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EAST LIVERPOOL -- Brooke scored goals in both halves to beat East Liverpool, 2-0, in boys soccer action Saturday.
Brooke improves to 6-11, while East Liverpool closes the regular season at 3-9-3.
BOWLING RESULTS
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TEAM STANDINGS: Sparkle Market 35, Caliber Collision 33, Safelite 25, Sanford Plumbing 21, Historic Highlands 20, Amato Law Office 18, AK Nahas 17, Hose before Bros. 15, Walnut Lanes 14, Jayden 12.
HIGH GAME: Bill Plumm 266, Jayden McDole and Rick Rudibaugh 258.
HIGH SERIES: Butch Mattern and Rick Rudibaugh 665, Jayden McDole 651.
YSU’S FAST START
YOUNGSTOWN – From the first play, the Youngstown State football team was clicking.
No. 19 Northern Iowa tried its best to put some pressure on the No. 6 Penguins. However, YSU had plenty of room to work with, and the Penguins won 35-22 on Saturday night in front of 10,284 fans at Stambaugh Stadium.
It was YSU’s fourth straight win and fifth in its last six games.
The Penguins (6-2, 4-1 Missouri Valley Football Conference) started with a bang.
Donald Barksdale took the opening kickoff 93 yards right up the middle and down the left sideline for a touchdown. It was the first YSU kick return for a TD this season, and the first for the team since Kylon “Flash” Wilson took one to the house on Oct. 25.
“We’ve been waiting and waiting for the opportunity. We knew if we could get the opportunity, we could break one, not just this game, but any game,” YSU head coach Doug Phillips said of the kickoff return. “So to see Donald get the game going on that … it takes one-eleven to execute on that.”
YSU quarterback Beau Brungard was 23-of-27 passing for 240 yards and two touchdowns and ran for 80 yards and another touchdown. Nine different Penguins had receptions.
YSU is off until an Oct. 31 home game against North Dakota.
RAIDERS ROLLING
COLUMBUS – The Mount Union football team won its third straight Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC) game with a 45-23 win at Capital on Saturday.
Mount Union wide receivers Mason Ashby and O.P. Knox both had career days.
Ashby led all receivers with 14 catches for 191 yards (both career bests), including a one-handed touchdown to put the Raiders up by three scores in the fourth quarter. He now has five straight 100-yard games. Knox caught a career-high three touchdown receptions.
Junior QB Mikey Maloney went 32-for-44 for a career-high 389 yards, while tying a career high with five passing touchdowns, to go along with a rushing touchdown and a career-high 91 yards on the ground.
Mount Union led 24-16 early in the fourth quarter before pulling away with three Maloney touchdown passes.
Mount Union (4-2, 3-1 OAC) will host Wilmington at 1:30 p.m. Saturday.
FATAL FALL
SAN ANTONIO, Texas (AP) -- A military service member has died after he fell hard as he rappelled from the ceiling to midfield before a University of Texas at San Antonio football game where the military was honored.
Nellis Air Force Base Public Affairs said the service member assigned to the 6th Combat Training Squadron, Detachment 2, was taken Saturday to a local hospital, where he later died.
An investigation was under way into what led up to the incident at UTSA’s annual Salute to Armed Forces and Veterans game against Navy.
A video of the fall that was posted on social media showed the man, in combat fatigues, quickly descending to the ground feet first. The fall occurred with fans in the stands and a band assembled nearby on the field. He was treated on the field for several minutes and taken away on a gurney.
According to an Air Force website, the service members who were participating in the rappelling demonstration were part of a team of specialists who embed with Army and Marine units and help to direct air and artillery strikes from forward ground locations.
The game at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas, which UTSA won 38-34, was delayed for about 10 minutes.
TENNESSEE FINED
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) -- The Southeastern Conference fined Tennessee $500,000 on Sunday for allowing fans to storm the field following a 26-10 victory over then-No. 6 Alabama.
The fine will be paid to Alabama in accordance with SEC policy, which provides for a $500,000 penalty for violations involving access to competition areas in all SEC-sponsored sports.
It was the 11th consecutive field storming following a Crimson Tide road loss, a streak that started at Auburn in 2013.
The SEC policy states that “institutions shall limit access to competition areas” for “the safety of participants and spectators alike.”
The policy permits schools to establish procedures that would allow fans to celebrate on the playing surface after all visiting team personnel and game officials have safely exited the field or court.
Commissioner Greg Sankey may reduce the fine to $100,000 if Tennessee can prove that a full attempt to prevent the field rush was instituted, few individuals breached the competition area and minimal interaction with the visiting team occurred.
But that’s didn’t happen in Knoxville, where Tennessee played “Dixieland Delight” after beating Alabama at Neyland Stadium for the third time in three games.
CLOSED FOR RENOVATIONS
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- President Donald Trump on Sunday announced plans to close a historic public golf course in the nation’s capital for 15 months and redevelop it despite a court challenge to his long-sought renovation.
Trump posted on social media about his intent to shutter the East Potomac Golf Course, not far from the White House, starting Nov. 15 to make it “one of the Best and Most Spectacular Golf Courses anywhere in the World.”
A judge last week, however, ordered a halt to his redevelopment plans until at least Oct. 26 after scolding the government for starting a large-scale tree removal at the course over a holiday weekend while providing little notice to the court or the plaintiffs trying to stop the makeover.
Trump did not acknowledge the legal fight in his post, which included an artist’s rendering for the course redesign.
“When completed, it will be open to the Public while, at the same time, designed to the Highest Level of Golf and able to hold World Class Tournaments such as the U.S. Open, the PGA Championship, the Ryder Cup, and the Presidents Cup,” Trump wrote.
Democracy Forward, which is representing the plaintiffs challenging his renovation plans, responded by saying that the course is part of a national park and recreation facility that is meant for everyone to enjoy.
The 106-year-old park and course has been the subject of many emergency hearings as the president has sought to renovate it. While it has been open to Washingtonians of all income levels, opponents of Trump’s plans to turn it into a high-end course have argued it will alter the character of the space and make it less affordable to people.