YOUNGSTOWN — No matter where she’s gone throughout her basketball career, Casey Santoro has been a winner. In four years of high school basketball and now six years of college basketball, she’s never been part of a team with a losing record. In high school, she was part of a Bellevue ...
BEAVER TOWNSHIP — Youngstown State President Bill Johnson cannot hide his smile when boasting about the accomplishments of his athletics department. The state of YSU athletics, especially its student-athletes, is drawing high praise from the school’s top boss. “I couldn’t ask for things to be any better with our athletics department,” Johnson told the Curbstone Coaches during Monday’s weekly meeting at Avion Banquet Center. “We just found out last week that for the second semester in a row, we have the highest cumulative grade point average of any Division I school in ...
YOUNGSTOWN — Will the real Youngstown State men’s basketball team please stand up? Coming off a surprise road victory at Oakland on Thursday, followed by a loss to Detroit Mercy on Sunday, it’s been difficult to anticipate which Penguins team will show up on any given night. YSU has ...
The Youngstown State’s women’s basketball team survived to earn a gritty 69-65 victory at IU Indy on Sunday. The Penguins earned their ninth road victory of the season and snapped an eight-game slide at The Jungle, improving to 19-8 overall and 12-5 in Horizon League play. YSU fought off the Jaguars, who won earlier this season in Youngstown, to remain in second place in the conference standings with three games left in the regular season. Youngstown State is one-and-a-half games ahead of next week’s two opponents, Northern Kentucky and Purdue Fort Wayne. Casey Santoro led the ...
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 ...
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 ...
