MONCTON, Canada — Penn State’s Casimir Loxsom capped his strong 2010 season by capturing the silver medal in the 800-meters at the IAAF World Junior Championships on Sunday.
Kenya’s David Mutinda Mutua won the race in 1:46.41, pulling ahead of Loxsom, who finished in 1:46.57, in the closing meters.
“I had the same game plan as yesterday (in the preliminaries),” Loxsom said. “I sat on the Kenyan. ... Man, he was strong at the end. I thought I had it. He snuck up on me.”
Loxsom’s time was the seventh best ever by a U.S. junior (19 and under) and second fastest run by a Penn State athlete, behind Randy Moore’s 1:45.96 in 1985.
WOMEN'S SOCCER
U.S. team ousted
AUGSBURG, Germany — The United States team that features Penn State sophomore Christine Nairn and incoming Nittany Lion freshman Maya Hayes was defeated by Nigeria 4-2 in penalty kicks on Sunday in the quarterfinals of the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup.
Nairn attempted the first penalty kick for the U.S. and it was saved. Nigeria went on to bury each of its four attempts to advance.
The game was tied 1-1 after regulation.
