Pine Hollow Springs wins bocce title

Pine Hollow Springs wins bocce title

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Lisa Pomaro and Fran Jeswald rolled the final two points of the match as Pine Hollow Springs defeated St. Anthony’s bar 15-14 to win the championship of the St. Anthony’s Women’s Bocce League.

Pine Hollow took the first game 15-12 then lost the second game 15-6.

Playing on the winning squad are Lisa Pomaro (captain), Pat Sandy, Mary Lou Blazquez, Fran Jeswald, Connie Maiorana, Helen Maiorana, Lori Goodman and Cindy Keeling.

Prep volleyball

GIRARD

Lyndsey Crown made eight kills and two blocks as the Girard High volleyball team defeated Bishop Canevin on Saturday, 25-20, 21-25, 25-23, 26-24.

Bryanna Jay made 13 kills and eight blocks while Hayley Spalla had 17 assists, six points and five aces. Mary Burt made 16 digs and seven kills.

Clarification

The Austintown Fitch-Painesville Riverside football game on Friday will be played in Painesville. Earlier schedules mistakenly had the game at Austintown.

On Friday, the Mooney-Lakewood St. Edward game will be played at Austintown’s Fitch Falcon Stadium at 7:30 p.m.

Raiders prevail

PITTSBURGH, Pa.

Joey Merlo scored twice and Mount Union goalkeeper Jon Critell made three saves to help the Purple Raider men’s soccer team claim its first victory of the season — a 4-0 decision over Wittenberg in the Carnegie Mellon’s Radisson Invitational.

Both Merlo and Critell are graduates of Cardinal Mooney High School.

Usain Bolt has eyes on pro soccer career

LONDON

Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt says he’ll attempt to play professional soccer once he brings his track and field career to an end.

The world and Olympic 100- and 200-meter champion believes he has four years left in track and field, and in that time wants to lower his world record in the 100 to 9.4 seconds.

Bolt then intends to try his luck in soccer for two years.

Deutsche Bank golf

NORTON, Mass.

The final hole gave Jason Day a one-shot lead in the Deutsche Bank Championship. The final hour gave him a good idea of what he might expect for the Labor Day finish.

Day walked off the 15th green with a three-shot lead Sunday, feeling good about separating himself from the field.

It was gone in two holes.

Then came the par-5 18th, where Day stood just off the back of the green in two as he watched Brandt Snedeker make a mess of the easiest hole on the TPC Boston by hitting his approach into the hazard and his fourth shot in deep grass short of the green.

Ted Schulz wins First Tee Open golf

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif.

Ted Schulz won the First Tee Open on Sunday for his first Champions Tour title, holing a 12-foot birdie putt on the 17th hole at Pebble Beach en route to a 2-under 70 and a one-stroke victory over Tom Pernice Jr.

The 50-year-old Schulz — in the field on conditional status in his 12th start on the 50-and-over tour — finished at 14-under 202. It was his first victory since winning the 1991 Nissan Open for the second of his two PGA Tour titles.

TV ratings for Notre Dame opener up 77%

NEW YORK

The start of the Brian Kelly era attracted a large television audience for Notre Dame.

Saturday’s preliminary rating was up 77 percent from last year’s opener. NBC said Sunday that the Fighting Irish’s 23-12 win over Purdue drew a 2.3 overnight rating and 6 share. It was up 15 percent from the last Notre Dame home game against Purdue in 2008.

The 2009 opener against Nevada earned a 1.3 rating and 3 share. Ratings represent the percentage of all homes with televisions tuned into a program.

Vindicator staff/wire reports