Wednesday, August 31, 2016
Parking changes for YSU football
Fans headed to Stambaugh Stadium for Thursday night’s game against Duquesne should be aware of parking lot changes and road closures. Lincoln Avenue is closed for the entire season. YSU parking services suggests parking in the M-30 Deck on Wick Avenue and taking a shuttle to the stadium. Shuttle service starts at 6 p.m.
New lot designations include:
M-70, formerly M-24, the upper lot for season tailgate pass holders only.
M-63, formerly M-7, serves as the hospitality tent location, a season and individual tailgate and for YSU Kids Days.
M-90, formerly R-1, is for media and staff.
M-30, formerly M-1, is the new parking deck on Wick Avenue.
M-60, formerly M-3, is the Fifth Avenue deck.
All individual game parking prices are $5.
Scrappers routed by Williamsport
WILLIAMSPORT, PA.
The Williamsport Crosscutters got to Mahoning Valley Scrappers start Juan Hillman early and kept going as the Scrappers fell, 10-3.
Hillman gave up five runs on three hits and two walks through three innings to take the loss. Williamsport’s Luis Encarnacion hit a three-run home run off Hillman in the second inning. Darick Hall added a two-run double in the third. Johnathan Laureano’s RBI-single in the fifth and Emmanuel Tapia’s one-run double in the sixth cut the deficit to three runs, but the Crosscutters scored five more runs in the seventh.
The teams meet again today at 7:05 p.m.
Coach, six players charged for hazing
PORTLAND, Ore.
A volunteer football coach and six players for a small town Oregon high school team face criminal charges for a hazing initiation in which 11 freshmen at a summer training camp had intimate parts of their bodies “aggressively targeted,” a prosecutor said Tuesday.
The Philomath High School volunteer coach, Cooper Kikuta, has been charged with misdemeanor criminal mistreatment, punishable by up to a year in jail, and the players who allegedly hazed the freshmen are accused of juvenile crimes similar to adult charges of misdemeanor harassment and assault, said Benton County District Attorney John Haroldson.
Haroldson said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press that sexual abuse charges were not filed because he “didn’t see any evidence in the case to indicate that the touching was done for purposes of sexual arousal, but rather it was done in a hazing context.”
Pirates minor leaguers suspended after arrests
CHICAGO
Two Pittsburgh Pirates minor leaguers have been suspended for the final seven days of their season after being arrested and charged in connection with an incident in Toledo, Ohio.
Pirates general manager Neal Huntington said in a statement Tuesday the team was “extremely disappointed” with the actions of RHP Dovydas Neverauskas and INF Gift Ngoepe of Triple-A Indianapolis.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported Ngoepe was charged with one count of simple assault and two counts of resisting arrest and Neverauskas was charged with two counts of resisting arrest and one count of misconduct. They were arrested early Sunday following a “large disorder” near a pub, according to an incident reports.
Williams has easy win at U.S. Open
NEW YORK
If this is how Serena Williams serves when she can’t practice properly because her right shoulder is sore, watch out when she’s 100 percent healthy.
A year after falling two wins short of a calendar-year Grand Slam by bowing out in the U.S. Open semifinals, Williams showed zero signs of shoulder trouble Tuesday night as she began her bid for a record-breaking 23rd major title. She hit 12 aces and reached 121 mph on her powerful serve during a 6-3, 6-3 victory over Ekaterina Makarova, a potentially tricky first-round opponent at Flushing Meadows.
Staff/wire report