YSU volleyball swept by Cleveland State

YSU volleyball swept by Cleveland State

Youngstown

Cleveland State hit .394 as a team and had three players reach double figures in kills to sweep the Youngstown State volleyball team on Friday evening at Beeghly Center. The set scores were 25-15, 25-16, 25-20.

Sara Skeens had a match-high 14 kills, Emily DeGeorge had 11, and Trinniti Hall posted 10 kills in just 11 attempts. The Vikings had 50 kills on offense while adding 8.5 blocks on defense.

Brooklen Pe’a had eight kills to lead the Penguins, who had 33 kills and hit .127. Alexia Byrnes had 17 assists and an ace, Aleah Hughes and Reis Zandier finished with seven digs apiece and Sarah Varcolla had a pair of blocks.

Youngstown State will play host to Oakland on Saturday at 4 p.m.

Jury acquits ex-OSU RB of rape charges

COLUMBUS

A former Ohio State University football player has been acquitted of rape charges.

The Columbus Dispatch reports 25-year-old Bri’onte Dunn wept after the jury verdict was read Friday in a Columbus courtroom. He faced two counts of rape after a woman alleged Dunn forced her to have sex at her apartment last year.

Dunn testified Thursday that he routinely had casual but consensual sex with the woman, whom he’d met on a dating app.

The woman testified that she had broken up with Dunn and had only allowed him into her apartment that night so he could call Uber.

His attorney said Dunn refused to accept a plea deal.

Dunn was a backup running back for Ohio State from 2012 to 2015.

Phantoms top Dubuque in shootout for first win

Dubuque, Iowa

After both teams failed to score in the first round of the shootout, Jack Malone and Connor MacEachern scored in the second and third rounds to give the Youngstown Phantoms their first win of the season.

Malone, Joey Abate and Liam Dennison scored for the Phantoms (1-5-0-1) in regulation.

JD Greenway scored for the Fighting Saints (4-1-1-1) and James Sanchez had three assists.

The Phantoms will play the Cedar Rapids RoughRiders today at 8:05 before returning to Youngstown for a rematch with Debuque on Friday.

Iowa AAU coach admits having child pornography

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa

A prominent youth basketball coach in Iowa has admitted to possessing nude photos and videos of 400 boys, including former players and their friends.

Former Iowa Barnstormers Coach Greg Stephen pleaded guilty Thursday to sexually exploiting minors and possessing and transporting child pornography.

He acknowledged in a plea agreement that police discovered files on his hard drive with the names of 400 different minors.

The folders contained videos of the boys undressing and showering that Stephen recorded with secret devices he placed in hotels, his home and lake house.

Stephen also recorded masturbating boys whom he enticed by posing on social media as teenage girls. Some images showed sleeping minors with their pants pulled down, including many in which Stephen recorded himself touching their genitals.

Cardinals fire offensive coordinator after loss

TEMPE, Ariz.

The Arizona Cardinals have dismissed offensive coordinator Mike McCoy a day after the team was blown out at home by the Denver Broncos on national television.

The team said in a statement Friday quarterbacks coach Byron Leftwich will take over the job.

The Cardinals lost 45-10 on Thursday night, trailing 21-3 after one quarter and 35-3 at the half. Wilks called the effort “embarrassing.”

The Cardinals have lost their first four home games for the first time since 1979, nearly a decade before the franchise moved from St. Louis to the desert.

Staff/wire reports