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Penguin baseball team splits with Cincinnati

Cincinnati

Youngstown State pitchers Kevin McCulloh and Padraic Williams held Cincinnati to one run on five hits, and the Penguins picked up their first victory of the season with a 2-1 win over the Bearcats on Sunday.

The Penguins dropped game two of the doubleheader 11-0.

McCulloh allowed one run on five hits and four walks while striking out eight in six innings of work.

Williams allowed just one base runner in the final three innings to earn his first collegiate save.

Joe Iacobucci led off the second inning and Phil Lipari had a two-runs single up the middle.

In game two, Cincinnati jumped on starter Robert Switka for seven runs in the first two innings.

Brandi Brown picked 2nd team all-Horizon

Indianapolis

A day after claiming the Horizon League’s regular season scoring title, YSU sophomore forward Brandi Brown has been named second-team all-conference in a vote of the league’s coaches, women’s basketball sports information directors and a media representative from each market.

Brown, a native of Pomona, Calif., was the only underclassman to earn all-conference accolades.

She led the conference in scoring with 20 points per game and ranked tied-for-fifth in rebounding with 9.2 per game.

Brown ranked 15th in the nation in scoring heading into the weekend.

YSU tennis falls

Akron

The Youngstown State women’s tennis team dropped a 7-0 match to Akron on Sunday afternoon at the LaTuchie Tennis Center.

At No. 1 singles, Margarita Sadovnikova dropped a 6-3, 6-4 match to Akron’s Zara Harutyunyan.

The Penguins are 3-4 while the Zips are 8-2.

Indoor track

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Ali Tolich won the weight throw in 49 feet, 8 inches and she was second in the shot put (38-5) for Fitch at an indoor track meet.

Gabby Figueroa was fourth in the weight throw (38-8) and is ranked ninth in the state and Makayla Martin was fifth in the high jump (5-2) and is seventh in Ohio.

For the Fitch boys, the 4x400 meter relay team was second (3:27.48) and are second in the state and the 4x200 relay was fifth (1:31.64).

Jay Jakovina was third in the high jump (6-2).

For Lordstown High, the girls 4x400 relay ran a school record 4:21.6 to place 13th.

Members are JoHaana Morgan, Annalie Fitzgibbon, Sara Leamer and Rhianna Durrett.

Tamgho breaks triple jump indoor record

PARIS

Teddy Tamgho has broken his own indoor triple jump world record, leaping 58 feet, 91/2 inches at the European indoor championships.

The 21-year-old Frenchman had set his previous mark of 58-91/4 at the French indoor championships last month. Tamgho is coached by former long jump Olympic champion Ivan Pedroso of Cuba.

De Gendt wins 1st stage of Paris-Nice race

HOUDAN, France

Belgian Thomas De Gendt won the first stage of the Paris-Nice race Sunday, comfortably beating Frenchman Jeremy Roy by seven seconds after a late breakaway.

The 24-year-old Vaconsoleil rider completed the 95.8-mile course that looped around the outskirts of Paris — starting and ending in Houdan — in 4 hours, 4 minutes, 53 seconds.

De Gendt had finished second on the fourth stage of the Tour Down Under in Australia in January.

Iditarod Trail Dog mushers start for Nome

WILLOW, Alaska

The competitive portion of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race has begun with 62 teams expected to take to the trail.

This year’s top 30 finishers will share a purse of $528,000.

The winner gets $50,400 and a new truck.

Vindicator staff/wire reports