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SEATTLE -- Seattle starter Hisashi Iwakuma added to his dominant streak against the AL Central. The All-Star right-hander struck out seven and walked none in eight innings to run his scoreless streak against division teams to 48 2-3 innings in the Mariners 1-0 win over the Kansas City Royals on Thursday night. It is the second-longest streak by any pitcher against one division dating to 1974. Orel Hershiser tossed 55 straight scoreless innings against NL West opponents in 1988. "Hes got a good two-seamer and his split was pretty much unhittable today," Kansas Citys Billy Butler said. "He was mixing a slider in there and had all three pitches working at any time. He was throwing them all for strikes." Iwakuma (2-0) scattered four singles and allowed only one baserunner to reach second in his second start of the season. Iwakuma, who began the year on the disabled list with a strained tendon on the middle finger of his pitching hand, bolsters a strong pitching staff that has helped the team win 11 times in the last 14 games since losing eight straight from April 15-22. "Hes getting better each and every time out," Mariners manager Lloyd McClendon said. "I think if you asked him, theres a lot more in there. Theres a lot of room for improvement, but that just goes to show how good he really is." Despite limiting the Mariners to just two hits and one run in six-plus innings, Danny Duffy (1-3) was the hard-luck loser for Kansas City. He has allowed two hits and a run in each of his first two starts this season after pitching out of the bullpen to begin the year. Both times he has been stuck with the loss. The Mariners pushed across the lone run in the third. Mike Zunino led off with a double for Seattles first hit and moved to third on a sacrifice bunt. After a strikeout, Duffy intentionally walked Robinson Cano. Corey Hart followed with a run-scoring single up the middle that proved to be the difference. Seattle hitters have driven in runs three out of the six times opposing teams have intentionally walked Cano this season. "Offense didnt win the game, Kuma obviously was dominant," Hart said. "Any time a pitcher throws like that, you try to scrap any run you can get across, and one was enough. A guy throws like that, you hate to lose." Kansas City managed just four singles and advanced a runner to second base only once during the first eight innings. The Royals had their best opportunity to score in the ninth when Fernando Rodney walked two, but the closer struck out Butler and induced a game-ending groundout. Rodneys 10th save in 11 chances kept the Royals off the board for the 27th straight inning, a streak that dates to September 2013. "Our guys are grinders," McClendon said. 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Air Max Baratas Online . -- Shanshan Feng was alone in her opinion about the pin positions in the Kraft Nabisco Championship.Penn States football program got out from under the most severe on-field sanctions imposed on it two years ago over the Jerry Sandusky child abuse scandal, learning the NCAA will allow it to compete in this years post-season and that all scholarships will return in 2015. The surprise announcement, linked to progress the school has made reforming its athletics programs, moved the university a step farther away from the fallout from Sandusky, the former assistant coach convicted of sexual abuse of 10 boys, including acts inside university facilities. The scandal badly tarnished what had been one of college sports most respected programs and led to charges of a criminal coverup against former university administrators Graham Spanier, Gary Schultz and Tim Curley, whose cases are still pending, and the firing of Hall of Fame coach Joe Paterno. Penn State had been halfway through a four-year post-season ban handed down during the summer of 2012. Some of the scholarships were restored earlier than expected a year ago. The university still must pay a $60 million fine, vacate 111 wins that came under Paterno, plus another under interim coach Tom Bradley, and the school will remain under monitoring. The decision by the NCAAs Executive Committee followed a recommendation by former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell, whose second annual report as Penn States athletics integrity monitor concluded the university was in compliance with a 2012 agreement and consent decree. "Senator Mitchells report and recommendations, along with the actions taken by the NCAA today, are a recognition of the hard work of many over the past two years to make Penn State a stronger institution," Penn State President Eric Barron, who took over in February. Mitchell said the school had made progress toward implementing a new human resources system, "fostering an ethical culture" and improving security at its sports facilities. His own five-year oversight role, scheduled to continue to 2017, may end earlier as a result of the progress that has been made, he said. Mitchell said his recommendation was focused on aspects of the penalties that affect student-athletes, many of whom stayed at Penn State despite the ability to transfer without penalty. "In light of Penn States responsiveness to its obligations and the many improvements it has instituted, I believe these student-athletes should have the opportunity to play in the post-season should they earn it on the field this year," Mitchell wrote. His 58-page report said incidents involving the football team this year included only minor infractions. In State College, junior kinesiology major Daniel Zambanini said seeing the news on television gave him a moment of shock. "The sanctions kind of held the Sandusky scandal like it was a big black cloud that hung over the university because every year, every time they mentioned Penn State, they mentioned the sanctions," Zambanini said. He said removal of the post-season ban "just takes that weightt off our shoulders and you can kind of just be Penn State once more.dddddddddddd." The penalties against Penn State were unprecedented in many ways and, because of that, not well-received by many in college sports. While the NCAA cited lack of institutional control, Penn States missteps had nothing to do with competition and the areas that usually fall under the NCAAs jurisdiction. "The biggest problem I had was the effect on the student athletes in the program," said former Big 12 commissioner Dan Beebe, who worked in NCAA enforcement during the 1980s, including on the SMU football death penalty case. "They (Penn States players) werent involved in a program that was cheating against their rivals and now all of sudden theyre not able to participate in post-season." The NCAA cutting the penalties down is also unusual. Beebe and Mike Gilleran, a sports law and ethics professor at Santa Clara University who worked in NCAA enforcement during the 1970s and 80s, said they were concerned the latest move would set another precedent. "So what happens now when one of your old schools," Gilleran said, referring to Beebes time in the Big 12, "gets whacked? OK, well take that penalty with the understanding that we will be model citizens and we will expect the treatment that Penn State got." Beebe said rolling back the sanctions gives the appearance of the NCAA acknowledging it might have overreached by getting involved with the Sandusky scandal. "My first blush is I dont know how it could be perceived differently," he said. "Id be very curious to dive into (the NCAAs) rationale." On Friday, the NCAA said in a Pennsylvania state court filing it is willing to let the state government control the $60 million fine Penn State is paying under the consent decree. The NCAA wants the judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by state officials seeking to enforce a 2013 state law that requires the money remain in the state. If the judge agrees, the NCAA said it also will move to end a federal lawsuit against Gov. Tom Corbett and others that challenges that same law. Penn State went 15-9 during the first two seasons of the sanctions under coach Bill OBrien, who was hired to replace Paterno. Paterno was the winningest coach in major college football history when he was fired not long after Sandusky, his former defensive co-ordinator, was charged November 2011. Paterno died in January 2012 and lost his record when the NCAA vacated those 111 victories OBrien left for the Houston Texans of the NFL after last season and James Franklin was hired away from Vanderbilt to take his place. Penn State is 2-0 this season. If the Nittany Lions win the East division, they will be eligible to play in the Big Ten championship game. Franklin said in a statement the team appreciates the opportunity. "This team plays for each other. We play for Penn State, our families, the former players, our students, alumni, fans and the community," he said. ' ' '