YSU baseball reset

YSU baseball reset

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Due to unplayable field conditions, the Youngstown State baseball team will have a different schedule for its four games in Pittsburgh.

The Penguins’ two games scheduled today have been postponed, and YSU will now play a doubleheader on both Saturday and Sunday.

On Saturday, Youngstown State will play Manhattan at 10:30 a.m. and Pitt at 1:30 p.m.

YSU will play Manhattan again on Sunday at 10:30 a.m., and they’ll wrap up their weekend against Pittsburgh at 4:30 p.m.

Basketball tickets

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Cardinal Mooney High is selling basketball tickets in the main office today from 9 a.m. until 1:30 p.m.

The Cardinals play a district championship basketball game on Saturday at Boardman.

Golf get away set

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A Golf Get Away has been organized for local golfers from May 5 through May 10 in Savannah, Georgia.

The trip includes all taxes, lodging for six nights, breakfast, five days of golf, greenfees, cart, rangeballs and players welcome party on May 5.

For details call 614-441-3965 or e-mail johnungar@yahoo.com.

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.

Albasini wins 4th stage of Paris-Nice in sprint

SAINT-VALLIER, France

Michael Albasini of Switzerland beat four other riders in a sprint finish to win the hilly fourth stage of the Paris-Nice cycling race on Thursday, while American Andrew Talansky kept hold of the leader’s yellow jersey.

Albasini attacked in the last 500 meters and won by a bike’s length ahead of Maxim Iglinskiy of Kazakhstan. They clocked the same time of 4 hours 55 minutes, 41 seconds over the 124-mile trek from Brioude to Saint-Vallier.

US women soccer down to third goalkeeper

U.S. women’s soccer team goalkeeper Jill Loyden broke a bone in her left hand during training Thursday and will miss three months.

Loyden was injured while training with the team at the Algarve Cup. She will leave Portugal today to consult with a hand specialist to determine if she will need surgery.

She broke a different bone in the same hand during U.S. women’s training camp in 2011.

Longtime starter Hope Solo is out with a wrist injury. The United States beat Iceland 3-0 in its first match and plays China today.

Musher in first place will get fancy dinner

ANCHORAGE, Alaska

After days of heating up meals in boiling water used to make gravy for the dogs and snacking on energy bars or chunks of meat, the first musher to reach the village of Anvik along the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race is in for a treat.

The Millennium Alaskan Hotel Anchorage will fly its chef 350 miles to this remote Alaska village of 82 people to whip up a seven-course meal for the first musher to get to the first checkpoint along the 1,800-mile long Yukon River.

NYC Marathon to hold lottery again in 2013

NEW YORK

The New York City Marathon will hold a lottery for this year’s race after all, though it’s likely fewer runners will get in through that route than in past years.

About half the entrants from November’s canceled event opted for a refund, organizer New York Road Runners said Thursday. The rest picked the option of a guaranteed spot in the 2013, ‘14 or ‘15 race or in this month’s NYC Half.

NYRR officials announced the policy for the runners who never got a chance to compete because of Superstorm Sandy.

Vindicator staff/wire copy