NILES — Youngstown State baseball coach Dan Bertolini walked out of the right-field clubhouse holding a large bottle of water, half empty, and the Penguins’ coach looked like he’d just run a marathon. In reality, what YSU went though this past weekend wasn’t far from a marathon. The ...

YOUNGSTOWN — Sweeping a team during a three-game series is difficult enough, but having to win a fourth? That’s a whole other challenge in itself — besides being another weird quirk of the COVID-19 protocols. Youngstown State’s softball program found that out Saturday afternoon, ...

YOUNGSTOWN — Today’s football game between Youngstown State and North Dakota at Stambaugh Stadium has been postponed by the Missouri Valley Football Conference. The conference made the announcement on Friday that the game would be resecheduled on April 17. It was called off due to a ...

NILES — Like a WWE wrestler, Youngstown State’s Nick Caruso walks out of the clubhouse at Eastwood Field with a flashy belt hung around his right shoulder. Faux-gold plated grommets and all, the belt, titled “Freak of the Week,” goes to the YSU baseball player who had the best week in ...

YOUNGSTOWN — It wasn’t a good look for Troy Jakubec. The Youngstown State corner appeared to be beat on a long pass down the sideline in a Feb. 27 game against Northern Iowa. Jakubec, a Warren G. Harding graduate, wasn’t beat. In fact, the deep area of the field wasn’t even his ...

YOUNGSTOWN — Finding a way to win wasn’t easy for the Youngstown State football team for the first half of the FCS spring season. Now that the Penguins have figured it out, they don’t want to lose it. Their next opponent won’t make that easy. YSU squares off against sixth-ranked ...