Ursuline softball sponsors dinner

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Ursuline softball
sponsors dinner

YOUNGSTOWN — The Ursuline High softball team will sponsor a spaghetti dinner fundraiser Tuesday from 4:30-6:30 p.m. in the school cafeteria.

Pasta will be provided by Scarsella’s Restaurant. Cost is $7 for adults and $5 for children. A Chinese auction begins at 6:30 p.m.

The dinner precedes the Warren Harding-Ursuline varsity basketball game at 7:30 p.m.

McDonald girls
basketball

MCDONALD — McDonald High will play host to Wellsville Monday in a varsity girls basketball game at 7 p.m.

There will be no junior varsity game.

Toughman boxing

YOUNGSTOWN — The Original Toughman Contest will be held at the Eastwood Expo Center on Jan. 18-19.

General admission tickets are on sale now at Inner Circle Pizza on Belmont Avenue. For details call 1-800-tuf-guys.

Umpires to meet

YOUNGSTOWN — The Youngstown Metro Umpires Association will conduct OHSAA softball and baseball classes beginning Feb. 6.

For details call John Mang at (330) 502-6665 or Bill Sferra at (330) 792-6787.

Miller in action

MINERAL RIDGE — Tom Miller of Mineral Ridge has been selected as a judge for Monday’s WBA Junior Bantamweight Championship title bout in Yokahama, Japan.

The bout will send reigning champion Alexander Munoz (31-2) of Venezuela against challenger Katsushige Kawashima (32-6) of Japan.

Firestone midpoint

COLUMBIANA — The Fix Our Field committee has reached the half way point in raising funds to restore Firestone Stadium.

Donations or pledges are still being accepted. For details call Keith Reash at (330) 482-4664.

Dr. Goist honored

CINCINNATI — Dr. Dick Goist, a Warren dentist, was honored by the Univ. of Cincinnati recently. Dr. Goist is a former Cincinnati football All-American.

The ceremony came before a sold out crowd when Goist and his 12 fellow honorees were introduced.

In the game the Bearcats defeated Marshall and put together a 10-win season -- the best finish since Goist’s own 1951 freshman season 56 years ago.

Dr. Goist, was inducted into Cincinnati’s athletic hall of fame in 1986 and is one of only five Bearcat football standouts to have his jersey number retired.

In his four-year career, Cincinnati accumulated a 35-5-1 win-loss-tie record.

Goist played football at Springfield Local High School.

Manfull selected

SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. — Corey Manfull, a junior running back for the Slippery Rock Univ. football team from United High, has been selected to the NCAA Division II All-Northeast Region second team by Don Hansen’s Football Gazette.

Manfull rushed for 1,258 yards — ninth-most ever at the school — and 13 touchdowns in nine games, and was named Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference-West Offensive Player of the Week three times.

Manfull missed two games because of injury and the opportunity to break the single-season school rushing record of 1,601 yards.

Manfull helped The Rock to its best record (9-2) since 1999, and to third place in the PSAC-Western Division.

McQueen nominated

YOUNGSTOWN — Ursuline High School senior quarterback Lamar McQueen has been nominated as an Old Spice Red Zone Player of the Year.

McQueen is now eligible to be selected as a national player of the year.

Baseball equipment

YOUNGSTOWN — The Midwest Baseball Academy is partnering with the Major League Urban Youth Academy and the Major League Baseball Players Association on a project that aims to send $1 million worth of equipment to disadvantaged players in the U.S. and overseas.

Used baseball gear can be placed in bins at Youngstown State Univ. Sunday through Feb. 17.

For details call (866) MBA-HITS.

NATION

Tiller to step aside
after ’08 season

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Joe Tiller’s decision to retire from Purdue had more to do with fishing than football.

“I’m 65, and there’s a lot of rainbow trout waiting, and they’re not going to wait much longer,” he said.

Tiller hopes the fish can wait at least a year. Tiller will retire after next season and be replaced by new associate head coach Danny Hope, the university said Friday in an announcement that had been expected.

Hope was 35-22 in five winning seasons at Eastern Kentucky. The 49-year-old Hope was an offensive line coach on Tiller’s staffs at Wyoming, then Purdue, before leaving the Boilermakers after the 2001 season.

In 2007, Hope led the Colonels to a 9-3 record and the Ohio Valley Conference title and was a Football Championship Subdivision Regional Coach of the Year.

Vindicator staff/wire reports