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Queens teams sweep cross country titles
Jessica Neville set a school record in the women's 5,000 meters and Oscar Ogwaro matched the school record in the 8K to help Queens sweep the Conference Carolinas cross-country titles Friday at McAlpine Creek Park.
Neville, who was runner-up to individual champion Whiteny Bishoff of Anderson, led five Royals runners to their first women's conference title in program history with a time of 18:28. Queens topped Lees-McRae 50-52.
Ogwaro topped the field of 82 with a time of 24:18 and the Royals completed a perfect score by sweeping the top five positions to easily outdistance runner-up Lees-McRae.
High schools
Christopher Campbell, an assistant football coach at Kathleen High in Lakeland, Fla., has been charged with threatening a player with a pocket knife. Authorities say Campbell admitted to the school's athletics director that he took a knife to practice Wednesday and told players, "Don't try me today." The Polk County Sheriff's Office said no one was injured.
Campbell has been charged with assault with a deadly weapon without intent to kill and exhibiting a weapon within 1,000 feet of school property.
Tennis
The United States will play the first round of the Fed Cup in France on Feb. 6-7. The French tennis federation said the best-of-5 series will be on indoor clay in the Northern city of Lievinclay.
Top-seeded Robin Soderling, the only seed to reach the final eight, edged Guillermo Garcia-Lopez 7-6 (4), 6-4 in the Stockholm Open to set up a semifinal match today against Marcos Baghdatis. Olivier Rochus will meet Thomaz Bellucci in the other semi.
Alisa Kleybanova upset defending champion Jelena Jankovic 6-4, 6-3 to advance to the semifinals of the Kremlin Cup in Moscow. Down 5-3 in the second set, Jankovic double-faulted twice to lose the match.
In the men's tournament, sixth-seeded Janko Tipsarevic advanced to his first semifinal this season by defeating Robby Ginepri 6-3, 6-3.
Yanina Wickmayer, who is seeking her second straight tournament victory, defeated Kirsten Flipkens 7-6 (1), 4-6, 6-1 to reach the semifinals of the Luxembourg Open. She will play Timea Bacsinszky.
Boxing
Middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik said he doesn't remember being admitted to the hospital last month, but that doctors were concerned he wouldn't survive an allergic reaction to medication used to treat a staph infection he's had on his left hand since February.
Soccer
Spanish midfielder Albert Celades, 34, said today's Major League Soccer game with New York will be his last.
Olympics
The 60,000-seat stadium in Vancouver, British Columbia, that will host the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Olympics will get a retractable roof worth about a half billion dollars for 2011. It will replace the air-supported dome where the Canadian Football League's B.C. Lions play. OBSERVER NEWS SERVICES
