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Baseball
YOUNGSTOWN -- Today's scheduled doubleheader against Cleveland State was moved to Cene Park. The first game is scheduled for 3:30 p.m.
Academics
YOUNGSTOWN -- Senior Brandon Caipen was named to the CoSIDA Academic all-district team and sophomore Josh Page earned second-team honors.
Caipen is the first player in school history to earn first-team accolades.
Caipen, a catcher from Tallmadge, is hitting a career-best .332 with five home runs and 40 RBIs this season.
A first-team All-Horizon League selection last season, Caipen holds a 3.71 grade point average in integrated social studies education.
Page, a native of Plain City, leads the Penguins in batting average (.370) and hits (68).
The sophomore second baseman has committed just four errors in 223 chances.
He holds a 3.92 GPA in middle childhood education.
LOCAL
Sharon Speedway
HARTFORD -- The Fantastic 5 Divisions of race cars are set to lap the 3/8-mile oval tonight at Sharon Speedway.
In the Warren Harley Davidson Sprint Car Division, Jarod Larson holds a 36-point lead over Mike Kekich.
Brian Swartzlander holds a 32-point lead over Rex King in the Gibson Governor Insurance Modified Division points.
The Coy Brothers Trucking E-Mod Division is home to the closest battle in points. Alan Dellinger leads Howard Fraley by 13 points.
In the Tom's Sewer & amp; Drain Service Stock Division, Sonny Wisler is the man in the points lead after four races.
Guy Griffin of Greenville, Pa., holds a 16-point margin over Nate Stein in the Green Flag Sprints.
Gates open at 4 p.m., with cars hitting the track at 6.
Admission costs $11 for adults (16 and older) and $5 for students ages 12-15). Children 11 and younger are admitted free. Pit passes cost $22.
NATION
DNA tests: No link to Duke lacrosse players
RALEIGH, N.C. -- A second round of DNA testing in the Duke University lacrosse rape case showed no conclusive match to any member of the team, defense attorneys said Friday.
Attorney Joseph Cheshire, who represents a team captain who has not been charged, said the tests showed genetic material from a "single male source" was found on a vaginal swab taken from the accuser, but that material did not match any of the players.
"In other words, it appears this woman had sex with a male," Cheshire said.
"It also appears with certainty it wasn't a Duke lacrosse player."
Golf roundup
*WILLIAMSBURG, Va. -- Annika Sorenstam failed to the make the cut in a golf tournament for the first time since 2002 Friday, shooting a 2-over-par 73 in the second round of the Michelob Ultra Open on a course that has always frustrated her.
The women's top-ranked player had made 68 consecutive cuts before struggling for a second straight day while playing partners Karrie Webb and Cristie Kerr did well.
Webb, the first-round leader, is at 8-under 134 after a 68 and leads Kerr by one shot and Pat Hurst by two. Kerr shot a 66, and Hurst had her second consecutive 68.
*IRVING, Texas -- Instead of becoming only the fourth player to shoot a 59 in a PGA Tour event, Aaron Oberholser missed a 15-foot birdie putt on his final hole and had to settle for a 10-under 60 and the Byron Nelson Championship tournament record.
*SUTTON COLDFIELD, England -- Paul Casey shot a 6-under 66 to open a three-stroke lead at the halfway stage of the British Masters at The Belfry.
*DESTIN, Fla. -- Bobby Wadkins set a course record on the newest Champions Tour venue, shooting a 9-under 62 to grab the first-round lead in the Boeing Championship.
Busch racing
DARLINGTON, S.C. -- Denny Hamlin didn't horse around at Darlington Raceway Friday night, winning the Diamond Hill Plywood 200 for his second Busch Series victory of the season.
Hamlin took the pole in qualifying Friday afternoon, then held off four Roush Racing drivers -- Matt Kenseth, Jamie McMurray, Mark Martin and Greg Biffle -- on a final restart two laps from the end. Hamlin won by 0.353 seconds.
Vindicator staff/wire reports