YSU

YSU
Game today
YOUNGSTOWN -- Wednesday's YSU-West Liberty State baseball game was postponed until 2 p.m. today because of bad weather.
LOCAL
Turkey U. at Gander Mountain
NILES -- Gander Mountain will hold "Turkey University" Saturday and Sunday at its Eastwood Mall location.
Admission to the event, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., is free.
Seminars and presentations will cover wild turkey hunting, including preparation and recipes.
Call (330) 544-5800 for more information.
State to considerball park tax bill
COLUMBUS -- An amendment to the state's capital reappropriations budget would make minor league baseball fields like Cafaro Field exempt from real estate taxes.
The amendment, submitted by state Rep. Ann Womer Benjamin, an Aurora Republican, was among nine amendments incorporated by the House Finance Committee into the bill.
"It is time for Ohio to recognize such important economic development projects in the Mahoning Valley," Womer Benjamin said.
If the amendment is passed, "minor league affiliates of major league baseball teams will be placed on equal footing with other stadium projects."
Womer Benjamin expects the capital bill to be voted on by the Ohio House next week and then go to the Senate for further hearings. Womer Benjamin is the Republican nominee for the 17th Congressional District seat.
Trieschmantransfers
BEAVER FALLS, Pa. -- Laura Trieschman, a 2001 graduate of Beaver High School, is transferring from Cypress (Calif.) College to Geneva College to play volleyball in 2003.
Trieschman, a 5-foot-7 setter/outside hitter, was a three-year letterwinner at Beaver and all-state selection by the Pennsylvania Volleyball Coaches Association.
NATION
Tennis roundup
* Pete Sampras faced a double whammy -- his history at the Franklin Templeton Classic and his record against Wayne Ferreira -- that he couldn't overcome.
Ferreira beat the 13-time Grand Slam champion, who has never advanced past the second round at Scottsdale, 7-5, 7-5.
* Fifth-seeded Davide Sanguinetti beat Kristian Pless 6-3, 6-2 to reach the quarterfinals of the International Tennis Championships.
* Monica Seles, the 1992 champion at Indian Wells, began her bid for another title with a 6-0, 6-2 victory over 14-year-old Russian Maria Sharapova.
Sixth-seeded Meghann Shaughnessy beat Martina Muller 6-2, 6-4.
Baseballreorganizes
NEW YORK -- Paul Beeston resigned as baseball's president and chief operating officer, saying he hoped his departure will spark negotiations for a new labor contract.
Beeston, who had held the job since July 1997, was the baseball official most trusted by the players' association, and had been seen as a moderating influence in a sport plagued by labor strife for the past three decades.
Beeston, management's chief negotiator with the union, will be replaced as president and COO by Bob DuPuy, commissioner Bud Selig's longtime lawyer.
MacMillan leadsU.S. women's team
ALBUFEIRA, Portugal -- Shannon MacMillan scored three goals to lead the United States over Denmark 3-2 in the fifth-place game of the Algarve Cup.
WORLD
Skating judgespeaks out
PARIS -- Marie-Reine Le Gougne, the French judge at the center of the Winter Olympics' skating scandal, said she was trapped by international officials and the news media into falsely accusing her national federation of pressuring her.
Eberharter winssuper-G title
ALTENMARKT-ZAUCHENSEE, Austria -- Stephan Eberharter collected his third overall title of the year and fellow Austrian Michaela Dorfmeister won her second race in 24 hours as the world's best Alpine skiers wrapped up the super-G World Cup season.
Vindicator staff/wire reports