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TOLEDO, Ohio -- Notre Dame coach Muffet McGraw figured Brianna Turner gave her a huge size edge the Irish could exploit against Toledo.She was right.Turner had 26 points and eight rebounds to lead No. 2 Notre Dame to an 85-68 victory over Toledo on Sunday.The 6-foot-3 junior forward shot 11 for 13 from the field as the Irish outscored Toledo 44-28 in the paint.We thought we had an advantage inside, McGraw said. We didnt think they could guard her, so we really wanted to go in as much as possible.It was great to see her have kind of a breakout game offensively.Marina Mabrey added 19 points on 8-for-11 shooting for the Irish (10-1).Jay-Ann Bravo-Harriott scored 23 points to lead the Rockets (8-2), and Kaayla McIntyre added 13 points.Toledo coach Tricia Cullop admitted that Turners length and athleticism gave her team all sorts of difficulty.Turner is one of the best centers in the country, and shes a handful, Cullop said. She got us in some foul trouble early on.In a bid to slow down Turner, Cullop inserted 6-3 Sophie Reecher 3:41 into the game to guard the Notre Dame forward. Reecher had two fouls within 45 seconds and was back on the bench.Notre Dames only loss this season was a 72-61 defeat against No. 1 Connecticut on Dec. 7. The Irish have now won 13 consecutive games on the road, while the Rockets dropped to 4-1 at home this season.QUICK TURNABOUTToledo scored the first five points of the game on Bravo-Harriotts 3-pointer and Mikaela Boyds field goal, but it was all Irish after that. Notre Dame scored the next eight points, taking the lead on Lindsay Allens layup with 6:31 remaining, and never trailed again.Theyre very skilled, very talented and definitely athletic, Bravo-Harriott said. You just have to have a lot of grit to play with them because theyve got some of the best players in the nation.When Mabrey hit a jumper with 1:26 left in the opening quarter, the Irish led 17-7 and Toledo never pulled within single digits again.The story of the game was really the first quarter, Cullop said. We let things kind of get away from us. We learned a lot about ourselves in this game. We guarded some pretty incredible players.BIG PICTURENotre Dame: The Irish used their speed and tenacity to beat the Rockets, winning the turnover battle 28-17. To stay even as close as we did with 28 turnovers was pretty incredible, Cullop said. Weve got to take better care of the basketball against great teams. That would have helped us tremendously.Toledo: Both of the Rockets losses this season have come against top-10 opposition, though the first setback was much closer -- 75-73 to then-No. 8 UCLA in the final of the Cancun Challenge on Nov. 25.INJURED IRISHNotre Dame freshman Jackie Young was out of the lineup for the second straight game due to an ankle injury suffered when the Irish lost to Connecticut. Erin Boley, who picked up some of Youngs minutes, scored nine points.UP NEXTNotre Dame: The Irish stay in the area, heading to the Breslin Center Tuesday to meet Michigan State, the third game in a six-game road trip. Notre Dame doesnt play at home again until Jan. 5 against Wake Forest.Toledo: The Rockets, off to their best start since opening 12-1 in 2012-13, host Detroit Mercy on Wednesday. Jessica McDonald Jersey . Lack made 20 saves for his third shutout of the season as the Canucks blanked the St. Louis Blues 1-0 in the first post-Olympic game for both teams night. 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GENEVA -- FIFA President Gianni Infantino broke no rules by taking offers of private flights to visit Pope Francis at the Vatican, Vladimir Putin in Moscow and the Emir of Qatar.Infantino was cleared of suspicion Friday by FIFAs ethics court after a secret investigation which threatened to derail his six-month presidency of soccers scandal-hit world governing body.The ruling -- issued from Zurich as Infantino woke up in Rio de Janeiro for the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games later Friday -- ended weeks of speculation fueled by leaks to Swiss and German media that he would become the latest FIFA leader suspended from office.