Local Sports Digest

LOCAL
Bowling
BOARDMAN -- Jodi Woessner of Toledo rolled a 300 game to finish off a four-game set of 952 to win the 33rd Ohio Buckeye Belle bowling tournament at Camelot Lanes recently.
Youngstown's Theresa Florjancic was runner-up with 944. Florjancic was ahead by two pins after three games until Woessner's perfect game. Florjancic's third game was 290.
Sixty women from various associations across Ohio participated in the scratch tournament.
Thiel baseball
GREENVILLE, Pa. -- Mark Nightingale, a senior designated hitter for the Thiel College baseball team from East Liverpool High, has been named to the American Baseball Coaches Association Mideast Region second team for the second time.
Nightingale, who previously was selected to the regional team as a sophomore in 2004, also made the All-Presidents' Athletic Conference first team this year for the second time.
Nightingale batted .391 this year with five homers and ranked second in the PAC in total bases (86) and slugging percentage (.623).
He also tied for Thiel's top spot in career batting average (.365) and is third all-time in home runs (13).
Nate King namedacademic All-Big Ten
COLUMBUS -- Nate King, a junior on the Ohio State swimming team this past season from Warren Harding High, has been named to the Academic All-Big Ten team.
King, a construction systems management major and a five-time All-American, was Ohio State's most valuable performer at the 2006 Big Ten Championships.
King also is a U.S. Olympic team candidate, having captured berths for the 2008 Olympic Trials in the 100-meter backstroke, 200-meter backstroke and 200-meter individual medley.
Academic awardfor Lysowski
ERIE, Pa. -- Sean Lysowski, a junior catcher for the Gannon University baseball team from Boardman High School, was selected to the 2006 NCAA Division II Great Lakes Intercollegiate Conference All-Academic Team for the second straight year.
He achieved a 3.7 grade-point average as a major in elementary and special Education.
Lysowski played 24 games for Gannon this season, starting 19 of them, and batted .226 (12-for-53). He recently was selected as team captain for the 2007 squad.
David Pykare named to MAC team
AKRON -- David Pykare, a distance runner for the University of Akron track and field team from Maplewood High, has been selected to the 2006 Academic All-Mid-American Conference Men's Track and Field team.
Pykare, who ranks among the top 10 in the MAC in the 1,500- and 3,000-meter runs, holds a 3.46 grade-point average as a major in education.
He ranks No. 5 in the 3,000 (8:44.18) and No. 6 in the 1,500 (3:56.44).
REGION
PIAA movesbasketball finals
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- The PIAA boys and girls basketball championships are moving to Penn State's home court for at least the next two years.
The annual two-day event, which features four title games each day, will be held at the Bryce Jordan Center on the Penn State campus in 2007 and 2008, with an option for 2009. The PIAA board voted 17-12 on Thursday to move the finals back to State College for the first time since 1937, when the Class AAA boys final was held there.
The finals have been held in Hershey for most of the last 30 years. PIAA executive director Brad Cashman said Penn State made a better offer than the Giant Center in Hershey.
"The cost of doing business at Giant Center has risen in recent years," Cashman said.
Thunderstorms cancel truck qualifying
MANSFIELD -- Qualifying for the City of Mansfield 250 NASCAR Trucks series race was canceled Friday by thunderstorms and the majority of the lineup was set by championship owner points.
Points leader Todd Bodine, winner of two of the season's six races in his Toyota, was awarded the pole for Saturday's race.
Former Boston Red Sox outfielder Mike Greenwell will make his NASCAR debut from the No. 20 position.
Defending series champion Ted Musgrave will be in the No. 2 spot. Bodine leads his teammate by 17 points entering the $472,410 race.
Vindicator staff/wire reports