YOUNGSTOWN — The Ursuline softball team battled more than just the Louisville Leopards on Thursday. First, the eighth-seeded Fighting Irish received an unlucky draw in their bracket, getting paired against underseeded Leopards, last year’s Division III Northeast regional finalists. Then, ...
CANFIELD — The Canfield softball team is no stranger to the postseason. And the Cardinals didn’t waste any time in their first tournament game of the spring. Canfield scored six runs in the bottom of the second inning of a Division III, Northeast 1 sectional fina lto easily take control ...
This may as well have been called The James Harden Experience. In the span of 22 seconds during overtime of Game 5 of the Eastern Conference semifinals against the Detroit Pistons on Wednesday night, Harden did all this for the Cleveland Cavaliers — made a free throw, missed a free throw, ...
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Endy Rodriguez had two hits and drove in a pair of runs in his return to the majors and the Pittsburgh Pirates breezed past the Colorado Rockies 7-2 on Thursday. Rodriguez, a catcher once considered among the top prospects in Pittsburgh’s farm system before missing all ...
YSU softball coach Brian Campbell retires YOUNGSTOWN — Youngstown State Head Softball Coach Brian Campbell, the all-time winningest coach in program history, has announced his retirement after a 30-year college coaching career, including the last 18 seasons at the helm of the Penguins. Campbell led the Penguins to 435 victories from 2009-26 with three Horizon League regular-season championships and a 210-181 record in conference action. He retires with a 26-year head coaching career record of 720-587-2 after winning 285 games at Tiffin University from 2001-08. He also spent four ...
SOFTBALL DIVISION III PLAYOFFS Howland 24, Chaney 0 — The top of Howland’s lineup was deadly, tallying 15 of the team's 24 hits. Madison Schmitz, Makenna Perry and Maya Kubancsek had five hits each for the Tigers. Kubancsek drove in seven runs and homered twice. Perry and Schmitz also homered and had four and three RBIs, respectively. Michelina Wayt and Marissa Ray added two hits and two RBIs each, Brooklyn VanNess and Olivia Lambert had a hit and an RBI each and Ella Newbrough had two hits for Howland. DIVISION IV PLAYOFFS Niles 30, Lutheran West 6 — 11 different Niles ...
