Mancini to speak at Curbstone HOF


January 8, 2015 at 12:00a.m.

Mancini to speak at Curbstone HOF

BOARDMAN

Newly selected International Boxing Hall of Famer and former world lightweight champion Ray ‘Boom Boom” Mancini will be the featured speaker at the 48th annual Curbstone Coaches Hall of Fame induction ceremony on May 3 at Mr. Anthony’s.

The Hall of Fame will honor former local standouts in various sports.

To order tickets, contact Mike Murray at 330-565-7820. Applications are still being accepted for nominations in this year’s class. For an application, call 330-792-2272.

57 YSU athletes post perfect GPAs

YOUNGSTOWN

A school-record 57 Youngstown State student-athletes posted perfect 4.00 grade point averages in the fall semester. Of that group, 27 have maintained perfect GPAs during their undergraduate careers, which also ranks as a school-best.

Those earning 4.0 GPAs were Dominic Farina (baseball), Nikki Arbanas (basketball), Josh Fitch (baseball), Sarah Cash (basketball) Brad Smith (baseball), Morgan Olson (basketball), Kevin Hix (baseball), Heidi Schlegel (basketball), Brent Gillespie (baseball), Dominic Carano (golf), Dan Frioni-Christenson (football), Courtney Shutt (golf), Tevin McCaster (football), Aislynn Merling (golf), Chris Ross (football), Rachel Hutton (soccer), Charles Zaborsky (football), Sheridan Knussman (soccer), Shane Kuhn (football), Courtney Lavin (soccer), Stephen Zaborsky (football), Jackie Podolsky (soccer), Eric Myers (football), Katrina Gerbrand (swimming), Alexis Roach (softball), Kolbrun Jonsdottir (swimming), Alexa Schmidt (softball), Jana Janson (swimming), Jordan Macey (softball), Hugo Morth (tennis), Annina Brendel (tennis), Gabriel Tolesani (tennis), Marta Burak (tennis), Silviu Mistreanu (tennis), Victoria Ferry (tennis), Alan Burns (track/XC), Dominika Lackova (tennis), Jonathan Hutnyan (track/XC), Ana Maria Stroe (tennis), Anna Pompeo (track/XC), Sarina Mauerman (track), McKenzie Sturtz (track), Jessica Pietrasz (track/XC), Ashley Smith (track/XC), Jessica Parham (track), Brittney Stockmaster (track/XC), Jayme Ritchie (track), Jaynee Corbett (track), Alyson Ryan (volleyball).

YSU’s 334 student-athletes combined for a 3.07 overall GPA in the fall.

Ex-YSU assistant to coach Bluffton soccer

BLUFFTON, OHIO

Former Youngstown State assistant coach Rhonda Gottschalk was hired as Bluffton University’s head women’s soccer coach.

Gottschalk coached at YSU in 2012 when the Penguins had their most successful season in school history, going 8-9.

Game of Hope Classic set for Feb. 8

Youngstown

The 11th annual Game of Hope Classic charity basketball game will take place Feb. 8 at the Beeghly Center. Tickets are $5 for adults and $3 for children 12 and under. The Hope Foundation of the Mahoning Valley is sponsering the event which features a kids fun zone this year. The fun zone opens at 11 a.m and the game is scheduled to start at 3 p.m.

Ohio hunters harvest more than 13,000 deer

Hunters harvested 13,726 white-tailed deer during Ohio’s 2015 muzzleloader season, Jan. 2-5, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources. Hunters have checked 167,013 deer so far in all 2014-2015 hunting seasons, compared to 182,861 at the same point last year. Hunters harvested 16,464 deer during the 2014 deer-muzzleloader season. Mahoning county produced 141 this year (162 in 2014) and Trumbull county had 234 this season (222 in 2014).

Former Cowboys player Pugh dead at 70

Jethro Pugh, an unsung member of the “Doomsday Defense” that helped the Dallas Cowboys win two Super Bowls in the 1970s, has died. He was 70.

Staff/wire reports