YSU baseball swept

YSU baseball swept

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For the second straight day the Youngstown State baseball team had the tying run at the plate in the ninth inning but came up short, losing 5-2 to Charlotte in game two of Sunday’s doubleheader.

The Penguins lost the opener, 10-4.

After Charlotte scored two runs in the seventh and another in the eighth to break a 2-2 tie, Dan Popio and Kevin Hix walked to put two runners on for YSU with one out on the ninth.

Wes Hatley, though, got Mike Accardi to hit into a 4-6-3 double play to end the game.

Accardi had three hits on the day and hit safely in all four games this weekend.

Drew Dosch had two hits in the opener, and Kris Moules also had a hit in both games.

Dow takes crown

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Youngstown State sophomore Ashley Dow won her second individual title at the Horizon League swimming championships, placing first in the 200-yard backstroke.

Dow set her second school and Horizon League record with a time of 1:58.68 in 200 back winning by two-and-a-half seconds ahead of Milwaukee’s Becky Yokosh. Yokosh set the Horizon League mark to beat Dow at last year’s conference meet in the 200.

With the win, Dow is the first Penguin swimmer in Division I school history to win two events at a conference meet. On Friday, she set a school and league mark in the 100 back.

Basketball tickets

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In the boys basketball tournament, McDonald will face Bristol in Div. IV on Tuesday.

Tickets will be on sale today and Tuesday at McDonald High from 8 a.m. until 3 p.m.

Shenango Mermaids

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The Shenango Valley Mermaids synchronized swim team competed at the Midwest Invitational.

Teams from Ohio, Indiana and Pennsylvania competed,

For the Mermaid, Ava McLaughlin (Sharon) placed second in the 10-under age group solo and tenth in the figure competition.

Emily Drda (West Middlesex) and Gretta Brundage (Volant) placed third in the 16-17 intermediate duet competition.

Brundage also placed second in the 16-17 solo competition and fourth in figures. Drda was ninth in the 13-15 figure competition.

Indoor track meet

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LaBrae’s Megan Gunther competed in the Arnold Classic high school indoor track meet at French Field House on the campus of Ohio State University.

Gunther finished second to winner Marinice Bauman in both the prelims and the finals.

Gunther posted a 9.63 in the prelims and a 9.39 in the finals.

In the 200-meter dash, Gunther finished fifth (26.42).

Reporting prep results

The Vindicator encourages coaches and statisticians to report prep results by email (sports@vindy.com) or fax (330-747-6712).

Phone calls (330-747-1478) are also acceptable but emails and faxes are strongly preferred. Deadline is 10 p.m.

Sleds off as Iditarod race begins in Alaska

WILLOW, Alaska

Dogs aching to run bolted out of the chute Sunday to launch the 41st running of Alaska’s Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.

Now 65 teams will be making their way through punishing wilderness toward the finish line in Nome on Alaska’s western coast 1,000 miles away.

The Iditarod kicked off Saturday with an 11-mile jaunt through Anchorage, 50 miles south of the real starting line in the town of Willow. Sunday began the competitive portion of the race.

Sunday’s mood was charged with tension as mushers switched to the business of racing — at least among top mushers like defending champion Dallas Seavey and four-time winners Lance Mackey, Jeff King and Martin Buser.

Vindicator staff/wire reports