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Swim team wins

YOUNGSTOWN — YSU’S swimming and diving team won every event, and senior Olivia Arnold broke her own school record in the 1,000-yard freestyle as the Penguins defeated Butler 144-87 in a Horizon League dual meet.

Arnold’s winning time of 10:28.53 eclipsed her old school-record time of 10:33.14 that she swam at the 2008 Horizon League Championships.

Arnold also won the 500 free (5:10.23) and the 400 IM (4:39.63) with personal-best times.

Seven other Penguins won individual events, and two others were on winning relays. Sophomore Ashley Williamson picked up individual wins in the 100 back (1:02.03), 200 back (2:17.20) and 100 fly (58.67), and she swam in the winning 200 medley relay.

Horizon cross country

GREEN BAY, Wis. — The YSU men’s cross country team finished sixth and women’s placed seventh at the Horizon League Championships.

Junior Justin Dickman led the men’s squad with a time of 26:10 while finishing 16th. One spot behind Dickman was sophomore Jake Lape, who finished 17th with a time of 26:13.

Sophomore Jim Ramson finished in 26th after running a time of 26:45. The fourth finisher for the Penguins was senior JD Sheppard who finished in 29th, running a 27:18. Rounding out the scoring was sophomore Jake Dialesandro, who took 42nd with a time of 27:18.

Other finishers for the men were freshman Rick Lape who took 48th.

On the women’s side, junior Lauren Blase led the Penguins with a 15th place finish, 20 spots better than last year after a time of 19:10.

Volleyball falls

YOUNGSTOWN — The YSU volleyball team rallied from two sets down behind three players with double-digit totals in kills before falling to Butler in five sets.

Butler won 25-22, 26-24, 17-25, 22-25, 15-9.

Kaitlin O’Hara and Ruth Boscaljon had 11 kills apiece while Ebony Barbosa had a double-double with 10 kills and 15 digs. Boscaljon eclipsed the 950-kill plateau in her career as her 11 terminations gave her 957.

The match featured 29 ties and 14 lead changes. YSU had two set points in the second set before Butler rallied, but the Penguins won the next two sets to force a tiebreaker. Butler hit a match-high .318 in the fifth set.

Butler took the first two sets by going on runs late in each.

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Mooney tickets

YOUNGSTOWN — Tickets for the Cardinal Mooney Division IV regional semifinal football game Friday against Steubenville at Canton Fawcett Stadium at 7:30 p.m. will be on sale four days this week at Mooney.

Tickets will be on sale Tuesday from noon to 3 p.m. and on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Ticket prices are $7 at school and $9 at the gate.

Ursuline football

YOUNGSTOWN — Ursuline High will sell tickets to Saturday’s football game against Gilmour Academy today only to Booster Club members and season ticket holders who attend the Booster Club meeting.

Tickets will be sold at the school on Tuesday from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. The game will be played at Stow High School on Saturday at 7 p.m.

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Gomes, Radcliffe win

NEW YORK — While most of the 38,377 starters in Sunday’s New York City Marathon were still out there, Brazilian Marilson Gomes dos Santos was striding happily toward the finish line, waving and blowing kisses.

Gomes, 31, the 2006 New York champion, stuck with the early leaders in the professional men’s race.

England’s Paula Radcliffe may feel somehow rejected by the Olympic gods, twice done in by training injuries when she was the gold-medal marathon favorite, but in each case, Gotham’s spectacular five-borough stage offers the continuation of a beautiful friendship.

Radcliffe reasserted her status as the world’s best female long-distance runner with a victory in 2 hours, 23 minutes, 56 seconds.

Ginn sur Mer Classic

PALM COAST, Fla. — Ryan Palmer made a 10-foot birdie on the 18th hole Sunday to break out of a six-way tie for the lead and win the Ginn sur Mer Classic, earning a two-year exemption on the PGA Tour.

Palmer, who was at No. 143 on the money list with two tournaments remaining, had to call a penalty on himself and made bogey on the 10th hole, then took double bogey on the next hole with a tee shot into the water.

But he rebounded with a birdie he desperately needed on the final hole at Ginn Ocean Hammock Resort for his second career victory.

Vindicator staff/wire reports