Briefs

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Posted: Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2008

49ers women rally to win

soccer home opener, 3-2

With two unanswered goals – one each by Jonna Handra and Oni Bernard – late in the second half, the Charlotte 49ers women's soccer team rallied to beat UNC Wilmington 3-2 Monday.

UNC Wilmington scored first when Meagan Simeone headed in a Brittany Croce cross in the seventh minute.

The 49ers tied it when Hailey Beam scored her team-leading second goal of the season off a Whitney Weinraub pass in the 13th minute.

UNC Wilmington regained the lead on a shot into the top right corner of the goal past a diving Lauren Brown in the 22nd minute.

Charlotte outshot UNC Wilmington 14-9 with nine of those shots coming in the decisive second half. Handra led the 49ers with four shots. Megan Minnix, Bernard and Beam each tallied two shots apiece.

The 49ers next play Tennessee Tech at Transamerica Field on Sunday at 1 p.m.

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American Legion Baseball

In the World Series in Las Vegas, Kennewick, Wash., outlasted Sumter, S.C., 8-7, opening up an 8-4 lead behind 11 hits. For Sumter, Mathew Price, who has signed with the South Carolina Gamecocks, homered. Jay Edwards

HOCKEY

The Charlotte Checkers signed defensemen Jared Nightingale, who will be playing his third pro season, and Julien Brouillette.

Nightingale, 25, had three goals, 11 assists and a team-leading 196 penalty minutes last season. He had brief scoreless stints with AHL teams Hartford (two games) and Chicago (five games).

Brouillette, 21, had six goals and 11 assists in 67 games as a rookie with the Columbia Inferno (ECHL) last season. He added four assists in 13 playoff games. Cliff Mehrtens

Jeff O'Neill, who played for the Carolina Hurricanes for three seasons beginning in 2000-2001, is trying out to make the team again after taking a year off from the NHL. He played for Toronto for two years after leaving the Canes, then “retired.” (Raleigh) News & Observer

NBA

Sun Yue, a second-round pick in the 2007 NBA draft, signed with the Los Angeles Lakers. The 6-foot-9 guard, 23, averaged 6.8 points and 2.5 assists for China in the Beijing Olympics. Associated Press

YOUTH BASEBALL

The team of a 9-year-old pitcher who has a 40 mph fastball will be disbanded because the coach used the boy on the mound after the youth league told him not to. A league official said the speed of the boy's pitches frightens beginning players. AP

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