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Bill Johnson to speak at Curbstone Youngstown State University President Bill Johnson 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 11:45 a.m., and the public is welcome to attend. All sports fans are welcome and you do not need to be a current or former coach. YSU softball drops doubleheader SPARTANBURG, S.C. — The Youngstown State softball team dropped a pair of contests on Friday at the Wings, Etc. Classic, at the Cyrill Softball Stadium in ...

Efficient YSU men stun Oakland 86-82 on the road

Youngstown State’s two biggest wins in Horizon League play this season have now come on the road after the Penguins knocked off Oakland 86-82 on Thursday night in Rochester, Mich. The Penguins (13-13, 6-9 Horizon) have now won four of their last six games since sustaining a seven-game losing streak in conference play from December into January. “I thought the consistency that we played with is something we’ve really been searching for,” head coach Ethan Faulkner said in a postgame interview on ESPN+. “We’ve got a ton of respect for Coach (Greg) Kampe and the program they ...

YSU rallies to force OT, then holds on to beat RMU

YOUNGSTOWN — For a young roster, this season has been full of learning experiences for the Youngstown State women’s basketball team. Take Saturday against Green Bay, for example. The Penguins may have come up short in a tight, late-game situation against the Phoenix, but YSU learned from ...

Penguins hope to change narrative on diamond in 2026

YOUNGSTOWN — The Youngstown State baseball program has put together just one winning season in the last 15 years. In 2021, the Penguins went 32-24 overall and 24-16 in the Horizon League to finish third in the conference standings. Since then, YSU hasn’t won more than 21 games in a ...

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YSU bowling ranked 8th in poll YOUNGSTOWN — As the spring portion of the NCAA Women’s Bowling season is in full swing, Youngstown State is ranked eighth in February’s National Tenpin Coaches Association Top 25 poll. February’s poll of 44 coaches was released on Tuesday, and the Penguins dropped one position compared with the December rankings. Youngstown State received 1,192 points in the poll, which was comfortably ahead of ninth-place Wright State’s total of 1,054. YSU has now been ranked in the top 10 in 24 consecutive polls dating back to the final release of the ...

YSU shows fight, but drops heartbreaker to Green Bay

YOUNGSTOWN — Two months ago, the Youngstown State women’s basketball team suffered a tough loss to Green Bay in its annual Wisconsin road trip. A lifetime has passed since that contest and the Penguins have made plenty of strides and gains since that time. YSU displayed that growth on ...