YSU volleyball falls
YSU volleyball falls
milwaukee
Youngstown State’s best volleyball season in 14 years came to an end in the Horizon League semifinals on Saturday with a 3-0 loss to Valparaiso.
The Penguins finish the season 16-15 for their highest win total since 1999.
Valparaiso moves on to play Milwaukee in the championship match today.
The set scores were 25-19, 25-19, 25-16.
Valparaiso held the Penguins to 26 kills and the Crusaders outhit YSU .211 to .051 and registered 20 more digs.
Sight in day today
brookfield
The Brookfield Conservation Club will have a sight in day for rifles, shotguns and handguns today from 1-3 p.m.
Sponsored by the Trumbull County Federation of Sportsmen, the event will be held at 1951 Sharon-Hogue Road in Brookfield.
For details, call 330-719-5078.
Olympic torch takes dive in deepest lake
MOSCOW
The Olympic torch has plunged into the world’s deepest lake in Russia ahead of the Sochi Winter Games.
Video from the Sochi Olympic Organizing Committee showed lifeguard Nikolai Rybachenko in scuba gear at Lake Baikal on Saturday. He lit what the committee says is a water-resistant flare atop the torch and submerged himself in the lake.
The 39,000-mile Sochi torch relay, which started on Oct. 7, is the longest in Olympic history. The torch has flown in space and traveled to the North Pole on a Russian nuclear-powered icebreaker.
Slovenia wins ski jump World Cup team event
KLINGENTHAL, Germany
Robert Kranjec soared 464 feet for the longest effort of the day to help give Slovenia the victory in a shortened opening event of the ski jump World Cup season Saturday.
Strong wind forced organizers to shorten the team event to one heat and Slovenia won with a combined total of 540.6 points for its foursome.
Germany was second with 528.3 points, with Andreas Wank producing a jump of 454 feet.
Reruhi Shimizu and Taku Takeuchi led Japan with jumps of 444 feet each to secure third place with 523.6 points.
Quigg retains super-bantamweight title
MANCHESTER, England
Scott Quigg retained his WBA super-bantamweight title with a second-round knockout of Diego Silva of Argentina on Saturday.
The Briton had Silva on the canvas early in the second round after two uppercuts.
Silva, who hadn’t been beaten since 2009, got to his feet but the fight was over moments later when his was felled again by a swinging right from the undefeated Quigg, who was defending his belt for the second time.
Tamarando captures Real Quiet Stakes
INGLEWOOD, Calif.
Tamarando caught the leaders with less than an eighth of a mile to go and went on to win the $100,750 Real Quiet Stakes by 31/4 lengths on Saturday at Betfair Hollywood Park.
Ridden for the first time by Rafael Bejarano, Tamarando ran 11/16 miles on Cushion Track in 1:44.22 and paid $7.40, $3.60 and $2.60.
Electric Eddie returned $11.80 and $6.40 at 22-1 odds, while Karma King was another three-quarters of a length back in third and paid $6.60 to show. Green Mask finished fourth.
Colorado, Providence win at NCAA meet
TERRE HAUTE, Ind.
The Colorado men and Providence women won NCAA cross-country titles Saturday.
This was Colorado’s fourth men’s title, all since 2001 under coach Mark Wetmore. The No. 3 ranked Buffaloes had 149 points at the LaVern Gibson Championship Course to hold off No. 2 Northern Arizona (169).
The top-ranked Providence women took the NCAA title in the 6,000-meter race. The Friars had 141 points and No. 2 Arizona had 197.
Vindicator staff/wire reports