YSU volleyball team gets two Horizon losses

YSU volleyball team gets two Horizon losses

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The Youngstown State volleyball team lost two Horizon League matches, falling to Butler in three games and to Wright State in four.

Butler (10-7, 5-1 Horizon) hit better than .390 in each of the final two sets to win, 25-16, 25-16, 25-15.

Setter Dani Soubliere led the Penguins with six kills in 13 attempts and Brittany McNeal had a match-high 11 digs.

Wright State defeated the Penguins 25-23, 25-18 before YSU won, 27-25.

The Raiders took the fourth set 27-25.

YSU freshman Marissa Hundelt tied for the match high with 19 kills, which was also a career high.

Seven YSU softball players honored

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Seven Youngstown State softball players have been named Scholar Athletes by the National Fastpitch Coaches Association.

To be named a scholar-athlete by the NFCA, student-athletes must have achieved a minimum grade-point average of 3.5 for the 2009-10 school year.

The Youngstown State players earned the national academic honor include: Erin Schindler, Jordan Ingalls, Kim Klonowski, Kristina Davidson, Kristina Rendle, Sarah Gabel and Victoria Rumph.

As a team, Youngstown State ranked 36th nationally with a team grade-point average of 3.320.

Fitch game tickets

AUSTINTOWN

Tickets for all Fitch home football games will be available at all district schools, Select Sportswear in the Teri-Mar Plaza and the high school’s South Circle ticket booth today from 6-7 p.m. Reserved seats are $7, adult $6 and students $3.

General admission tickets at the gate will be $6.

Francey McCall runnerup rookie

BARBERTON

In her rookie season, Francey McCall of Niles was runnerup among 17 drivers in the Hobby Stocks division following the conclusion of the 2010 season at Barberton Speedway.

McCall’s 940 points toward the track’s 2010 Tallmadge Asphalt point standings were second only to champion Robert Berkhart’s 1,127.

Cross country

Three Maplewood boys finished in the top five in the Northeast Athletic Conf. cross country meet.

Dallas Bright won with a time of 17:27.8. Finishing after him in the top five were Wyatt Hartman (Maplewood - 17:28.2), Jon Gears (Pymatuning Valley - 17:30.5), Hunter Hamilton (Pymatuning Valley - 17:45.0) and Morgan Hake (Maplewood - 17:50.1).

Just like for the boys, Rocket runners earned three of the top five spots for the girls.

Badger’s Sarah Bonar won the meet (21:16.8). Rounding out the top five were Krystal Williams (21:30.7), Alania Shamrock (21:31.1) and Erin Pavick (21:32.0) of Maplewood and Clarissa Douglas of Badger (21:53.7).

Former national cycling champ banned

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.

Former U.S. national pro cycling champion Kirk O’Bee has received a lifetime suspension for a second doping offense.

O’Bee, who spent the 2000 season on Lance Armstrong’s U.S. Postal Service team, received his first suspension after testing positive for testosterone when he won the national pro criterium title in 2001. He also won national titles in 1997 and 2007.

His lifetime ban stems from an arbitration decision released Wednesday that upheld a positive EPO test from May 2009.

Endless Circle wins Belmont Park race

NEW YORK

Endless Circle won for the fifth time in his last six starts, beating Be Bullish by a length Wednesday in the $70,000 Easy N’ Dirty Stakes for New York breds at Belmont Park.

The 6-year-old Endless Circle, ridden by Edgar Prado and trained by Rudy Rodriguez, has 10 victories in 23 lifetime starts. He ran 61/2 furlongs in 1:17.06 and paid $4.30, $2.60 and $2.10.

Vindicator staff/wire reports