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Volleyball team beats Loyola in five sets

CHICAGO — The YSU volleyball team tied the school record for blocks in a five-set match and defeated Loyola for its second straight Horizon League victory.

The Penguins posted 20 blocks against the Ramblers, which tied the previous mark for five sets against Kent State in 1995.

YSU had 24 blocks in a four-set match against UMKC in 1999.

YSU won 25-14, 25-14 before falling 25-15, 25-17. The Penguins took the tiebreaker, 15-7.

Haley Kapferer had seven blocks while Kaitlin O’Hara and Allison Heinz had six apiece. O’Hara added 13 kills, and Ebony Barbosa had 12.

Five different Penguins registered double digits in digs, with Laurie Shives posting a team-high 15. Barbosa had 14 while Karla Everhart, Dana Leslie and Amanda Gray each had 11.

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Martin to speak

BOARDMAN — Youngstown State’s first-year women’s head basketball coach Cindy Martin will be the guest speaker for Monday’s Curbstone Coaches luncheon at the Blue Wolf Catering on Lockwood Boulevard.

The event, which begins at noon, is open to the public.

Corrections

•Terry Terrigno was misidentified in a story about the Austintown Fitch High football team Saturday. He tied a school record with eight pass receptions in the Falcons’ game at Uniontown Lake, and scored a touchdown.

•It was Brandon Bussard and not Shawn Bussard who rushed for 105 yards in 24 carries and one touchdown in Beaver Local’s 28-14 win over Chaney Friday, in a high school football game at Falcon Stadium. Bussard’s first name and yardage inadvertently were listed as Shawn and 195.

•Cardinal Mooney will play host to Columbus Watterson Saturday, Oct. 25, at Fitch High’s Falcon Stadium at 7:30 p.m. The game was incorrectly listed as being played at Stambaugh Stadium.

Rockets hire Amero

LOWELLVILLE — Lowellville High has hired former Boardman High softball coach Bill Amero to take over the Rockets’ program.

Amero coached the Spartans for 13 seasons before his contract was not renewed in July. Amero’s Spartans made state appearances in 2000, 2001 and 2002, and won the state’s Division I crown in 2001.

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Shriners Open

LAS VEGAS — Marc Turnesa topped the leaderboard for the third straight day in the Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open, shooting a 3-under 69 on Saturday to take a one-stroke lead over three players.

The PGA Tour rookie had a 21-under 195 total at TPC Summerlin. He opened with rounds of 62 and 64.

Chris DiMarco (63), Michael Allen (64) and Ken Duke (67) were tied for second.

Matt Kuchar was tied for the lead with Turnesa with a hole to play, but closed with a double bogey for a 71. He was two strokes back at 19 under along with Zach Johnson (70) and Chris Stroud (67).

Administaff Classic

THE WOODLANDS, Texas — Defending champion Bernhard Langer shot a 5-under 67 for a share of the second-round lead in the Administaff Small Business Classic, the Champions Tour’s final full-field event of the season.

Langer, Lonnie Nielsen (68) and Brad Bryant (68) had 9-under 135 totals on The Woodlands Country Club course. Denis Watson (66) was a stroke back, and first-round leader Andy Bean (72) and Dan Forsman (68) were 7 under.

Langer won last year at Augusta Pines.

Portugal Masters

VILAMOURA, Portugal — Sweden’s Robert Karlsson moved into contention for his third straight European tour title, playing 16 holes in 6 under for a share of the lead in the suspended third round of the Portugal Masters.

Karlsson, the Order of Merit leader, and England’s Ross Fisher and Spain’s Alvaro Quiros were 14 under when play was suspended because of an electrical storm at Oceanico Victoria Golf Club. They were among 12 players who were unable to complete the round.

Fisher also played 16 holes, and Quiros completed 13.

Karlsson won the Mercedes-Benz and Alfred Dunhill Links in the European Ryder Cup player’s last two starts on the tour.

Lots of victories

ARCADIA, Calif. — Back in he saddle at age 59, Sandy Hawley led all the way aboard Tribal Chief to earn his 6,450th career victory in the Living Legends race at Santa Anita on Saturday.

Hawley and seven other Hall of Fame jockeys came out of retirement for the race that officially counted in their career totals and was specially approved for legalized parimutuel wagering.

The riders’ combined career earnings totaled more than $1.5 billion from 49,164 mounts. None of their mounts Saturday came close to matching the quality of the horses they rode to numerous Triple Crown wins over the years.

But the race was more about getting a chance to return to their previous lives for a brief time.

Ricketts aids Toronto

TORONTO — Rohan Ricketts scored two goals and Amado Guevara added one to lead Toronto FC to a 3-2 win over the Chicago Fire on Saturday.

Toronto FC kept alive its slim hopes of a postseason berth.

Justin Mapp and Cuauhtemoc Blanco scored for Chicago (12-10-7), which has already clinched a postseason berth.

With one game remaining, Toronto (9-12-8) has 35 points in 29 games, and is last in the Eastern Conference, but could still make the playoffs with a win in next Saturday’s season finale against the San Jose Earthquakes, coupled with losses from the teams ahead of them in the standings.

Charles Regatta

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Gevvie Stone of Newton, Mass., walked in the footsteps of her parents Saturday while capturing the women’s single championships on the first day of the 44th annual Head of the Charles Regatta.

The 23-year-old Stone was competing for the Cambridge Boat Club when she completed the three-mile course in 19 minutes, 12 seconds — almost 6 seconds ahead of second-place Liane Malcos of the Riverside Boat Club.

Thirty-one years ago, Gregg Stone and bride-to-be Lisa Hanson captured the singles championships, and both were there to support their daughter Saturday.

There were eight course records set on the first day of competition, including the victory by Emma Twig and Juliette Haigh of New Zealand in the womens doubles, who set a record of 17:46 over the three-mile upstream course.

Vindicator staff/wire reports