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Yost receives citation

MOUNT VERNON — Dave Yost, a senior right-handed pitcher for the Mount Vernon Nazarene College baseball team from Poland High,was selected to the National Christian Conference Athletic Association scholar-athlete team for the second straight year.

Yost compiled a 3.50 grade-point average as a marketing major. He also had a 3-0 pitching record this year,

Hardhats open year

YOUNGSTOWN — The Steel Valley Hardhats will open their season today at 4:30 p.m. against the Trumbull County Panthers at Chaney High field in a Mid-Ohio Football League game.

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Scott Speed wins Dover trucks race

DOVER, Del. — Scott Speed celebrated his win as if he was ready to paint the town red. Should work out fine for a driver who already had painted his toenails blue.

Speed made it three straight first-time winners in the Craftsman Truck Series, pulling away to win his first career race Friday night at Dover International Speedway. Speed won in only his sixth career start.

Speed had nearly as much fun celebrating the victory as he did driving in the AAA Insurance 200.

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Serena, Venus lose

PARIS — Oracene Price, mother and coach to Venus and Serena Williams, stood near the steps to the locker room at the end of a long, rough day at the French Open.

First she watched eight-time major champion Serena lose a match that began a little after 11 a.m.

Then she watched six-time major champion Venus lose a match that ended in near-darkness, shortly before 10 p.m. Both sisters were stunned in the third round Friday by journeywomen who never have been quarterfinalists, much less champions, at any Grand Slam tournament.

golf in review

•Ginn Tribute

MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. — Karrie Webb continued to show off her Hall of Fame style Friday at the Ginn Tribute — and just in time, Annika Sorenstam did, too.

Webb shot a 66 and shared the lead at 13-under with Sophie Gustafson (65) after two rounds of the LPGA tournament.

Sorenstam also had a 66, her lowest score in six career rounds at RiverTowne Country Club, and moved from a tie for 60th Thursday into a tie for eighth.

Sorenstam was seven shots behind, but at least she still was part of the tournament that she hosts — something that looked doubtful midway through Friday’s round.

•Principal Classic

WEST DES MOINES, Iowa — R.W. Eaks and Lonnie Nielsen shot 5-under 66s to share the first-round lead at the Principal Charity Classic on Friday.

Joey Sindelar, Tom Purtzer, Kirk Hanefeld and Mark McNulty were one stroke back. Loren Roberts, who finished second at Glen Oaks in 2006, was at 3-under along with Clarence Rose.

Eaks — who has battled through serious knee trouble all season — showed he might be ready to break out of his slump. He finished tied for eighth in his last event, the Regions Charity Classic, but that’s his only top-10 finish in 2008. Eaks won twice and finished sixth on the money list in 2007.

•Wales Open

NEWPORT, Wales — Scott Strange shot a 5-under 66 and extended his lead to four strokes Friday after two rounds of the Wales Open.

Strange, a 31-year-old Australian, had a 1-under 34 on the back nine of the 2010 Celtic Manor Course, six strokes worse than his first round, when a 63 left him with a one-shot lead.

Strange was four shots ahead of Jeev Singh (68), Alvaro Velasco (68), Benn Barham (64) and English tour rookie Robert Dinwiddie (65), who eagled the last hole.

Padraig Harrington struggled with his putting, and his 3-over 74 gave him a 36-hole total of 2-over 144 — three strokes over the cut. It was his first missed cut in Europe since the 2006 Majorca Classic, 19 months ago.

•Ladies German Open

MUNICH, Germany — Michelle Wie shot a 3-under 69 Friday to keep pace at the Ladies German Open, where she was tied for sixth three shots off the lead after the rain-delayed second round.

The 18-year-old from Hawaii bogeyed her first hole but recovered with a stretch of three birdies in four holes midway through her round and a fourth birdie later at the Golfpark Gut Haeusern course northwest of Munich.

Vindicator staff/wire reports