Both schools sell District final tickets


March 7, 2014 at 12:00a.m.

Both schools sell District final tickets

WARREN

Tickets for Saturday’s boys basketball Division II District championship game at Warren Harding High are on sale today at the participating schools — Cardinal Mooney and Poland. Game time is 7 p.m. Advance tickets are $4 for students and $6 for adults.

Tickets at Mooney will be sold at the school office from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. For more information, call the school at 330-788-5007.

Tickets are on sale from 8 a.m. to noon at Poland’s athletic office.

Junior high wrestlers at Covelli this weekend

YOUNGSTOWN

The top junior high wrestlers in Ohio will compete this weekend in the OAC Junior High State Championships at the Covelli Centre. Among local wrestlers scheduled to compete:

Canfield — Ben Cutrer (96 pounds), Matt Cardello (102), Eric El-Hayek (126), Michael O’Horo (132), Luke Sheetz (132), Nick Crawford (132), David Crawford (138), Dominic Cooper (146), Tyler Stein (164), Ryan Thompson (209), Alex Maxin (249). Taarek Maalouf (174) also qualified but cannot participate due to a shoulder injury. Cardello placed fourth as a sixth-grader and second as a seventh-grader.

Others — Brock Kimble (209), Austintown; Karl Nail (126), Boardman; Nick Scarl (114), Jackson-Milton; Adam Magnuson (102), Peter Biery (114), Dylan Miller (120), West Branch; Cole McComas (78), Skyler Lasure (90), Beaver Local; Dylan Beasom (114), Chris Julian (146), Brandon Matlock (209), Howland; Andrew Hardenbrook (102), Columbiana; Kyle Keenan (84), South Range; Jack Delgarbino (164), Girard; Byce Randall (176), Brookfield.

Eastwood Mall site of K.O. Boxing sign-ups

NILES

Registration and weigh-in for the 2014 K.O. Drugs High School Boxing Tournament will be held Saturday and March 15 at the Eastwood Mall center court (next to Auntie Ann’s) in Niles.

Boxers interested in competing can stop any time between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. to register. There is a $25 entry fee and parental consent is required.

The tournament will take place on Thursdays, March 27, April 3 and April 10 at the old South Range High School in North Lima.

For more information, call Chuck Nelson at 330-423-2203 or Pat Nelson at 330-727-0932.

Bowling prize checks available on Monday

BOARDMAN

Prize checks for the Greater Youngstown Bowling Association’s recent City Tournament will be available at the Association office on Monday from 6 to 8 p.m.

The address is 7255 Glendale Ave. in Boardman.

Iditarod: Conditions cause 12 to drop out

ANCHORAGE, Alaska

Punishing conditions along the early part of Alaska’s nearly 1,000-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race have brought many mushers literally to their knees, knocking some out of the running altogether. As of Thursday morning, 12 mushers had dropped out — at least one with a broken bone — and one was withdrawn, leaving 56 teams on the trail. Long stretches of bare ground made conditions treacherous hundreds of miles from the finish line in Nome on Alaska’s western coast.

Sports medicine pioneer Jobe dies

LOS ANGELES

Dr. Frank Jobe, a pioneering orthopedic surgeon who was the first to perform an elbow procedure that became known as Tommy John surgery and saved the careers of countless major league pitchers, died Thursday. He was 88.

Staff reports/Associated Press