SPORTS digest

YSU swim coach to speak to Curbstone

BEAVER TOWNSHIP

Youngstown State University Swimming coach Ryan Purdy will be the guest speaker at Monday’s luncheon meeting of The Curbstone Coaches at the Avion Banquet Center.

The event begins at noon and the public is welcome to attend.

Applications are being accepted for nominations for the 2018 Hall of Fame Class that will be inducted on May 6. For an application to nominate, call 330-506-6774 or 330-792-2272. Deadline is Nov. 18.

Phantoms defeat Fargo in shootout

FARGO, N.D.

Max Ellis and Erik Zohovs scored shootout goals while goaltender Ivan Prosvetov stopped both shots to lift the Youngstown Phantoms to Saturday’s 4-3 victory over the Fargo Force.

Chase Gresock, Matthew Thomson and Eric Esposito scored goals for the Phantoms in regulation. Matthew Barry and Zach Metza each assisted on two goals.

Also earning assists were Gianfranco Cassaro and Mike Regush.

Prosvetov made 42 saves in regulation and overtime.

For the Force, Clayton Phillips scored a goal and assisted on the others.

Hurd stops Trout in 10 rounds

NEW YORK

Jarrett Hurd overcame a cut to his left eye to stop a game Austin Trout in 10 rounds in their IBF junior middleweight title fight Saturday night.

Then both fighters were set to go to the hospital before Hurd was cleared by doctors at the Barclays Center. Trout did go to a hospital.

Hurd had the eye looked at by ring doctors several times. But it was Trout’s right eye that was pretty much closed by the end of the 10th, and the action-filled fight was stopped before the 11th began.

Nicknamed “Swift,” Hurd wasn’t all that quick for much of the bout, but he took charge midway through — despite the blood flowing down the left side of his face and by his left ear. Trout carried much of the early rounds, but he didn’t have the punching power to do enough damage to the champion.

Hurd is 21-0 with 15 knockouts, while Trout, a former champion, is 30-4. It was the first time he has been stopped in a fight.

Thorns defeat Courage to take NWSL title

ORLANDO, Fla.

Lindsey Horan scored in the 50th minute, and the Portland Thorns beat the North Carolina Courage 1-0 on Saturday for the National Women’s Soccer League championship.

It is Portland’s second title . The Thorns also won the NWSL’s inaugural championship in 2013.

The Courage, who finished the regular season atop the league standings, lost both Taylor Smith and Kristen Hamilton to injury in the first half of the physical match in front of 8,124 fans at Orlando City Stadium.

“Maybe the most beautiful ugly game I’ve ever been a part of,” Thorns coach Mark Parsons said.

Reinbolt wins trial for bobsled racing

LAKE PLACID, N.Y.

Brittany Reinbolt won her second consecutive USA Bobsled women’s national team trials race Saturday, making her the driver of the USA-3 sled on the national team going into this Olympic season.

Reinbolt joins USA-1 pilot Elana Meyers Taylor and USA-2 pilot Jamie Greubel Poser on the national team. Meyers Taylor and Gruebel Poser both had byes onto the team following their performances last season. Meyers Taylor and Gruebel Poser both drove to medals at the Sochi Olympics in 2014.

Lolo Jones, the U.S. Summer and Winter Olympic veteran who was on the team that competed in the Sochi Games, teamed with Reinbolt for Saturday’s win and is one of six push athletes selected.

The other push athletes are returning Olympic medalist Aja Evans, Kehri Jones, Lauren Gibbs, Maureen Ajoku and Briauna Jones.

Staff/wire report