Scrappers tickets go on sale Friday

Mahoning Valley Scrappers single game tickets will go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. Tickets will be available online or by calling 3305050000 or at the Chevy All-Stars Box Office at Eastwood Field. Single game ticket prices start at $7.

The Scrappers will play 40 home games during the 2025 season from June to the end of August, starting with Opening Night at Eastwood Field on June 4 at 7:05 p.m. against the State College Spikes. A full promotional schedule for the 2025 season will soon be announced. Ticket packages are on sale now at mvscrappers.com.

YSU WBB adds Santoro from portal

Youngstown — Youngstown State head women’s basketball coach Melissa Jackson announced on Monday that Casey Santoro is the program’s first addition from the transfer portal for the 2025-26 season.

Santoro spent her first three seasons at Kent State and her last two at Florida Gulf Coast. The native of Bellevue has one year of eligibility remaining.

Over her first five seasons, Santoro scored 905 points, dished out 236 assists with 137 turnovers, made 133 3-pointers while shooting 34.1% from 3-point range, and adding 80 steals in 120 games.

In 2024-25, Santoro played in 34 games and averaged 17.8 minutes for an Eagles squad that won 30 games and advanced to the NCAA Tournament. She made 36 3-pointers while recording 33 assists with just six turnovers. She started two of the first three games for FGCU in 2023-24 before suffering a season-ending lower-body injury.

Before her time in Florida, Santoro helped Kent State post a 51-32 record over three seasons. She started 31 games while averaging 9.0 points, 3.4 rebounds and 1.9 assists in 2022-23 as KSU won 21 contests. She averaged career highs of 10.1 points, 3.5 rebounds 3.0 assists in 2021-22 while becoming the first Golden Flash in program history to post a triple-double, and she averaged 6.7 points, 2.1 assists and 2.0 rebounds in 2020-21.

Texas tops TCU, reaches Final Four

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Madison Booker scored 18 points and No. 1 seed Texas used its stifling defense to reach the Final Four of the women’s NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2003, beating well-traveled point guard Hailey Van Lith and second-seeded TCU 58-47 on Monday night.

The Longhorns (35-3) will face defending champion South Carolina on Friday night for a spot in the national title.

Texas won a regional final for the first time in four tries under coach Vic Schaefer, who previously made two Final Four trips with Mississippi State. The Longhorns’ 35 wins are one more than its only national title-winning squad had in 1986 under Jody Conradt, who was in the stands Monday night.

Van Lith scored 17 points in her collegiate finale for TCU (34-4), but Texas neutralized the Horned Frogs’ star center, Sedona Prince, who had four points and nine rebounds before fouling out in the fourth quarter.