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YSU
Spikers losein Chicago
CHICAGO -- The Youngstown State volleyball team fell to 8-19 overall and 0-11 in the Horizon League after losing Friday to the University of Illinois-Chicago.
The Penguins lost by scores of 24-30, 17-30, 18-30 to UIC (18-12, 5-6 Horizon League).
Junior Annie Buschur led the Penguins with seven kills and five blocks. YSU faces Loyola today at 5 p.m.
AREA
Express hiresSizemore
YOUNGSTOWN -- Bill Sizemore has been hired as head coach by the Youngstown Express Baseball Organization.
The Youngstown Express is a member of the Great Lakes summer Collegiate Baseball League.
Sizemore will begin his new position at the start of the 2003 summer baseball season.
A native of Oxnard, Cal., he received his BA in physical education from Cal State univesity and his MS degree in school counseling from the University of LaVerne in 1989.
He has been coach for Sherman E. Burrough High School in Ridgecrest, Calif., and Thousand Oaks High, Thosand Oaks, Calif., He was also a pitching coach for Moorpark Jr. College.
On a professional level, Sizemore has been a minor league pitching coach for the Seattle Mariners, 1991-92; and for the Florida Marlins, 1995-2001.
Area ace
LAKE MILTON -- Dom C. Lucarell, a retired Youngtown Fire Department captain, made a hole-in-one using a pitching wedge on the 18th hole at Lakeside Golf Course.
It was his fourth ace, have made previous holes in one at Avalon South, Tam-O-Shanter and Geveva-On-The Lake courses.
MUC players onacademic squad
ALLIANCE -- Mount Union College junior forward Scot Gill and senior defender Carrie Coon have been named to the 2002 Verizon Academic All-District IV soccer squad.
Gill, a business adminstration major with a 3.93 grade point average, earned first team men's honors, while Coon (3.94 GPA) was a first team women's selection.
DiCarlo namedto OAC team
ALLIANCE -- Mount Union College freshman Jess DiCarlo, a Fitch High graduate, was selected honorable mention on the 2002 All-Ohio Athletic Conference volleyball team.
REGION
Power Threerace created
CLARKSBURG, W. Va. -- The Greater Clarksburg 10K will unite with the Rite Aid Cleveland 10K and the Richard S. Caliguiri Pittsburgh Great Race to create the Power Three 10-K Series in 2003.
Prize monies for the series exceed $50,000. This excludes prize monies from individual races.
To participate in the Power Three 10-K Series, one must fill out a separate application from the individual races' applications. This application can be obtained by calling (304) 624-4100 or by visiting the web site www.clarksburgh10K.com.
St. Vincentgoes cable
AKRON -- Coming soon to cable: LeBron James.
The 6-foot-7 senior at St. Vincent-St. Mary High School is considered the nation's top prep basketball player. If he decides to skip college, he most likely will be a top pick in this spring's NBA draft.
This season, his team's routinely sold-out games will be offered on pay-per-view in 14 counties in northeast Ohio. Most of his home games will be played at the 6,000-seat University of Akron arena.
The games will be available to about 600,000 homes for about $4 to $7 a game, Bill Jasso, vice president of public affairs for the northeast Ohio division of Time Warner, said Friday.
The venture will be a partnership between Time Warner and the school. Jasso declined to release financial details.
James, Ohio's Mr. Basketball the past two years, has been on the cover of Sports Illustrated, which described him as "The Chosen One."
PA.
Baby Penguinslose in Ont.
HAMILTON, Ontario -- Eric Fichaud made 26 saves and the Hamilton Bulldogs scored three second-period goals to beat the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins 6-1 in American Hockey League play Friday.
Jarret Stoll, Mike Komisarek and Marcel Hossa scored the second period goals for Hamilton, while Jason Ward, Jozef Balej and Michael Ryder also scored for the Bulldogs.
Matt Hussey scored for the Penguins and Robbie Tallas stopped 36 shots in the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton net.
NATION
Laila Ali winstitle bout
LAS VEGAS -- Laila Ali used a dominating left jab and straight right hand, and scored a knockout over Valerie Mahfood in the eighth round to win their super middleweight title bout Friday night.
Ali (13-0, 10 KO), of Las Vegas, walked into the ring at the Stratosphere with one title belt and walked out with three. The 24-year-old daughter of Muhammad Ali now holds the IBA, IWBF and WIBA super middleweight titles.
The 28-year-old Mahfood of Port Arthur, Texas is now 13-5, 7 KO.
Staff/wire reports