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Volleyball squad falls

YOUNGSTOWN — Despite placing five players in double figures in kills and forcing a fifth game, the YSU volleyball team (6-10, 0-5 Horizon League) lost its third five-game match in the last three weeks with a 30-27, 28-30, 26-30, 30-28, 10-15 loss to Green Bay (4-11, 2-4).

Karla Everhart set career highs with 69 assists and 34 digs and just missed a triple-double with six kills. Ebony Barbosa posted a double-double with 19 kills and 13 digs while Jessica Fraley notched 17 kills and 13 digs.

LOCAL

Prep tennis

CANTON — The Canfield High tennis doubles team of Lauren Sulick and Christina Brant has earned top seeding for the Div. I sectional tennis tournament that begins Wednesday at 9 a.m.

Competition will be at the Harvard and Stadium Park courts.

Other Div. I schools are Alliance, Fitch, Barberton, Boardman, Canton McKinley, Copley, GlenOak, Green, North Canton Hoover, Massillon Jackson, Uniontown Lake, Louisville, Massillon Perry, Revere, Massillon Washington and Wooster.

Four singles players and four doubles teams will advance to the district tournament at Oberlin College on Oct. 11 and Oct. 13.

Sulick and Brant have an opening-round bye and will play the winner of the Barberton (Katie Duncan and Allie Reynolds)/Copley (Spencer Migdal and Abby Grable) match.

Another Canfield pair, Olivia Villano and Gianna Rendano will open against Louisville’s Kathryn Helmuth and Ashley Rossow.

Boardman’s Carolyn Jesko and Ann Jesko also have a first-round bye and will play Revere’s Brittany Miller and Sangitha Krishnan.

Spartans Randi Yazvac and Alyssa Tesone will meet Green’s Maria Ciccolini and Heather Ross. The Green players are the tournament’s fourth seed.

Fitch’s Amanda Becerra and Malissa Lynn meet Perry’s Ashley Drummond and Jessica Ungart. Falcons Amber Rumbaugh and Rachel Detwiler will open against Courtney Dawson and Lauren Rachel.

Krispinsky speaks
at Curbstone lunch

BOARDMAN — Sportscaster Chad Krispinsky of WKBN Channel 27 and Fox Sports will be the guest speaker at the Curbstone Coaches’ weekly luncheon session Monday at the Blue Wolf Banquet Center.

Durkin helps Kent St.

SOUTH BEND, IND. — Five Kent State women set personal records as the Golden Flashes placed 15th in the Notre Dame cross country invitational race.

Junior Brittany Durkin (Boardman) placed 98th for Kent with a time of 19 minutes, 18 seconds.

Sophomore Aiman Scullion (Salem) did not finish in the men’s race for Kent.

TAC Cross Country

BROOKFIELD — The Trumbull Athletic Conference cross country championships will be held at Brookfield Tuesday with the first race scheduled for 4:30 p.m.

The Northeast Athletic Conference meet will be held at Lordstown Village Park Tuesday. A boys varsity run is set for 4:30 p.m. to be followed by the girls varsity and middle school girls and boys races.

Inter-Tri-County League Tier 1 and 2 races are Tuesday at the Columbiana High School course at 4:30 p.m.

Bowling dinner

YOUNGSTOWN — The 40th annual achievement awards dinner and 31st annual bowling Hall of Fame induction, sponsored by the U.S.B.C. Women’s Bowling Association will be Oct. 7 at the ITAM Centre. The awards dinner will recognize the accomplishments of outstanding women from the 2006-2007 season.

Tickets may be purchased by calling Jessica Hartzell at (330) 793-2211. A social hour begins at 5 p.m.; a buffet dinner starts at 6.

Senior bowing

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. Call Ted Bundy (330) 770-8161.

WORLD

Americans golfers
near road victory

MONTREAL — Phil Mickelson showed Woody Austin how to stay dry, and the Americans blew the International team out of the water Saturday in the Presidents Cup to build the largest lead in seven years.

The United States pitched a shutout in five alternate-shot matches in the crisp morning, then turned back an International rally with one of its own to split the afternoon fourballs and build a 141⁄2-71⁄2 lead going into the 12 singles matches today.

Mickelson and Austin combined to birdie their last two holes to steal a half-point, Tiger Woods recorded two blowouts with different partners, and Stewart Cink made all the clutch putts to turn a loss into another point that filled the scoreboard with American red numbers.

Ochoa capitalizes
for Navistar lead

PRATTVILLE, Ala. — Lorena Ochoa and Stacy Prammanasudh will be dueling for a tournament win today — just like old times.

Ochoa, seeking her fourth consecutive win, shot a 3-under-par 69 and overtook Prammanasudh on the last hole Saturday to take a one-stroke lead into the final day of the Navistar LPGA Classic.

The pair competed against each other in junior golf and college, Ochoa at Arizona and Prammanasudh at Tulsa, making this scenario seem awfully familiar to Ochoa. And not just because the Mexican is in the front-runner position again.

Prammanasudh, who carried a three-stroke lead into the day, three-putted for bogey on the 18th hole. She overshot the hole on the 12-foot downhill birdie putt, starting the trouble and shot a 73 — 10 strokes worse than her opening round.

NHL season begins;
Kings defeat Ducks

LONDON — Just as has been the case since June 6, when the Ducks captured the Stanley Cup championship, the team sitting atop the NHL hails from Southern California.

The significant difference now is that team is the Kings.

Solo booted off
U.S. soccer team

SHANGHAI — The Hope Solo saga took another stunning turn Saturday when her U.S. World Cup teammates decided they did not want the goalie with them for either today’s third-place game with Norway or Saturday’s practice.

The team banished Solo, who had started the first four games of the World Cup, because she reacted to being benched for Thursday’s 4-0 semifinal loss to Brazil. After the game she criticized not only the decision but the play of her replacement, veteran Briana Scurry.

Vindicator staff⁄wire reports