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Baseball
INDIANAPOLIS -- Senior Justin Banks was named Horizon League player of the week.
Banks hit .500, slugged .800 and posted an on-base percentage of .643 in leading YSU to three wins. Banks went 5-for-10 and walked three times, was hit by a pitch and laid down two sacrifice bunts.
After driving in two of YSU's three runs against Kent State on Wednesday, Banks became the school's all-time leader in career games played Friday night against UIC.
Saturday against the Flames, Banks went 3-for-3 with a double and an RBI in game one and 1-for-3 with a double and a run scored in the nightcap. His outing against the Flames improved his average against Horizon League opponents to a team-best .435. This is the second Horizon player of the year award for Banks.
Track and field
AKRON -- Jarrod Davis finished first and broke his school record in the hammer while four members of the women's squad won individual events at the Campbell/Wright Open.
Davis recorded a mark of 190 feet, 9 inches for the victory and hit the NCAA regional qualifying mark for the fourth time this season. According to Trackshark.com, Davis' mark ranks 59th nationally. Satara Freeman ran a winning time of 14.25 seconds in the 100-meter hurdles and placed third in the 400 hurdles (1:07.03).
Yandeh Joh won the 400 hurdles (1:03.17) and was fourth in the 100 hurdles (14.80). Jeanna Cunningham ran 55.51 to win the 400 and Emily Cicero won the steeplechase in 12:28.06.
Bethany Anderson placed third in the hammer (168-2) and fourth in the shot put (44-7). Katy Williams was fifth (158-11) in the hammer and Jen Grayson was fourth in the high jump (5-5). Jeremiah Wright was fourth (10.99) in the 100 and teamed up with Scott Streiner, Clarence Howell and Da'Michael Horne to finish third in the 4x100 relay.
Howell placed second in the triple jump (40-7) and Martin Vieth (6-23/4) and Michael Perri (6-03/4) finished fourth and fifth in the high jump, respectively. Aaron Merrill placed fourth in the shot put with a personal-best mark (52-81/4), and Derek Riker finished fifth in the pole vault (14-71/4). The teams will compete in the Horizon League championships starting Thursday in Indianapolis.
AREA
Salem's Brink leaving
SALEM -- Jeff Brink, who led Salem High's boys basketball team to its first Metro Athletic Conference title, has been hired to coach at Hudson High School. Hudson is a Division I program in the Western Reserve Conference.
In three seasons at Salem, Brink's Quakers were 38-31. They won the Div. II district tournament at Boardman and lost a regional semifinal game to Painesville Harvey.
A graduate of Springfield High, Brink coached five seasons at Springfield, compiling a 94-19 record. He's a graduate of Youngstown State.
No indoor footballat Ice Zone
BOARDMAN -- The Ice Zone will not be the home site of the proposed Mahoning Valley Hitmen indoor football team. A press release said Ice Zone officials concluded that the schedule of Phantoms and other hockey activities, as well as the figure skating programs conducted at the facility, presented a conflict that would interfere with its hosting of the proposed football team.
NATION
NBA's Sternacknowledges mistake
PHOENIX -- NBA commissioner David Stern acknowledged that it was a mistake to schedule the San Antonio Spurs to open the Western Conference semifinals with an early game Sunday.
"If we had it to do over again, we wouldn't have acceded to the network's request on that one," Stern said on Monday night.
San Antonio wrapped up its first-round series in Sacramento so late on Friday night that it was after midnight in Texas. The Spurs spent the night in Sacramento and didn't arrive back in San Antonio until about 3 p.m. on Saturday.
They tipped off their series with Dallas at noon, local time, on Sunday because ABC wanted to show the Cleveland-Detroit game in the more attractive later time slot.
Washington's Romar to coach U.S. team
SEATTLE -- USA Basketball has selected Washington coach Lorenzo Romar to lead the men's Under-18 team in the qualification tournament for the 2007 FIBA world championships.
Vindicator staff/wire reports