Apr 25, 2006 4 min read

Golf Roberts records ace

Brandon Roberts aced the par-3, 157-yard hole No. 3 with a 5-iron at Springdale Golf Course on Easter Sunday.

The shot was witnessed by Lisa, Jeff, Brittany and Larry Roberts.

Baseball

Vulcans’ Aniceti honored

California University of Pa. sophomore second baseman was named PSAC-West Player of the Week after hitting .563 with two triples, three sacrifice flies, three walks, five stolen bases and 11 RBIs last week.

For the season, Aniceti is batting .396 with two doubles, a team-high five triples and three home runs. Aniceti leads the Vulcans in RBIs (41) and walks (24), and is among the team leaders in runs (39), stolen bases (26), on-base percentage (.470) and slugging percentage (.552).

California has won 13 of its last 14 games to improve to 28-14 overall and 12-2 in the PSAC-West.

Bucs’ Eldred out

ST. LOUIS (AP) – First baseman Brad Eldred, one of the Pittsburgh Pirates’ top hitting prospects, will be out indefinitely with an injured left thumb suffered with the team’s Triple-A Indianapolis affiliate.

A team spokesman said Eldred will undergo surgery on Tuesday in Pittsburgh for a fracture and dislocation of the thumb, and that the Pirates would have a better idea of a timetable for Eldred’s return after the operation.

Eldred, 25, was injured when he collided with a baserunner while reaching for a throw on Sunday at Louisville.

Eldred, a sixth-round draft pick in 2002, hit 10 homers in 190 at-bats last season with the Pirates and totaled 40 homers at the Double-A, Triple-A and major-league levels.

He began the season in the minors to get more playing time after the Pirates signed Sean Casey to a free-agent deal and was batting .226 with three homers, seven doubles and 10 RBIs in 10 games and Indianapolis.

Football

NFL games will ‘re-air’

NEW YORK (AP) – NFL games will be replayed in a 90-minute format on NFL Network during the upcoming season.

In the past, the league didn’t allow full rebroadcasts.

But beginning Tuesday, Sept. 12, “NFL Game Re-Airs” will feature four of the best matchups from the previous weekend. Eliminated will be halftime and, according to a league announcement, “other elements not critical to the outcome.”

But additional features, such as sideline and on-field sound captured during the game and postgame news conference sound bites will be interspersed within the broadcast. There also will be camera shots and angles from NFL Films that differ from those on the original telecast.

Two games will be shown each Tuesday and Wednesday night. Games shot in high definition will re-air in HD. Which games will be re-aired will be announced Mondays.

Tennis

Ferrero, Costa advance

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) – Former champions Juan Carlos Ferrero and Albert Costa advanced Monday to the second round of the Open Seat Godo.

Ferrero defeated Belgium’s Kristof Vliegen 6-1, 6-2, and Costa beat American Vince Spadea 7-6 (7), 4-6, 6-1. Ferrero won the event in 2001 and Costa in 1997.

Carlos Moya, the 2003 champion, lost to Russian qualifier Evgeny Korolev 7-5, 6-4.

Ferrero and Costa were among eight Spaniards to win on the opening day. Costa, the former French Open champion, announced his 14th straight appearance at Real Club would be his last. He plans to retire after the Barcelona Open next week.

The 30-year-old Costa’s victory marked his first win on the main ATP tour since August, and he’ll next play eighth-seeded Dominik Hrbaty.

Moya reached two finals this year and won at Buenos Aires. He lost consecutive first-round matches for the first time since January 2005, when he was upset by 18-year-old Korolev.

Nicolas Almagro, who won his first ATP title in Valencia a week ago, easily beat Andrei Pavel of Romania 6-4, 6-2, and will play French teenager Gael Monfils, who beat Italian qualifier Stefano Galvani 6-2, 7-5.

Two seeded Russians exited early. Igor Andreev squandered match points and lost to Teimuraz Gabashvili 4-6, 7-6 (6), 7-6 (4), and Dmitry Tursunov fell to local wild-card Carlos Cuadrado 4-6, 6-0, 6-3.

Ivan Navarro Pastor of Spain beat Paradorn Srichaphan 6-3, 6-4.

Other winners on Monday included Galo Blanco and Feliciano Lopez of Spain, Andy Murray of Britain and Paul-Henri Mathieu of France.

Lopez will play defending champion Rafael Nadal, who won the Monte Carlo Masters title on Sunday.