Spartan selects St. Louis school

Crestview quarterback Jordan Reynolds will attend Mount Union.
ST. LOUIS -- Tony Tarantino, a senior receiver for the Boardman High football team last season, will attend Washington University here and resume his football career for the Bears.
Tarantino, who caught 16 passes for 162 yards and one touchdown last season under coach D.J. Ogilvie, will enroll in the Olin School of Business.
A three-year letterman who also lettered four years in track, Tarantino is the son of Anthony and Cheryl Tarantino.
He also made All-Academic Federal League and was a member of the National Honor Society and the Italian Honor Society.
Mount Union
ALLIANCE -- Jordan Reynolds, a senior quarterback for the Crestview High football team last season, will attend Mount Union College and resume his football career for the Purple Raiders.
Reynolds, a four-year letter winner from New Waterford, made the All-Ohio second team and the Tri-County League first team last year. He also won the U.S. Marine Student-Athlete Award.
Reynolds will major in sociology.
Walsh
NORTH CANTON -- Ed Bartolec, a senior pitcher for the Walsh University baseball team this season from Cardinal Mooney High, was one of four Walsh student-athletes to be selected to the NAIA-Daktronics Scholar-Athlete team.
Bartolec from Poland, who posted a 3-3 record and 4.01 earned run average in 58.1 innings this year, achieved a 3.7 grade-point average as a computer science major.
He also had 27 strikeouts and 25 walks as the Cavaliers posted a 26-28 record, including 15-9 in the American Mideast Conference.
Southern Illinois
NEW ORLEANS -- Paul Kowalczyk, a native of Warren, has been honored for his outstanding performance as athletic director at Southern Illinois for five years from 2000-05.
Kowalczyk, who will become athletic director at Colorado State beginning with the 2006-07 school year, has won the National Association of Collegiate Director of Athletics GeneralSports Turf Systems AD of the Year Award for the NCAA Division I-A Central Region. He is one of 29 winners of the award.
Kowalczyk inherited a deteriorating athletics program at Southern Illinois and turned it around in five years.
He earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from Kent State.
Westminster
NEW WILMINGTON -- Nine of the school-record 53 Westminster College student-athletes selected to the Presidents' Athletic Conference Academic Honor Roll for the 2006 spring semester are from the Youngstown area.
Among the elite group who have earned 3.6 or higher grade-point averages are Gina Brunetti (Cardinal Mooney), J.D. Eicher and Ashley Linnelli (both from Canfield), Stephen Franklin and Kevin Gesacion (both from Boardman), Reese Robinson (Lakeview), Sarah Henry (Bristol), Brian Fadden (Mohawk) and Carrie Fleckenstin (Mercer).
Here are their years, sports and majors: Brunetti, freshman, basketball, softball, biology; Eicher, freshman, tennis, business administration; Linnelli, sophomore, swimmer, elementary education; Franklin, senior, baseball, religion; Gesacion, senior, swimmer, business administration; Robinson, senior, track, elementary education; Henry, sophomore, softball, political science; Fadden, senior, mathematics, basketball; and Fleckenstein, senior, track, elementary education.