YSU football has clinic for women on Friday

YSU football has clinic for women on Friday

Youngstown

The Youngstown State football coaching staff will host a Women’s Football Clinic on Friday.

The cost is $50 per participant with all proceeds being donated to the American Cancer Society’s Making Strides Against Breast Cancer organization.

The event starts at 6 p.m. and will be approximately three hours.

For more information, call (330) 941-3478.

A registration and social hour will be held at 5 p.m. in the DeBartolo Stadium Club.

Archery benefit

LISBON

The Columbiana County Archers Club will have a benefit two-day shoot Saturday and Sunday with proceeds to assist the Columbiana County Board of Developmental Disabilities.

The benefit will be at the Columbiana County Archers Club located at the intersection of Kelch and Logtown roads in Lisbon.

The event includes two 3-D courses, entertainment, novelty shoots, raffles, silent auctions, and a swap meet.

Registration for archers is $25 for both days and $15 for one day.

The event will start at 8 a.m.

Walker dies at 75

NEW WILMINGTON, Pa.

Marjorie Walker, one of the founders of women’s athletics at Westminster College, passed away Sunday at Presbyterian University Hospital in Pittsburgh at the age of 75.

Walker’s health was in decline after she underwent a lung transplant surgery in July, 2009.

Walker was a member of the Westminster faculty for 31 years before retiring in 1993 after holding various positions, including chair of the physical education department, associate director of athletics and head volleyball coach.

She posted a record of 341-277 as the school’s first-ever volleyball coach from 1976-1992 and was named two-time District Coach of the Year during her career.

Boxer Yuri Foreman to have surgery on knee

NEW YORK

Former junior middleweight champion Yuri Foreman will need surgery on his right knee after tearing his meniscus and stretching ligaments Saturday night at Yankee Stadium.

Foreman was hurt in the seventh round of his fight against Miguel Cotto, which he eventually lost when referee Arthur Mercante Jr. waved it off early in the ninth round.

Foreman visited Dr. Gerard Varlotta, a joint specialist at The Rusk Institute in New York, and was told Monday he would need surgery on the knee.

Foreman wasn’t sure when it will be scheduled or how long he might be out of the ring.

Foreman said Varlotta was ringside for the fight and saw the injury happen.

Mountain West Conf. opts not to expand

The presidents of the Mountain West Conference decided Monday not to expand the nine-team league at this time.

Commissioner Craig Thompson said the decision to hold off on expansion is tied to the shake-ups and shifting landscape in some of the nation’s bigger conferences.

Officials from the Big Ten, Pac-10 and Big 12 are considering adding schools or reorganizing.

Thompson said the decision is not final, and that the board may reconsider once the dust settles in the other conferences.

“Due to the uncertainty in the intercollegiate landscape, the board did not make a decision to expand at the present time,” Thompson said at the end of the annual meeting in Jackson, Wyo.

Zenyatta has final workout for big race

INGLEWOOD, Calif.

Zenyatta has breezed six furlongs at Hollywood Park in her final major preparation for this weekend’s $250,000 Vanity Handicap.

The 6-year-old mare was timed in 1:15.20 over the artificial Cushion Track on Monday morning.

Zenyatta is 16-0 in her career, tying her with the victory streaks of Cigar, Citation and Mister Frisky. She’ll be seeking a record third straight victory in the Vanity, a Grade 1 race over 1 1-8 miles.

Vindicator staff/wire reports