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Norman lifts Wake Forest over Appalachian State 1-0 in soccer
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Published: September 25, 2008
Luke Norman scored an unassisted goal in the 23rd minute, and Wake Forest beat Appalachain State last night in Spry Stadium to set a school record with its 12th straight men's soccer victory.
The Deacons (7-0), ranked No.1 and the defending NCAA champions, stretched their nonconference unbeaten streak to 34 games. They are the only unbeaten, untied team in Division 1.
Norman, a freshman who scored his first collegiate goal last weekend in a win over UC Santa Barbara, go the game's only goal last night when he shot from far right side of six-yard box into the left side of the net.
Goalkeeper Akira Fitzgerald had two saves to record his fifth shutout of the season for Wake Forest.
Appalachian State fell to 5-2 on the season.
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The testing began at the 2006 World Cup in Germany.
The effort comes after players from clubs in England, Israel, Scotland and Spain died from undiagnosed heart problems last season. A recent health scare included Lilian Thuram, a former France national team captain, who retired.
Auto racing
■ NASCAR has revised the results of Saturday's Whelen Modified Tour/Whelen Southern Modified Tour race at Martinsville Speedway to reflect a rules violation of the first-place car driven by Burt Myers.
Myers was dropped to 43rd in the official race finish. Ryan Preece, who finished second, was bumped up to first place.
The transmission gear on Myers' car was found to be not within specified limits.
Myers would have been in second place in Whelen Southern Modified Tour standings, 27 points behind season leader Brian Loftin, but is now in fourth place and trails Loftin by 99 points.
Loftin leads second-place Tim Brown by 45 points entering Saturday's next-to-last race of the season at Caraway Speedway.
Olympics
■ The investigation into the ages of China's gold-medal women's gymnastics team has been expanded to include members of the 2000 team that won a bronze in Sydney, the Associated Press has learned.
International gymnastics officials are examining whether Yang Yun and Dong Fangxiao, in particular, were old enough to compete at the Sydney Olympics. Gymnasts must turn 16 during the Olympics year.
Basketball
■ The Charlotte Bobcats signed Carl Landry, a restricted free-agent forward from the Houston Rockets, to an offer sheet yesterday.
The Rockets have a week to decide whether to match the offer or lose Landry to Charlotte.
Landry, 6-9 and 248 pounds, averaged 8.1 points and 4.9 rebounds in 42 games for the Rockets as a rookie last season.
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