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Non YSU Sports / No 4-year ban?

« on: April 29, 2012, 08:48:17 AM »

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/football/ncaa/04/27/south-carolina-ncaa.ap/index.html?xid=si_ncaaf

mmm wonder why is not all over this one? Oh wait ...what conference is S. Carolina in? That's right.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Several Guins Earn League Tennis Honors

« on: April 28, 2012, 10:12:47 AM »

Youngstown State freshman sensation Silviu Mistreanu was named men's first-team All-Horizon League today. On the season, Mistreanu was 14-5 this spring while posting a 6-1 mark in Horizon League action. He played his last 15 matches at No. 2 singles posting an 11-4 mark. His lone Horizon League defeat came in three sets (1-6, 7-5, 8-10) against Detroit's Alex Latosinsky on March 24. Mistreanu has won five straight matches and six of this last seven since losing to Latosinsky.

Youngstown State's other "freshman phenom" is the Lady Pens Marta Burak. Burak was named the Horizon League Newcomer of the Year, the conference office announced Friday evening. Burak was also named first-team all-league. She is also the first Penguin to earn a yearly from the league. Despite our successes, no former Penguin had been named either Player or Newcomer of the Year. The 15-year-old Ukraine native was 7-1 in Horizon League play, and won eight of her final 10 matches this year.

Not to be overlooked, junior Lauren Hankle was a league second-team pick. Hankle won seven of her final 10.

Combined Hankle and Burak were 34-18 for the season, 24-12 in dual action and 13-3 against Horizon Leauge foes playing all 26 matches at No. 1 or No. 2 singles.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: YSU to build Soccer Stadium this summer

« on: April 28, 2012, 09:48:53 AM »

I wish they can add a men's soccer program.... we could probably play Akron, a perennial soccer team, if we did....

You don't think that we are building a facility for women's sports do you? I have heard two reasons for the facility:

1. It is part of a women's sports complex ...will have 3 facilities ...soccer, softball, and a women's athletics center (building). Because of it's association with women's athletic, there is $$$ available.

2. It is the last facility we need to join the MAC and adding men's soccer is the key focus.

We do need one more men's program ...many say hockey, but we need a nationally-sanctioned sport. So it has to be swimming or soccer. Also, the plan that I have (which is old) does not have a track.  However, it is pre-WATTS.

I favor the soccer field, softball, with massive expansion of the track facilities. The women's athletics building is not really needed for any conference we are looking at. If we were trying to appeal to a larger conference, it would help us. Besides, we do not have the funds to staff it. It would become an office for part-time coaches, and a female weight-room ...and we should have the room for that in Stambaugh and Beeghly.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Sarah Heimlich Named to All-Horizon League Squad

« on: April 28, 2012, 09:36:12 AM »

Indianapolis, Ind. - Youngstown State junior Sarah Heimlich was named to the All-Horizon League women's golf team, the conference announced on Thursday.

Heimlich led the Penguins in scoring average with a per round average of 80.7 strokes per 18 holes. She had a team-high five top-10 finishes, highlighted by a victory at the Robert Morris Invitational. In the nine tournaments YSU competed in, Heimlich was the team's top finisher six times.

She is the 15th YSU golfer to be named to the all-league since the Penguins joined the conference.

2011-12 Horizon League Team
Isabella Lambert, Butler
Michele Nash, Butler
Jenna Peters, Butler
Collette Hansen, Detroit
Lindsey Lammers, Detroit
Ann Vrdolyak, Loyola
Alexandra Perez, UIC
Sarah Heimlich, Youngstown State

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Basketball recruiting target Ronnye Beamon, 6-4 SF/SG Hammond(IN) Bishop Noll HS

« on: April 24, 2012, 01:25:23 PM »

Beamon to visit Loyola on Tuesday

https://twitter.com/#!/INBRecruits

That worries me. It is easier to get into a Catholic University (on full scholarship) that it is to a public, when you attended parochial HS. It has something to do with the associated costs & what is considered a full-ride. Although that was so many years ago (1940's), that that may not apply anymore. My uncle was a star QB for Ursuline (back in the day). They were ranked in the top-10 nationally two those years in-a-row. He ended up going to Marquette, over several public colleges.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Samantha Snodgrass Named Horizon League Softball Player of the Week

« on: April 23, 2012, 05:15:17 PM »

Indianapolis, Ind. -- Youngstown State sophomore third baseman Samantha Snodgrass has been named the Horizon League Softball Player of the Week for the week of April 16-22, the league announced on Monday.

