LOCAL

LOCAL

Phantoms win

BLAINE, Minn. — Derek Graham slotted the game-winner with just over two minutes to play, to give the Mahoning Valley Phantoms a 5-4 win over the Texas Tornado Thursday in the NAHL Showcase in Blaine, Minn.

Graham took a pass from Adam Snead in the left circle and fired a one-timer from a steep angle behind Tornado goaltender Scott Zacharias to push the Phantoms record to 2-0 on the year.

The Phantoms got off to a quick start as Brent Dexter got a pass from Miles Winter on a two-on-one break and put a wrister over the glove of Zacharias to give the Phantoms a 1-0 lead, just 1:08 into the game.

Senior bowling

HUBBARD — Entry forms are available for the eighth annual Youngstown Senior Team bowling tournament at Bell-Wick Bowl, Oct. 13-14 and Oct. 20-21.

The United States Bowling Congress-certified event is open to men (age 55 and over) and women (age 50 and over). A $500 first-place team prize will be based on 40 entries. Cost is $70 per team. Call Ted Bundy 770-8161.

Fan appreciation
night at Sharon

HARTFORD — Sharon Speedway is thanking its loyal fans this Saturday by offering reduced adult ticket prices and a total of seven feature races during Fan Appreciation Night.

Adult admission for Saturday's event is just $6 - a $5 savings.

Hubbard volleyball
classic is Saturday

HUBBARD — The Hubbard Volleyball Classic will be held Saturday beginning at 9 a.m. in the high school gymnasium with Canton GlenOak, Amherst Steele, Southeast, Massillon, Cardinal Mooney and Akron Hoban as participants.

Corrections

U YOUNGSTOWN — The East High football team is ranked No. 6 in Region 7 of Division II in the Ohio High School Athletic Association computer ratings for this week.

East was listed at that spot in the computer ratings list in Thursday’s paper, but omitted inadvertently from the story highlighting the 16 area teams listed in the top 10 of the ratings.

U Ted Sloban scored one of the goals in Niles’ 2-1 victory over Canfield in a boys soccer match on Wednesday. Nick Liste was credited with two goals in Thursday’s paper. Liste scored one.

NATION

Two golfers score
aces on same hole

NEWARK, N.J. — Two swings, two aces — two balls in the same cup.

Moments after Thomas Brady scored a hole-in-one, Dennis Gerhart stepped to the tee and matched it at Forsgate Country Club in Monroe Township.

“I’ve never heard of that happening anywhere in the world,” Jim Woods, director of golf at the club said Thursday, a day after the dual aces were recorded on the club’s Banks Course. “Two balls on the same hole in the same group is pretty impressive.”

Neither Brady nor Gerhart had ever made a hole-in-one before. The odds of a golfer scoring an ace are about 5,000-to-1. But the odds of two players in a foursome doing it are 17 million to 1.

WORLD

Floyd Landis out,
Oscar Pereiro in

PARIS — Tour de France officials finally got what they wanted Thursday — a new champion.

With American cyclist Floyd Landis’ guilty doping verdict just hours old, the president of cycling’s world governing body said Landis would be wiped from the record books, making Oscar Pereiro the new champion.

“According to our rules we will be stripping him of his title and awarding it to Pereiro,” Pat McQuaid said by telephone. “He has the chance whether to appeal or not. ... But there’s nothing to stop us now from stripping him of his title.”

On Thursday, arbitrators upheld the results of a test that showed Landis used synthetic testosterone during the 2006 Tour. The decision means Landis, who repeatedly has denied using performance-enhancing drugs, must forfeit his Tour title and is subject to a two-year ban, retroactive to Jan. 30, 2007.

Staff/wire reports