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Swimming/diving
YOUNGSTOWN -- Youngstown State junior Becky Bertuzzi won the 200 free with a time of 2:02.29 and swam the second leg of YSU's winning 400 free relay in a 128.5-86.5 loss to Marshall Saturday.
Kelly Reese won the 3-meter diving event while Julia Darling won the 100 breast in 1:10.40. Brittany Senn, Olivia Arnold and Jessica Front teamed up with Bertuzzi for the winning relay.
Senn added second-place finishes in the 100 free (56.06) and the 50 free (25.41) while Front finished second in the 200 free with a collegiate-best time of 2:02.88. Reese posted a collegiate-best score of 234.30 in the 1-meter to finish second while Arnold swam a collegiate-best 5:18.85 in the 500 free to place second.
YSU's divers will compete in the Clarion Diving Invitational today. The whole team will be in action Nov. 10 in a dual against Cleveland State at 6 p.m. at the Beeghly Natatorium.
Cross country
YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio -- Youngstown State senior Emily Cicero finished eighth to earn Second-Team All-Horizon League honors while Nick Kruse finished 17th as one of six men to run a personal-best time at the Horizon League Championship Saturday morning at John Bryan State Park.
Cicero covered the women's 5K course in 18:11 to earn all-conference honors for the fourth time in her career. She also finished eighth as a freshman to garner Horizon League Newcomer of the Year accolades and finished sixth as a sophomore and junior to earn first-team honors.
Kruse's personal-best time of 25:24 in the 8K paced the men's squad to a fifth-place finish. Dave Mealy ran a personal-best 25:25 to place 19th while Nick Buzek finished 23rd in a personal-best 25:40. Nick Smith finished 35th with a mark of 26:34, and Dan Nemergut ran a personal-best 26:38 to finish 36th and round out the scoring five. R.D. Goodright ran a personal-best 27:17 to finish 51st, and Harold Jones placed 62nd with a personal-best 27:45. J.D. Sheppard placed 73rd in 29:20.
Behind Cicero, Gina Mavrikis placed 36th with a time of 19:31 while Marielle Glanz finished 57th in 21:06. Amy Moore finished 65th in 21:34, and Debbie Breunig placed 70th in 22:35. Madelyn McGhee finished 71st (22:38), Estee Rogers placed 73rd (23:39) and Genevieve Jerome finished 74th (23:44).
Butler won both championships while Loyola finished second in both races. YSU's women's team finished in eighth.
The Penguins will compete in the NCAA Great Lakes Regional Nov. 12.
LOCAL
Area aces
*Playing at the Trumbull Country Club in Warren, Wolfgang Wengler made a hole in one at the No. 14 hole with a 4-iron on the 163-yard hole.
He was playing in a threesome with Dr. David Morvey and John Martin.
*Two holes-in one were recorded recently at Reserve Run Golf Course. Phyllis simmers of Canfield made an ace on the 101-yard, No. 8 hole with a driver. It was witnessed by Phil Simmers. Larry Tusinac of Poland made a hole-in-one on the 131-yard, No. 15 hole using a pitching wedge. Witnessing the shot were Craig Bianco, Sam Fisher and Joe Granitto.
Curbstoners
BOARDMAN -- YSU linebackers coach Jerry Olsavsky will be the guest speaker for Monday's Curbstone Coaches banquet at the Lockwood House.
PAC student-athletes
NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. - The Student-Athlete Advisory Council (SAAC) of the Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC) has honored a pair of conference student-athletes as PAC SAAC Scholar-Athletes of the Month.
Bethany senior cross country runner Ken Hopper (Charleston, W. Va.) and Westminster junior volleyball player Katie McDermott (Austintown) are the men's and women's honorees for September.
Hopper was the top runner for the Bison in three of the team's four invitationals in September. He was named PAC Men's Runner of the Week on Sept. 12 after finishing as the top Division III runner (ninth in a 71-runner field) at the Thiel Invitational on Sept. 10. Academically, Hopper maintains a 3.67 grade-point average majoring in economics.
McDermott led the Titan volleyball team to an 11-8 record (1-0 PAC) in September, posting totals of 163 kills, 27 assists, 18 service aces, 81 digs and a team-high 71 blocks. In the classroom, she holds a 3.54 grade-point average majoring in history.
The PAC SAAC Scholar-Athlete of the Month award is given monthly to one male and one female conference student-athlete for their academic and athletic accomplishments. One nomination is allowed from each of the seven current PAC schools: Bethany, Grove City, Thiel, Thomas More, Washington & amp; Jefferson, Waynesburg and Westminster. The awards are then voted on by PAC SAAC representatives from each institution.
Poland benefit
POLAND -- The Poland Community Baseball Association will sponsor a Texas Hold 'Em poker tournament Nov. 5.
The event will be held at the Poland Knights of Columbus Hall, Route 224. Doors will open at noon with play starting at 1 p.m.
The event is sanctioned.
For more information call Sam Fisher (330-757-8047) or Bob Richards Jr. (330-757-0607).
NATION
Weis signs 10-year contract at N.D.
SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- First-year Notre Dame coach Charlie Weis signed a new 10-year contract Saturday that will keep him as the Irish coach through the 2015 season.
Weis, whose No. 9 Fighting Irish are off to a 5-2 start this season, signed a six-year contract that ran through 2010 when he was hired last December. The new 10-year agreement takes effect next season.
"In a very short period of time, Charlie has clearly and impressively demonstrated the ability to take the Notre Dame program where we all want it to go," Notre Dame athletics director Kevin White said.
The Irish already have defeated three ranked opponents on the road this season -- No. 23 Pittsburgh, No. 3 Michigan and No. 22 Purdue -- and led top-ranked Southern California until the closing seconds of a 34-31 home loss. Notre Dame is off this weekend.
Vindicator staff/wire reports