YSU rally fails

YSU rally fails

Valparaiso, Ind.

The Youngstown State baseball team rallied from a five-run deficit to force extra innings, but Valparaiso scored on a two-out error in the 11th to win 8-7 on Friday.

Valparaiso clinched at least a share of the Horizon League title with the victory, which was its 21st in conference play.

Youngstown State trailed 4-0 before recording an out, 6-0 after two innings and 7-2 through the sixth.

The Penguins then scored three runs in the seventh and twice in the ninth to force extra innings.

Drew Dosch finished 4-for-5 and drove in the tying run with a single in the top of the ninth.

Kanetsky honored

St. Louis. Mo.

Former Youngstown State quarterback Marc Kanetsky (Hubbard) received the Missouri Valley Football Conference President’s Council Academic Excellence Award while 27 Penguins were named to the MVFC Academic Honor Roll.

Kanetsky was one of 17 MVFC student-athletes to earn the league’s highest academic achievement.

The award requires a minimum 3.5 cumulative grade point average (through Fall 2011 semester) and participation in athletics a minimum of two years.

Dustin Brode wins shot put at Penn Relays

canfield

Dustin Brode, a graduate of Canfield and a sophomore at Harvard, won the NCAA Division I East Region shot put championship at the Penn Relays.

Brode put the shot 17.63 meters.

Next up for him is the NCAA East Regional in Jacksonville Fla.

Brode received the school’s track and field team’s Beyond the Call of Duty award for throwing three events this season — shot put, discus and hammer throw.

Football combine set

niles

The Don Beebe House of Speed football combine will be today from noon-5:30 p.m.

Activity is scheduled at the Infante Wellness Center in Niles.

For details, call 330-953-1518.

Huff to race today

toledo

Brandon Huff of East Palestine, 22, will race today in the ARCA truck race at the Toledo Speedway.

Taekwondo event

solon

The Martial Arts Training Center of Poland was represented by 16 students in the American Taekwondo tournament.

The team won 38 medals.

In the age 4-7 division, Alex Barricella won gold in breaking and forms; Jacob Lample took gold in forms and bronze in breaking; Joey Stara got bronze in forms and breaking; while Alex Sfara took silver in breaking and bronze in forms.

Also, Nathan Scheck won gold in breaking, silver in forms and bronze in sparring and Robyn Bartholomew took gold in forms and bronze in breaking.

WPS league folds

SAN FRANCISCO

The Women’s Professional Soccer league folded after three seasons.

The WPS had canceled the 2012 season in January, at the time hoping to return next year.

“We sincerely regret having to take this course of action,” T. Fitz Johnson, owner of the Atlanta Beat and chairman of the board of governors, said in a statement Friday.

The league’s predecessor, WUSA, also lasted only three seasons, burning through more than $100 million in investments.

Ervin, swimming’s mystery man, returns

CHARLOTTE, N.C.

Swimming’s mystery man is back in the water.

Now, at age 30, Anthony Ervin has a chance to make a real splash at the London Olympics.

Ervin was a rising star when he captured gold and silver medals at the 2000 Sydney Games. But he was never comfortable with the limelight, and he retired at 22. He’s vague about what he did during the next eight years, which only added to his aura.

Vindicator staff/wire reports