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Shorthanded Ursuline loses to Louisville in sectional final

High School Sports

YOUNGSTOWN — The Ursuline softball team battled more than just the Louisville Leopards on Thursday. First, the eighth-seeded Fighting Irish received an unlucky draw in their bracket, getting paired against underseeded Leopards, last year’s Division III Northeast regional finalists. Then, ...

James Harden, Cavaliers a win away from conference finals

Local Sports

This may as well have been called The James Harden Experience. In the span of 22 seconds during overtime of Game 5 of the Eastern Conference semifinals against the Detroit Pistons on Wednesday night, Harden did all this for the Cleveland Cavaliers — made a free throw, missed a free throw, ...

Pirates top Rockies in Endy Rodriguez’s MLB return

Local Sports

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Endy Rodriguez had two hits and drove in a pair of runs in his return to the majors and the Pittsburgh Pirates breezed past the Colorado Rockies 7-2 on Thursday. Rodriguez, a catcher once considered among the top prospects in Pittsburgh’s farm system before missing all of ...

Capsules – May 15, 2026

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YSU softball coach Brian Campbell retires YOUNGSTOWN — Youngstown State Head Softball Coach Brian Campbell, the all-time winningest coach in program history, has announced his retirement after a 30-year college coaching career, including the last 18 seasons at the helm of the ...