Archive for June, 2011
Thursday, June 23rd, 2011
Ghost Productions has announced the entire final card for the Friday Night Fights to take place at the Covelli Centre on July 1. Jack Loew, Kelly Pavlik, and Mike Pavlik, Sr., make up the new promotional team. They have the local map pretty well-covered with young professional talent for the ...
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Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011
There is no better way to celebrate the first official day of Summer than at the ballpark. Good baseball is good pitching - period. Tuesday, the Scrappers got plenty of it in defeating Batavia 2-0 in front of 2,706 fans at Eastwood Field. Danny Jimenez, Cody Allen, and Bryce Stoewell ...
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Tuesday, June 21st, 2011
With a serious threat of rain on the radar, the Eastwood Field grounds crew and the Scrappers employees peeled the tarp off and got the game started right on time. The Mahoning Valley Scrappers had a rough time with different elements, notably fundamentals. Batavia trailed 1-0 in the first inning ...
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Saturday, June 18th, 2011
The Mahoning Valley Scrappers opened the 2011 season with mixed results. The good news is that the Scrappers improved over last seasons 14-0 Opening Day drubbing. The bad news was that they are 0-1, like last year, falling 9-3 to the Jamestown Jammers. The good news was that it was ...
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Friday, June 17th, 2011
Fans of Youngstown State Athletics now have the opportunity to purchase official YSU Under Armour gear at a discounted price on YSUSports.com for a limited time.
Through an agreement with Under Armour and the Penguins baseball team, fans can purchase apparel at a 15-percent discount from the original retail price. A ...
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Thursday, June 16th, 2011
There is one predictable group of people you can never expect to see return to Eastwood Field from year-to-year, the players. Some Mahoning Valley Scrappers get promoted during the season, some are reassigned for better or for worse, and some are no longer in the Major League Baseball system anymore. ...
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Saturday, June 11th, 2011
In October of 2010, I interviewed Jack Loew at his Southside Boxing Club. One of the first things Loew wanted to talk about was a young, scrappy prospect from St. Louis named Dannie Williams. Loew said that the 135-pound fighter was going to be someone to reckon with. On April ...
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Saturday, June 11th, 2011
The Youngstown State University Football Camps have been drawing good numbers. The above photo was taken on the new turf and shows some of the student athletes who attended. Coach Eric Wolford and staff did a great job of thinning the groups and giving plenty of specialized, individual attention to ...
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