Sep 23, 2022 3 min read

Girls soccer

Brooke Opferman had a hat trick in the first half, freshman Milena Gill scored twice and Peters Township routed Hempfield, 10-0, in Class 4A Section 2 Thursday night.

Abby O’Korn, Addie Pirosko, Cam Klein, Natalie Faingnaert and Atleigh Ciprich also scored for the Indians (5-1, 6-1-1). PT used three goalkeepers as Kaitlyn Strine, Molly Kubistek, and Sarah Schweiger combined for the shutout.

Boys soccer

Tyler Johnson and Andy Palm each scored a goal and Trinity played solid defense in a 2-1 victory over host Connellsville on Thursday night.

The win moves Trinity’s record to 5-3 in the section and 6-3 overall. The Hillers have won three of their last four.

Trinity goalkeeper Ryan Torboli made four saves.

In tennis

Roger Federer has ended his superlative professional tennis career at age 41 with a loss in doubles alongside longtime rival Rafael Nadal at the Laver Cup.

Federer and Nadal paired up for Team Europe and were beaten by Frances Tiafoe and Jack Sock of Team World, 4-6, 7-6 (2), 11-9, in London on Friday night.

Federer is a 20-time Grand Slam champion who announced last week that this team event founded by his management company would be his final event before retirement. Then he made clear that Friday’s doubles outing would be his last match.

He had not competed anywhere since a quarterfinal loss at Wimbledon in July 2021. Shortly after that, the Swiss star had a third operation on his right knee.

In the NBA

The reigning Eastern Conference champion Boston Celtics suspended coach Ime Udoka after a months-long investigation by an outside law firm that found multiple violations of team policies but did not point to a larger cultural problem of sexual misconduct, owner Wyc Grousbeck said Friday.

Neither Grousbeck nor president of basketball operations Brad Stevens would elaborate on the specifics of the violations or the private report that was delivered to the team two days ago. But a person with knowledge of the matter, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the details were not made public, told the Associated Press that it involved an inappropriate relationship with a woman in the organization.

Udoka’s multiple violations involved one woman, a Celtics spokesman said Friday. No one else in the organization is facing discipline, Grousbeck said, adding that the team will be vigilant to make sure that Udoka’s actions aren’t a signal that there is a larger problem.

Assistant Joe Mazzulla was elevated to interim coach through June 30, 2023; the Celtics say they have not decided about Udoka’s future beyond then.

Mazzulla, 34, led West Virginia to a victory in the 2007 NIT tournament and an upset over ninth-ranked Duke in the next year’s NCAA’s. His only head coaching experience was a two-year stint from 2017-19 at Division II Fairmount State in West Virginia.

n Celtics center Robert Williams III is expected to miss at least two months after undergoing surgery Friday on the left knee that caused him to miss time during Boston’s NBA Finals run last season.

The team said the arthroscopic procedure to remove loose bodies and address swelling was a success. He is expected to resume basketball activities in 8-12 weeks.