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Lowellville’s Pazel achieves goal at state track meet

High School Sports

COLUMBUS — Coming off its team state runner-up performance in Dayton, the standard was set high for the Lowellville track and field program. Despite graduating key athletes such as former state champion Michael Ballone and traversing through injuries on their roster, junior Josh Pazel still ...

Guardians blanked as Gausman leads Blue Jays to 6-0 win

Local Sports

CLEVELAND — Kevin Gausman threw eight innings of two-hit ball, Alejandro Kirk and Nathan Lukes drove in two runs apiece and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Cleveland Guardians 6-0 on Thursday to win the three-game series. Gausman (6-6) gave up one walk on 104 pitches with six strikeouts and ...

Guardians’ Ramírez, Kwan voted All-Star finalists by fans

Local Sports

NEW YORK (AP) — The Los Angeles Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani and the New York Yankees’ Aaron Judge were the first players picked for the July 15 All-Star Game at Atlanta’s Truist Park, elected as starters by fans on Thursday. Judge led the major leagues with 4,012,983 votes in the first ...

YSU’s Faulkner gets raise, one-year contract extension

Local Sports

YOUNGSTOWN — Youngstown State announced Wednesday that men’s basketball head coach Ethan Faulkner has agreed to and signed a contract extension after he continued to build on the program’s recent success in his first season this past year. Faulkner’s new deal, which was signed at the ...

Avalanche pull away to beat Athletix in Class B action

Local Sports

STRUTHERS — The Avalanche 18U baseball team lived up to its name on Wednesday. The bats made some noise early and picked up more and more momentum as time passed. Avalanche scored in five out of six innings to beat Athletix 11-3 at Bob Cene Park. “We did a good job today of adding on ...