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Tickets go on sale for YSU spring game

YOUNGSTOWN

Tickets for the 42nd annual Red-White spring football game are available at the Youngstown State ticket office. Tickets are $5 for the game scheduled at 7 p.m. April 25 at Stambaugh Stadium. The ticket office is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. the remainder of this week and next week. For more information contact the YSU office at 330-941-1978.

All seating for the game is general admission and will be in the West stands. Gates open at 6 p.m. and fans are invited to sit in the chairback seats.

Beginning at 5:30 p.m. in the Stambaugh Stadium gymnasium complex, the YSU Penguin Club will host a pregame party with food and beverages available. The cost of the event is $12 for Penguin Club members and $14 for non-members.

Season tickets for the 2014 season are also available for purchase at the ticket office. For the second consecutive year, YSU has seven home games, including four against Missouri Valley Football Conference foes.

Local youth wrestlers place in national meet

BATTLE CREEK, MICH.

Alec Herman and Donavin Jones, both of Austintown, led a contingent of wrestlers from the South Range Wrestling Club last weekend at the Nu-Way Nationals Wrestling tournament in Battle Creek, Mich.

Both finished as national runner-up, Herman in the 61-pound class and Jones in the 90-pound class.

Other placers from the South Range club were Caiden Hart of Salem, 7th, 65 pounds; Jax Booth of Salem, 7th, 71 pounds; and Michael Markulin of South Range, 8th, 65 pounds.

Lowellville boys hoops coach Mangine resigns

LOWELLVILLE

Mike Mangine, who coached the Lowellville High School boys basketball team to a record of 18-5 during the 2013-14 season, has resigned.

Mangine’s resignation was accepted Wednesday night during a Lowellville Local Schools Board of Education meeting.

Atlanta lands MLS expansion team for ’17

ATLANTA

Major League Soccer announced its latest team Wednesday, an expansion team for Atlanta that will begin play in 2017 at the city’s new retractable roof stadium. The team will be owned by Arthur Blank, who also controls the NFL’s Atlanta Falcons. He said it was the culmination of a process that started about a decade ago, when he first started talks with MLS about bringing a team to the city.

The off-and-on discussions picked up again after Blank reached a deal with the city last year to build a new $1 billion downtown stadium next to the soon-to-be-demolished Georgia Dome. He is putting up most of the money, with the city kicking in $200 million from a hotel tax. The team’s name has not been determined. Blank said he will get input from fans before deciding on the new moniker, though he already knows the colors: red and black with a substantial amount of gold as well.

Esposito, Cooke top Senior PGA Pro

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla.

Frank Esposito Jr. shot a 3-under 69 on Wednesday for a share of the second-round lead with Stan Cooke in the Senior PGA Professional National Championship. Esposito, the 50-year-old PGA head professional at Brooklake in Florham Park, N.J., made a 25-foot eagle putt on the par-5 16th in cool, windy conditions on PGA Golf Club’s Wanamaker Course — the site of the final two rounds. Cooke, the 53-year-old PGA general manager and director of golf at Ocala (Fla.) National, had a 71 on the Ryder Course to match Esposito at 8-under 136.

Real Madrid wins 19th Copa del Rey title

VALENCIA, Spain

Gareth Bale raced down the field, avoided a defender and rolled the ball under goalkeeper Jose Pinto in the 90th minute, giving Real Madrid a 2-1 win over Barcelona on Wednesday night and its 19th Copa del Rey title.

Staff reports/Associated Press