Archive for October, 2011
Monday, October 3rd, 2011
In recent years past, Youngstown State would tote out a soccer team that was not very competitive. The program, which has only been in operation since 1996, has never had a season with more than six wins in a single season. Head Coach, Will Lemke (above), has things going in ...
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Sunday, October 2nd, 2011
Selected as the best and brightest from the college gridiron, The National Football Foundation (NFF) & College Hall of Fame announced today the 127 candidates for the 2011 NFF National Scholar-Athlete Awards, presented by Fidelity Investments®, a leading provider of not-for-profit workplace retirement savings plans in higher education. The 127 ...
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Sunday, October 2nd, 2011
The Youngstown State softball team posted the sixth-highest team grade-point average in Division I during the 2010-11 school year with a 3.523 GPA. The National Fastpitch Coaches Association announced its Top 10 All-Academic Teams on Thursday afternoon.
The NFCA Academic Awards program honors both collegiate and high school teams for their submitted GPAs for the ...
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Sunday, October 2nd, 2011
Youngstown State freshman Marta Burak won the Flight A Singles title and teamed up with senior Lauren Hankle to win the doubles bracket on Saturday at the Bucknell Quad held at the Gerhard Fieldhouse on Friday and Saturday.
In her first collegiate competition, the 15-year-old Burak won four singles matches en route to the title over ...
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Sunday, October 2nd, 2011
The Youngstown State volleyball team hurt itself with 30 attack errors, and Milwaukee remained unbeaten in Horizon League play with a sweep of the Penguins -- 25-16, 25-12, 25-21 -- on Saturday afternoon at Beeghly Center.
The Penguins were held to a -.018 attack percentage, and four Penguins players hit negative for the match. ...
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Sunday, October 2nd, 2011
Freshman Jade Flory scored her seventh goal of the season, but two first-half goals led Butler to a 2-1 win over the Youngstown State women's soccer team on Saturday afternoon at StambaughStadium.
The Guins fall to 3-6-2 overall and 0-1-1 in the Horizon League while Butler improves to 7-5-1 overall and 2-1 in the league.
Butler's Katie ...
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Saturday, October 1st, 2011
The Youngstown Phantoms fell behind early Friday night and could not maintain enough momentum to battle back against Team USA in their regular season opener. A slew of penalties kept many of the Phantoms’ offensive weapons off the ice for large portions of the game and Team USA was able to capitalize on ...
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Saturday, October 1st, 2011
Goals were set. Plans were made. Things can change. Coming off of a 37-35 loss at Indiana State last weekend, Coach Eric Wolford and his staff have fallen back into a fundamentals approach. YSU tackled poorly, especially in the first half, in their loss to the Sycamores. The good news ...
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