Sandra Young, of Louisville, Ga., is the winner of the Beat the Pros contest for Week 10.

Young correctly picked nine out of 10 high school football games, which beat the best effort by our pros (8-2).

Young will receive a Beat the Pros T-shirt.

Emily Brandenburg , a Martinez native and Francis Marion women's soccer player, has been named to the first-team ESPN The Magazine/CoSIDA Academic All-District III Team.

Brandenburg, a senior defender and goalkeeper majoring in political science, compiled a perfect 4.0 GPA.

- Three college softball players found dead after their sport utility vehicle went into a pond on a North Dakota farm during a stargazing trip likely drove straight into the water in the dark, authorities said Wednesday.

Stark County Sheriff Clarence Tuhy said the Dickinson State University students were on private property.

He stopped short of saying they were trespassing.

No foul play is suspected in the deaths.

Dr. Robert E. "Wag" Howard , the longtime South Carolina State basketball public address announcer, died Tuesday at his Orangeburg, S.C., residence after an extended illness. He was 89.

Howard, a Georgetown, S.C., native and retired educator and coach, was behind the mike for the Bulldogs men's basketball team for more than 40 years. He did men's and women's games since 1974.

The funeral is scheduled for Monday in Orangeburg.

Random drug tests will begin next year for horses in polo matches in the United States after the deaths of 21 elite horses in Florida that were injected with an incorrectly mixed supplement shortly before a championship match earlier this year, the United States Polo Association said.

The decision was made in October to begin a pilot program for testing horses starting in January, said association spokeswoman Amber Owen .

The random testing will be mandatory.

Toyota is pulling out of Formula One racing. The world's largest automaker announced it needs to cut costs and focus on its core business.

Toyota follows Honda Motor Co. as the second major Japanese automaker to withdraw from the sport in the past 11 months. Honda pulled out last December amid worsening economic conditions. Brawn GP, which took over the old Honda team, won the 2009 F1 championship.

Toyota officials called the withdrawal from F1 complete, making a return to the sport when and if conditions improve unlikely.

Despite a promising start to the 2009 season, Toyota finished fifth in the constructors' standings.

In Valencia, Spain, third-seeded Jo-Wilfried Tsonga retired in the first round of the Valencia Open because of a wrist injury while trailing 6-7 (3), 6-0, 3-0 to Mikhail Youzhny .

Fifth-seeded Gilles Simon defeated Tomas Berdych 6-4, 4-6, 6-3 to become the first player to reach the quarterfinals.

- In Basel, Switzerland, fourth-seeded Marin Cilic won his first-round match at the Swiss Indoors, defeating Philipp Petzschner 6-4, 6-4.

- In Nusa Dua, Indonesia, Marion Bartoli defeated Magdalena Rybarikova 6-4, 6-4 in the round-robin stage of the Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions.