Mark Sheftic, a teaching pro at Merion Golf Club, shot a 68 yesterday for a 36-hole score of 7-under-par 135 and the lead after two rounds of the PGA Professional National Championship.

Sheftic, who lives in Ambler, was a stroke ahead of Kyle Flinton of Oklahoma City, who shot a 69 on the Twin Warriors course in Santa Ana Pueblo, N.M.

None of the other nine entrants from the Philadelphia Section survived the cut to enter match play.

Hockey

The Pittsburgh Penguins re-signed forward Bill Guerin to a one-year contract worth $2 million. The 38-year-old would have become an unrestricted free agent tomorrow.

The Stanley Cup champions also signed Craig Adams, a fourth-line forward, to a $1.1 million, two-year deal.

A 17-year NHL veteran, Guerin scored seven goals and 15 points in the postseason after being acquired from the New York Islanders at the trading deadline in March.

Ron Wilson completed his coaching staff for the U.S. Olympic hockey team, adding John Tortorella of the New York Rangers and Scott Gordon of the Islanders.

Elsewhere: The Carolina Hurricanes said Jussi Jokinen has agreed to a two-year contract for $1.5 million next season and $1.9 million in 2010-11. . . . The San Jose Sharks declined to make qualifying offers to forwards Marcel Goc, Tomas Plihal and Lukas Kaspar.

Colleges

The University of Kentucky Athletics Association has asked a federal judge in Texas to either dismiss a wrongful-dismissal lawsuit by former Wildcats basketball coach Billy Gillispie or move the case to Kentucky.

The association's attorneys also contend the University of Kentucky, not the athletics association, hired Gillispie and paid him.

Gillispie sued the athletics association in federal court in Dallas on May 27, claiming fraud and breach of contract.

Texas linebacker Sergio Kindle was treated for a concussion after crashing his car into an Austin apartment building last week while he was either sending or receiving a text message, his attorney said. No one inside was hurt.

UCLA freshman Ryann Krais, a graduate of Methacton High, won the heptathlon at the USA Junior Outdoor Track and Field Championships Saturday in Eugene, Ore. Villanova freshman Shericka Ward won the 100-meter hurdles in 13.47 seconds.

Elsewhere: Arkansas linebacker Khiry Battle has been dismissed from the team after a weekend arrest on a charge of driving under the influence.

Noteworthy

Thousands of mourners gathered in Parkersburg, Iowa, to remember a slain high school football coach.

Family, friends and former players packed into a church, community center and parking lot for the funeral for Ed Thomas, the longtime coach at Aplington-Parkersburg High who was gunned down Wednesday in the school's weight room.

Authorities have charged Mark Becker, a 24-year-old former player at Aplington-Parkersburg, with first-degree murder. He remained in the Cerro Gordo County jail on a $1 million bond.

Elsewhere: Goalkeeper Jon Conway, suspended late last season by Major League Soccer for using performance-enhancing drugs, was released by the New York Red Bulls. . . . James Blake will join Andy Roddick and the Bryan brothers, Bob and Mike, on the U.S. Davis Cup tennis team that will play Croatia in next month's quarterfinals.