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Three area playersmake all-state team
Aliquippa defensive back Marques Council earned first team all-state honors on The Associated Press Small School team, announced Tuesday.
Farrell linebacker Alan Claiborne earned second team honors and West Middlesex defensive back Jake Buzard was on the third team.
The only undefeated football team in the PIAA this season also proved hard to beat in the balloting.
Mount Carmel, the PIAA Class AA champion with a 15-0 record, dominated much of its opposition while winning its fifth PIAA championship in nine years. Likewise, the Red Tornadoes dominate the all-state first team for Class AA and A players with four selections, two each on offense and defense.
Dave Shinskie, the Small School player of the year, made the first-team offense along with one of the players who protected him, lineman Randy Swank. On defense, linebacker Steve Matzura, the school's career leader in tackles, and lineman Dave Brown made the first team.
Class A champion Southern Columbia and Class AA runner-up Seton-La Salle, which lost 18-13 to Mount Carmel, each placed two players on the first team, which was selected following statewide balloting by writers and broadcasters.
Mike Majzunearns PAC honors
NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. -- Mike Majzun, a 6-foot-3 senior guard for the Bethany College basketball team from Struthers High, has been selected the Presidents' Athletic Conference men's basketball Player of the Week.
Majzun averaged 24.6 points for three games last week as Bethany went 2-1 record over the span. He made 60 percent (15-for-25) of his 3-point goal attempts over the span.
Majzun scored a career-high 32 points, including six 3-point goals, in the Bison's 91-90 overtime win over Kenyon on Tuesday.
He had 24 points, including the 1,000th point of his career, as his team beat Penn State-Altoona 85-74 win on Thursday.
And Majzun ended the week with 18 points in Bethany's 108-43 loss to Franklin & amp; Marshall Saturday.
Grove City's Mooseplayer of the week
NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. -- Abby Moose, a 5-foot-8 sophomore guard for the Grove City College women's basketball team from Mercer High, has been named Presidents' Athletic Conference Women's Basketball Player of the Week.
Moose scored a season-best 22 points and had five assists in Grove City's first win of the season, a 75-39 romp past Hiram in the Wolverines' only game last week.
Moose made 8-for-14 from the field, including 3-for-6 from 3-point distance.
Game rescheduled
NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. -- The Westminster men's basketball game scheduled for Friday against Allegheny will begin at 7 p.m., not 8, at Buzz Ridl Gymnasium.
Liberty's Brownleads Wesleyan
BUCKHANNON, W. Va. -- After starting the year 0-3, the West Virginia Wesleyan College Bobcat football team won seven of its last eight games and grabbed the 2002 West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WVIAC) title.
This was the first championship for the Bobcats since they shared the title with Glenville State College in 1995, and their first outright title since 1961.
Several team records were broken in 2002, including total offense in one season (4,588 yards), yards rushing in one season (2,431) and first downs in one season (235).
Junior running back Chris Brown, a Youngstown native and Liberty High graduate, had 29 carries for 202 yards (7.0 average per carry) and two TDs.
Bobcat head coach Bill Struble was named as the WVIAC Coach of the Year. Wesleyan finished the season with a 7-4 overall record and a 6-1 mark in the WVIAC.
NATION
Sampras skipping Australian Open
LOS ANGELES -- Tennis star Pete Sampras, planning to play at least one more year, will skip the Australian Open.
The 31-year-old Sampras, the 1994 and 1997 Australian Open winner, told the Los Angeles Times on Tuesday that he does not have enough time to prepare for the major event that begins Jan. 13.
He expects to return to play in February in the Siebel Open in San Jose, and also plans to compete in the final three major championships -- the French Open, Wimbledon and U.S. Open.
"I'm just going to see how it goes, just kind of ride the wave and see how far it takes me," said Sampras, whose wife, Bridgette Wilson, gave birth to their first child last month.
NFL roundup
ALLEN PARK, Mich. -- Detroit Lions quarterback Joey Harrington was released from the hospital after undergoing a procedure to repair an abnormal heart rhythm.
Dr. Claudio Schuger, director of clinical cardiac electrophysiology at Henry Ford Hospital, said Harrington's heart is structurally sound.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Kansas City's Morten Andersen, the second-leading scorer in NFL history, will undergo arthroscopic surgery on his right knee to repair cartilage damage.
That ends Andersen's streak of consecutive games 34 short of the NFL record of 282 by Jim Marshall.
Vindicator staff/wire reports