(The) benefits enjoyed by Mr. Infantino were not considered improper in the light of applicable FIFA rules and regulations, FIFA ethics prosecutors said in a statement that both officially confirmed and ended its formal probe.The weeks-long case revealed rifts at FIFA in the transition to Infantinos leadership since he was elected in February to modernize and clean up an organization left in turmoil after nearly 18 years of Sepp Blatters presidency.The numerous witnesses spoken of Friday by ethics prosecutor Robert Torres included staffers and senior officials who resigned or were fired since May.The investigation into alleged conflicts of interest and accepting gifts also examined how Infantino hired senior advisers, and his refusal to sign a working contract.One leak included a recording of a FIFA Council meeting in May to show Infantino describe an insulting salary proposal from a FIFA-appointed panel. It was for $2 million with none of the multi-million dollar World Cup bonuses paid to Blatter, who got a $3 million basic salary last year.Still, the case also suggested FIFAs culture under Blatter of enjoying a five-star lifestyle and privileged access to heads of state appeared to have carried over to the Infantino era.An internal FIFA memo previously leaked to media said Infantino took flights from the governments of Russia and Qatar, plus former employer UEFA.Infantinos working trip to the future World Cup host nations in April started in a private flight from Switzerland accompanied by Vitaly Mutko, the Russian sports minister and FIFA Council colleague, Torres said in a conference call.After a schedule change for a late-evening meeting with Russias President Putin, Infantinos flight to Qatar was provided by a subsidiary of Russian state-owned energy firm Gazprom, which is a 2018 World Cup sponsor.Torres also gave details of Russian links to Infantinos family visit to the Vatican after attending the Champions League final in Milan in May.An airplane provided by Russian businessman Leon Semenenko, a personal friend of Infantino, had been bought two years earlier from Alisher Usmanov, a Putin ally who is a minority shareholder of English club Arsenal.The indirect ties off the relationship between Mr.dddddddddddd Semenenko and Mr. Usmanov were not sufficiently close enough to be considered in the light of the `conflict of interest principle, Torres told reporters.Torres led a preliminary investigation which also looked at Infantino joining UEFA leaders in their hired flight to Slovenia in early May. The Slovenian soccer federation president, Aleksander Ceferin, has since emerged as a candidate in UEFAs presidential election.No evidence suggested Infantino had instructed staff to seek offers of private flight, said Torres, the chief justice of Guams supreme court.Infantinos hiring process and contract stalemate were judged as internal compliance issues rather than an ethical matter, the ethics committee statement said.Infantino was among the more than 20 interviews carried out during the investigation, though Torres did not identify other individuals.The President would like to thank all those who cooperated with the Ethics Committee to ensure that the facts were heard and the truth prevailed, FIFA said in a statement.Torres and FIFAs senior ethics judge, Joachim Eckert, defended their official secrecy, which they said was allowed by the FIFA code of ethics rules and was agreed to avoid distractions and further leaks. They also insisted on their independence from FIFA.There was no pressure put on us to decide the case in favor of Mr. Infantino, Torres said.Infantino was not provisionally banned from office -- in contrast to his former boss, UEFA President Michel Platini, and Blatter during their ethics case last year which led to bans for conflict of interest.Blatter is serving a six-year ban for authorizing an improper $2 million payment to Platini in 2011. Blatter will appeal against his ban on Aug. 25 at the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne, SwitzerlandPlatini left CAS in May with a reduced four-year ban in a case that led to Infantinos unexpected FIFA candidacy.Complaints against Infantino flowed after senior FIFA officials resigned or were fired, including audit panel chairman Domenico Scala, who oversaw the salary offer, and longtime FIFA finance director Markus Kattner.Since May, a steady flow of leaked details were reported in German-language media.Infantino, a Swiss lawyer, had spoken of carefully orchestrated hysteria after claims of excessive spending billed to FIFA for rental cars, a private driver, a tuxedo, flowers and a mattress for his FIFA-owned apartment in Zurich, and a step machine for his FIFA office.The ethic court said these allegations related to expenses and governance issues had also been investigated but did not lead to any prima facie cases.---Graham Dunbar can be followed on Twitter at (at)gdunbarap ' ' '

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