YSU Baseball team rallies past Xavier, 8-6

ysu

Baseball team rallies past Xavier, 8-6

CINCINNATI — Down six after two innings, the YSU baseball team scored the final eight runs of the game and had four relievers combine to throw 10 scoreless innings en route to a 8-6 victory over Xavier on Saturday.

C.J. Morris and Joe Iacobcci homered for YSU and David Leon hit an eventual game-winning two-run double in the 12th inning.

Reliever Eric Marzec did not allow a run and surrendered just one hit in the final five innings to earn his first win.

area

Galbraith sets mark

AKRON — Ashley Galbraith of Struthers High School set a indoor Division II state record as she cleared 5 feet-71‚Ñ4 inches Saturday in a field of 16 athletes at the state indoor track and field championships at the Univ. of Akron.

Freshman Sadie Noling of the Wildcats placed ninth in the 800 (2 minutes, 35 seconds).

Galbraith had qualified for the event when she made 5-8 at Kent State earlier in the year.

Galbraith, a senior, placed third in the state outdoor meet in Columbus last year with a jump of 5-6.

Lordstown’s Hollie Bailey placed third in the high jump (5-2), while Kayla Ellks was sixth in the long jump (15-10), eighth in the 60-meter hurdles (10.0) and helped the Red Devils break a school record in the 4x200 relay with a time of 1:54.6.

Jessica Reinke, Ashley Gibbs and Amanda Wickline were on the relay.

On the boys side, Lordstown’s Ryan Pal was second in the high jump (6-3) and Tykie Theofilos was sixth in the 400 (52.2). Theofilos, along with Jimmy Theofilos, Pal and Bowman set a school record in the 4x200 relay (1:37.3).

Corey Linsy (Boardman) took second place in the shot put with a toss of 55-feet 81‚Ñ4 inch.

The Spartans’ Matt Moore (1:57.53) finished third in the 800 and Mike Lesko (1:58.22) was fourth.

Caleb Matthews (6-2) was fourth in the high jump and fifth in the long jump (22-5).

Boardman’s Lesko, Ryan Westfall, Seth Westfall and Moore placed sixth (8:12.81) in the 4x800 relay.

Lesko, Steve Kandray, Brent Bionci and Moore were sixth (3:28) in the 4x400 relay.

Among girls, Corey Carter of the Spartans (5-0) placed fifth in the high jump.

Katie Heney (12:01.08) was sixth in the 3200.

Lauren Agnew, Becca Muntean, Colleen Kratofil and Tricia Haff placed seventh (9:57.65) in the 4x800 relay.

Curbstone Coaches

BOARDMAN —¬†Attorney Brian Kopp will speak to an audience of the Curbstone Coaches Association when the group’s weekly meeting/luncheon is held Monday at noon at the Blue Wolf Catering Center on Lockwood Blvd.

Kopp is a certified National Football League Players Association contract advisor who serves as an agent and legal counsel for DeBartolo Sports Entertainment.

Jones jumps 6-11

ADA — Josh Jones (New Castle High), a freshman at Thiel College, won the high jump at the NCAA Div. III indoor championship meet with a jump of 6 feet, 11 inches.

Jones is the Tomcat’s first ever indoor national champ.

nation

Miami wins MAC; earns NCAA tourney

CLEVELAND — When it was her turn, Maria Fantanarosa clutched the scissors tightly and walked toward the ladder for a climb she’ll never forget. First as a player, then as coach at Miami of Ohio, she had always dreamt of one day cutting down the nets as a Mid-American Conference tournament champion.

On Saturday, her moment finally arrived.

“I ... took ... it ... one ... step ... at ... a ... time,” Fantanarosa said slowly, still wearing the nylon necklace an hour after the game. “I wanted to enjoy this journey.” Miami, which won just 12 games last season and eight the year before, earned its first NCAA tournament bid as Amanda Jackson and Jenna Schone scored 19 points apiece in a 67-56 win over Ohio in the MAC championship.

Wooden doing well at rehab center

LOS ANGELES — John Wooden was doing well at a rehabilitation center Saturday, four days after the 97-year-old UCLA coaching great left the hospital after breaking his left wrist and collarbone in a fall at home.

Wooden did his daily exercises, ate lunch and was watching a John Wayne movie while awaiting the start of the Pac-10 tournament championship game between No. 3 UCLA and No. 11 Stanford, according to a UCLA spokesman.

Carolyn’s Cat wins Big A’s Cicada Stakes

NEW YORK — Carolyn’s Cat posted a pacesetting 33‚Ñ4-length victory Saturday over Ready for Fortune in the $106,000 Cicada Stakes for 3-year-old fillies at Aqueduct.

Alan Garcia was aboard for trainer Kiaran McLaughlin as Carolyn’s Cat earned her third win in six starts. The time was 1:10.16 for the six furlongs on the fast track.

After shaking off a bump at the start, Carolyn’s Cat took the lead with Dill Or No Dill applying pressure to her outside. Dill Or No Dill faded at the lane with Carolyn’s Cat sprinting clear for her second-straight Aqueduct victory.

American taxpayers will pay for Landis

NEW YORK — The final step in the Floyd Landis doping case will take place in New York, America’s most expensive city, and once again, American taxpayers will foot part of the bill. The 2006 Tour de France winner, who was stripped of his victory last year, seeks to have his title restored by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

It’s the final step in a series of appeals that have cost upward of $2 million.

world

Olympic update

BEIJING — Soldiers on foot and in armored carriers swarmed Tibet’s capital Saturday, enforcing a strict curfew a day after protesters burned shops and cars to vent their anger against Chinese rule. In another western city, police clashed with hundreds of Buddhist monks leading a sympathy demonstration.

The violence erupted just two weeks before China’s Summer Olympic celebrations kick off with the start of the torch relay, which passes through Tibet.

China is gambling that its crackdown will not draw an international outcry over human rights violations that could lead to boycotts of the Olympics.

Vindicator staff/wire reports