YSU
YSU
YSU programearns award
YOUNGSTOWN -- The 2001 edition of "Penguin Power," the game-day program for Youngstown State University football games, was judged as the year's best Division I-AA football program by the College Sports Information Directors of America.
"Penguin Power" was a production of the YSU Sports Information and Marketing Offices.
The YSU program is printed by Allegra Print and Imaging in Youngstown.
LOCAL
Coaches resign
BERLIN CENTER -- Two assistant football coaches at Western Reserve High School have resigned.
Stepping down were Steven Wyllie, who took a full-time teaching and coaching job in another district, and Rod Hice because of health reasons.
REGION
Rishel winsOhio Amateur
PEPPER PIKE, Ohio -- Jamie Rishel of Worthington beat Gabby Wedding 3-and-2 Friday in match-play to win her second Women's Ohio Amateur golf tournament.
Rishel used a 3 under par 70 in the morning 18 holes and managed to hold off Wedding in the afternoon 18 to win the tournament at The Country Club at Pepper Pike.
Rishel was up 4 early in the match. In the second round Rishel went up 5 after a birdie on the par-5 seventh hole. Wedding came back with birdies on 8 and 10, but that was the closest she could get.
In 1997, Rishel won the tournament at age 17 to become the youngest player ever to win.
Rishel is a recent Ohio State graduate and plans to give up her amateur status to become a professional golf teacher.
Wedding, 18, of Wilmington, shot an 8-under-par 65 to post a record-low qualifying score Monday and was never tested during match-play until Friday. Wedding is a freshman at Kent State.
Aeros beat Senators
AKRON -- Jamie Brown struck out 10 and Jason Fitzgerald went 4-for-5 with three RBIs as the Akron Aeros beat the Harrisburg Senators 7-2 on Friday.
Brown (5-1) gave up one run on three hits and a walk in seven innings. Alex Herrera got his fifth save, giving up a home run and striking out two in two innings.
Fitzgerald singled to open the first inning, then stole second, advanced to third on a wild pitch and scored on a single by Victor Martinez. Fitzgerald singled again in the second, hit his ninth homer in the seventh and had a two-run double in the ninth.
Pens gain supportfor new arena
PITTSBURGH -- The Pittsburgh Penguins will receive money from Allegheny County for a new $252 million arena, but the team will likely not get more than the $3 million a year it currently receives, officials said.
The county has said it will provide tax money for a replacement for Mellon Arena. Jim Roddey, the county's chief executive officer, however, opposes increasing the more than $3 million the team receives each year through the Regional Asset District and opposes redirecting other money toward the stadium, said his spokeswoman Margaret Philbin.
The district receives the money, raised by a 1 percent county sales tax, to help pay off the debt on Mellon Arena.
The Sports & amp; Exhibition Authority agreed to develop a financing plan for a new arena when Mario Lemieux agreed to buy the team out of bankruptcy in 1998.
Mellon Arena, long known as the Civic Arena, was designed in the 1950s and originally opened in 1961 as the home of Pittsburgh's opera company. It is the oldest and second smallest arena in the NHL.
NATION
USOC membersvisit Washington D.C.
WASHINGTON -- The nation's capital put its best foot forward Friday in an effort to win the 2012 Olympics.
Members of the U.S. Olympic Committee were in town for a whirlwind 36-hour visit, and organizers of the Washington-Baltimore bid hoped to make the most of it.
The 14-member panel toured Washington's RFK Stadium and the University of Maryland at College Park, which would provide lodging and training facilities for 10,000 Olympic athletes. But the group did not visit Baltimore.
On Sunday, the USOC site committee will be in New York. Next month the committee visits Houston and San Francisco.
Vindicator staff/wire reports