YSU

YSU

Rosselli honored at
fraternity dinner

YOUNGSTOWN — Legendary Youngstown State University basketball and baseball coach Dom Rosselli was initiated into the Alpha Phi Delta Fraternity as an honorary brother Tuesday at a dinner in his honor.

Alpha Phi Delta is an Italian-American heritage fraternity.

Rosselli was the YSU men’s basketball coach for 39 years and was the head baseball coach there for 27 years.

In addition, Rosselli was a Penguin assistant football coach for two decades.

His overall basketball record was 589-388 and his baseball teams went 418-219.

AREA

Gorski expected to
be hired by Liberty

LIBERTY — The Liberty Board of Education is expected to vote at tonight’s meeting on hiring Dan Gorski as the high school’s new varsity boys basketball coach.

If hired, Gorski will replace Burt Stellers who guided the Leopards to a 15-6 record. In tournament play, Liberty lost to Niles, 74-61.

Gorski was the Boardman varsity coach for 16 seasons. His contract was not renewed after the 2004-05 season ended.

George Gulgas, Liberty athletic director, says eight candidates applied for the position. He said there are no teaching positions open.

Reams takes eighth
in golf tournament

ASHTABULA — Robert Reams of Warren, competing in the boys 14-15 year old division, shot 38-45—81 to place eighth in the North Coast Junior Tournament at Chapel Hills golf course.

Garrett Rodgers of Cambridge Springs, Pa. fired 77 for first place.

Youth baseball
tournament set

BOARDMAN — The Boardman Community Baseball organization will host the Chuck Schafer Memorial Scholarship Tournament for boys age 9-14 at the Fields of Dreams June 29 through July 1.

The 13-14 division will play PONY rules.

Each game will have a 90-minute time limit and each team is guaranteed three games.

Fifteen fields will be available of which two are lighted.

For registration materials visit www.boardmanbaseball.com or call (330) 565-3114.

DeFrank to fight
Mebne Thursday

AKRON — Female fighter Alecia DeFrank of Girard and the Downtown Boxing Club will take on Gina Mebne of Dayton in a three-round bout Thursday as part of an amateur show at On The River.

DeFrank (1-0) is coached and trained by Larry Filer. Mebne is 2-2. Both are 23.

The show will begin at 7 p.m. DeFrank also will fight again on July 11 at the Avon Oaks in Girard when she meets Stephanie Sully, a two-time KO Drugs champ, in a three-round bout.

Sully will be making her amateur debut on the 15-bout program that begins at 7 p.m.

NATION

Penguins sign James
to 1-year deal

PITTSBURGH — The Pittsburgh Penguins signed right wing Connor James to a one-year contract.

James, 24, played in 70 regular season games for the AHL’s Wilkes-Barre⁄Scranton Penguins this past season, scoring 32 points. He also played in all 11 playoff games, scoring eight points.

A native of Calgary, Alberta, Jones made his NHL debut with the Los Angeles Kings, playing two games during the 2005-06 season.

The Penguins signed him as a free agent in August.

Open ratings soar
with Woods in hunt

NEW YORK — The final round of the U.S. Open drew 2.5 million more viewers than last year. Sunday’s coverage on NBC earned a 6.4 national rating and 16 share, up 36 percent from the 4.7⁄12 after Tiger Woods missed the cut in 2006.

The broadcast averaged 9.54 million viewers as Angel Cabrera held off Woods for the victory.

The rating is the percentage watching a telecast among homes with televisions, and the share is the percentage tuned into a broadcast among those households with televisions on at the time. A ratings point represents 1,114,000 households.

Selig watches Bonds
but keeps low profile

MILWAUKEE — Baseball commissioner Bud Selig made a low-key trip to Miller Park as Barry Bonds and the San Francisco Giants played the Milwaukee Brewers.

Selig, who lives and has his office in Milwaukee, watched several innings of the Brewers’ 5-4 victory on Monday night, leaving before the game was over.

Vindicator staff⁄wire reports