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Penguins win three individual titles

KENT — Three members of the YSU women’s track and field team won individual events in the Horizon League meet held at Kent State.

Bethany Anderson won the weight throw for the third straight year, Alisha Anthony won the long jump and Yandeh Joh won the pentathlon for the Penguins.

Anderson set the YSU and Horizon League record in the weight throw with a provisional-qualifying mark of 63 feet 101‚Ñ2 inches.

Anthony defended her 2007 title with a leap of 18-91‚Ñ4.

Joh was the top finisher in three out of the five portions of the pentathlon to win the event with 173 points.

On the men’s side, Dominic DeFilippo took second in the weight throw.

Shayne York and Jerrill Hall finished third and fourth in the long jump, and Adam Kagarise turned in the top preliminary times in both the 200m and 400m.

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Boys bowling

LANCASTER — Fitch had three bowlers placed in he top 20 during the state high school bowling tournament at Tiki Lanes.

Marty Sharisky was 11th with 663, followed by teammate Matt Clemens with 661. In 18th was Fitch’s Vince Viglio with 643.

Boardman’s Andrew Watterson was 21st with 625, while Girard’s Clayton Cupan was 35th with 596. Boardman bowlers Anthony Ricchiuti and Eric Grishow were tied for 45th with 579s.

The state champion, individually, was Urban’s Brice Ream with 763, while Jay Foote of Westerville Central was runnerup with 715.

Stebbins beat out Centerville for the team title, while Fitch was fifth and Boardman seventh.

DeFrank, Sahli set

NILES —¬†Girard’s Alecia DeFrank takes a 6-4 record into her next amateur bout when a fight card is held at McMenamey’s on March 28.

In a rematch, DeFrank will face Katie Banks of Imperial, Pa., to whom DeFrank lost via decision.

Banks (7-3) and DeFrank will fight at 125 pounds.

Stephanie Sahli of Struthers is also on the card, fighting against Yaniqua Carter of Toledo.

DeFrank’s most recent bout in Akron was a decision over Carter.

Ellks wins race

ALLIANCE — Kayla Ellks of Lordstown High won the 55-meter hurdles in school record time of 9.1 seconds at a track meet held at Mount Union College.

Ashley Galbraith of Struthers won the high jump with a leap of 5-6 and Corey Carter (Boardman) was second (5-2).

Among boys, Caleb Mathews of Boardman jumped 6-4 to win the high jump.

Rathburn places twice

CLEMSON, S.C. — Coastal Carolina freshman Alex Rathburn (Western Reserve High) placed in two events in the Big South Conf. women’s indoor track championship meet.

She was fourth in the shot put (42-5.5) and fifth in the weight throw (47-3).

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Wooden doing well

LOS ANGELES — John Wooden had the cast on his arm cut open because of swelling, but was otherwise in good health and high spirits on his third day in the hospital, the former UCLA basketball coach’s daughter said Sunday.

“Dad is doing well and his vital signs are good,” Nan Muehlhausen said in a statement.

The 97-year-old Wooden broke two bones when he fell at his condo Thursday and underwent blood transfusions at an undisclosed hospital over the weekend.

Doctors found Wooden had a hairline fracture in his wrist and a fractured collarbone.

“Everyone expects that he will make a full recovery,” Muehlhausen said. “It will just take a couple of more days before he can go home.”

Doctors cut open the cast on Wooden’s left arm, but will recast the arm before he goes home, Muehlhausen said.

Wooden coached the Bruins to an unsurpassed 10 NCAA basketball championships in the 1960s and 1970s, including consecutive titles from 1967-1973. His teams also had an 88-game winning streak.

Wisconsin man dies after marathon

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A 27-year-old Wisconsin man collapsed and died Sunday after completing the Little Rock Marathon.

Adam Nickel, of Madison, Wis., was pronounced dead late Sunday morning near the finish line of the race, which attracted about 9,000 entrants, race officials said.

Emergency personal used mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to try to revive Nickel until an ambulance arrived with a defibrillator. He could not be revived and was pronounced dead after being taken to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Hospital.

The medical director of the marathon, Dr. Kent Davidson, said at a news conference that no determination had been made yet on what caused Nickel’s death.

Temperatures Sunday morning during the running of the race ranged from the high 50s during the early miles up to the mid-60s by late morning, according to the National Weather Service.

Vindicator staff/wire reports