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ysu

Games postponed

YOUNGSTOWN – The softball doubleheader between YSU and Robert Morris scheduled for Tuesday was postponed due to forecasted inclement weather.

No makeup date has been announced.

The Penguins are scheduled to host Toledo in a doubleheader today at 3 p.m. at McCune Park.

The baseball team’s scheduled game at Ohio University on Tuesday was also postponed and will not be made up.

The Penguins are schedule to play Slippery Rock in a 3 p.m. contest today at Eastwood Field.

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Boston Marathon

The Vindicator would like to know the names of area runners who will be entered in the 113th Boston Marathon on April 20. Runners’ names and other pertinent background information should be e-mailed to sports@vindy.com.

Howland softball

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — Melanie Cope pounded out three hits and also pitched the win striking out five as Howland improved to 4-0 with a 6-4 victory over Myrtle Beach here at the Grand Strand Tournament Tuesday.

Gina Albani, Carla Cope and Jenna Debiec all had two hits for the winners, while Debiec also drove in three runs.

Seigworth selected

LOCK HAVEN, Pa. – Slippery Rock Univ. hurdler Amanda Seigworth has been named the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Women’s Track Athlete of the Week for her performance at the PSAC-West Challenge Saturday.

Seigworth won both hurdle races and ran a leg of Slippery Rock’s winning 4x400-meter relay to lead The Rock.

She powered her way to a win in the 400-meter hurdles with a time of 1:02.34, the second-best time in the PSAC this season and the eighth-best in Division II.

Seigworth also topped the field in the 100-meter hurdles (15.03).

Titan football

NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. - Westminster College has released its 2009 football schedule.

The Titans will play the same 10 opponents from last year’s schedule as they enter the season with the longest home win streak in the Presidents’ Athletic Conf.

The Titans have won their last seven games at Harold Burry Stadium after winning all five of their home games last year to become the first Westminster team since 1996 to go unbeaten at home.

Westminster went 5-5 last year, including a 3-3 record for third place in the PAC.

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Ponte Vedra tennis

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Top-seeded Nadia Petrova breezed through her first round match with a 6-2, 6-4 win Tuesday over Olga Govortsova at The MPS Group Championships.

The 10th-ranked Petrova was ahead 4-2 in the second set, with wind gusting to 30 mph, when Govortsova broke and held to tie it at 4-4.

Petrova, who won 76 percent of her first-serve points, took a lead 5-4 in a game with five deuces. She added one of her four aces in the final game.

Men’s clay court

HOUSTON — Bjorn Phau of Germany, ranked 77th in the world, upset second-seeded Mardy Fish of the United States 6-3, 5-7, 6-3 Tuesday in a first-round match at the U.S. Men’s Clay Court tennis Championships.

Top-seeded James Blake of the United States was to meet Guillermo Canas of Argentina in a later first round match at River Oaks Country Club.

Fish, ranked 28th, was the crowd favorite at the start of the match but by the third set, Phau’s determined play started drawing scattered cheers.

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Grand Prix Hassan II

CASABLANCA, Morocco — Former top-ranked player Juan Carlos Ferrero of Spain advanced to the second round of the Grand Prix Hassan II by beating Christophe Rochus of Belgium 6-2, 6-3 Tuesday.

Ferrero, who won the 2003 French Open, is playing in Casablanca for the first time in 10 years. He converted five of 11 break points and had nine aces.

Vindicator staff/wire reports