Jackson to speak at Curbstone Coaches

Melissa Jackson, Youngstown State women’s basketball head coach, will be the guest speaker at Monday’s luncheon meeting of The Curbstone Coaches at the Avion Banquet Center on Western Reserve Road in Beaver Township.

The event begins at noon and the public is welcome to attend. For those arriving early the buffet lines will open at 11:45 a.m.

YSU football kickoff changed vs Redbirds

The kickoff for Youngstown State’s game against Illinois State was changed. The new kickoff is set for 1 p.m. today due to weather that is expected to go through the Normal, Ill., area.

The game will be steamed on ESPN+ and will be available on the radio at 570 WKBN-AM.

YSU men to play Akron in exhibition

The Youngstown State men’s basketball team added a preseason tuneup game ahead of its season opener at Pitt on Nov. 3.

The Penguins will host Akron in an exhibition game scheduled for Oct. 29 at 6:30 p.m. at Zidian Family Arena at Beeghly Center.

“We are really excited to add a game of this caliber to help prepare us for the season,” head coach Ethan Faulkner said in a press release. “Akron is one of the premier programs in the MAC and this will be a great dress rehearsal for us that will make our team better.

“Additionally, the revenue from the ticket sales will be used to enhance our recruiting, retention, and overall program operations. We need our great fanbase to be here on October 29 to support our program like they always do.”

YSU and Akron faced each other 91 times, with the Zips having the series lead 59-32. The Penguins last defeated Akron on Nov. 12, 2016.

Tickets are on sale at the YSU athletics ticket office and online at YSUSports.com. All seating is general admission and costs $20, including upper and lower chairback seats. Seating is first-come, first-served.

Louisville upsets No. 2 Hurricanes

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Louisville tried a little bit of everything. A fake field goal. Having three different players taking snaps from center. A reverse that wasn’t a reverse.

It was enough for the Cardinals to stun No. 2 Miami.

Miller Moss threw two touchdown passes to Chris Bell and ran for a score, Louisville intercepted four of Miami star Carson Beck’s passes — the first time he’d ever thrown that many in a college game — and the Cardinals topped the Hurricanes 24-21 on Friday night.

Louisville (5-1, 2-1 Atlantic Coast Conference) got touchdowns on its first two drives for a quick 14-0 lead, and the Hurricanes (5-1, 1-1) trailed the rest of the way.

The Hurricanes were in field-goal range on the final drive, but Louisville’s TJ Capers intercepted Beck’s pass at the 30 with 32 seconds left to seal the win.

Moss completed 23 of 37 passes for 248 yards, and Isaac Brown ran for 113 yards on 15 carries for Louisville. Bell had nine catches for 136 yards, his TD grabs going for 35 and 36 yards.

Beck completed 25 of 35 passes for 271 yards for Miami. The Hurricanes had little success rushing the ball, generating only 63 yards on 24 carries.

Louisville came into the game 1-8 against teams ranked Nos. 1 or 2 in the AP poll. The win was over then-No. 2 Florida State, a 63-20 romp in 2016.

And on the road, there had never been a night like this for the Cardinals. They were 0-18 against Top 10 teams in true road games before Friday. Most of them weren’t even close: Louisville dropped those games by an average — an average — of 26.3 points.

Miami trailed 17-13 going into the fourth, but Moss’ TD catch with 13:27 remaining gave the Cardinals a two-score lead again. Beck was picked off on the ensuing drive with 7:50 remaining, but Miami got the ball right back on a fumble.

Miami’s Malachi Toney scored on a 12-yard run one play after the fumble, then threw a 2-point conversion pass himself and Miami was right back in it — down 24-21. But the Hurricanes got no closer.

Mariners go up 3-2 vs. Jays in ALCS

SEATTLE — Eugenio Suárez hit a go-ahead grand slam after Cal Raleigh’s tying drive in a five-run eighth inning, giving the Seattle Mariners a 6-2 win over the Toronto Blue Jays on Friday and a 3-2 lead in the American League Championship Series.

Suárez also homered in the second inning for Seattle’s first run. The Mariners became the first home team to win in the series and moved within a victory of the first World Series trip for a franchise that started play in 1977.

Game 6 is at Toronto on Sunday night.

“For our fans, they’ve been waiting a long time for this moment and we’re here to give it to them. We’re here to fight for a World Series,” Suárez said.

Raleigh, a switch-hitting catcher who led the major leagues with 60 home runs during the regular season, was hitting right-handed for the first time in the series when he led off the eighth by pulling a 2-0 changeup from loser Brendon Little.

The 348-foot drive rose 155 feet above the field on a high arc and had a 6.7-second hang time before it dropped over the left field wall at T-Mobile Park, 348 feet from the plate.

Raleigh’s fourth homer of the postseason tied the score 2-2.

Jorge Polanco and Josh Naylor walked, and Seranthony Domínguez relieved and hit Randy Arozarena with a pitch.

Suárez fouled off a 2-2 fastball, then hit an opposite-field drive to right, and the ball landed several rows into the seats for his fourth slam this season.

Suárez, who had put Seattle ahead in the second against Kevin Gausman, entered the game in a 6-for-50 slump. He was acquired from Arizona at the trade deadline, finished the regular season with 49 homers and has three in the playoffs.

Seattle’s Bryce Miller was pitching shutout ball when he was removed after allowing Addison Barger’s leadoff single in the fifth, and George Springer hit an RBI double off Matt Brash.

Springer left in the seventh when he was hit on the right kneecap by a 95.6 mph sinker from Bryan Woo.

Pitching for the first time since Sept. 19 after recovering from pectoral tightness, Woo allowed Ernie Clement’s go-ahead single in the sixth.

Gabe Speier got the win with a perfect, nine-pitch eighth inning. Toronto wasted many chances, going 2 for 11 with runners in scoring position.

Raleigh turned only the second 2-3 grounded double into play in postseason history when Clement tapped the ball onto the plate with the bases loaded and one out in the fourth inning. Raleigh grabbed the ball with a foot on the plate for a forceout, then threw to first.

The prior 2-3 DP in Game 2 of the 2000 ALCS was turned by Wilson with the New York Yankees’ Bernie Williams at the plate.