YSU extends broadcast agreements

YSU extends broadcast agreements

YOUNGSTOWN

Youngstown State will extend its current radio broadcast rights agreement with iHeartMedia Youngstown, remaining on 570 WKBN and 1390 WNIO through June 30, 2019.

The agreement is a two-year extension of the current rights deal signed in July 2013 and includes football, men’s basketball, women’s basketball, coaches’ shows and special athletic events. The department’s contract with the network was not set to expire until June 2017.

Correction

The score of Thursday’s Howland-Salem volleyball game was incorrect in Friday’s paper. Salem won 25-17, 25-20, 25-22.

Scrappers win, 6-1

MORGANTOWN, W. VA.

Mark Mathias drove in three runs to lead the Mahoning Valley Srappers to Friday’s 6-1 victory over the West Virginia Black Bears in New York-Penn League action.

Mathias and Ka’ai Tom doubled for the Scrappers. Tom, Austin Fisher and Gabriel Mejia drove in the other runs.

Matt Esparza (3-0) picked up the win in relief of starter Brock Hartson. Esparza allowed no runs in the four-and-two-third innings he pitched.

YSU soccer team loses to Army

West Point, N.Y.

The Youngstown State women’s soccer team dropped its first game of the season, falling to Army, 2-1, on Friday. Freshman Alison Green scored her first career goal for the Penguins (2-1).

Army’s Sam Gottlieb took a pass from Kayleigh Stallings to put the Cadets (1-2) on the board in the sixth minute of the match to take a 1-0 lead.

Green knotted the game in the 79th minute, but Army’s Sullenger broke the tie with a goal in the 83rd minute.

Freshman goalkeeper Elizabeth Balgoyen recorded eight saves for the Penguins.

Giants put Cain on 15-day DL

SAN FRANCISCO

Giants right-hander Matt Cain has gone on the 15-day disabled list with irritation in his pitching elbow and received a cortisone injection to help it calm down.

San Francisco recalled rookie Chris Heston (11-7), who will pitch Sunday against St. Louis after getting a short break in the minors to rest. He last pitched for the Giants on Aug. 17 at St. Louis and is winless in his past four starts.

The move with Cain was made Friday and was retroactive to Wednesday. This marks his second stint on the DL after he began the year with an elbow injury and missed 79 games.

Dodgers’ Scully plans to return

LOS ANGELES

The voice of summer in Los Angeles plans to return next year.

Vin Scully will be back for a record 67th season in the broadcast booth for the Dodgers, who revealed the news Friday night in the second inning of their game against the Chicago Cubs.

Magic Johnson, a co-owner of the team, appeared on the Dodger Stadium video board to tell the crowd that Jimmy Kimmel had a major announcement.

Late-night TV host Kimmel appeared and without a sound used cue cards to explain Scully would return for another season “at least,” read one of the cards.

His last card read: “God bless us everyone.”

LA Olympic plan remains a mystery

LOS ANGELES

The centerpiece of the proposed 2024 Olympic Games in Los Angeles would be a $1 billion village where thousands of athletes would eat, sleep and stroll on tree-lined walks and clipped lawns.

But with a deadline to submit a U.S. candidate for the 2024 Games just 18 days away, the plan remains a mystery in many ways.

The sprawling Olympic Village, which would be built near downtown with mostly private funds, is tethered to a series of financial assumptions and question marks.

Staff/wire report