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Yahoo
21-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
6 Erie County school districts had primary election races. 7 will have races in November
A number of local school districts had contested races for school board nominations in the May 20 municipal primary. There will be races again in November in the Erie, General McLane, Girard, Iroquois, North East and Northwestern school districts, according to unofficial election results. Seeking four seats available on the Erie School Board this fall will be incumbents Jay Breneman and Zakaria Sharif plus Leah Merski, former school director Gary Horton and Hayan Aloush. Merski, Breneman, Horton and Sharif won Democratic nominations with 5,851, 5,419, 5,378 and 3,906 votes, respectively. Failing to win Democratic nominations were Danielle Randall with 3,691 votes, Tony Quinn with 2,614, Tywonn Taylor with 2,266 and Aloush with 1,078. Republican nominations went to Merski, Horton, Sharif and Aloush, with 1,924, 1,140, 1,028 and 802 votes, respectively. Taylor failed to win a Republican nomination with 714 votes. Erie mayoral race: Daria Devlin stuns two-term incumbent Joe Schember to win Democratic primary Incumbent school directors Jason Halfast, Joe Frisina, Amy Allen and Richard Farver won nominations for re-election in both parties. Challenger Andrea Chelton failed to win a nomination. In Democratic balloting, Halfast led with 315 votes followed by Farver, 306; Allen, 291; Frisina, 236; and Chelton, 202. On the Republican ballot, Halfast led again with 522 votes. Allen had 489, Farver 469, and Frisina, 386, to win nominations. Chelton trailed with 349 votes. Two candidates for a four-year at-large seat on the school board will face each other again in November. Donald Ickes won the Democratic nomination with 836 votes to 422 for Mark Kernick. Kernick won the Republican nomination with 596 votes to 530 for Ickes. The only other contest in the district was for a Region 3 seat on the board. George Roberts won the nomination in both parties with 179 Democratic votes and 126 Republican votes to 164 and 59 votes, respectively, for Brad Pattullo. Incumbent school directors Mike McConnell and Joseph Legnasky plus Chris McNally, Daniel Maher and Jason Bax will vie for four four-year seats on the Girard School Board in November. Democratic nominations went to McConnell, 587 votes; McNally, 566; Maher, 529; and Legnasky, 433. Bax trailed with 421 votes. Republican nominations went to McConnell, McNally, Maher and Jason Bax, with 565, 535, 516 and 401 votes, respectively. Legnasky trailed with 374 votes. There were no races for party nominations for Iroquois School Board, but there will be a race this fall as incumbents Andrew Jackula, Michael King and Rita Nicolussi face challengers Lucia Conti and Jake Wilder for four board seats. Conti, Nicolussi, Jackula and Wilder won Democratic nominations with 503, 484, 465 and 453 votes, respectively. Jackula, with 244 votes, King, with 223, and Nicolussi, with 221, won Republican nominations. Incumbent school directors Jane Blystone, Corrie Boyd and Alene Rohde and challengers Ginny Schwartz, Amanda Steeneck and Neil McCord will contend for four-year terms on the North East School Board in November. Democrats nominated Blystone with 442 votes, Boyd with 430, Schwartz with 402 and Rohde with 378. Failing to win Democratic nominations were Dominic Gardunio with 336 votes and Steeneck with 290. Republican nominations went to McCord with 687 votes, Boyd with 649, Steeneck with 553 and Blystone with 491. Failing to win Republican nominations were Schwartz with 272 votes and Gardunio with 176. Democratic nominations for Northwestern School Board went to Heather Fawcett with 475 votes, incumbent Mark Swanson with 450, Jennifer Kumar with 340 and another incumbent, Becky Mikovch, with 313. Courtney Roberts, with 244 votes, and Bre Haycock, with 138, failed to win Democratic nominations. Republican nominations went to Fawcett with 547 votes, Swanson with 533, Mikovch with 486 and Dan Peppers with 365. Kumar, with 316 votes, Roberts with 296 and Haycock with 167 did not win Republican nominations. Squaring off in November will be Fawcett, Swanson, Mikovch, Kumar and Peppers, for four available board seats. Contact Valerie Myers at vmyers@ This article originally appeared on Erie Times-News: Voters pick the winners in contested Erie area school board races
Yahoo
03-04-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Texas vs. South Carolina: Odds, Expert Picks, Betting Trends and Stats for 2025 NCAA Women's Final Four