This is the first weekly award honor of Snodgrass career.

Snodgrass led Youngstown State (26-13-1, 10-8 Horizon) to a 5-1 week as the Penguins swept Detroit before taking two of three games from visiting Wright State.

Recording a .375 batting average, Snodgrass posted a .938 slugging percentage, clubbing two home runs and driving in 11 on the week.

The sophomore's first homer of the week was a three-run shot that helped lead to a 9-0 victory.

In a key series win over Wright State, Snodgrass batted .500 (3-for-6), finished with seven RBIs, including a three-run homer in the series opener and a four-RBI effort in the rubber game of the series.

This is also the sixth time this season a Youngstown State player has won the award. Snodgrass joins junior Vicky Rumph (Feb. 12) and senior Haley Thomas (March 20 and March 26) as player-of-the-week honorees. Sophomore Casey Crozier (Feb. 12 and March 20) was twice selected as the league's pitcher of the week.

The Guins visit Toledo, Tuesday, April 24, in a doubleheader at 3 p.m. before hosting UIC in a three-game Horizon League series, April 28-29.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: SkunkApeKiller Manifesto 2.0

« on: April 21, 2012, 06:24:12 PM »

why wouldn't it increase attendance?  for a team like youngstown your getting closer regional rivalries, less travel (more away teams fans coming to your campus), and a chance at making the national tournament?

my question is why isn't ysu already in the mac, does ysu want to be in the mac, and is their bad blood between other Mac (Ohio) schools that would keep ysu out all at all costs?

Sorry, my fault in the way I phrased that. I am talking about the entire level. For the Guins, it would be nice. The national media would just see the division as they do now ...second-class. I still take extreme issue with this the removal of "I-AA" terminology, in favor of "FCS".

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: SkunkApeKiller Manifesto 2.0

« on: April 21, 2012, 09:03:55 AM »

It would draw some attention if you used a better title   Not a bad idea, but it will not improve attendance and media attention.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Scalzo: YSU’s Perry, Zuiker to transfer

« on: April 20, 2012, 12:01:10 PM »

Lector,
Look it up dummy.  Rotnei is his name.  Stay in Boardman where you belong.

i think it was more of a comment of how dumb the kids first name was

good point Viking. I do not think it was meant for you Pride.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Vargo: Throwing star

« on: April 18, 2012, 07:47:46 PM »

1AA  where on High St? I have torn Columbus apart looking for good Italian (MVR style!) and have come up empty! Freinds suggested Villa Nova on High, but was not impressed. When did they open?

GOOOOO  GUINS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They are in the Graceland Shopping Center Petey. Wow, did they expand that place. There are about 25+ stores in there now, and an Urban Science. Belleria is on the right side between UPS and Photo shop. It is funny because the owners are from Pittsburgh and all their ads talk about the Mahoning Valley, and a signed Kelly Pavilic with belt photo ..they have no idea about any of this, but they have a very strong Ytown clientele. When they first opened a couple years back, the YSU football team went there. I was with Tyler Booth & his dad (if you linemen remember what a great player Tyler was). All the players signed a banner the front wall ...some OSU splayer signatures, Jon Heacock & Jim Tressel signatures as well. I asked for the they banner but the owner said no.

