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Serena Williams rolls into Italian Open semifinals
PHILADELPHIA, April 22 (UPI) -- Claude Giroux logged a goal and two assists Sunday, sparking Philadelphia to a 5-1 win over Pittsburgh and a first-round playoff defeat of the Penguins.
Giroux put the Flyers ahead to stay with an unassisted goal 32 seconds into the contest and assisted on subsequent tallies by Scott Hartnell and Erik Gustafsson as Philadelphia claimed its Eastern Conference quarterfinal series 4-games-to-2.
Danny Briere also scored and Brayden Schenn added an empty-netter for the fifth-seeded Flyers, who advanced to the second round of the NHL playoffs for the third straight year.
Ilya Bryzgalov turned aside 30-of-31 shots to earn the victory after being pulled from net in Wednesday's Game 5, which the Penguins won 10-3.
The fourth-seeded Penguins could manage only Evgeni Malkin's unassisted goal, one game after the greatest offensive output in team playoff history.
Marc-Andre Fleury made 18 stops for Pittsburgh.
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ROME, May 19 (UPI) --
Serena Williams collected her fifth title of the year with a 6-1, 6-3 win over Victoria Azarenka in the finals of the Italian Open Sunday.
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ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, May 19 (UPI) --
Alexei Balabanov, a prominent Russian film director in the 1990s and 2000s, has died in a village near St. Petersburg, a colleague said. He was 54.
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DETROIT, May 18 (UPI) --
An invasive insect from Asia first spotted in Michigan two years ago could pose a major threat this year to fruit growers, officials say.
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GREENWICH, Conn., May 19 (UPI) --
A giant anteater at a Connecticut conservation center gave birth even though she had been separated from her mate for several months, zoo officials said.
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