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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: YSU Baseball

« on: Today at 09:59:59 AM »

Ironically, for Akron Kent put major effort into both golf and baseball. Although their baseball team has not been so good since they lost that last coach, he took them to the college World Series and boom he was gone, but they’re still always very good. You would think schools like Youngstown and Akron would take advantage of the recruiting ability because of Kent. I mean Kent cannot afford to recruit all of the top baseball players in the area and I’m told, although I’ve never been there, that Kent’s New Golf facility is pretty impressive. Has anybody out there seen it?

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: YSU Baseball

« on: May 26, 2024, 12:09:08 PM »

There are lots of things that go into this. However, the biggest thing to know is that a few people stood up for the baseball team when it look like YSU was going to drop baseball the same year as Cleveland state and one of the other schools that dropped it I forget. So there’s definitely a financial situation involved here. Baseball is equivalency sport, so Bertolini can really distribute the scholarships (if there are any) as he sees fit.


The one thing that should be noted here is that FCS football is also an equivalency sport. So you can imagine that football alone has as many scholarships as all of our other men’s equivalency sports combined. But this is a football school . and with the most recent focus on women’s sports, one can imagine there’s been nothing going into baseball financially.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: YSU Baseball

« on: May 25, 2024, 01:38:28 PM »

Well, it’s over. Seven run fourth inning the Norris are completely in command. 8-2

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Baseball’s Postseason Run Continues to Championship Saturday as YSU Eliminates W

« on: May 25, 2024, 10:15:10 AM »

Dayton, Ohio — A trio of pitchers combined for a historic night, and Youngstown State's run in the 2024 Horizon League Baseball Championship will continue to championship Saturday after the Penguins beat Wright State 6-3 on Friday night.

The top-seeded Raiders came into the tournament ranking among the top 15 teams in the country in several offensive categories, but YSU pitchers Colin Casteel, Gavin Wilms and Nick Perez held the potent offense to three runs on three hits on Friday night at Nischwitz Stadium.

Casteel allowed one run on a single hit over a career-high six innings on the mound to earn his first-career victory. Perez did not allow a hit over 2.1 scoreless innings of relief to collect his second save of the tournament. The Penguins have won four games in the Horizon League Tournament for the first time since winning the championship in 2014.

Jack Johnson hit a two-run double in the second inning to give the sixth-seeded Penguins a 2-1 lead, and they stayed ahead for the remainder of the game. Johnson was one of five Penguins to finish with two hits, and YSU outhit the tournament hosts 12-3.

Youngstown State fought off elimination twice on Friday and has won three straight games in the tournament to emerge out of the elimination bracket. The Penguins will have to beat Northern Kentucky twice on Saturday to advance to the NCAA Regionals for the third time in program history.

The Penguins and Norse will play Saturday at noon in a game that will be broadcast live on ESPN+ and YSNLive.com. If Youngstown State beats NKU, the teams will play again at approximately 4 p.m. in a winner-take-all contest for the Horizon League's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.

After Johnson's two-run double in the second inning gave the Penguins a 2-1 lead, back-to-back RBI singles by Trey Law and Brett Stanley in the fourth extended the margin to 4-1.

Casteel was brilliant in the biggest start of his freshman season, holding the Raiders without a hit after yielding a leadoff homer in the bottom of the first. He surrendered just the one run before handing the ball off to the bullpen in the seventh, which is when Wright State scored twice to get within 4-3.

Perez came on to get the final out in the seventh, and Youngstown State added insurance runs on an RBI double by Chase Franken in the eighth and an RBI single by Teddy Ruffner in the ninth.

Wright State got the tying run to the plate with one out in the bottom of the ninth, and Eli Brown ran down Andrew Patrick's long drive to the warning track in left center to end the game.

Franken went 2-for-4 with an RBI and a run scored while Johnson was 2-for-4 with two RBIs. Law, Stanley and Brown each collected two hits as well for the Penguins.

Wright State starter Chet Lax suffered the loss after allowing four runs on eight hits over four innings.

Youngstown State will face second-seeded Northern Kentucky at noon on Saturday. The Penguins will need to defeat the Norse twice on championship Saturday to advance to the NCAA Regionals.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Laubacher Punches Ticket to NCAA Championships in 110m Hurdles

« on: May 25, 2024, 10:11:52 AM »

In sprint events, I think they take all the winners of the heats & then the next 3 fastest times. This is fantastic.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Laubacher Punches Ticket to NCAA Championships in 110m Hurdles

« on: May 25, 2024, 10:08:05 AM »

Lexington, Ky. – Youngstown State's Luke Laubacher punched his ticket to the NCAA semifinals in the 110m hurdles by 0.001 seconds on a warm Friday at the Kentucky Track and Field Complex.

Laubacher clocked an identical time of 13.71 seconds with Michigan State's Heath Baldwin. However, Laubacher's time registered at 13.701 seconds while Baldwin came in a time of 13.702 seconds.

