Sports digest

YSU

Penguins recognized

INDIANAPOLIS — YSU had 76 student-athletes earn Horizon League Spring Academic Honor Roll honors.

YSU ranked third in the conference behind Valpariso (94) and Milwaukee (81).

A sport-by-sport breakdown features 96 student-athletes competing in women’s track and field/cross country followed by 76 in women’s soccer and 75 in men’s track and field/cross country.

Other top sports include men’s soccer (67), women’s swimming and diving (55), baseball (47) and softball (46).

Women’s tennis player Irena Lanc along with men’s golfer Michael Turner, posted a cumulative 4.0 grade-point averages through the spring semester.

The Penguins had a league-best 15 student-athletes named to the women’s track and field/cross country.

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Simpson selected

NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. — Former Westminster College swimmer Conor Simpson has been chosen to serve as the NCAA Division III student-athlete representative for the United State Olympic Committee.

Simpson was one of three NCAA student-athletes - one from Divisions I, II and III - selected to serve a one-year term ending in May 2010.

Simpson was selected to the committee while attending the NCAA Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) meeting in Denver last weekend.

Darlington polo

DARLINGTON, Pa. — The Darlington Polo Club will honor the memory of one of its founders Friday at the polo field.

Preliminary matches for “The Bob Watterson Memorial” will begin on Friday with four teams competing for the right to play in the finals which will be held in East Palestine on Sunday.

For more information, call (330) 426-4739 or (724) 742-1350, or visit www.darlingtonpoloclub.com.

Sharon Speedway

HARTFORD — Russell King will compete at the Sharon Speedway on Saturday in the 50-lap WFMJ-TV World Of Outlaws.

King is the tenth ranked driver on the WoO circuit.

Race registration

NEW CASTLE, Pa. — Registrations are being accepted for the Crisis Shelter’s 5K Run/Walk at Pearson Park in New Castle, PA, on Sept. 12.

To obtain a registration form call (724) 652-9206 x 123.

For more information about the race or to be a sponsor, call (724) 758-8662.

nation

N. Dakota St. linebacker suspended

FARGO, N.D. — North Dakota State backup linebacker Blake Sczepanski has been suspended indefinitely after his arrest over the weekend for allegedly driving under the influence.

Coach Craig Bohl says Sczepanski’s future with the team won’t be decided until after the legal process is finished.

Sczepanski is the fourth Bison player cited for DUI in the last six months. Two other players had drug arrests.

Court records show that Sczepanski also pleaded guilty to a minor in possession of alcohol charge last October.

Mayfield tests negative

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — An independent drug test on Jeremy Mayfield was negative for methamphetamines, contradicting the results of a NASCAR test taken 40 minutes earlier, the driver claimed in court documents filed Tuesday.

In response to NASCAR’s claim that Mayfield again tested positive for methamphetamines on July 6, Mayfield submitted an affidavit to the U.S. District Court that said he traveled to Frye Regional Medical Center in Hickory, N.C., right after NASCAR collected a sample at his Catawba County home.

Rare golf feat

BOWLING GREEN, Ohio — An Ohio man who says he’s not much of a golfer pulled off a feat that not even some of the best players have matched.

Ed Platzer of Bowling Green knocked in a left-handed hole-in-one last month, 15 years after he hit a right-handed hole-in-one.

Platzer says he’s a natural lefty but learned to play right-handed when he couldn’t find any left-handed clubs.

Vindicator staff/wire reports