JOHNSTOWN — The ECHL's Board of Governors unanimously approved letting the financially strapped minor league hockey team in Johnstown move to Greenville, S.C.

The Johnstown Chiefs announced Monday on their Web site that the team was seeking permission for the move. The Chiefs have been part of the 22-team ECHL since 1988. The league was formerly known as the East Coast Hockey League.

The team plans to finish the current season at the Cambria County War Memorial.

The team has drawn less than 2,000 fans per game to the 4,000-seat arena, and officials say the team's losses reached six figures last year.

ECHL Commissioner Brian McKenna said the team has a lease to play in Greenville's Bi-Lo Center starting in the next season.

HARRISBURG — Samples taken from the 43 hunter-killed elk during the state's 2009 hunting season have all tested negative for chronic wasting disease, according to Dr. Walt Cottrell, the Pennsylvania Game Commission's wildlife veterinarian. Samples also tested negative for brucellosis and tuberculosis.Cottrell noted that the commission is still awaiting the results of CWD testing for the hunter-killed deer samples collected during the 2009 rifle deer season.

MARANA, Ariz. — The remaining top four seeds went down Thursday, and so did the defending champion.The often-unpredictable Match Play Championship more than lived up to its reputation in a topsy-turvy second round at Dove Mountain. An event already minus Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson sent several of the world's best to an early exit.Lee Westwood, Jim Furyk, Martin Kaymer and Rory McIlroy — seeded second through fifth — were among the losers. Defending champion Geoff Ogilvy was beaten by Camilo Villegas, 2 and 1. Top-seeded Steve Stricker lost Wednesday in the first round.The highest remaining seed is England's Paul Casey at No. 6. Casey swiftly dispatched Canadian Mike Weir, 5 and 4.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Shahar Peer is proving unstoppable at the Dubai Championships one year after the Israeli was denied a chance to play there.Peer beat a seeded player Thursday for the third time in four matches and advanced to the semifinals with a 7-5, 3-0 win over Australian Open semifinalist Li Na, who retired from the match because of back spasms.The unseeded Peer will face defending champion Venus Williams, who defeated Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6-3, 6-4.