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Penguins rained out,play today at Cene
STRUTHERS -- The Youngstown State baseball team's game with Akron Tuesday was rained out and will be played today at 1 p.m. at Cene Park.
AREA
Two cyclists win in Pa.
PITTSBURGH -- The Mahoning Valley Cycling Team (MVC) crowned two champions at the 2006 Mingo Creek Spring Road Race Series.
In the three-race series over three weekends, Dan Quinlan of Greenford was first among cyclists in the 1-3 category. Jim Yankush of North Lima won the masters class. The series drew 150 participants.
Titans honored
NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. --Three Westminster College student-athletes have been honored with weekly recognition by the Presidents' Athletic Conference.
Junior Jennifer Pancake (Boardman) is the PAC Softball Pitcher of the Week. Pancake allowed no earned runs in 17 innings while striking out nine in a 2-1 week for the 3-1 Titans. Including a shutout in a 8-0 Monday win over Penn State-Altoona, she has not allowed an earned run in her last 462/3 innings in the circle.
Sophomore Jessica Cooper (New Castle/Laurel High) was tabbed PAC Women's Track & amp; Field Athlete of the Week. Cooper broke two Westminster school records as she posted four Top Three finishes at the Titan Invitational Saturday.
She captured the high jump (1.59 meters), placed second in the triple jump (10.84 meters) and third in the long jump (school-record 4.92 meters). She also ran a leg on the 4x100 meter relay team which finished second in a school-record 50.92.
Earning PAC Women's Golfer of the Week laurels was senior Kayla Pursifull.
Road Runners
YOUNGSTOWN -- The 15th Multiple Sclerosis Super Walk will begin Sunday at 9 a.m. in Mill Creek Park at the Volney Rogers Tennis Courts.
The Youngstown Road Runners Club will participate as a group to jog the 10-mile course.
Part of the YRRC's participation will be a tribute to Peggy Plonka of New Castle, who has MS.
Plonka has competed in three Boston Marathons, three Pike's Peak marathons and many others.
For more information contact the Multiple Sclerosis Agency at 5208 Mahoning Avenue, Suite 201, Youngstown.
Bethany pitcherearns accolade
NEW WILMINGTON -- Brett Bartholomew, a junior pitcher for the Bethany College baseball team from Boardman High, has been named Presidents' Athletic Conference Player of the Week ending last Saturday.
Bartholomew required only 75 pitches over the distance to throw a two-hit, 1-0 shutout over Westminster last Saturday. He allowed only one runner to reach second base and struck out two.
It was Bartholomew's second shutout of the season. He completed his third complete game and fourth contest overall without giving up an earned run.
Bartholomew has a 3.94 earned run average and 4-3 record over 48.0 innings with 26 strikeouts and 16 walks.
Boxer Sallaz earns win
NORTH OLMSTED -- Derek Sallaz of Youngstown resumed his boxing career after a three-year layoff with an impressive victory Saturday in the second annual Jimmy Bivins Classic at the North Olmsted Soccer Sportsplex.
Sallaz, trained by John Hobart, won on a four-round split decision over Hosea Guerro of Freddie's Athletic Club of Lorain to stretch his undefeated streak to five bouts. Guerro fell to 3-4.
REGION
Pirates prospect out four months
ST. LOUIS -- Brad Eldred, among the Pittsburgh Pirates' top hitting prospects, will be sidelined at least four months after surgery Tuesday for injuries to his left thumb.
An operation performed in Pittsburgh found a fracture of the joint and damage to the ligament. Team spokesman Dan Hart said Eldred, a first baseman, will wear a splint for six to eight weeks and then could begin range of motion exercises.
Manager Jim Tracy assumed that Eldred, who has been playing for Triple-A Indianapolis, would be out for the entire season. He was hurt on Sunday when he collided with a baserunner while reaching for a throw at Louisville.
"It sounds to me with the repair that had to take place, it's probably the season," Tracy said.
Eldred, a sixth-round draft pick in 2002, hit 10 homers in 190 at-bats last season with the Pirates and totaled 40 homers at the Double-A, Triple-A and major-league levels.
Vindicator staff/wire reports