Prep football tickets

Prep football tickets

YOUNGSTOWN

Tickets for the Cardinal Mooney’s state championship football game will be on sale at the school’s Cardinals’ Nest from Tuesday through Thursday from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Friday at 3 p.m. at Paul Brown Tiger Stadium in Massillon, Mooney will play Clinton-Massie in the Division IV title contest.

Tickets at the school cost $8; tickets at the gate will cost $10.

All seats are reserved.

Correction

YOUNGSTOWN

Jaclyn Yankle scored 19 points for the Cardinal Mooney High girls basketball team in Saturday’s 55-36 win over Youngstown Christian.

A story in Sunday’s edition incorrectly credited another Mooney player with Yankle’s points.

Struggling Fulham fires manager Jol

LONDON

Fulham has fired manager Martin Jol, with the club in 18th place in the Premier League.

The club said in a statement Sunday that Rene Meulensteen is the new manager. His first game is against Tottenham on Wednesday. Meulensteen previously worked under Alex Ferguson at Manchester United.

Fulham has just 10 points from 13 games and is in the relegation zone following a 1-0 loss to West Ham on Saturday. Owner and chairman Shahid Khan, who bought the team this year, said that with more than half the season left “an immediate change was necessary.”

Norway’s Aksel Lund Svindal wins super-G

LAKE LOUISE, Alberta

Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway captured a World Cup super-G Sunday, the third straight year he has won this event at Lake Louise.

Svindal finished in 1 minute, 28.53 seconds. He was followed by two Austrians — Matthias Mayer in 1:28.77 and Georg Streitberger in 1:28.91.

Jessica Lindell-Vikarby captures giant slalom

BEAVER CREEK, Colo.

Jessica Lindell-Vikarby of Sweden won a World Cup giant slalom Sunday, holding off 18-year-old American Mikaela Shiffrin with a fluid final run.

Lindell-Vikarby finished the two runs on a demanding Beaver Creek course in 2 minutes, 17.92 seconds, with Shiffrin 0.09 seconds behind. Tina Weirather of Liechtenstein took third.

Shiffrin is a slalom specialist who has worked all offseason on improving her giant slalom technique. This was her first top-three finish in the event.

The teenager was accorded the Lindsey Vonn treatment by fans.

Stevenson retains light heavyweight title

QUEBEC CITY

Adonis Stevenson retained his WBC light heavyweight title by stopping Tony Bellew in the sixth round.

Stevenson (23-1) knocked down Bellew (20-2-1) with a left uppercut. When the Englishman got up, he was stunned with another left, followed by a flurry of shots. Bellew was not fighting back, even though he was still on his feet when referee Michael Griffin stopped the bout.

It was a second defense for the Montreal fighter since taking the belt with a spectacular first-round knockout of Chad Dawson in June. He defended with a seven-round win in September over Tavoris Cloud.

Geisenberger takes season’s 3rd luge race

WINTERBERG, Germany

World champion Natalie Geisenberger led a German sweep of the top three spots in the third World Cup luge race to maintain her perfect start to the season Sunday.

The 25-year-old Geisenberger was fastest in both runs down the Hochsauerland course to finish in a combined time of 1 minute, 53.457 seconds for her 19th career victory.

Olympic champion Tatjana Huefner overcame earlier back problems to finish second in 1:53.897, while Anke Wischnewski completed the German sweep.

Americans Erin Hamlin and Kat Hansen were sixth and seventh.

Vindicator staff/wire reports