Nov 22, 2013 3 min read

After yielding only eight goals all season, the No. 6-ranked California University women’s soccer team allowed three second-half goals in a 3-0 loss to PSAC rival Slippery Rock Friday afternoon in the third round of the NCAA Division II tournament in Albany, N.Y.

Cal finishes the year with an 18-3-2 record. The Vulcans posted the third-most wins in school history and advanced to the third round of the NCAA tournament for the fourth time in five years. Slippery Rock (15-3-2) will face No. 13 American International in the quarterfinals Sunday.

Slippery Rock took a 1-0 lead in the 68th minute when freshman Dara Demich scored her 10th goal of the year following a collision between freshman goalkeeper Meghan Jayes and a defender. The Rock later scored a pair of goals less than a minute apart. Demich recorded her second unassisted goal of the game at the 83:18-mark, and senior Lauren Impey, the PSAC Defensive Athlete of the Year, added an insurance goal on a direct kick just moments after Cal was issued a yellow card.

Ron Burke became the first harness racing trainer in history to win 1,000 races in a year when Magic Starlight was victorious in the eighth race Friday at The Meadows.

Dave Palone drove Magic Starlight, who won by 4-1/4 lengths over stablemate Darena Hanover in 1:53 in the $18,000 fillies and mares preferred.

Burke owns Magic Starlight with Mark Weaver, Mike Bruscemi and Phil Collura. The 4-year-old Magic Starlight has won seven of 21 starts and $104,585 this year.

Last year, Burke’s stable won a record 906 races, breaking his own mark of 842 set in 2010.

Earlier this month, Burke became the first trainer to surpass $20 million in purses in a year. Burke, who has $20.36 million in earnings this season, set the previous record of $19.69 million last year.

A windy afternoon along the Gulf Coast of Florida played right into the hands of Sandra Gal on Friday in the LPGA Titleholders.

Gal controlled the flight of her ball and picked up three birdies on the back nine at Tiburon Golf Club, giving her a 3-under 69 and a three-shot lead going into the weekend of an LPGA Tour finale that pays $700,000 to the winner.

The 28-year-old German has spent much of the year working on a shorter swing and hitting a variety of shapes and trajectories, and that was put to good use in the blustery conditions. And the fact she opened with a 64 didn’t hurt.

Gal was at 11-under 133.

Federal prosecutors announced fraud-related charges Friday against three trainers and a man who timed practice runs at a central Pennsylvania horse track for allegedly trying to rig races.

The U.S. attorney’s office in Harrisburg said track security caught two trainers with drugs and syringes inside stalls at Penn National Race Course in Grantville earlier this year, and allege a third trainer routinely doped horses.

They say the timer, Penn National employee Danny L. Robertson, 63, of Hershey, took bribes to report false workout times to racing officials.

The trainers are David J. Wells, 39, of Grantville; Sam Webb, 63, of Jonestown; and Patricia Anne Rogers, 43, of Hummelstown.