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OHSAA umpires meeting set for Sunday

YOUNGSTOWN

The Youngstown Metro Umpire Association will hold OHSAA softball and baseball meetings on Sunday at The Saxon Club, 710 S. Meridian Road.

The softball meeting begins at 1:00 p.m. The baseball meeting will follow at 2:15 p.m.

Umpires are reminded that they must attend four meetings to meet state requirements.

Call John Mang at 330-502-6665 for more information.

Williams, SEC’s first black AD, dies at 71

NASHVILLE, Tenn.

David Williams II, the first black athletic director in the Southeastern Conference, has died. He was 71.

Vanderbilt officials said Williams died Friday at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. A retirement party for Williams, whose last day as athletic director was Jan. 31, had been scheduled for Friday night.

Williams had been the SEC’s second-longest tenured athletic director behind only Kentucky’s Mitch Barnhart when he announced his retirement last September.

Williams was vice chancellor of student affairs and a tenured law professor, general counsel and university secretary in 2003 when then-Chancellor Gordon Gee dissolved the Vanderbilt athletic department in 2003. Williams’ job overseeing student affairs put him in charge of athletics, which he had worked in while at Ohio State.

He shed some jobs in July 2012 when he took the athletic director title. During his tenure, Vanderbilt won four national championships combined in baseball (2014), women’s tennis (2015) and women’s bowling (2007, 2018), along with the best football success in nearly a century.

NDSU football team invited to White House

FARGO, N.D.

North Dakota Sen. John Hoeven says President Donald Trump has invited the national champion North Dakota State football team to the White House.

Hoeven says Trump extended the invitation after the two of them talked about the Bison winning their seventh Football Championship Subdivision title in the last eight years. The Bison defeated Eastern Washington in January’s title game in Frisco, Texas. Hoeven says he will work with the president to coordinate details.

Clemson’s coordinators join million-dollar club

COLUMBIA, S.C.

Clemson’s offensive coordinators Tony Elliott and Jeff Scott are now in the million-dollar club.

They received raises that increased their yearly salary to $1 million, giving the national champion Tigers three assistants making at least that much.

The move comes a month after Clemson completed a 15-0 season by beating Alabama 44-16 in the national championship game. Elliott and Scott each made $850,000 last season and received raises of $150,000 to reach the million-dollar mark.

The two join Clemson’s defensive coordinator Brent Venables at that lofty level. Venables earns $2.2 million a year. He received a new contract in July that pays him $11.6 million over five seasons.

YSU softball drops two to open 2019 season

Spartanburg, S.C.

The Youngstown State softball team fell 11-4 to East Carolina on Friday and was shutout 8-0 by Towson on the first day of the 2019 season.

East Carolina’s Tate McClellan hit a solo home run to give the Pirates a 4-3 lead in the fourth inning. McClellan was 2 for 3 with four RBIs and two runs scored.

Addy Jarvis took the loss. She allowed seven runs on nine hits in five innings pitched.

The Penguins (0-2) were held to three hits in their loss to Towson. Yazmine Romero and Lexi Zappitelli recorded singles while Grace Cea had a double.

Elle Buffenbarger allowed six runs — five earned — on five hits and four walks in four innings.

YSU will Miami (Ohio) and USC Upstate today. First pitch verses Miami is scheduled for 11 a.m. with Upstate starting after.

Staff/wire report