Poland football tickets available all week

October 27, 2014 at 12:00a.m.

Poland

The Poland athletic department will be selling tickets to Friday’s Poland at Canfield game. The athletic office is open from 9 a.m to 2 p.m Monday-Friday. Tickets can also be purchased at Tony Trolio’s from 10 a.m to 5 p.m all week.

Curbstone spaghetti dinner set for Nov. 16

Austintown

The Curbstone Coaches organization will have a spaghetti dinner fundraiser on Sunday, Nov. 16 at Lucianno’s Banquet Center. The dinner is $10 per plate and you can eat in or carry out. Dinner includes spaghetti, meatballs, salad, desert and either coffee or soft drink.

Porter set to speak at Curbstone luncheon

Austintown

Mark Porter (Scout Ohio Football Director) will be the guest speaker at the Curbstone coaches luncheon today at Lucianno’s Banquet Center. The public is welcomed.

Cejudo, Rivers earn MVFC honors

Youngstown

Youngstown State senior punter-placekicker Joey Cejudo and sophomore defensive end Derek Rivers and were honored by the Missouri Valley Football Conference for their performances in YSU’s 30-27 win at South Dakota State. Rivers earned the first Defensive Player-of-the-Week honor of his career while Cejudo picked up his second Special Teams Player-of-the-Week award. Rivers had a career-high eight total tackles, a career-best six solo stops and had three sacks. Cejudo averaged 49.4 yards on five punts, made a 32-yard field goal, was 3-of-4 on PAT kicks and had two touchbacks on six kickoffs for the Penguins.

Cardinals OF Taveras dies in car accident

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican republic

Authorities say St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Oscar Taveras has died in a car accident in the Dominican Republic.

National police spokesman Jacobo Mateo Moquete confirmed Taveras’ death on his Twitter account. Taveras’ agent and the Cardinals’ representative in the Caribbean country also said Sunday that the outfielder had died.

The 22-year-old Taveras made his major league debut this year. The promising slugger hit .239 with three homers and 22 RBIs in 80 games.

Wambach leads US to win over Costa Rica

CHESTER, Pa.

Abby Wambach scored four goals and the World Cup-bound United States defeated Costa Rica 6-0 Sunday night for the team’s fifth CONCACAF Women’s Championship title.

The U.S. women had already secured a trip to next year’s World Cup in Canada with a victory over Mexico in the semifinals of the eight-team, four-city tournament.

Wambach scored on a header in the fourth minute, then fed Carli Lloyd a header in the 17th to put the United States up 2-0. It was Lloyd’s fifth goal of the tournament.

Wambach scored again off a cross from Lloyd in the 35th minute and added another header in the 41st, also with the assist from Lloyd.

Anor’s late goal lifts Crew over Union

COLUMBUS

Bernardo Anor scored in the 90th minute, and the Columbus Crew secured the No. 4 seed in the playoffs in a 2-1 victory over the Philadelphia Union on Sunday.

Anor was in the right position from 1 yard out to finish Tony Tchani’s deflected shot.

The Crew (14-10-10) can still earn the No. 3 seed and a knockout-round bye pending the result of Sporting Kansas City’s home match with the New York Red Bulls on Sunday night.

If Sporting KC wins, the Crew will host the Red Bulls in the knockout match on Thursday. If Sporting KC ties or loses to the Red Bulls, the Crew will advance directly to the Eastern Conference semifinals.

Staff/wire reports