Penguin softball team wins twice, now 5-3

Penguin softball team wins twice, now 5-3

Durham, N.C.

Junior Jordan Ingalls tied a single-game record with four hits to lead the Youngstown State softball team to an 8-0 win over Siena.

The Penguins also defeated South Carolina St., 9-1.

YSU (5-3) has won its last four games.

Against Siena, YSU collected 13 hits and freshman Casey Crozier tossed a two-hit complete-game shutout with four strikeouts.

Senior Kristina Rendle and junior Haley Thomas each had two hits while freshman Samantha Snodgrass and senior Kim Klonowski each drove in two runs.

Against South Carolina St., sophomore Hana Somogyi picked up her second win of the year striking out seven and allowing just three hits.

YSU basketball plays at Valparaiso Tuesday

YOUNGSTOWN

The Youngstown State men’s basketball team will open Horizon Tournament play on Tuesday at 8 p.m. at Valparaiso. If the Penguins win to advance, their next opponent would be the winner of the Detroit-Loyola game. The second game would be played on Friday in Milwaukee.

Thomas honored

BEREA

Mount Union’s men’s indoor track and field team finished in second place and senior Scott Thomas (West Branch High) was named Don Frail Most Outstanding Sprint Athlete at the 2011 Ohio Athletic Conference Championships at Baldwin-Wallace College.

Thomas won the 55 meter dash (6.46) and 200 meter (22.41) titles.

Donald wins 1st World Golf Championship

MARANA, Ariz.

Luke Donald had only two wins around the world in the last five years, so not many would have given him a snowball’s chance in Arizona of winning the Match Play Championship.

Turns out be he was more unbeatable than anyone in the 13-year history of the tournament.

When he polished off Martin Kaymer on the 16th hole Sunday, Donald became the first player to go an entire week without trailing in any match. He played only 89 holes in six matches, another record, and led after 81 of them. And he was so dominant he became the first player to win any golf tournament without ever playing the 18th hole.

Ethiopian Mekonnen takes Tokyo Marathon

TOKYO

Hailu Mekonnen of Ethiopia won the Tokyo Marathon on Sunday in a time of 2 hours, 7 minutes, 35 seconds.

Mekonnen’s time was 11 seconds off the race record set by Switzerland’s Viktor Rothlin in 2008. Kenyan Paul Biwott was second with a time of 2:08:17 while Japan’s Yuki Kawaguchi took third in 2:08:37.

Marathon world-record holder Haile Gebrselassie withdrew from the race Thursday after the Ethiopian bruised both knees in training recently.

Brazil federation, referee fined for fixing

SAO PAULO

The Brazilian soccer federation and a former referee are being fined $96 million for a match-fixing scandal in the 2005 domestic league.

A civil court has ruled that the federation and Edilson Pereira de Carvalho must share the fine for the scandal that forced 11 matches to be replayed after the referee confessed to accepting bribes from gamblers to ensure the outcomes of games. Corinthians eventually won matches that it had lost and clinched the title.

It was not clear how the fine would be divided.

Germany’s Machata wins 4-man bobsled

KOENIGSSEE, Germany

Manuel Machata added a world championship gold medal to his overall World Cup title by winning the four-man bobsled race Sunday. Machata’s Germany 1 team protected its overnight lead to finish the four runs in a combined time of 3 minutes, 16.58 seconds. Karl Angerer’s Germany 2 was second, while Olympic champion Steven Holcomb finished third in USA 1, 0.68 seconds back.

Vindicator staff/wire reports