Madison Booker and the Texas Longhorns (35-3) are in Tampa, FL to take on Milaysia Fulwiley and the South Carolina Gamecocks (34-3) in the Final Four of Women's College Basketball. The Gamecocks are back in the Final Four with an eye on repeating as national champions. They won Region 2 and advanced to the Final Four with a 54-50 victory over Duke in the Elite 8. Dawn Staley's squad locked down defensively in the 4th quarter against the Blue Devils. The Blue Devils were held to eight points and South Carolina came from behind to secure another Final Four invite. Advertisement Texas won Region 3 with a 58-47 win over TCU. Booker led the Longhorns with 18 points and six rebounds. Buoyed by a physical defense, the Longhorns led throughout limiting TCU's leading scorer Hailey Van Lith to just three field goals on 15 attempts. TCU as a team shot just 26.7% from the field (12-45) and 20% from beyond the arc (4-20). Texas and South Carolina are more than familiar with each other. This will be their fourth meeting of the season. The teams split the regular season series prior to South Carolina dismantling Texas in the SEC Final, 64-45. The Gamecocks took over that game in the second quarter outscoring Texas, 21-6. Lets dive into Round 4 of this matchup and offer some information and possibly a sweat or two. We've got all the info and analysis you need to know ahead of the game, including the latest info on the how to catch the opening tip, recent team performance, player stats, and of course, our predictions, picks & best bets for the game from our modeling tools and staff of experts. Game details & how to watch Texas vs. South Carolina Date: Friday, April 4, 2025 Time: 7PM EST Site: Amalie Arena City: Tampa, FL Network/Streaming: ESPN/ESPN2 Advertisement Never miss a second of the action and stay up to date with all the latest scores and player news. Check out our day-by-day NCAA Basketball Schedule Page that includes live game updates. Game odds for Texas vs. South Carolina The latest odds as of Wednesday courtesy of BetMGM: Odds: Texas Longhorns (+185), South Carolina Gamecocks (-225) Spread: Gamecocks -5.5 Total: 124.5 points Expert picks & predictions for Texas vs. South Carolina Rotoworld Best Bet Our model calculates projections around each moneyline, spread and over/under bet for every game on the NCAA calendar based on data points like past performance, player matchups, injuries, and the schedule. Once the model is finished running, we put its projection next to the latest betting lines for the game to arrive at a relative confidence level for each wager. Advertisement Here are the best bets our model is projecting for Saturday's Longhorns and Gamecocks game: Moneyline: NBC Sports Bet is recommending a play on South Carolina on the Moneyline. Spread: NBC Sports Bet is recommending a play ATS on South Carolina -5.5. Total: NBC Sports Bet is staying away from a play on the Game Total of 124.5. Texas vs. South Carolina: Top betting trends and recent stats South Carolina secured the NCAA Title in 2024 with a perfect 38-0 record South Carolina's defense is holding opponents to an average of 50.7 points per game this season Freshman Joyce Edwards is South Carolina's leading scorer averaging 12.7 points per game Texas is making its fourth Final Four appearance and first since 2003 Texas' defense is holding opponents to an average of 55.7 points per game this season Madison Booker is averaging 18.8 points per game for Texas in the NCAA Tournament If you're looking for more key trends and stats around the spread, moneyline and total for every single game on the schedule today, check out our NCAA Basketball Top Trends Tool on Please bet responsibly. If you or someone you know has a gambling problem, call the National Gambling Helpline at 1-800-522-4700. Follow our experts on socials to keep up with all the latest content from the staff: · Jay Croucher (@croucherJD) · Drew Dinsick (@whale_capper) · Vaughn Dalzell (@VmoneySports) · Brad Thomas (@MrBradThomas)
Washington Post
01-04-2025
- Sport
- Washington Post
Texas, the NCAA tournament's forgotten No. 1 seed, reaches the Final Four
