Local Sports Digest

YSU
Softball
CHICAGO -- Allyse Ledford's two-run homer in the sixth inning broke a 2-2 tie and carried Youngstown State to a 4-2 win over Loyola (Ill.) in the Penguins' regular season finale.
Ledford's homer came after Jamie Fornal singled and was sacrificed to second.
Lacy Bronson added a RBI triple and Lacey Hess singled home a run for the Penguins (18-25, 10-10), who will play host to the league tournament starting Thursday.
McKenzie Bedra singled twice for YSU.
Karlie Burnell pitched a complete game, allowing five hits and two earned runs. She struck out five and walked three.
Tara Miller went 3-for-3 with a solo home run to lead Loyola, which battled back from 1-0 and 2-1 deficits with single runs in the third and fifth innings.
Lindsay O'Gean had a RBI single for the Ramblers (18-39, 10-10).
LOCAL
Roy Hobbs baseball
WARREN -- The Yard Cardinals defeated the Cleveland Raiders, 11-2, Sunday at Packard Park in a Northeastern Ohio Roy Hobbs Masters Division (age 48 & amp; over) game.
Ed Martin had three hits and a stolen base for the Cardinals, while Nick Dragash and Bruce Brewster each had a double and single.
Bernie Novotny had three hits, while Pat Dolney and Bernie Novotny had two apiece.
Mike Popadak pitched five innings, striking out two, to pick up the win. Brian Kochunas finished the eight-inning game.
NATION
Golf roundup
*CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Given another chance in a playoff at the Wachovia Championship, Jim Furyk finished the job.
A hard-luck loser in a four-hole playoff last year, Furyk made an 8-foot par putt to force extra holes against Trevor Immelman of South Africa, then made a 6-footer for par on No. 18 in the playoff to win and erase bad memories at Quail Hollow.
*INCHEON, South Korea -- Michelle Wie shot a 2-over 74 to finish 12 strokes behind winner Prom Meesawat in the rain-shortened SK Telecom Open.
Wie made the cut in a men's tournament for the first time in eight attempts.
The 16-year-old Wie, whose parents were born in South Korea, had two birdies and four bogeys to finish the Asian Tour event at 3-under 213.
Meesawat finished with a 68 for a three-stroke victory over India's Jeev Milkha Singh (70) and South Korea's Lee Seung-ho (70).
*FRANKLIN, Tenn. -- Cristie Kerr overcame a four-stroke deficit to win her seventh LPGA Tour title, closing with a 5-under 67 for a two-stroke victory.
Kerr defeated Lorena Ochoa, Pat Hurst and Angela Stanford in the Franklin American Mortgage Championship Tournament.
Kerr had five birdies in her bogey-free round to finish with a tournament-record 19-under 269 total on the Vanderbilt Legends Club's Ironhorse Course.
Kerr broke the mark of 17 under set by Annika Sorenstam in 2002, and matched the lowest score on tour this year, Ochoa's 19 under in the 54-hole Takefuji Classic.
*HOOVER, Ala. -- Brad Bryant won the Regions Charity Classic for his second Champions Tour victory of the year, closing with an eagle, birdie and a par for an 8-under 64 and a two-stroke victory over Mark McNulty.
Bryant hovered within striking distance with a bogey-free tournament before finally overtaking McNulty on No. 17. Bryant finished with a 17-under 199 total and earned $240,000 for his second victory in his last four starts.
*VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. -- Australia's Andrew Buckle won in his first professional start in the United States, closing with a 3-under 69 for a five-stroke victory in the Nationwide Tour's Virginia Beach Open
NHRA
COMMERCE, Ga. -- Doug Kalitta raced to his second straight Top Fuel victory and moved into second place in the championship standings Sunday, beating series leader Melanie Troxel in the final of the Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Southern Nationals.
Kalitta had a run of 4.469 seconds at 327.57 mph to beat Troxel, who has a 132-point lead over Kalitta in the season standings.
Tony Pedregon, Dave Connolly and Antron Brown also won their divisions in the $1.5 million event at Atlanta Dragway.
Pedregon won the Funny Car final, beating Robert Hight in the final with a 4.740-second run at 325.69 mph, and Connolly became the seventh different Pro Stock winner of the year when he edged Greg Stanfield in 6.695 at 205.69 mph.
Brown won the Pro Stock Motorcycle competition.
Vindicator staff/wire reports
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