Brandi Brown earns more recognition

Brandi Brown earns more recognition

Youngstown

Youngstown State senior women’s basketball player Brandi Brown has been named to two preseason lists by CollegeSportsMadness.com.

The website staff named Brown a preseason fourth-team All-American on the all-high major teams list, and it earlier selected the Penguin as a preseason first-team all-Horizon League player.

Brown was voted preseason first-team all-Horizon League in a poll of the conference’s coaches, women’s basketball sports information directors and media representatives.

She has been named second-team all-conference at the end of each of the past two seasons. Last season she averaged 15.9 points and 9.3 rebounds.

YSU volleyball

Chicago

The Youngstown State volleyball team posted a team attack percentage of .250 and got 15 kills from Missy Hundelt in a five-set victory (25-18, 20-25, 25-18, 24-26, 15-12) at Loyola.

Shannon Watson added 12 kills on a .409 attack percentage and Alexis Egler’s 11 kills and 10 digs represented the match’s only double-double.

YSU is 14-10, 4-6 Horizon League. The Ramblers are 15-8, 7-3.

Jenna Cavanaugh added six kills and six blocks and Nichele Johnson and Kelsey Wagy came off the bench to combine for 11 kills and five blocks.

NBA camp set today

Warren

Jason Otter, a NBA trainer, has a basketball camp designed to maximize potential.

Instruction will include foot-speed development, efficiency of movement off the dribble and out of triple threat, explosive drills, first step drills, ball-handling skills and more.

He will be at Howland Sports Center inside of First Baptist Church of Howland in Warren today.

For details, visit www.otterbasketball.com.

Skate a million miles

Austintown

Skate Zone has joined with the Roller Skating Association International in presenting its annual Skate A Million Miles event to promote a healthy lifestyle through roller skating.

Skate A Million Miles will run through December.

For information visit www.presidentschallenge.org.

Carl Eaton retires

cortland

Lakeview High School softball coach Carl Eaton has retired.

Eaton coached the Bulldogs for nine years and his Lakeview team won the 2007 TAC-8 title and the 2011 AAC White Tier championship.

Wooden statue stands vigil outside arena

LOS ANGELES

The stern gaze behind black-rimmed glasses, arms folded, rolled-up program tucked under his arm. John Wooden is now standing vigil outside Pauley Pavilion.

UCLA unveiled a life-sized bronze statue of the late revered coach on Friday outside its newly renovated arena on the Westwood campus. Wooden’s family members, who were consulted by sculptor Blair Buswell, were pleased with how the nearly 400-pound tribute turned out.

Wooden’s daughter, Nan, says she suggested final tweaks to the piece, including adjusting her father’s ears.

Austrian skier Bjorn Sieber, 23, dies in crash

SCHWARZENBERG, Austria

World Cup Alpine skier Bjorn Sieber of Austria died Friday after the van he was riding in swerved off a mountain road and rolled down a hill, police and the Austrian ski federation said.

The 23-year-old Sieber wasn’t on the team for Sunday’s season-opening giant slalom in Soelden, Austria, but was scheduled to be one of the skiers who test the course before a race.

Police said Sieber’s brother Marc was hospitalized with unknown injuries after the van carrying the brothers went off a narrow road and rolled 70 yards down the hill.

Vindicator staff/wire reports