PISCATAWAY, N.J. — No. 3 Ohio State has been finding ways to win the close ones all season, and they added another one against a team they have traditionally blown out. Cornerback Jordan Hancock woke up the Buckeyes early in the second half with a 93-yard interception return for a ...
YOUNGSTOWN — Win or lose, Youngstown State’s offense has been firing on all cylinders this season. Through eight games, the Penguins are 10th in the FCS in scoring offense at 36.9 points per game. Remove the game against FBS opponent Ohio State, and YSU is averaging 41.1 points, which ...
BEAVER TOWNSHIP – A year ago, national publications ranked the YSU basketball team as high as second and as low as sixth with their preseason Horizon League prognostications. Head coach Jerrod Calhoun, who heads into his seventh season at the helm, guided his team to a 24-10 overall mark last year – it was the first 20-win season for the Penguins since going 22-7 in 1976-77 – winning the league’s regular season title after posting a 15-5 ledger en route to their first ever conference crown. This year, those same prognosticators have taken note that 12 newcomers now dot the ...
YOUNGSTOWN — Saturday’s performances by Youngstown State quarterback Mitch Davidson and wide receiver Bryce Oliver have been a long time coming. The pair first burst onto the scene during the tail end of YSU’s 3-7 season in 2021. In blowout losses to South Dakota State and North ...
YOUNGSTOWN — Being on the winning side of a last-second victory feels much better than being on the losing side of one, as Youngstown State discovered last week. But still, the Penguins are keeping their focus looking forward heading into this Saturday’s MVFC showdown with Missouri State ...
BEAVER TOWNSHIP – On Oct. 2, YSU women’s basketball coach John Barnes announced that he would be taking an indefinite leave of absence to tend to personal family matters. No one was more surprised than his staff when he broke the news to them. Barnes told his staff about a half hour before he announced his decision to his team, and while it caught everyone off guard, the support for Barnes and his family has been unwavering. “It was a shock; we were all shocked,” assistant coach Jason Pacanowski told the Curbstone Coaches as he sat in for the coach during Monday’s weekly ...
