YOUNGSTOWN — In recent games, Youngstown State has had success when the offense has been connected and flowing. Entering Wednesday’s contest, the Penguins were averaging 87.3 points per game in their last four Horizon League wins. That continued against Cleveland State, as YSU made a ...
YSU’s Gebhardt gets HL honor Senior left-hander Braden Gebhardt (Howland) of the Youngstown State baseball team was named the Horizon League Pitcher of the Week following the opening weekend of the 2026 season. Gebhardt recorded the most strikeouts in a game by a Penguin in nearly five years as part of a masterful Opening Day pitching performance in YSU’s 2-1 loss to the No. 5 Auburn Tigers in the 2026 season opener on Friday evening at Plainsman Park in Auburn, Ala. Gebhardt, who collects the first weekly HL award of his career, was responsible for one unearned run on two hits ...
YOUNGSTOWN — No matter where she’s gone throughout her basketball career, Casey Santoro has been a winner. In four years of high school basketball and now six years of college basketball, she’s never been part of a team with a losing record. In high school, she was part of a Bellevue ...
BEAVER TOWNSHIP — Youngstown State President Bill Johnson cannot hide his smile when boasting about the accomplishments of his athletics department. The state of YSU athletics, especially its student-athletes, is drawing high praise from the school’s top boss. “I couldn’t ask for things to be any better with our athletics department,” Johnson told the Curbstone Coaches during Monday’s weekly meeting at Avion Banquet Center. “We just found out last week that for the second semester in a row, we have the highest cumulative grade point average of any Division I school in ...
YOUNGSTOWN — Will the real Youngstown State men’s basketball team please stand up? Coming off a surprise road victory at Oakland on Thursday, followed by a loss to Detroit Mercy on Sunday, it’s been difficult to anticipate which Penguins team will show up on any given night. YSU has ...
The Youngstown State’s women’s basketball team survived to earn a gritty 69-65 victory at IU Indy on Sunday. The Penguins earned their ninth road victory of the season and snapped an eight-game slide at The Jungle, improving to 19-8 overall and 12-5 in Horizon League play. YSU fought off the Jaguars, who won earlier this season in Youngstown, to remain in second place in the conference standings with three games left in the regular season. Youngstown State is one-and-a-half games ahead of next week’s two opponents, Northern Kentucky and Purdue Fort Wayne. Casey Santoro led the ...
