Sports Digest | Griswold named player of week

Griswold named player of week

INDIANAPOLIS

Butler University sophomore forward Katie Griswold (Youngstown/Mooney High) has been named Horizon League Women’s Soccer Player of the Week.

Griswold helped Butler go 1-1 on the week, recording two goals and an assist as the Bulldogs clinched a place in the Horizon League Women’s Soccer Tournament.

Griswold is second in the Horizon League in goals (9) and third in points (19).

Penguins tie for third in Dayton

Dayton

The Youngstown State women’s golf team concluded their fall season by finishing tied for third out of 10 teams at the Dayton Flyer Invitational. Butler ran away with the victory separating themselves by 19 shots from second-place Detroit.

The Penguins had three players that finished in the top 15 with Samantha Formeck highlighting the group finishing second overall with a 149 (76-73). Sarah Heimlich and Katie Rogner finished tied for 13th at 155.

Angela Molaskey placed 34th overall with a 165 (82-83) for YSU and Sarah Scheidemantel finished 51st with a 36-hole total of 178 (87-91).

YSU golfers 12th in Flyer

DAYTON

The Youngstown State men’s golf team finished 12th out of 13 teams at the Dayton Flyer. Evansville University took the crown by three shots over IUPUI, with a 591total over the two days.

Anthony Conn and Mark Olbrych finished tied for 47th with a total of 158. Conn and Olbrych both shot 84 day-one and returned the next day ten shots better at 74.

Michael Lower finished tied for 65th with a two-day-total of 165 (85, 80) and Spencer Sulzner finished in 71st shooting 166 (81, 85).

Trevor Jones tied for 79th with a total of 172 (91, 81) and Shayne Wilson competed as an individual carding a 163 (83, 80).

Staal practicing

CANONSBURG, Pa.

Penguins forward Jordan Staal is practicing with the team for the first time since May.

Staal was unable to work out all summer because of recurring infections in his right foot that developed after a tendon was severed during a second-round playoff game against Montreal.

The infections required multiple operations to remove tissue and forced Staal to remain off his skates for nearly five months.

Staal resumed skating last week, when the team said he needed additional conditioning work and practicing before he could play again.

Staal was a finalist last season for the Selke Trophy, given to the NHL’s best two-way defenseman.

Until this month, Staal had not missed a regular-season game due to injury during his five-season career.

Serena Williams done for 2010

Serena Williams is done for the season, just like her sister.

In a statement e-mailed to the AP by her agent, the younger Williams said Tuesday she “re-tore the tendon” in her right foot, which she originally injured by cutting it on glass at a restaurant shortly after winning Wimbledon in July. Williams had surgery in New York on Monday; she first had the foot repaired July 15.

Her announcement comes less than two weeks after Venus Williams said she won’t play for the rest of the year because of a lingering injury to her left knee.

Serena hasn’t played on tour since July 3, when she overwhelmed Vera Zvonareva 6-3, 6-2 to win her fourth Wimbledon.

Commodore goes on IR

COLUMBUS

The Columbus Blue Jackets have placed defenseman Mike Commodore on injured reserve retroactive to Oct. 9 with a chip fracture in his left thumb.

The club also added defenseman Nick Holden to the roster on emergency recall from the minor league affiliate Springfield Falcons.

Staff/wire reports