SPORTS digest

‘Meet the Penguins’ scheduled for Saturday

Youngstown

Youngstown State football fans can interact with the members of the 2019 team at “Meet the Penguins” on Saturday at Stambaugh Stadium.

The free event is set for 2-3 p.m. where fans can get autographs, photos and interact with the members of the 2019 Penguins.

Fans can try on a YSU uniform, clock their 40-yard dash time, kick field goals and toss footballs around with the Penguins.

The YSU Athletic Ticket Office will be open from 1-3 p.m. for those interested in buying season tickets for the upcoming campaign. Penguin fans who attend the special event will be able to purchase tickets for 2019 home opener versus Howard University before they go live to the general public on Monday.

Information for the Pete’s Kids Club will be available.

In case of inclement weather, the event will be moved to our WATTS Indoor Training Facility.

For more information contact the YSU Athletic Ticket Office at 330-941-1YSU.

Canfield-Poland tops Tampa in World Series

KIRTLAND, WASH.

Alaina Scavina drove in Emily Denney in Canfield-Poland’s 3-2 walk-off win over Tampa in the seventh inning of Monday’s Junior League World Series game.

Scavina earned the win, pitching 11/3 innings of relief. Canfield-Poland starter Mia Opalick allowed two runs on six hits in 52/3 innings.

Tampa’s Sydney Hall tied the game at two with a two-out RBI single in the top of the sixth. Lindsey Chadwick got Tamp Bay on the board with an RBI in the fifth.

Opalick had an RBI and Canfield-Poland led 2-0 after the third inning.

Canfield-Poland improved to 2-0, beating Canada’s Elnora Eagles on Sunday. They will play Eastlake today at 5 p.m.

Canfield 10U softball falls to Symmes Valley

Wheelersburg

The Canfield 10U softball team lost 10-0 to Symmes Valley in the state tournament. The team will play Portsmouth today at 6 p.m. in elimination game.

Details were not reported.

Goodell, NFC title refs to appear in court

NEW ORLEANS

A Louisiana judge ordered that NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and three officials from January’s NFC title game be questioned under oath in September about the infamous “no-call” that helped the Los Angeles Rams beat the New Orleans Saints in January’s NFC title game, a lawyer said Monday.

Attorney Antonio LeMon said he and league attorneys will pick a mutually agreeable date for depositions in New Orleans — barring any league appeals that might delay or cancel the questioning.

A league spokesman declined comment.

LeMon’s lawsuit seeks $75,000 in damages — to be donated to charity — over the failure to flag a pass interference or roughness penalty against Rams cornerback Nickell Robey-Coleman for his helmet-to-helmet hit on receiver Tommylee Lewis well before a pass arrived. The no-call came at a crucial point in the game against the New Orleans Saints. The Rams won and advanced to the Super Bowl.

State Civil District Court Judge Nicole Sheppard of New Orleans ruled earlier this month that LeMon’s lawsuit could proceed. She also ruled then that LeMon can request documents and ask questions of NFL officials. She said Monday that depositions should take place in September. She also set Aug. 22 for the next hearing in the lawsuit, according to LeMon.

Other suits dealing with the blown call have wound up in federal court, where they have failed.

LeMon, whose lawsuit alleges fraud by NFL officials, has crafted his lawsuit to avoid having it taken over by a federal court, in part by keeping the damages sought low. He said Monday that he intends for any money won to go to former Saints star Steve Gleason’s charity to aid people with neuromuscular diseases. Gleason was diagnosed with ALS in 2011.

Staff/wire report