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Baseball falls at Akron
AKRON -- Akron scored four runs in the first inning and answered two comeback attempts to defeat Youngstown State 8-3 Tuesday at Lee Jackson Field.
YSU scored two runs in the fourth to cut the deficit in half, but Akron answered with three scores in its half of the inning to make it 7-2.
John Koehnlein singled twice to increase his hitting streak to 21 games, which is the fourth-longest in YSU history. Erich Diedrich, Dustin Wachter, Mike Turjanica and Eric Marzec added two hits apiece for YSU, which will play at Duquesne today at 2 p.m.
Freshman Lee Bainbridge hit his second home run of the season in the fourth for YSU's first run, and Tom Clayton scored on Turjanica's sacrifice fly to make the score 4-2. Wachter and Turjanica hit back-to-back two out singles in the sixth, and Marzec followed with an RBI double to make the score 7-3.
Ryan Dunlap took the loss, allowing six earned runs in 31/3 innings.
Basketball camps
YOUNGSTOWN -- Youngstown State's boys basketball camps will be held June 11-14 and June 18-21 at Beeghly Center.
More information and camp brochures can be obtained by calling the YSU basketball office at (330) 941-3004, or e-mailing assistant coach Brian DePaoli at bdepaoli@ysu.edu.
LOCAL
Sam Mann namedPAC player of year
WASHINGTON, PA. -- This spring in the Presidents' Athletic Conference, Washington & amp; Jefferson senior Sam Mann was the man.
Mann, a pitcher and first baseman from Howland High School, was picked the PAC baseball player of the year.
Mann also earned his fourth consecutive first-team all-PAC honor. Mann hit .475 (57-for-120) with 33 RBIs in 36 games. As a pitcher Mann chalked up a 7-4 record with a 1.97 ERA in 64 innings.
He was selected to the COSIDA/ESPN The Magazine Academic All District II first team.
Mann has a 3.88 grade-point average as a political science/history major.
Halkias named toOAC academic team
ALLIANCE -- Warren Harding High graduate Eleni Halkias, a senior tennis player at Mount Union College, was named to the Academic All-Ohio Athletic Conference at-large team.
Halkias is a middle childhood education major. She was also named second team All-OAC.
Sackin qualifiesfor NCAA nationals
SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. -- Freshman Jessica Sackin (Mohawk) is one of 12 Slippery Rock athletes who earned berths in the NCAA Division II outdoor track and field championships May 24-26 in Charlotte, N.C.
Sackin is a member of the women's 4x400-meter relay. She was a member of the 4x400 relay that placed ninth nationally in the NCAA Div. II indoor championships.
Clemente selectedfor Academic All-MAC
AKRON -- Junior Colin Clemente (Hubbard/Warren JFK) was named Academic All-Mid-American Conference. Clemente has a men's golf team-best 3.445 GPA in biology.
Correction
Danielle Burin of Boardman High and Katoria Carter of Hubbard qualified to be included in the area's top track times but were inadvertently omitted.
At the Federal League meet, Burin finished the 100-meter dash in 12.70 seconds.
At the Trumbull Athletic Conference meet, Carter ran the 400 in 57.5 seconds.
REGION
Pirates launch mobileticketing technology
PITTSBURGH -- The Pittsburgh Pirates, along with MLB Advanced Media and Tickets.com, Inc., have officially launched Tickets@Phone, a mobile ticketing service which allows fans to have tickets delivered to their cell phones via multimedia messaging or a picture message.
The message includes a unique barcode and standard ticket information, thus alleviating the need to present a traditional paper ticket at the gate. The Pirates are currently one of only three teams utilizing mobile ticketing technology. The designated mobile ticketing gate at PNC Park is the Willie Stargell gate located on Federal Street. Once the mobile ticket is scanned, each guest will receive a printed receipt of their ticket, including a seat location. This receipt is to be retained throughout the game just as any normal ticket would be.
Vindicator staff/wire reports