SPORTS digest

Boardman selling playoff tickets

BOARDMAN

Tickets for Friday’s Tri-Valley at Boardman football playoff game will go on sale Tuesday at the Boardman High School athletic office. The office is located at Door 16.

Sale hours are 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Tuesday through Friday. Tickets also will be sold on Tuesday and Wednesday from 5-6 p.m.

Pre-sale cost is $8. Tickets at the gate will cost $9. There is no reserved seating. Gates will open on Friday at 6 p.m. and the game begins at 7:30 p.m.

Kenyans win NYC marathon

NEW YORK

Kenya’s Stanley Biwott and Mary Keitany have swept the titles at the New York City Marathon.

Keitany became the first woman to repeat since Paula Radcliffe in 2008.

Biwott won his first major marathon title after finishing second in London last year. He finished in 2 hours, 10 minutes, 34 seconds, beating countryman Geoffrey Kamworor by 14 seconds. Reigning Boston Marathon champ Lelisa Desisa was third.

Keitany finished in 2:24:25, beating Ethiopia’s Aselefech Mergia by 67 seconds. She pulled away around the 21-mile mark to become the eighth woman to win more than once in New York. Ethiopia’s Tigist Tufa took third.

ACC suspends Miami-Duke officials

CORAL GABLES, Fla.

The Atlantic Coast Conference threw some penalty flags of its own Sunday, suspending the officiating crew that worked the Miami-Duke game for two league contests after finding they committed “a series of errors” that allowed the Hurricanes to score a wild last-play touchdown and pull out a win.

The ACC said the crew committed four errors on that play, the most grievous being not seeing Miami running back Mark Walton’s knee was down as he threw one of the eight laterals the Hurricanes used on their desperate kickoff return. If that was noticed, Duke would have prevailed because no time was left on the clock.

Per league rule, the outcome — Miami 30, Duke 27 — cannot be overturned.

The on-field crew members — referee Jerry Magallanes, umpire Terrence Ramsay, linesman Mike Owens, line judge Jim Slayton, back judge Robert Luklan, field judge Bill Dolbow, side judge Michael McCarthy and center judge Tracy Lynch — got two-game bans, as did the game’s replay official and communicator.

Crew falls to Impact

MONTREAL

Substitute Johan Venegas broke a tie in the 77th minute to help the Montreal Impact beat the Columbus Crew 2-1 in the opening leg of their Eastern Conference semifinal.

Only 4 minutes after Venegas replaced Patrice Bernier, the Costa Rican won a battle for the ball with Michael Parkhurst and went in on a 2-on-1 with Montreal star Didier Drogba. Venegas elected to shoot and picked the far corner for the winner.

The second leg of the two-game, total-goals series is next Sunday in Columbus.

Federico Higuain opened the scoring for the Crew in the 33rd minute. Bernier tied it in the 37th on a header off Marco Donadel’s corner kick.

Virginia Tech’s Beamer to retire

BLACKSBURG, VA.

Virginia Tech coach Frank Beamer will step down after the season, ending a 29-year run during which he turned the Hokies into one of the most consistently successful teams in the country.

Beamer, 69, is the winningest active major college football coach with 277 victories. He is 235-120-2 since taking over at Virginia Tech in 1987.

While Beamer gave no public indication he was planning to step down midseason, the decision announced Sunday by the school comes as no surprise. The Hokies won at least 10 games each season from 2004-11, but have lost at least five games each year since. Virginia Tech beat Boston College 26-10 on Saturday to improve to 4-5 this season. Beamer led the Hokies to seven conference titles.

Staff/wire report