SPORTS DIGEST || Cardinals, Blue Devils sell semifinal tickets

Cardinals, Blue Devils sell semifinal tickets

Cardinal Mooney and Western Reserve have set up advance sales for tickets to their respective state semifinal football games scheduled this weekend.

The Cardinals will sell tickets to Friday night’s Division IV semifinal against Steubenville from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday at the Cardinals Nest in the high school. Tickets are $8 when purchased in advance and $10 at the gate at Fawcett Stadium in Canton. Kickoff is 7:30 p.m.

Western Reserve plays Saturday at 7 p.m. at St. Clairsville against Glouster Trimble in a Division VII semifinal. Tickets will be sold at the athletic office Friday from 5 to 7 p.m. and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Advance tickets are $8 and all tickets at the gate are $10.

Scratch Sweeper today at Bell Wick Bowl

HUBBARD

Bell Wick Bowl will host its 14th annual Thanksgiving Scratch Sweeper today at 8:30 p.m. Bowlers will bowl five games on five pairs of lanes and first place is guaranteed $1,000.

A Senior Sweeper is also scheduled on Friday at 1 p.m. The handicap tournament is open to any bowler over the age of 55. Bowlers will bowl four games on four pairs of lanes with a guarantee of $500 for first place.

For more information call 330-534-1179.

Wednesday’s college basketball roundup

Aaron Harrison scored 22 points, Willie Cauley-Stein added 15, and third-ranked Kentucky earned its 500th Rupp Arena win by beating Eastern Michigan 81-63 at Lexington, Ky. Two days after escaping Cleveland State with a late rally, the Wildcats (6-1) were more methodical in improving to 500-62 lifetime in the 37-year-old home named for legendary coach Adolph Rupp.

Kevin Pangos scored 34 points and No. 11 Gonzaga easily beat Arkansas 91-81 in the fifth-place game of the Maui Invitational at Lahaina, Hawaii. Pangos made seven of eight 3-point attempts, including four during a 3-minute stretch in the second half that led the Bulldogs to an 18-point lead.

In the seventh-place game, DeAndre Mathieu scored 17 points and Minnesota came back to beat Chaminade 83-68.

On Tuesday night, Ron Baker scored 23 points, making six straight free throws down the stretch, and No. 12 Wichita State (7-0) held off BYU for a 75-62 victory in the title game of the CBE Classic at Kansas City, Mo.

Boxing show canceled, sparring event set up

NEW CASTLE, PA.

A fight show scheduled Saturday at Maze Sports & Entertainment Complex has been postponed until Dec. 7.

In its place on Saturday will be a sparring event featuring Mike Carr, a former IBC/NABC cruiserweight world champion.

Fans will get a behind-the-scenes look into the workouts of fighters. Tickets are $10 at the door.

US has plenty of depth on women’s speed team

BEAVER CREEK, Colo.

Lindsey Vonn is banged up and unsure of her plans heading into the Sochi Games. In years past, the very thought might send a cold shiver through the U.S. speed team. This time, the Americans are loaded with depth in downhill and super-G. Julia Mancuso, Stacey Cook, Leanne Smith and Laurenne Ross are skiers the Americans could be counting on for medals in Russia if Vonn, the reigning Olympic downhill champion, can’t compete after hurting her surgically repaired right knee.

All of them made the podium at least once last season and all of them were top 16 in the downhill standings. Throw in Alice McKennis, who won a World Cup event last season but is still recovering from a shattered right leg, and it’s an even more dynamic mix.

US soccer tabs Altidore, Wambach top athletes

CHICAGO

Jozy Altidore and Abby Wambach were honored as the men’s and women’s athletes of the year by U.S. soccer. The men’s Athlete of the Year honor is the first for Altidore. He becomes the 22nd player to earn the award since its inception in 1984.

Staff reports/Associated Press