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Host Lewisburg wins hockey tournament Huskies top Vulcans in PSAC showdownC4 C5 Daily Items in Sports NASCAR Pep Boys Auto 500 ESPN, 7:30 p.m. TICKET www.dailyitem.comSUNDAY September 6, 2009 SVCC will host NCPGA event HUMMELS WHARF Susquehanna Valley Country Club will host the 30th North Central Pennsylvania Golf Association amateur championship Sept. 12-13. The tournament, which is open to all male ama- teur golfers over the age of 18, will have senior and super senior divisions as well. Jason Troutman from Frosty Valley Country Club is the defending champion.

Carl Stack- house from Mill Race is the defending senior champion, and Gary Fry is the defending super senior champion. Tee times begin Sept. 12 at 12:30 p.m. and Sept. 13 at 9 a.m.

Interested golfers can enter online at http://ncpga.ghinclub.com. Entries for the tournament can be downloaded at www.ncpga.net. Truex wins his first pole at Atlanta HAMPTON, Ga. Martin Truex Jr. won his first pole at Atlanta Motor Speedway on Sat- urday, just in time for the first scheduled race entirely under the lights.

Truex qualified first for Pep Boys Auto 500 with his lap of 184.149 mph. It is second pole of the season after qualifying first and finish- ing 11th at the Daytona 500. Kasey Kahne, 11th in the Sprint Cup stand- ings, qualified second at 183.497 mph. Jimmie Johnson, was third, fol- lowed by Jeff Gordon, Kyle Busch and Kurt Busch. car stolen from own home CORNELIUS, N.C.

Police have released surveillance footage from a security camera at Denny home in hopes it will lend clues about the theft of a luxury car from the NASCAR driveway. The 2008 Lexus LS was reported stolen Aug. 18. Footage shows a car pull up to the gate at suburban Charlotte home, and two men walk down his driveway. As the Lexus is pulled through the gate, a female can be seen walking around the wait- ing car and climbing into the driver seat.

Both cars then pulled away. A police report lists the car value at $50,000 and shows it is owned by Toyota Motor- sales. Good half, bad half By William Bowman The Daily Item UNIVERSITY PARK Things could not have gone any better for Joe Paterno in his 44th season opener as the head coach at Penn State. His Nittany Lions looked dominant on both sides of the ball in the first half, particu- larly on the defensive front, in a 31-7 trashing of Akron on a sun-splashed afternoon at Beaver Stadium. But Penn State did enough little things wrong a missed assignment here or a dumb pen- alty there to draw ire afterward, just the way he likes it after a seemingly easy victory.

had a terrible second Paterno said after his team stormed out to a 31-point lead by intermission and then rode it the rest of the way. got soft, thought the game was over. We just did not have any consistency in the second The way Penn State played in the first half, it did not really COLLEGE FOOTBALL Nittany Lions rout Zips with impressive first 30 minutes By Todd Hummel For The Daily Item SELINSGROVE The 2009 season opener for the Susquehanna University foot- ball team was about two things: redemption and revival. Sen ior ha back Dave Paveletz was looking for some individual redemption against Moravian after his three fum- bles contributed to a loss in last season opener. The Crusaders as a whole are looking to revive a program that has struggled in recent years and had been pointing to this game since December as a chance to get the season started on the right foot.

Saturday afternoon at Nich- olas A. Lopardo Stadium, Paveletz and the Crusaders accomplished those goals in resounding fashion. Paveletz had 245 all-pur- pose yards and scored all three Susquehanna touchdowns, while the defense pitched its first shutout in 13 years as the Crusaders downed the Grey- hounds 24-0. is my fourth year here and never beaten Mora- vian. Last year, I had three fumbles in the Paveletz said.

wanted to redeem my- self. We have five goals this year, and the first one was to win this talked since last De- cember about getting off to a good start this Susque- Crusaders put leash on Greyhounds By Eddie Pells The Associated Press NEW YORK She sat there in shock. Then, the tears started falling. Believe it or not, 17-year-old Melanie Oudin is the toast of the town at the U.S. Open.

Gritting her way through a shaky third set, the 70th- ranked player from Marietta, pulled off her second up- set of the Open on Saturday, defeating a more-seasoned, more-famous, more-moneyed opponent 29th-seeded Ma- ria Sharapova, 3-6, 6-4, 7-5. even know what to say right Oudin said, choking back tears in her postmatch interview in Arthur Ashe Stadium. you so much for cheering for Sharapova, who has won this tournament once, usually gets those cheers. But on this cloudless day in Queens, the fans were rooting for a new potential queen the one who stamped the word on her shoes, but probably see this coming so soon. goal was to make the top she said.

if I keep playing like this, who knows? Hopefully, I can get as high as She added this upset to one over No. 4 Elena Dementieva in the second round and a win over former No. 1 Jelena Jankovic earlier this year at Wimbledon. Sharapova, though, was the biggest name in the bunch. confidence is grow- magical run continues By The Daily Item PITTSBURGH Marcello Trigg completed 18 of 34 passes for 152 yards and a pair of touchdowns and C.J.

Hopson ran for a career-high 136 yards, but Duquesne totaled 429 total yards and forced three Bison turnovers as Bucknell lost to the Dukes 24-19 in its season opener Saturday evening. Duquesne quarterbacks Kevin Rombach and Connor Dixon combined to complete 22 of 31 passes for 322 yards while orchestrating a no-hud- dle offense. (0-1) loss snapped a three-game winning streak in season-opening games and a five-game streak over the Dukes. The last time the Bison lost to Duquesne (1-0) was in 2002. Both teams scored touch- downs in the first three min- utes Saturday and the Dukes led 17-13 at the half.

Duquesne registered 251 yards in the first half, while Bucknell totaled 197. The second half scoreless until a final-minute Trigg to Kizekai touchdown. Duquesne got on the board early when Rombach capped a five-play drive that took just 84 seconds with a 36-yard touch- down pass to Michael Rasky. Rombach, who left the game with an injury late in the first half, was 5-for-5 for 76 yards on the opening drive, and 7-for-10 for 110 yards overall. On third play, Trigg lofted a pass down the left sideline to Marlon Woods.

Woods hauled in the pass for a 41-yard touchdown recep- tion, the first of his career. The game was tied 7-7 with just 2:29 elapsed. The Dukes marched down the field on a 16-play drive later in the first quarter, but a big stop by Brigham Farrand on third-and-goal forced Duquesne to attempt, and convert, a short 19-yard field goal to make it 10-7. Bill Bair powered through the Bison defense for a 32- yard TD run one play after the Dukes converted a third- and-13 pass. Bucknell narrowed the half- time score to 17-13 when Trigg scored from a yard out on a quarterback sneak with 14 sec- onds left.

Drew Orth missed the extra point. Hopson to- taled 65 of his rushing yards on the drive, with Trigg taking over at quarterback for only the final play. Bison drop opener Susquehanna 24 Moravian 0 A Penn State 31 Akron 7 A Duquesne 24 Bucknell 19 A U.S. Open I The Associated Press Penn Andrew Daily runs for 37 yards during game with Akron. The Associated Press Melanie Oudin returns to Maria Sharapova during the third round of the U.S.

Open in New York on Saturday. Please see HALF, C3 Lauren Daily Item Ryan Rempe is taken down by Susquehan- Tony McIntosh, left, Josh Simpson, upper right, and Erich Majors, lower right, during game. Please see LEASH, C3 Please see OUDIN, C5 www.dailyitem.com Football New England quarterback Tom Brady is back, and a good thing for the NFL..