Youngstown State’s Director of Athletics, Ron Strollo, has issued a mandate to athletic coaches at the school that the Social Night Club on Commerce St., in downtown Youngstown, Oh. is “off limits to student-athletes until further notice.”
      Strollo’s mandate was issued last week after Youngstown police reported there was an altercation at the club in the early-morning hours of Sun., Feb. 11.
      Jonathan Rosa, manager at the club, told police “the combatants were all members of the Youngstown State football team,” YPD Officer William Burton said, adding that “an altercation occurred in the bar and two players were escorted out by security.” As they were being escorted out of the place, police were told “another player began to yell and scream” at the club’s security officer.
      Rosa said “another player, not involved in the original altercation, came from the crowd on the sidewalk and punched...with full force” a 21-year-old man in the head. The victim needed seven stitches to close the wound on the top of his head.
      “The victim (a YSU student) was not involved in any of the altercations leading up to getting punched,” Officer Burton said, adding “he was apparently only a bystander watching the altercation when he was hit.”
      Rosa and the security guard told police “they knew for sure the patrons who were originally thrown out, and the man who struck [the 21-year-old] was a football player.”
      Rosa told police the man who struck the 21-year-old was “one of the twins.”
      Officer Burton said he contacted Youngstown State police and requested “investigators forward surveillance footage from the Erie Terminal Building and bars and contact the YSU football coaching staff to identify all involved.”
      The victim was taken to Mercy Health/Youngstown, but was unable to speak with police due to receiving treatment. Police said the victim’s condition was “listed as stable, however he did receive a significant injury.”