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Soccer team falls, 2-1

ALBANY, N.Y. — Albany took a 2-0 lead then held off the Penguin soccer team Friday, 2-1.

Senior Carrie Wack scored for YSU (0-3) in the 79th minute.

Ashley Tirabassi and Teresa Boring scored for the Great Danes (2-2).

YSU plays at Siena today at 11 a.m.

Cross Country

AKRON — The YSU men’s and women’s cross country teams each had members finish in the top 10 in the season’s first meet at the 40th Tommy Evans Invitational at Firestone Metro Park.

Junior Justin Dickman finished sixth with a 4-mile time of 21:11 to lead the men’s squad to a third-place finish while Lauren Blase and Kayla Witmer placed eighth and ninth to pace the women’s squad to a third-place showing.

Dickman, who earned second-team All-Horizon League honors last season, improved his time by 47 seconds compared to his 2007 performance at Firestone.

Freshman Rick Lape finished 11th with a time of 21:25 in his first collegiate meet, and Jake Lape was 16th in 21:39.

The men’s squad was just nine points behind Akron in second and 16 behind first-place Buffalo. The women’s team defeated league opponent Cleveland State by 27 points.

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Fight trip

A bus trip to the Kelly Pavlik-Bernard Hopkins professional boxing match in Atlantic City on Oct. 18 is being planned.

The trip is October 17-19th with transportation in an Anderson Tours motorcoach.

For details call Mike Cefalde at (330) 509-9327.

Correction

The Poland High football team is 3-0 after Friday’s 26-8 victory over Beaver Local.

An incorrect record appeared in Saturday’s edition.

Baseball oldtimers

YOUNGSTOWN — The Youngstown Baseball Oldtimers Association will hold its monthly meeting on Thursday at 2:30 p.m. at Kramer Field.

The organization’s golf outing will be held at Tanglewood course on Sept. 24 at 9:30 a.m. For more information, call Nick Granitto at (330) 782-6520.

Phantoms win opener

BROWNSTOWN, MI – The Mahoning Valley Phantoms scored three special teams goals on their way to a 4-2 win over the Motor City Machine in their preseason opener Saturday night.

Brian McGinty opened the scoring at 14:22 of the first period with a power play tally, streaking into the offensive zone and scoring off a long pass from defenseman John Houston.

Phantoms rookie Brandon Saad added a short-handed marker five minutes later, stealing the puck deep in Machine territory and depositing a backhand shot past Motor City goalie Zach Hansen at the 9:04 mark.

Hall of fame

CAMPBELL — The Campbell Memorial High School Athletic Hall of Fame will induct 15 graduates at the organization’s biennial banquet slated Sept. 18 at St. Michael’s Byzantine Catholic Church Hall starting at 6 p.m.

Among the inductees for the eighth induction class will be Ken Brayer and Greg Gulas, who originated the formation process for the Hall of Fame in 1991, thus setting the stage for the first induction class in 1994.

The other inductees are John Babyak (football, 1944), Bob Beeson (baseball, 1983), Kevin Dill (basketball-baseball, 1993), Nadyne Dubos (basketball, 1987), George Ginnis (football, 1988), Drew Ginnis (football, 1990), Dennis Katsaras (track coach, 1948), Tom Matak (football, 1944), Deland McCullough (football, 1991), Terry Truman (baseball, 1965), John VanSuch (football, 1955), Anthony Venable (basketball, 1987), Carl Wilcox (football, 1953).

For details call (330) 750-9369 or (330) 507-1646.

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Chivas USA rallies

TORONTO — Daniel Paladini and Jonathan Bornstein scored to rally Chivas USA to a 3-1 victory against Toronto FC in the Major Soccer League on Saturday.

Ante Razov had a goal and two assists for Chivas USA (8-9-6), which was missing nine players — two to international play, five to injuries and two to yellow cards.

Tyler Rosenlund scored for Toronto (7-11-5), which was also missing nine regulars — including eight to international duty — and has just one win in its last 10 games.

Rosenlund gave Toronto a 1-0 lead in the 30th minute, receiving a beautiful pass across the goal box from Rohan Ricketts and put a shot past Chivas goalie Zach Thornton.

Paladini tied it 11 minutes later when he took a pass from Razov in the middle of the field just outside the box and eluded a tackle and sent a high shot into the net, past Toronto goalie Brian Edwards.

Tough Tiz’s Sis romps

NEW YORK — Tough Tiz’s Sis romped to a 121‚Ñ4-length victory in the $300,000 Ruffian Handicap for fillies and mares Saturday at rainy and sloppy Belmont Park.

Edgar Prado was aboard as Tough Tiz’s Sis took charge on the turn and pulled away to her eighth win in 20 starts.

“Coming out of the gate, I put her in a good spot,” Prado said. “She was handling the slop very well, no problem. I was very impressed.”

Yonkers cancels

YONKERS, New York — Yonkers Raceway canceled its live and simulcast racing scheduled for Saturday night due to the severe weather expected in the area.

Afternoon simulcasting was to continue Saturday afternoon through the conclusion of the Belmont card.

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Paraguay in tie

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Paraguay held Argentina to a 1-1 tie Saturday to keep its lead in South American qualifying for the World Cup.

An own-goal by Gabriel Heinze in the 11th minute put Argentina in a hole early, and the home side was forced to play a man down for the last hour when striker Carlos Tevez was sent off for a hard foul on Dario Veron.

Substitute Sergio Aguero tied it for Argentina in the 61st minute, but Paraguay stayed two points ahead of Argentina with 14 points.

Juan Roman Riquelme hit the crossbar in the seventh minute with a free kick, but on a Paraguayan counterattack by Nelson Haedo Valdez, goalkeeper Roberto Abbondanzieri left his line too late.

Vindicator staff/wire reports