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YSU football season tickets available
Youngstown State football fans can purchase or renew their season tickets for the upcoming 2025 football season, which will feature six exciting home games at Stambaugh Stadium. Penguin Club Memberships for the upcoming campaign are also available.
The Penguins have home contests against Mercyhurst, Robert Morris, South Dakota State, Murray State, Southern Illinois and Indiana State.
Fans can purchase season tickets by calling the YSU Athletics Ticket Office at 330-941-1978 or visiting the Athletic Ticket Office in Stambaugh Stadium. Penguin Club/Gridiron Club memberships for the upcoming campaign are also available.
The price for 2025 season tickets is $110 for reserved seats. Penguin Club memberships start at just $75 while ticket availability begins at the $300 level.
The "Young Alumni Program" season-ticket package is also available for $55 per ticket (50 percent off a regular-season ticket). The Young Alumni Program is for YSU alumni who have graduated in the past four years can buy up to two special priced season tickets.
In August, the Penguins open the campaign against Mercyhurst (August 28) before entertaining Robert Morris on Sept. 6. This is the first-ever meeting between the Lakers and Penguins while the Colonials are making their sixth visit to Stambaugh Stadium since 2015.
Youngstown State opens Missouri Valley Football Conference play at home against South Dakota State on Oct. 4 in a 6 p.m. kickoff.
After two road games, the Guins return home to play three contests at Stambaugh in a span of four Saturday's. The Homecoming contest is on Oct. 25 against Murray State. In November, the Penguins take on Southern Illinois (Nov. 8) and Indiana State (Nov. 15).
Student tickets and single-game tickets will be available starting in August.
YSU has road games at Michigan State (Sept. 13), Towson (Sept. 20), North Dakota (Oct. 11), Illinois State (Oct. 18), North Dakota State (Nov. 1) and UNI (Nov. 22).
Keys is surprised at Wimbledon
LONDON -- This most unpredictable of Wimbledons delivered yet another surprise Friday when reigning Australian Open champion Madison Keys, the No. 6 seed, was a lopsided loser in the third round, eliminated 6-3, 6-3 by 104th-ranked Laura Siegemund of Germany.
Keys' exit left just one of the top six women in the bracket before the end of Week 1: No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka, who stuck around by claiming the last five games and defeating 2021 U.S. Open champion Emma Raducanu of Britain 7-6 (6), 6-4 at a boisterous Centre Court at night.
No. 2 Coco Gauff, No. 3 Jessica Pegula, No. 4 Jasmine Paolini and No. 5 Zheng Qinwen already were out. The men's field also has seen its share of surprises, including a Wimbledon-record 13 seeds gone in the first round.
"At times, it wasn't the best quality, let's say. But I managed, and in the end, it's just important to find solutions and I did that well. Kept my nerves in the end," Siegemund said, then added with a laugh: "There are always nerves. If you don't have nerves in this moment, you're probably dead."
Wimbledon might be the only Grand Slam event where Keys hasn't reached at least the semifinals, but she has participated in the quarterfinals there twice and is enjoying a breakthrough 2025, including her title at Melbourne Park in January.
Keys' power vs. Siegemund's spins and slices offered quite a contrast in styles, and this outcome was surprisingly one-way traffic on a windy afternoon at No. 2 Court. The key statistic, undoubtedly, was this: Keys made 31 unforced errors, 20 more than Siegemund.
When it ended with one last backhand return from Keys that sailed wide, Siegemund smiled broadly, raised her arms and jumped up and down repeatedly.
"You can't not be happy when you beat a great player like Madison," Siegemund said.
How unexpected is this for Siegemund? Before this year, her career record at the All England Club was 2-5, and she'd never made it past the second round. Taking into account all four Grand Slam tournaments, she had reached the third round only once in 28 previous appearances, getting to the quarterfinals at the 2020 French Open.
"There is technically no pressure for me," said Siegemund, at 37 the oldest woman remaining in the tournament. "I try to remember that I only play for myself. I don't feel like I need to prove anything anymore. My boyfriend often tells me that."
On Sunday, the German faces another participant no one could have predicted would be at this stage of the grass-court major: 101st-ranked Solana Sierra of Argentina, who lost in qualifying and made it into the main draw when another player withdrew.
What else happened at Wimbledon on Friday?
Ben Shelton played for all of four points and about a minute, wrapping up his second-round match against Rinky Hijikata that was suspended Thursday night. Defending champion Carlos Alcaraz reached the fourth round by beating Jan-Lennard Struff in four sets. Other men's seeds advancing were No. 5 Taylor Fritz, No. 14 Andrey Rublev and No. 17 Karen Khachanov. In the women's draw, four-time major title winner Naomi Osaka's Wimbledon ended in the third round for the third time, eliminated by Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova. No. 13 Amanda Anisimova of the U.S. advanced to the fourth round, as did No. 24 Elise Mertens and No. 30 Linda Noskova.