Enquirer staff and wire reports

Horse trainer Barbara Riley has been left paralyzed from the waist down after a fall in a riding accident during training hours Friday at Turfway Park, according to a Daily Racing Form report.

She underwent surgery Sunday to have vertebrae realigned that were crushed.

"The doctors say as far as walking again she is going to need a miracle," Connie Kordenbrock, a friend of Riley's, told DRF.

Riley, 49, runs most of her horses at Turfway Park, River Downs and Beulah Park.

She was injured when a horse she was riding broke its shoulder during a morning workout. Besides her spinal injury, she also suffered five broken ribs, a broken collarbone, a collapsed lung, and an eye injury.

Auto racing

NASCAR: Robby Gordon is leaving Richard Childress Racing at the end of the season to drive for what he hopes will be his own Nextel Cup team in 2005.

"Now is the time to start my future as an owner at NASCAR's highest level," he said.

Gordon was co-owner of a short-lived Cup team in 2000 with John Menard and Mike Held. Gordon then drove for several teams in 2001 before winding up with Childress and winning the season-ending race at New Hampshire. That victory earned Gordon a full-time ride with RCR.

Gordon, who has run a part-time Busch Series schedule this year with his own team, has been putting the pieces in place for a Cup team for most of 2004.

HENDRICK SERVICE: Hendrick Motorsports will hold a candlelight service tonight at its Charlotte complex for the 10 people who died in the crash of a team plane.

The service, open to the public, will be held from 6-8 p.m. at the Hendrick Motorsports complex. The program will be led by members of Motor Racing Outreach and will include Robbie Loomis, crew chief for Hendrick driver Jeff Gordon. The plane crashed into a mountain in heavy fog during a flight Sunday from Concord, N.C., to Spencer, Va., near Martinsville Speedway. All aboard were killed, including the son, brother and two nieces of team owner Rick Hendrick.

High school football

ST. ED SUES OHSAA: Lakewood St. Edward sued the Ohio High School Athletic Association, challenging a transfer rule that caused it to forfeit four wins, including one over St. Xavier.

The rule violates the state constitution by requiring a student who transfers from a public school to a private school to obtain a release from the former school, the suburban Cleveland parochial school said in its lawsuit filed in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court.

Tennis

SWISS INDOORS: Roger Federer pulled out after hurting his left thigh in a practice session, and Taylor Dent and Paradorn Srichaphan exited with upset losses in Basel. No. 1 Federer could miss the Paris Masters and season-ending Masters Cup, starting Nov. 17 in Houston.

SEAT OPEN: Fourth-seeded Magdalena Maleeva was upset by 216th-ranked Emma Laine 5-7, 6-4, 6-3 in the first round at Luxembourg.

ST. PETERSBURG: Ivo Karlovic pounded 11 aces and knocked off second-seeded Dominik Hrbaty 7-6 (5), 5-7, 6-4 in the first round.

GENERALI LADIES: Meghann Shaughnessy upset eighth-seeded Karolina Sprem 7-5, 4-6, 6-1 in the first round at Linz, Austria.

HALL TAPS FLORY: Cincinnatian Paul Flory, chairman of the Western & Southern Financial Group Masters and Women's Open, has been selected for enshrinement into the Hall of Fame for the Midwest Section of the USTA.

NBA

PACERS: Center Jeff Foster will have hip surgery today. He is expected to miss four to six weeks, further depleting Indiana's front court.

Golf

PGA TOUR: The Associated Press reports that ABC-TV will announce next week that Paul Azinger and Nick Faldo will share the booth with host Mike Tirico for a majority of the network's golf telecasts in 2005.

Colleges

MOUNT ST. JOSEPH: Margie Pfiester (McAuley) was named Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference women's soccer player of the week after leading the Lions to a 4-3 overtime victory against Anderson after trailing 3-0. Pfiester scored two goals, including the winner, and has seven goals and 18 points this season.

• In volleyball, the No. 7 Lions (25-3, 6-0 HCAC) won their 16th consecutive match and clinched the HCAC title by defeating Anderson.

MIAMI SOCCER: Senior forward Ashley Swinehart has been named the Mid-American Conference's female scholar-athlete of the week for the second time this year. She scored all three goals in a 3-1 victory over Central Michigan.

BGSU HOCKEY: Bowling Green suspended seven players, a day after a newspaper showed coach Scott Paluch a photo it said was of a nude player whose body was covered with profanity.

DUKE BASKETBALL: Freshman guard DeMarcus Nelson will miss 2-to-4 weeks after having surgery to repair a ruptured ligament in his right thumb.

Local colleges

Men's golf

Team Standings: 1 Austin Peay State 842; 2 Samford 855; 3 New Orleans 856; 4 Tenn.-Chattanooga 860; 5 IUPUI 866; 6 Murray State 867; 7 Tennessee Tech 868; 8 Troy 869; Tennessee State 869; 10 Belmont 872; 11 Detroit Mercy 875; 12 Wright State 877; 13 Evansville 885; 14 Lipscomb 888; 15 Dayton 889; 16 Cincinnati 899.

Cincinnati Individuals: T22 Adam Fluty 69 73 75 217; T54 Joe Young 76 72 75 223; T64 Justin Wilson 76 75 76 227; 77 Peter Heile 78 76 81 235; 80 Geoff Newman 82 77 78 237.

Women's soccer

Shutout: Conroy (5 saves). Goals: Manning 2, Miller, Lee, Borgman, DiTullio, Ruark, Grundhoefer. Records: CS 9-5-1, HC 5-7.

Volleyball

Mount St. Joseph (25-3, 6-0 HCAC) d. Anderson University (20-11, 2-4), 30-15, 30-22, 30-27.