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Baseball
EAST CLEVELAND -- Friday's doubleheader at Cleveland State was postponed until today because of rain.
The first game is scheduled for a noon start.
Hockey
BOARDMAN -- Youngstown State has received verbal commitments from four members of Parma Padua Franciscan High's state championship team.
Defenseman Jeremy Ragone, right wing Shawn Gallagher, center Matt Feda, and winger-defenseman Zak Kusek are all expected to attend YSU.
Feda recorded 143 points on 57 goals and 86 assists in 120 games at Padua. Kusek contributed 56 goals and 59 assists in 90 games. Gallagher registered 21 goals and 40 assists in 86 games. Ragone tallied 16 goals and 44 assists in 98 games.
LOCAL
WOO challenge
HARTFORD -- World of Outlaws Mean 15 racer Donny Schatz has a chance for $50,000 tonight at Sharon Speedway.
Schatz first must qualify for the A-main at the 3/8-mile oval . Then, he will be positioned 24th in the grid. If he can drive his machine into the RacinSoles Victory Lane in the 40-lap main event, Schatz will earn the $10,000 winner's check plus a bonus of $50,000.
NATION
Golf roundup
*FORT WORTH, Texas -- Rod Pampling spent plenty of time in the sand during the second round of the Colonial. So what was he doing from there?
"Making pars," Pampling quipped after his career-best 7-under 63 on Friday.
And even a couple of birdies. Pampling was 5-for-5 in sand saves, including his last two holes, to get to 10-under 130 and a stroke ahead of first-round leader Stewart Cink (67), Stephen Ames (66) and PGA Tour rookie Charley Hoffman (66).
On Pamling's closing hole, the 408-yard ninth, Pampling hit his tee shot into a left fairway bunker and his approach over the green into more sand before blasting to 6 feet. At the eighth, he hit a greenside bunker and saved par with an 11-foot putt. Tim Herron (65), Peter Lonard (66) and Dean Wilson (65), best known at Colonial as Annika Sorenstam's playing partner three years ago, were two strokes back at 132.
Kenny Perry, the defending champion, was six strokes off the lead after five birdies and five bogeys in a round of 70 Friday. Perry had record 19-under totals in 2003 and 2005 at the Colonial to win by wide margins.
Fredrik Jacobson matched his career best with a 62, a bogey-free round that was the best of the day. He joined Jim Furyk (67), Arron Oberholser (68), Richard Johnson (65) and Henrik Bjornstad (64) at 7 under.
*NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. -- Heavy rain wipe out play in the LPGA Tour's Sybase Classic, leaving open the possibility the tournament will be cut to 54 holes.
Fifteen players have yet to finish the first round at Wykagyl Country Club. They were scheduled to do that this morning, with the second round to follow.
Natalie Gulbis, Beth Bauer and Hee-Won Han shot 3-under 68s on Thursday before rain and darkness forced the suspension of play.
*MAYNOOTH, Ireland -- Belgium's Nicolas Colsaerts shot a 5-under 67 to take a one-stroke lead over England's Ian Poulter and Anthony Wall and France's Christian Cevaer during the suspended second round of the Irish Open.
Colsaerts had a 4-under 140 total on Carton House's Montgomerie Course. Poulter shot a 70, Wall had a 68 and Cevaer a 71. Denmark's Thomas Bjorn equaled the course record with a 66, leaving him four strokes back. More than 50 players were unable to finish the round. Play was delayed for six hours Thursday because of high wind.
NASCAR roundup
*CONCORD, N.C. -- Kasey Kahne's pit crew lost its title as the best in NASCAR, but bounced back Friday night by putting the driver on the pole for the Nextel All-Star Challenge.
Kahne's crew serviced his Dodge in 13 seconds to help put him in the top starting spot for tonight's race.
*CONCORD, N.C. -- Kyle Busch made it 2-for-2 at Lowe's Motor Speedway by driving away to an easy victory in the Craftsman Truck Series on Friday night. Busch, who became the youngest winner in series history last year when he won the race at the age of 20, crossed the finish line an impressive 3.154 seconds ahead of runner-up Terry Cook.
Vindicator staff/wire reports