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The players on the Texas bench literally had to be held back from spilling onto the floor. Bryanna Preston twisted back and forth in a dance. Jordan Lee pretended to spoon food into her mouth. Aaliyah Moore faux-fainted and had to be held up by teammates. Their 6-foot-6 backup center, Kyla Oldacre, had just stolen the ball near the opposite three-point line, drove three quarters of the court to the basket and finished with an and-one layup while crashing to the floor. Throngs of fans wearing burnt orange behind the bench immediately leapt to their feet. The ensuing free throw gave the Longhorns their biggest lead of the night at 11 points in the fourth quarter. It was enough to hold off a late TCU rally and send Texas back to the Final Four for the first time since 2003 with a 58-47 victory in the Birmingham Region 3 final Monday night. The Longhorns, who leaned on their defense to reach the sport's biggest stage, will face defending champion South Carolina in a national semifinal Friday night in Tampa. The Longhorns seemed to be the least talked about No. 1 seed in the NCAA women's tournament. Madison Booker is a two-time all-American, but she doesn't get the attention that players such as USC's JuJu Watkins or UCLA's Lauren Betts have received this season. South Carolina is about to play in its fifth consecutive Final Four, so there is no shortage of attention there, either. Still, Texas tied with South Carolina as regular season champions in the SEC and has just three losses all season. The Longhorns belong. Booker was named the region's MVP after posting 18 points and six rebounds Monday. She was joined by teammate Rori Harmon (13 points, five assists, two steals) on the all-region team. Harmon was in tears after the game, reminiscing about tearing her ACL on Dec. 27, 2023, and finally being cleared to play on Oct. 17, 2024, before playing every game this season. 'I just think about going through my recovery and coming back after 10 months,' Harmon said on the ESPN game broadcast with Booker's arm around her shoulders. 'I'm so proud of myself and I'm so proud of my team to get to this moment.' The Longhorns are now going to their fourth Final Four, with their lone previous national championship and national final appearance coming in 1986. Their coach, Vic Schaefer, heads to his third Final Four after taking Mississippi State to the championship game in 2017 and 2018. The historic run for TCU — which made its first Elite Eight in school history — ended in a less than fantastic fashion after its two superstars Hailey Van Lith and Sedona Prince were hounded throughout the night. Van Lith, the only player to reach three Elite Eights with three different teams in the men's or women's tournament, finished with 17 points, eight rebounds, two assists and seven turnovers while shooting 3 for 15 from the field. Prince fouled out with four points and nine rebounds. 'It's been certainly a journey and nothing I expected,' Van Lith said. 'It was hard. It was a lot of nights of being like, 'I feel like God has put this thing on my heart to be great, but it's not working out right now.' A lot of times, I had to look at myself in the mirror and just be like, 'What do you want, Hailey? Who are you?' And I'm grateful for it.' Texas came into the game ranked No. 18 in the nation in both scoring defense (55.9 points allowed per game) and forced turnovers per game (just under 21), and it relied on that defense again to hold a TCU team that had the No. 23 scoring offense in the country to a season low and 30.5 points under its average. Little was pretty anywhere on the floor early on, as the two teams combined to shoot 1 for 11 from the field to start the game. The question was: Were they just tight, or was it exquisite defense? Texas quickly answered as it began forcing turnovers with a full-court press that frazzled TCU and turned those giveaways into baskets. In the first quarter alone, the Longhorns essentially forced two shot clock violations, two 10-second violations and a five-second inbound violation, and Harmon turned two steals into layups. TCU had 21 turnovers on the night that were converted into 17 Texas points. An 8-3 second-quarter spurt put TCU in a nine-point hole, and the Horned Frogs seemed in serious trouble as their offensive woes continued and Van Lith and Prince were locked up. That was the case until they were able to close the half on a 7-0 run including a corner three and a buzzer-beating fadeaway from Van Lith to send the teams into halftime with Texas leading 23-21. 'They're the greatest team in TCU women's basketball history,' TCU Coach Mark Campbell said. 'It just shows when you come together and you lose yourself in the journey, and you set your ego aside, just the incredible things you can accomplish.' Texas's defense still made life difficult after the break, and the Longhorns closed the third quarter with a 13-4 run after being tied at 29-29. A late push got TCU within six points, but the Longhorns defense didn't give up another point in the final 2:41 of the game.
