SPORTS DIGEST || YOA Saturday sports clinics kick off today

YOA Saturday sports clinics kick off today

canfield

Youngstown Orthopaedic Associates’ Saturday Sports Clinics, geared specifically to fall sports student-athletes in need of immediate attention to sports injuries, starts today. The clinics run from 9 to 11 a.m. every Saturday throughout the high school sports season. They are held at the practice’s Building A, located at the northwest corner of Tippecanoe Road and Boardman-Canfield Road in Canfield.

A trained sports medicine physician will provide evaluation and treatment for various types of sports injuries, including concussions, sprains and strains, on a walk-in basis. Services include physical therapy, MRI, general X-rays and specialty bracing. A parent or guardian must be present. For more information, call 330-758-0577 or visit www.youngstownortho.com.

Women’s bowling league starts Tuesday

Austintown

Starting Tuesday, Wedgewood Lanes will have a women’s weekly shoot out. Everyone starts with a 240 average. After three games the top half of the group will advance. Single games then determines the winner. It costs $20 to enter. Call Paula Pecorelli at 330-240-1295 or Wedgewood Lanes at 330-792-1949 for more information.

Allen leads Scrappers over Doubledays 5-2

NILES

Greg Allen went three-for-four with two runs scored as the Mahoning Valley Scrappers beat the Auburn Doubledays 5-2 at Eastwood Field. The Scrappers jumped out to a 3-0 lead after two innings. The Doubledays clawed back within 3-2 but the Scrappers added two runs late. Starter Daniel Speers went five shutout innings to earn the victory. The Scrappers play the Doubledays today in the final home game of the year.

YSU volleyball earns sweep of Evansville

Nashville

The Youngstown State volleyball team hit .271 collectively and backed that up with solid defense to sweep Evansville (25-20, 25-20, 25-17) at the Belmont Invitational on Friday. It was the season opener for both schools.

Junior Aly Ryan posted 11 kills on a match-high .529 attack percentage, and Lexi Egler had 10 kills for the Penguins. Youngstown State earned a sweep in its first match for the first time in a decade. Val Jeffery added 30 assists and 10 digs for the Penguins.

49ers LB Aldon Smith suspended by NFL

SANTA CLARA, Calif.

San Francisco 49ers linebacker Aldon Smith has been suspended for nine games by the NFL after a series of off-field legal issues.

A statement Friday from the league said Smith had violated the NFL’s substance abuse and personal conduct policies.

Smith won’t be eligible to return until Nov. 10, the day after the 49ers’ game against the New Orleans Saints.

The 24-year-old Smith, one of the NFL’s top pass rushers, missed five games last season to undergo treatment at an in-patient facility following his DUI arrest Sept. 20.

Just before training camp began last month, the 24-year-old Smith was sentenced to serve three years of probation and to spend 11 days with a work crew.

Errani beats Venus Williams at US Open

NEW YORK

Two points from defeat, Sara Errani rallied to force a third-set tiebreaker and outlasted Venus Williams in a back-and-forth match at the U.S. Open.

Errani won 6-0, 0-6, 7-6 (5) in the third round Friday after Williams had a chance to serve out the match in the final set.

Williams twice came back from down a break in the third but was done in by too many unforced errors. She had 52 in the match.

Errani, seeded 13th, next faces 121st-ranked qualifier Mirjana Lucic-Baroni, who stunned second-seeded Simona Halep 7-6 (6), 6-2. The 32-year-old Lucic-Baroni hadn’t made a Grand Slam round of 16 since 1999.

Staff/wire reports