Saturday, July 30, 2011
Dinner set for Fitch football
The Austintown Fitch Football Kickoff Dinner is set for Aug. 5 at Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish Center at 6:30 p.m.
The cost is $75 per ticket and $125 per couple. A table of eight is available for $500. The cost includes dinner, dessert, open bar and entry into reverse raffle. Checks can be made to the Austintown Touchdown Club and sent to Don Sherwood at 6939 Winterpark Ave. Youngstown, OH. 44515. For information, call Don Sherwood at 330-559-9548.
Glaciers looking for players
The Ohio Glaciers, a national tournament baseball program, is holding tryouts for 2012 teams from 9U through 16U in August. The tryouts will be held at Glacier Field in Struthers. The Glaciers have a history of nationally-ranked teams with professional instructors like Jack Kucek, a former Major League pitcher. The Glaciers manage both indoor and outdoor facilities, with teams practicing more than 100 hours a year. Players from across Ohio and Pennsylvania have played on Glacier’s teams.
Preregistration is necessary. Find out more at www.ohioglaciers.com.
Fitch golf seeks members
Any boy wishing to try out for the Austintown Fitch golf team must contact coach Ed Santor at 330-793-6760 or fitchgolfcoach@yahoo.com as soon as possible. Golfers must have a current physical exam on record before practice and tryouts. Tryouts will be Aug. 1, 2, 4 and 5 and attendance is mandatory.
Ferris finishes sixth
Former Ohio State gymnast Ronald Ferris, 27, of Austintown, finished sixth at Saturday’s USA Gymnastics Men’s Summer Qualifier. More than 80 gymnasts competed. In August, Ferris will compete for one of the top 16 spots in at the U.S. Visa Championships which make up the U.S. Senior Men’s Team.
An employee at the Ohio Gymnastics Institute, Ferris was 2005 NCAA national champion and five-time NCAA All American. He retired from competitive gymnastics in 2005 then returned in April 2010 in an attempt to qualify for the 2012 Olympic Trials.
Austintown golfer 7UP winner
Dom Ignazio, a freshman Fitch golfer, won the 13-14 division of the 7UP Junior Tournament at Mill Creek Golf Course June 21-22. In the 36-hole tournament, Ignazio shot 176 and beat out J. Autbach (177), M. Standohar (178) and N. Snyder (181).
Yeager strikes gold
Recent Austintown Fitch graduate Donald Yeager competed in the AAU age group national gymnastics championships at ESPN’s Wide World of Sports. He won six gold medals, including an all around score of 80.3, besting his nearest opponent by more than three points. He took first place on floor exercise (13.55), pommel horse (13.4), still rings (13.2), parallel bars (13.3) and horizontal bar (13.65).
Yeager trains at the Ohio Gymnastics Institute.
Scrappers tickets benefit food bank
To benefit Second Harvest Food Bank of the Mahoning Valley, Mahoning Valley Scrappers invite all faiths to attend the 2011 Faith Night series at Eastwood Field.
The food bank will receive $1 for each ticket purchased through pre-sale only. To purchase Faith Night tickets, call the Mahoning Valley Scrapper’s Group Sales Department at 330-505-0000 or visit www.mahoningvalleysecondharvest.org to download the ticket flier. Faith Night games are scheduled for Aug. 5 and Aug. 26. Second Harvest Food Bank of the Mahoning Valley provides food to 153 hunger relief organizations in Columbiana, Mahoning and Trumbull counties.