For pizza (and solid Italian in general) go to Carfagna's on Polaris ...between Cleveland and Worthington Rds. My favorite pizza down here. I work just about 2-blocks away. I get a number-1 there for lunch ...3 breadsticks, oil & wedding soup. There pizza is quite good. Similar to Elmton in crust, but better sausage. They use a sweet-dough crust like Elmton used to do. I am not big on Veal, but everyone raves about it. It is owned by the same people that have the meat shop on 161 ...between Cleveland and Karl.


http://www.carfagnaskitchen.com/images/stories/menus/carfagnaskitchen_menu_.pdf

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Vargo: Throwing star

« on: April 18, 2012, 05:00:37 PM »

Bellerria has a surprisingly good chicken parm. They just opened one in Columbus on high street. I get a generous chicken (2) pieces, sauce with the homemade cavatelli's, breadsticks, and Wedding Soup (large to medium container) all for $7.49. Great value & taste. If she wants to toss for the Guins ...I will buy. 

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Basketball recruiting target - 6-4 G Jonathan Octeus Wabash Valley CC

« on: April 17, 2012, 06:26:16 AM »

High school basketball in the Mahoning Valley is a wasteland.  Can't get any help here.  Players in other parts of the country want to come to a basketball school where fans are excited about their game.  Hey, thirty years ago, but not now.  But there is a potential source of talent that we have largely ignored.  Basketball in Europe is vastly superior to what it was thirty years ago.  For our community, with over half the population tracing their roots to southern or eastern Europe, this source should have been tapped long ago. And eastern Europeans tend to be taller than say, French or Spaniards.  And those players would leap at the chance for an American college education (paid for with their basketball skills.)  And there are ethnic organizations in the Mahoning Valley with cultural ties to those ancestral homelands.  We should be networking with those folks and seeking info about potential talented teenager players in Lithuania (remember Vytas) Greece, and the remnants of Yugoslavia.  And Slocum (or at least one assistant) should fly out there once a year.  But that takes money, and we all know that administrative staffing takes priority over recruiting in all sports except football.

the downside is that getting guys from Europe can cause MAJOR NCAA violations as if you're any good in Europe you're getting paid to play, which means you are more then likley going to be ruled ineligable to play in the NCAA. No Reason to take the chance of the Basketball program getting the death penalty just to get some scrubs from europe

I am not saying yeah or nay, but a couple of legendary coaches did it for Butler ...and look where the program is today.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Damian Eargle Named to CollegeInsider.com Mid-Major All-Defensive Team

« on: April 16, 2012, 06:05:24 PM »

Boston, Mass. -- Youngstown State junior Damian Eargle has been named to the CollegeInsider.com Mid-Major All-Defensive Team, the website recently announced.

Eargle set the Horizon League single-season blocks records for all games and league-games only. Eargle finished with 116 blocks, including 65 in Horizon League play.

He also owns the Horizon League career record for blocks in conference play at 122.

The 6-foot-7 forward led the Horizon League and ranked third in the country with 3.7 blocks per game.

Eargle recorded a block in 30 of 31 games last season, had 26 multi-block games and posted at least five blocks on 12 different occasions, including an eight-block performance against UC-Riverside on Nov. 18, 2011.

A 2012 Horizon League All-Defensive Team, selection, Eargle averaged 11.1 points per game and grabbed 7.5 rebounds per game.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Red Beats White 28-14 in 40th Annual Spring Game

« on: April 16, 2012, 04:38:59 PM »

Did anyone go to today's practice? I am wondering who was chosen to lead summer workouts?

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Red Beats White 28-14 in 40th Annual Spring Game

« on: April 16, 2012, 02:11:30 PM »

I think one of the keys will be to review films of the last three games of the season. We went to an "old school" YSU defense & that is what killed NDSU ...they had no idea we still had that in us. Yet, the very next week we were burned for  70+-yard drive in less than 1-minute because of it. Remember when Heacock ran that, we had brilliant LB's & ambitious secondary. Merely having a wall up front is no good. It will be hard to bring the secondary back up to a respectable level by Fall; but I am confident we can work in two new bodies up on the defensive front & then have plans for multiple points of pass-pressure by Pitt. The D-line needs to work on technique. Lengyel and Nwadiogbu looked good in the spring game. Lengyel is the transfer from Mount ...I expect he will see lots of action, if not start, this year.