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IAA Fan:
The Horizon League Baseball Tournament will return to Eastwood Field for the first time in five years, and Youngstown State (14-38) will try to use home-field advantage to make a postseason run when play begins on Wednesday.

The double-elimination tournament will run through Saturday, May 25. The fourth and fifth seeds in the field will play the first and only game on Wednesday at 3 p.m., and there will be three games on both Thursday and Friday. The championship game will be held Saturday at 11 a.m., and, if necessary, a winner-take-all contest will follow at 3 p.m.

Tickets will be on sale at the Eastwood Field front gate on each day of the tournament. Admission to Wednesday’s single game will be $5, and single-day passes for Thursday, Friday or Saturday will be $10. An all-tournament pass, good for admission to every game, will be $25. Horizon League students with a valid ID and children aged 10-and-under and accompanied by an adult will be admitted free. Fans with questions should call the YSU ticket office at 330-941-1978.

Fans not able to attend will be able to watch live video of every game for free on the Horizon League Network. Students from YSU’s telecommunications department will run a four-camera operation. The video will be streamed on HorizonLeague.com. YSU’s games in the tournament will be broadcast on WNIO (1390-AM) .

YSU has twice served as the host of the Horizon League Baseball Tournament at Eastwood Field. The first time in 2004, the Penguins swept through the field and advanced to the NCAA Tournament for the first time at the Division I level. YSU also hosted the tournament in 2008.

IAA Fan:
Nice job of the local media to pick up the broadcasts this late season. I have always said that the media in ytown have an obligation to broadcast YSU sports. I am tired of being a small-town team in a big town. You know, in the 4-county area of the Valley, there are over 750k people. The greater Akron-Canton area has about 750,000. There are 786k in  the areas that are service by Kent & Akron. YSU is the only DI school in a region that has a population of 765k. there is a Kent & Penn State extension in our valley.

As to the team, am very perplexed. This team is loaded. 3 good pitchers, 6 batters that can hit with power. However, no closers & middle-relief, and only 1-batter that can hit for accuracy. We make silly fielding errors that I have never seen us make in the past 10+ years. It was the same way with softball. No excuse to be swept by Valpo to close out the regular season.

ItalianPenguin:
Was at game today as team lost to a bad Wright St team 6-3, blowing a 3-0 lead. Lack of clutch hitting, errors, missed cut-offs, walks , hit batters, lack of emotion, you name it---we did it. This team has been an embarrassment for the last month and today was no exception. Losers bracket game tomorrow should put them out of their misery. This team is now 14-42 and is 1-14 in its last 15 games.

Wick250:
I agree with IP.  Halfway through the league season, we were competitive and I was pleased with the progress from the new coach.  But the second half was just brutal.  We must, however, be fair.  This guy inherited one of the worst DI teams in the country.  Not only is the talent sparse, but the fundamentals are terrible, as IP just demonstrated for us.  This will take at least three recruiting classes before we are even competitive. 

ItalianPenguin:
Wick, I'll agree with you that there's not a great deal of talent there, but in baseball you don't have to have talent to be fundamentally sound. Hitting cutoffs, throwing to the right base, staying down on ground balls, etc. This team has regressed so badly in those area in the last month, I think it's fair to ask about Gillispie. The pitchers constantly hit batters when ahead in the count, walk batters at inopportune times, and are horrible at holding runners. Several times today when Wright St had runners on base, YSU pitchers barely looked at them as they took huge leads. All the while our pitching coach, Jason Stanford, is sitting in a suit and tie at Progressive Field broadcasting the Indians game. What a joke. You're right, Gillispie must be given time to recruit, but he could also "coach up" the players already here and that isn't happening.

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