It marks the first time in his career that Laubacher will advance to the NCAA semifinals in Eugene, Oregon.

In the pole vault, Erin Bogard ended her memorable YSU career with an 18th-place performance. In a session that lasted more than three hours, Bogard was one of 19 athletes to clear at least 4.20m and compete for a last chance to advance to Eugene at 4.30m.

On her three attempts at 4.30m, she ran through twice and came up short on another. She cleared 3.95m on her first attempt and eclipsed 4.10m and 4.20m on her final tries to keep advancing.

Sophomore Melana Schumaker finished 28th in her first career trip to the East Prelims. Schumaker easily cleared 3.85m and 3.95m before missing on three attempts at 4.10m.

In the 400m hurdles, Harry Barton clocked a time of 51.50 seconds to place 20th. In the triple jump, Jakari Lomax finished a career-best 27th place with a best leap of 15.44m.

Two final Penguins will be in action on Saturday as Molly Radcliffe competes in the discus and Esther Solarin is in the triple jump. The discus begins at 1 p.m. while the triple jump is slated for 6 p.m.

Radcliffe throws in the second of three flights while Solarin is in the third of four flights.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: YSU Baseball

« on: May 25, 2024, 09:52:34 AM »

You might recall we did this not too long ago; I think it was 2014. made the NCAA Division I baseball tournament. We also won the regular season HL once or twice but were not selected to the NCAA tournament. We really can only get in the NCAA's by winning the HL tourney. If we could win at least one series against a power conference team and go at least .500 against the rest of the power teams on our schedule, we would stand a good chance to get selected to the NCAA's without winning the HL Tourney.

We are in the loser's bracket, so we will have to win twice today. I do think the NCAA makes pitching allowances for tournaments. Does not mean there is "anything left in the guy's arm though".

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: YSU players.NIL

« on: May 22, 2024, 10:29:26 AM »

We are  not 12th in NIL.  I looked it up.  We are near the bottom for athletic budget for all sports for D1.  I don’t know what that writer was referencing.

It reads like he’s trying to say 12 in the league, but if I’m not mistaken, we do not have 12 teams at this point in the league

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Horizon softball tournament

« on: May 10, 2024, 08:56:11 PM »

If anyone is interested, the elimination game is on ESPN plus

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Horizon softball tournament

« on: May 10, 2024, 07:39:32 PM »

I had a feeling we were going putt quick. We lost game one now we play game two and just a few minutes and of course, if we lose this one we’re out. With our record, all we had to do which win a few games in the tournament and I bet we would’ve gotten an invitation to the NCAA aggravating.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Missouri St

« on: May 10, 2024, 03:29:56 PM »

I will tell you one thing that is going to happen because of that move to conference USA. The Missouri Valley football conference is going to merge with the Missouri valley conference. They’ll no longer be considered two separate conferences. The two separate fees that Missouri state has to pay probably isn’t that much less than what they paid to go in conference USA, so we have to see how that impacts other teams like us in the program because Western Illinois is gone this year . Can you think of anyone outside of Youngstown State that is not an all sport participant in the football conference oh, I guess North Dakota and South Dakota and the states where did they go in the summit?

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Missouri St

« on: May 10, 2024, 03:24:00 PM »

Remember basketball determines what conference you go in. Football determines everything that happens at Youngstown State.   The lady bears basketball team is historically a very Tremendous program

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: YSU Beeghly facilities upgrade

« on: May 06, 2024, 07:11:30 PM »

Is today the day that they start the upgrade?

It would be interesting to have a live feed video so we could watch the progress.

Yes, I remember when they put two cameras in stambaugh we got to see the new turf and also we got to see them build visitors side. We could maybe do something similar here.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Football tickets

« on: May 02, 2024, 09:50:45 AM »

Did everybody get their ticket and tailgate renewal forms? Also, the penguin club renewal came through in the mail.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Gehring Named Under Armour #HLBASE Pitcher of the Week

« on: May 01, 2024, 08:08:56 AM »

Youngstown State junior right-hander Jacob Gehring has been named the Under Armour Horizon League Pitcher of the Week, the league office announced on Tuesday.

Gehring tossed his first-career complete game and the first by a Penguins pitcher in nearly two years to help lead YSU to a 10-4 series opening victory over Oakland at Eastwood Field on Friday. The Canfield, Ohio, native threw 108 pitches while scattering eight hits and walking one. He struck out five batters, and Oakland's four runs came on three home runs. Gehring retired the side in order in the sixth and eighth innings as he blanked the Golden Grizzlies in six different frames.

Gehring leads the Penguins with three wins, 40 strikeouts, 55.1 innings pitched and 11 starts through the first 11 weeks of the 2024 season. The junior right-hander also ranks tied for fifth in the Horizon League with 55.1 innings pitched.

Youngstown State will return to action on Friday to begin a three-game Horizon League series at Northern Kentucky at 2 p.m. The Penguins and Norse will proceed to play on Saturday at 1 p.m. before closing the series on Sunday at noon.

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