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Penguin track teamsfall short of titles
INDIANAPOLIS -- Eugene Harris won the 100- and 200-meter dashes to lead the Youngstown State men's track team to a second-place finish at the Horizon League Outdoor Championship at Michael A. Carroll Stadium.
Detroit edged the Penguins, 146-123. YSU's women's team finished third behind UW-Milwaukee and Butler.
Kurt Michaelis defended his title in the 1,500 and finished second in the 3,000 steeplechase.
Sherod Holmes (100), Joseph Bruderly (shot put) and Adam Lewis (400 hurdles) finished second in their respective events.
For the women, Delores Gaines won the shot put and Beth Hochstetler won the discus. Marian Steele placed second in the discus.
Danielle Sexton placed second in the hammer throw.
Baseball teamloses Horizon game
MILWAUKEE -- A five-run third inning propelled Wisconsin-Milwaukee to an 8-3 victory over Youngstown State in Horizon League baseball action Friday at Henry Aaron Field.
Mikel Schaefer pitched a complete game for Milwaukee (22-20, 10-7 Horizon), allowing two earned runs on seven hits while striking out six and walking one.
Adam Cox and Justin Banks each had two hits for the Penguins (23-24, 11-10), while Eric Shaffer took the loss.
The teams will play a doubleheader today at 1 p.m.
LOCAL
St. Anthony's winsbocce league title
LOWELLVILLE -- St. Anthony's is the 2003 St. Anthony Bocce League winter champion as it defeated Brior Hill 15-10, 15-14.
Members of the team are Vince Genova, captain; Tony Iamurri, Dave Donatelli, Giulio Campana, Tony Quattro, Al Donatelli Sr., Gary Reynolds and John Mario.
St. Anthony's won its third title in the past six years.
Fitch's Brooksinducted into HOF
EDINBORO, Pa. -- Edinboro University inducted Joe Brooks, a Fitch High history teacher and 1990 graduate of Edinboro, into its athletic hall of fame on April 26.
Brooks was a four-year starter at guard and center on the school's football team.
He was co-captain on the 1989 team that won the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference championship and was the school's first NCAA Division II playoff team.
Brooks, a teacher at Fitch since 1990, has been an assistant football coach at the school for 12 years and an assistant track coach for six years.
Grove City fillscoaching vacancies
GROVE CITY, Pa. -- The Grove City College cross country and golf teams have new head coaches for the 2003-04 season.
Assistant men's basketball coach Tim Rice will take over as head men's and women's cross country coach. Meanwhile, head football coach Chris Smith will begin his second stint as head golf coach next spring, replacing Rice.
REGION
Tressel to sing
COLUMBUS -- Ohio State football coach Jim Tressel rang the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange on Friday and plans to sing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" at Wrigley Field in July.
The coach of the reigning national champions and his wife, Ellen, were at the stock exchange. Tressel has also been invited to travel to Chicago over the Fourth of July to lead the crowd in singing during the seventh-inning stretch of a Cubs game.
Aeros win
AKRON -- Luis Gonzalez went 5-for-5, and Grady Sizemore and Ron Wright each had two hits and two RBIs as the Akron Aeros beat the Norwich Navigators 8-1 Friday night in the Eastern League.
Sizemore hit an RBI single and Gonzalez had a run-scoring double in the second inning to give the Aeros a 3-1 lead. Akron added three runs in the fourth.
Hall of Fame holds free autograph session
CANTON -- Former Cleveland Browns Dante Lavelli and Bobby Mitchell will hold a free autograph session from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at today's Pro Football Hall of Fame's "Best of Yesterday and Today" series.
Former Miami Dolphins Larry Csonka and Don Shula will join Ohio Bicentennial barn painter Scott Hagan for a painting exposition from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday.
NATION
Veteran sportswriter Sam Lacy dies
BALTIMORE -- Sam Lacy, sports editor of The (Baltimore) Afro-American Newspaper since 1944 and a key figure in the integration of major league baseball, has died. He was 99.
Vindicator staff/wire reports