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Horizon League academic honors
INDIANAPOLIS — Youngstown State tied with Butler for a league-best 14 student-athletes earning Horizon League Academic All League Honors.
A total of 88 student-athletes from the league’s eight spring sports were honored in balloting by the league’s faculty athletics representatives and sports information directors.
The following student-athletes achieved 2008 Spring Horizon League Academic All League Honors: Aaron Swenson (baseball) McKenzie Bedra (softball) Kelly Culbertson, Irena Lanc, Tim Morrow (men’s golf) Brittany Jones (women’s golf) Joe Lahmon (track), Adam Kagarise (track), Aaron Merrill (track), J.D. Sheppard (track), Bethany Anderson (track), Alisha Anthony (track) and Darla Wilson (track).
Concessions opportunity
YOUNGSTOWN — The YSU athletic department is looking for a group to work a concession stand at Penguin football games this fall. Groups will earn approximately $300 per contest.
The group needs to be able to work all YSU home football games at Stambaugh Stadium and be available for any necessary playoff games in November and December. YSU has six home contests slated for this fall.
A group needs to have eight people available to work each contest and all must be at least 14 years old.
Interested groups should contact Molly Rizzi at (330) 519-8561.
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Napolitan in X-Games
COLUMBUS — Austintown’s Anthony Napolitan is one of three Ohioans invited to compete in the X-Games 14 taking place in Los Angeles, July 31-Aug. 3.
The X-Games will feature more than 150 of the world’s best athletes competing in BMX Freestyle, Moto X, Skateboard and Rally Car Racing.
In two previous competitions at X-Games, the 22-year-old Napolitan walked away with two bronze medals. Known for his trademark no-handed frontflips, Anthony’s dirt jumping experience makes him a strong competitor in the BMX Big Air event.
Mancini fourth
WILLOUGHBY — Maria Mancini of Poland, competing in the girls 12-15 year old division, placed fourth as she shot 90 in the Key Bank Wealth Management Classic North Coast Junior Golf Tournament Thursday at Pine Ridge Golf Course.
Football tickets
AUSTINTOWN — Football season ticket renewals for Fitch High School will run Aug. 5-7 from 6-7:30 p.m. at the South Circle Ticket Office.
New season tickets will be sold Aug. 12-14 from 6-7:30 p.m. at the South Circle Ticket Office.
Fund raiser
YOUNGSTOWN — The public will have an opportunity to help Jason Baird, a member of the Youngstown SteelHounds’ hockey team, who was severely burned recently and is a patient at the Akron Children’s Hospital Burn Center.
An account has been opened in Baird’s name at Huntington Bank, where the public may deposit funds to help Baird and his family defray medical or any other expenses while he is hospitalized and unable to work.
Deposits may be made at any Huntington Bank branch in the Jason Baird account by mail or in person. Checks should be made out to Jason Baird. Baird was burned over 60-65 percent of his body on July 17 when the lawn mower he was driving exploded while he was working for a landscaping company.
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Craftsman Trucks
CLERMONT, Ind. — Johnny Benson survived a late flurry of cautions and held off Ron Hornaday Jr. in a 2-lap shootout at the finish to win the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Power Stroke Diesel 200 on Friday night.
Benson, the truck series points leader, scored his second straight win and third in the past four races, even though Hornaday dominated the early going on the O’Reilly Raceway Park .686-mile oval.
Hornaday had led all but eight of the first 162 laps, but he could never pull away because of the string of yellows. Benson finally pulled around him on the 162nd lap after a restart and stayed in front through four more yellows, beating Hornaday to the checkered flag by .484 seconds after the final restart.
Vindicator staff/wire reports