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Horizon volleyball

CLEVELAND — The YSU volleyball team will meet eighth-ranked UIC Thursday at 6 p.m. in Cleveland in the first round of the Horizon League championship.

If the ninth-ranked Penguins (11-16, 4-12 HL) beat UIC (13-17, 5-11), they would take on top-ranked Milwaukee (13-3) Friday at 11:30 a.m.

Milwaukee is the top seed for the sixth consecutive season.

The winner of the league’s nine-team tournament earns an automatic berth into the 64-team NCAA Volleyball Championship.

Milwaukee (20-8, 13-3) has won at least 20 matches in 11 of the past 12 years. The Panthers have posted a 79-10 (.888) conference record since 2003.

Valparaiso University (23-6, 12-4) earned the tournament’s No. 2 seed.

The tournament will be played at Woodling Gymnasium on the campus of Cleveland State.

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Missouri Valley awards

The Missouri Valley Conference gave out three players of the week football awards Sunday.

Runningback Herb Donaldson ran for 243 yards and three touchdowns as Western Illinois beat Illinois State 48-45 in overtime.

Safety Marty Rodgers returned an interception 57 yards for a touchdown that led Southern Illinois to a win over South Dakota State.

Also, Larry Warner of Southern Illinois led the team in rushing, receiving and all-purpose yardage. He scored two touchdowns.

Prep volleyball

NEW WATERFORD — Mineral Ridge High School’s Taylor Shiley and Crestview’s Chelsea Bowker paced the Inter Tri-County League Division I team to a 22-5, 25-14, 25-12, 25-11, 15-8 victory over ITCL Division II in a all-star match.

Sebring’s Jillian Faudree led the Div. II team in scoring.

Amateur boxing

BROOKFIELD — A 14-bout amateur boxing show will take place Dec. 5 at Yankee Lake Ballroom.

Featured bouts on the card being promoted as “A Night of Champions,” include those by Campbell’s Jake Giuricio and Girard’s Alecia DeFrank.

Giuricio (20-4) will battle Travis Hanshaw (35-5) of Kentucky, while DeFrank (11-4) takes on Carla Torrez (7-0) in a female bout at 125 pounds. Torrez is also from Kentucky.

The event starts at 8 p.m.

Preceding the show will be a dinner/meet-and-greet session at 5 with WBC/WBO world middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik and former fighters such as Harry Arroyo, Jeff Lampkin, Greg Richardson and Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini.

For tickets, call Haskle at (724)-699-1725.

Prep hockey

WOOSTER — Cory Timmings collected a hat trick and added an assist as the Mooney/Ursuline Thunder hockey club defeated the Woster Generals 8-1.

Both teams are members of the North Coast High School Hockey League.

Louie Morocco and Brian Styers each had two goals and an assist.

Dean Macklen had a goal and Alex Figuly and Phil Monrean each had one assist.

Goalie Jonathan Welsh stopped 18 shots.

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Robinson fired

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Greg Robinson’s career as Syracuse coach started poorly and never got better. When he was fired with two games left in a fourth straight dismal season, even he figured it was coming.

Robinson, who will coach the final two games of this season, is 9-36 overall and 3-25 in the Big East in three-plus seasons. He had another year left on a contract that pays $1.1 million per season.

He said it was important to him to finish the season.

Syracuse (2-8, 1-5) lost to Connecticut 39-14 on Saturday night and is trying to avoid a third 10-loss campaign under Robinson. The Orange had never reached double-digit losses in a season before Robinson was hired by athletic director Daryl Gross in January 2005 to replace Paul Pasqualoni.

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Singapore Open

SINGAPORE — India’s Jeev Milkha Singh closed with a 2-under 69 Sunday to win the $5 million Singapore Open by one stroke ahead Ernie Els and Padraig Harrington.

Singh, who was five shots off the pace after the third round was completed earlier Sunday, finished at 7-under 277. Els shot 71 and Harrington closed with a 70.

Champchai Nirat, who led going into the final round, had a 78 and finished at 3 under to share seventh place with Thomas Bjorn.

Phil Mickelson, ranked No. 3, shot 75 and finished ninth.

Lorena Ochoa golf

GUADALAJARA, Mexico — Annika Sorenstam nearly holed her third shot on the par-5 18th, then lipped out an 8-foot birdie try to give Angela Stanford a one-stroke victory Sunday in the Lorena Ochoa Invitational.

Sorenstam, making her second-to-last start before she leaves the LPGA Tour, holed out from a bunker for birdie on the par-3 16th to get to 12 under — a stroke behind Stanford — but settled for pars on the final two holes. On the 18th, her wedge shot rolled just by the side of the cup.

Vindicator staff/wire reports