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24 carries. Youngstown State's Kurt Hess completed 9 of 19 passes for 138 yards with one touchdown and two interceptions. Andre Stubbs, a receiver, was the Penguins leading rusher with 39 yards on one carry.
• "We're disappointed. They were able to take away our running game," Wolford said. "Forced us to be one-dimensional, and obviously we had a hard time stopping them."
• Martin Ruiz scored both touchdowns for Youngstown State. He had a 1-yard TD run in the first quarter and a 63-yard TD reception in the second. The long pass made it 21-13 with 2:53 left in the half, but the Penguins didn't score again.
• The Penguins came into the game averaging 206 yards rushing, second in the MVFC. The Penguins also averaged 35.6 points per game. Yet they have combined for just 209 yards rushing for 30 points in their last two games combined.
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AP News in Brief
AP Exclusive: Clandestine meetings between US and Iran set stage for nuclear deal
• WASHINGTON (AP) -- The United States and Iran secretly engaged in a series of high-level, face-to-face talks over the past year, in a high-stakes diplomatic gamble by the Obama administration that paved the way for the historic deal sealed early Sunday in Geneva aimed at slowing Tehran's nuclear program, The Associated Press has learned.
• The discussions were kept hidden even from America's closest friends, including its negotiating partners and Israel, until two months ago, and that may explain how the nuclear accord appeared to come together so quickly after years of stalemate and fierce hostility between Iran and the West.
• But the secrecy of the talks may also explain some of the tensions between the U.S. and France, which earlier this month balked at a proposed deal, and with Israel, which is furious about the agreement and has angrily denounced the diplomatic outreach to Tehran.
• President Barack Obama personally authorized the talks as part of his effort -- promised in his first inaugural address -- to reach out to a country the State Department designates as the world's most active state sponsor of terrorism.
• The talks were held in the Middle Eastern nation of Oman and elsewhere with only a tight circle of people in the know, the AP learned. Since March, Deputy Secretary of State William Burns and Jake Sullivan, Vice President Joe Biden's top foreign policy adviser, have met at least five times with Iranian officials.
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