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Football
YOUNGSTOWN -- The Youngstown State Football Alumni Club selected junior tailback Marcus Mason as the player who "Made the Difference" in the outcome of Saturday's 31-7 homecoming victory over Missouri State.
Mason will receive a plaque with his name engraved on it and will also added to the Honor Roll in the Mosure Hall of Gridiron Glory in Stambaugh Stadium. He will be presented the award by members of the Football Alumni Club at the team's annual awards banquet following the season.
Women's golf
BATAVIA -- Sophomore Brittany Jones carded the lowest round of the day and second lowest of the tournament for a sixth-place finish at the Cincinnati Fall Classic which concluded Tuesday at Elks Run Golf Club.
Jones had a 74, tying Toledo's Kim Kester for the low round Tuesday. Following an 81 on Monday, Jones finished tied had a two-round total of 155. Cincinnati's Hillery Wilson won the event with a 151.
As a team, the Penguins placed fifth with a 36-hole score of 666. Toledo won the event with 615, while Bradley was second (630) and Cincinnati was third (639).
Other finishers for Youngstown State were sophomore Adrianna DiLonardo who was 28th with a 172 (89-83); junior Bonnie Sherman, also 28th with a 172 (86-86); sophomore Kristen Albrecht, 33rd with a 176 (87-89), and Felicia Ciotola, who was 35th with a 177 (97-80).
LOCAL
Chaney-Wilsonto kick off at 7 p.m.
The Chaney-Wilson football game will begin at 7 p.m. Friday at Stambaugh Stadium.
Southington HOF
SOUTHINGTON -- Connie Farmer Silvernail (1982 basketball), Kelly Nelson Skaggs (1984 softball) and Robert Baugher Jr. (1985 football-basketball-baseball) and the 1977-78 boys basketball team will be inducted into the Chalker Athletic Hall of Fame Dec. 3.
A banquet, honoring the inductees, will be held at the Southington High School gymnasium at 5 p.m.
Reservations are required and cost $15.00 per person and can be purchased by calling Betty Sue Lefkowitz at (330) 898-4919 or Linda Karr at (330) 898-4742.
O'Halloran namedco-captain at Texas
AUSTIN, Tex. -- Boardman native Tyler O'Halloran, a junior at the University of Texas, has been named co-captain of the Longhorns' swimming team for the 2005-06 season.
WORLD
Tennis roundup
*HASSELT, Belgium -- Silvia Farina Elia, the highest-ranked Italian female tennis player in history, retired Tuesday after losing in the first round of the Gaz de France.
She lost 6-3, 6-2 Tuesday to Kirsten Flipkens of Belgium.
*HASSELT, Belgium -- Second-seeded Nathalie Dechy of France defeated Anastasiya Yakimova of Belarus 6-3, 6-1 Tuesday to move into the second round of the Gaz de France Stars. Third-seeded Francesca Schiavone of Italy also advanced, beating Kaia Kanepi of Estonia 6-3, 6-4. Also, Samantha Stosur of Australia took Nuria Llagostera Vives of Spain 6-4, 6-0, and Jill Craybas of the United States topped Martina Sucha of Slovakia 7-6 (5), 6-1.
*ST. PETERSBURG, Russia -- Second-seeded Thomas Johansson of Sweden defeated Philipp Kohlschreiber of Germany 6-3, 6-4 Tuesday to advance to the second round of the St. Petersburg Open.
In a rematch of the last season's final, defending champion Mikhail Youzhny of Russia advanced when Karol Beck of Slovakia retired with an injured right knee.
*BASEL, Switzerland -- Third-seeded Juan Carlos Ferrero of Spain eased through the opening round of the Swiss Indoors in 69 minutes on Tuesday, beating Filippo Volandri of Italy 6-2, 6-4. Earlier, Paradorn Srichaphan of Thailand defeated Christophe Rochus of Belgium 6-3, 6-2, and Michael Berrer of Germany stopped Tomas Zib of the Czech Republic 6-3, 7-5.
*LINZ, Austria -- Eighth-seeded Ana Ivanovic advanced to the second round of the Generali Ladies Open with a 7-6 (4), 6-2 victory Tuesday over Shinobu Asagoe.
Gisela Dulko of Argentina beat Lisa Raymond of the United States 6-7 (2), 7-6 (6), 6-2, rallying after facing two match points. Raymond served for the first set at 5-3, but Dulko broke back to force the tiebreaker.
*LYON, France -- Top-seeded Andy Roddick beat wild card Thierry Ascione of France 7-5, 6-3 on Tuesday in the first round of the Lyon Grand Prix.
In other matches, Olivier Rochus of Belgium beat second-seeded Mariano Puerta of Argentina 4-6, 7-5, 6-3, and French qualifier Marc Gicquel routed sixth-seeded David Ferrer of Spain 6-4, 6-0.
*BASEL, Switzerland -- Marc Rosset retired Tuesday, saying the Swiss Indoors would be his final pro tennis tournament.
Vindicator staff/wire reports