Crane to speak at Curbstone Coaches

Crane to speak at Curbstone Coaches

AUSTINTOWN

Andy Crane, Youngstown State assistant coach for women’s basketball, will speak when Curbstoen Coaches meet Monday at noon at Lucianno’s Restaurant in the Wedgewood Plaza.

Reigrut records hole-in-one

MANNing, S.C.

Timothy P. Reigrut from Youngstown scored a hole-in-one on hole No. 2 at the Wyboo Golf Club on March 26.

Reigrut entered his feat in the Santee Cooper Country “Hole in One” award program and will receive a parchment signed and sealed by the honorable Nikki R. Haley, the governor of South Carolina.

JFK’s Zallow runs nation’s best time

ARCADIA, CALIF.

Warren JFK senior Chad Zallow won the 110-meter hurdles in a U.S.-best time of 13.50 seconds at Saturday’s Arcadia Invitational.

The Youngstown State recruit has won back-to-back Division III state titles in the event.

Zallow also won the 300 hurdles in a time of 37.1.

Ringside chat with ‘Boom Boom’ Mancini

Northfield

Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini will be at the Hard Rock Rocksino on May 14. There will be a meet and greet from 5:30 p.m. until 7 p.m. Then there will be an interview from 7-9 p.m.

Tables for the meet and greet are $2,500 for 10 seats. Contact Maria Meadors at 330-559-8891 for more information.

Columbiana cross country fundraising

Columbiana

The Columbiana High School Cross Country boys and girls teams are in need of new uniforms. An online fundraising event through GoFundMe.com is currently taking place. The team needs to raise $2,000 to order the uniforms and donations of any size can be made through their donation website at GoFundMe.com/mmd17s. For other questions please contact, Crystal Siembida Boggs at 330-482-9105.

Mets reliever Mejia suspended for drug test

ATLANTA

New York Mets relief pitcher Jenrry Mejia has been suspended 80 games by Major League Baseball after testing positive for the performance-enhancing substance Stanozolol. MLB announced the punishment Saturday. This is the fourth penalty for a positive Stanozolol test reported by MLB in less than a month, following Minnesota pitcher Ervin Santana, Seattle pitcher David Rollins and Atlanta pitcher Arodys Vizcaino.

Mejia began the season as New York’s closer, but he was placed on the 15-day disabled list Wednesday with posterior elbow inflammation.

Mejia released a statement through the team saying that he knows the rules and accepts his punishment, but “can honestly say I have no idea how a banned substance ended up in my system.”

Buffalo promotes Oats to replace Hurley

AMHERST, N.Y.

Buffalo has moved swiftly to replace Bobby Hurley by promoting assistant Nate Oats to take over as head coach of its men’s basketball team.

The school announced the move Saturday, two days after Hurley was hired by Arizona State. Oats had spent the past two seasons as an assistant under Hurley and brings continuity to a team that earned its first NCAA Tournament berth last month.

The Bulls went 44-20 under Hurley, including 23-10 last season. Buffalo lost to fifth-seeded West Virginia 68-62 in its NCAA Tournament opener.

Oats is a noted recruiter and responsible for landing junior forward Justin Moss, the Mid-American Conference’s player of the year last season.

Before coming to Buffalo, Oats spent 11 seasons coaching Romulus High School, outside of Detroit.

Staff/wire reports