second goal of the game off a throw-in from Simon Elliott that was headed in Buddle's direction by Chad Marshall. Buddle punched it home to give Columbus a 2-1 lead in the 52nd minute.
Buddle also headed home a goal off a throw-in from Jamal Sutton that gave Columbus (11-16-5) a 1-0 lead in the 18th minute of its season finale.
NATION/WORLD
Tennis roundup
*MOSCOW -- Mary Pierce defeated teenager Dinara Safina 7-6 (2), 6-3 and will play for the Kremlin Cup title against Francesca Schiavone.
Schiavone upset fourth-seeded Elena Dementieva of Russia 6-3, 6-1 in the semifinals and will be going for her first WTA championship.
*STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- James Blake rode a powerful serve to beat Olivier Rochus 6-4, 6-3 to reach the final of the Stockholm Open.
Blake advanced to today's title match against Paradorn Srichaphan, who rallied past Davide Sanguinetti 4-6, 7-5, 6-3.
*VIENNA, Austria -- Juan Carlos Ferrero beat third-seeded Radek Stepanek 7-6 (3), 6-3 to advance to the final of the BA-CA Trophy.
Ferrero will face Ivan Ljubicic, who defeated Tommy Robredo 7-6 (2), 6-4.
*BANGKOK, Thailand -- Top-seeded Nadia Petrova moved a step closer to her first WTA title, rallying past Antonella Serra Zanetti 3-6, 6-2, 6-4 in 91-degree heat at the Thailand Open.
Petrova will play for the championship against second-seeded Nicole Vaidisova. The teenager defeated third-seeded Gisela Dulko 3-6, 6-0, 7-6 (3) in the other semifinal. Petrova will be competing in her fourth career final. This year she reached the final in Berlin before losing to Justine Henin Hardenne.
Vindicator staff/wire reports