SPORTS digest

YSU mens basketball earns No. 9 seed

The Youngstown State men’s basketball team (11-20) earned the No. 9 seed and will face No. 8 Cleveland State on Friday at 8 p.m. in the first round of the Horizon League Basketball Championships in Detroit.

The winner will face No. 1 seed Oakland on Saturday.

Youngstown State defeated Cleveland State, 67-64, on Jan. 28. The Vikings won the most recent contest, 69-55, on Feb. 25.

Pre-sale tickets on sale at Cardinal Mooney

YOUNGSTOWN

Pre-sale tickets for the Cardinal Mooney girls basketball game against Ursuline on Wednesday are available starting today. They can be purchased at The Cardinals’ Nest at $6 for adults and $4 for students. The game is at 6 p.m. at Struthers. Any tickets purchased at the gate are $6.

Ex-NHL enforcer suspended after brawl

BUFFALO, N.Y.

Former NHL enforcer Andrew Peters has been suspended indefinitely as coach of a youth hockey team pending a Buffalo police investigation into his role in an on-ice brawl.

Buffalo Junior Sabres president Kevyn Adams announced the suspension Sunday, a day after the melee occurred during a game between the Peters-coached 15-and-Under team and the Ontario-based Hamilton Junior Bulldogs.

A video posted on YouTube shows the fight escalating into the Sabres’ bench, when Peters becomes involved in attempting to separate the players. At one point, the 36-year-old appears to shove a Hamilton player backward onto the ice.

Buffalo police were called to the downtown arena to investigate the brawl, but no charges were filed. The investigation continues, police spokesman Michael DeGeorge wrote in an email.

Ravens safety arrested on drug charges

MIAMI BEACH, FLA.

Baltimore Ravens safety Matt Elam faces marijuana, oxycodone and reckless driving charges after being arrested in Miami Beach.

Miami-Dade County jail records show Elam was arrested Sunday. He was charged with possession of marijuana, possession of marijuana with the intent to deliver or sell and possession of a controlled substance, oxycodone. He was being held on $15,500 bail.

Miami Beach police spokesman Ernesto Rodriguez said details of his arrest were not immediately available.

The Ravens already announced they would not re-sign the 25-year-old Elam when his contract expires next month. They reiterated that in a statement Sunday. A first round draft pick out of Florida in 2013, Elam has just one career interception. He played nine games last season, making one tackle.

No lawyer was listed on Elam’s jail records.

Salazar shines as Indians tie Cubs

MESA, ARIZ.

Danny Salazar breezed through his first outing for the Cleveland Indians this spring.

Salazar pitched two crisp innings, and Cleveland and Chicago played to a 1-1 tie in the Cactus League on Sunday.

Albert Almora Jr. walked and scored in the fourth for Chicago.

Jake Buchanan pitched two hitless innings for the Cubs, and Matt Szczur went 2 for 2 with an RBI single.

Glasnow goes scoreless, Orioles rout Pirates

SARASOTA, FLA.

At Sarasota, Florida, Adam Jones and Manny Machado homered for Baltimore, and Wade Miley pitched two innings of one-run ball.

Top prospect Tyler Glasnow struck out six over two scoreless innings in his first spring appearance for the Pirates. Glasnow was up to 98 mph on the stadium radar gun, and among his strikeout victims were Machado, Chris Davis and Mark Trumbo. The 6-foot-8 right-hander seems likely to grab a spot at the back of Pittsburgh’s rotation.

Staff/wire report