YOUNGSTOWN — It doesn’t look like Youngstown State University football coach Bo Pelini is going anywhere. In fact, he’s bringing another Youngstown native home to join him. Despite speculation that Pelini might leave when his four-year contract expires on Feb. 28, YSU athletic director ...
From staff, wire reports CHICAGO — Tarkus Ferguson scored 23 points shooting 7 of 10 from 3-point range and Illinois-Chicago snapped a two-game skid and beat Youngstown State 78-63 Thursday night. Godwin Boahen scored 21 points with four 3s, Rob Howard shot 5 of 8 from the field and the ...
YOUNGSTOWN — One and done, it cannot happen. We’re not talking about a song relegated to a replay list on Sirius XM Radio. This is about a defensive mentality. It needs to be as habitual as me grabbing a coffee pod, plopping it my single-serve Keurig, add water and wait for the morning java ...
By JOHN VARGO Tribune Chronicle YOUNGSTOWN — Naz Bohannon knew something was wrong a couple of months ago. The Youngstown State sophomore went to a local urgent care facility and realized something more than an annoying cold was bothering him. Bohannon, a 6-foot-6 Lorain native, was ...
YOUNGSTOWN – Mary Dunn comes off the bench this season, relieving Lordstown native Sarah Cash. It's a role she doesn't mind and has embraced. Dunn was named Horizon League Player of the Week for averaging 21.5 points and 10 rebounds in wins over alphabet-soup teams UIC and ...
YOUNGSTOWN — Robert Smolinski looked out at his North Royalton driveway years ago and decided he had to intervene. He had to help his third-grade daughter Alison. She was shooting the ball with two hands, heaving it toward the basket with all the power her little frame could muster. Alison ...
YOUNGSTOWN — IUPUI’s Sydney Hall had one mission during Saturday’s game — stay with Alison Smolinski. The Jaguars were well aware of the Youngstown State University senior wing. Smolinski has such a quick release; catch, shoot, make. She’s one of the best women’s basketball ...
MILWAUKEE — Garrett Covington scored 15 points and Youngstown State held Milwaukee to just 14 first-half points as the Penguins rolled to a 76-51 Horizon League rout on Saturday. Youngstown State used 16 players in the road game with 11 contributing points. At the midway point of the ...
YOUNGSTOWN — Alison Smolinski couldn’t miss from 3-point range early on in Thursday’s game. Each pass to Mary Dunn or Sarah Cash seemingly went for an uncontested lay-up from a well-timed lob by the Youngstown State University guards. Cash only played eight minutes in the first quarter ...
YOUNGSTOWN — Nikki Arbanas was in the crowd, watching her former team. The Hickory, Pa., native is Youngstown State’s all-time leader in 3-point baskets with 209. Senior Alison Smolinski was one 3-pointer away from joining Arbanas and Indiya Benjamin as the team’s only players to make ...
GREEN BAY, Wis. — JayQuan McCloud scored 24 points and Kameron Hankerson had 19, both career highs, and Green Bay beat Youngstown State 99-93 in overtime on Thursday night. PJ Pipes added a career-high 16 points, making 8 of 8 at the line including the tying points in regulation and the ...
YOUNGSTOWN — Jerrod Calhoun hasn’t minced words since he’s taken over theYoungstown State University men’s basketball program. He wants to win, something that has happened as many times as you can count on one hand in the past three decades. Losing has permeated around this program ...
YOUNGSTOWN — Jelani Simmons saw the opening in transition and knew he couldn’t let Oakland’s 6-foot-11 center Brad Brechting have another easy two. The words of Youngstown State University men’s basketball assistant coach Paul Molinari echoed in his head. Brechting went up, but ...
YOUNGSTOWN — Devin Morgan took the ball a couple feet outside of the 3-point arc, dribbling and trying to create space for a game-winning or game-tying shot. He drove on 6-foot-8 Oakland forward James Beck, attempting to get off a 3-pointer with 6 seconds remaining. Denied. Morgan, a 5-10 ...
ROCHESTER, Mich. — The Youngstown State women’s basketball team outscored Oakland 30-13 in the fourth quarter to rally for a 69-55 victory on Sunday afternoon at the Athletics Center O’rena. The Penguins won for the third straight game, improved to 2-0 in Horizon League play and earned ...
YOUNGSTOWN — The Youngstown State University men’s basketball team started out conference play on the wrong foot, falling 78-66 to Detroit Mercy Friday afternoon at the Beeghly Center. At the start of the second half, the Penguins found new life and came back to briefly take the lead ...
YOUNGSTOWN — John Barnes exited the court at halftime with a scowl, leaving those in the stands wondering what awaited the Youngstown State University women’s basketball team at halftime. More than 1,000 elementary school children were in the seats surrounding the Beeghly Center court for ...
Reaching the OHSAA Division IV playoffs was no easy task for Mark Waid and the Girard Indians, but once they got there, Waid found a home — in more ways than one. The star quarterback who led the Indians to the first state title game in school history made his college commitment official ...
YOUNGSTOWN — Frustration. Youngstown State had plenty of it after Tuesday’s triple-overtime loss to Central Michigan. The Penguins had a couple of days to overcome those feelings and instill some confidence in this youthful team. But Western Michigan had other ideas in Saturday’s ...
YOUNGSTOWN — Jess Kovatch was unfazed by the stringent defense, sinking a couple of quick 3-pointers. John Barnes had seen enough in the first two-and-a-half minutes Saturday as the Youngstown State University women’s coach called timeout, frustrated with his team’s start against St. ...