PENNSYLVANIA PREPS Basketball player seeks medical redshirt

His senior season was wrecked by a major knee injury.
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Canon-McMillan High School basketball player Justin Moore's appeal of a District 7 decision denying him an extra season of eligibility will be heard Friday by the PIAA.
Moore sustained a major knee injury on Nov. 23 and missed his senior season of basketball, along with 73 days of classes.
Moore was denied another season of eligibility by the WPIAL (PIAA District 7). The PIAA has the right to reverse the WPIAL decision and grant Moore another year of eligibility.
The 6-foot-5 Moore averaged nearly 20 points and 10 rebounds as a junior and was being recruited by West Virginia, West Point, Buffalo and Canisius before his injury.
Canon-McMillan coach Rick Bell is optimistic the PIAA will rule in Moore's favor because of the uniqueness of the case. However, the PIAA and its districts traditionally have not granted medical redshirts.
If Moore was to be given an extra season of eligibility, virtually any athlete at a PIAA school who loses a season to injury would have a case to cite as a reason why he or she should also be allowed to play another year.
Chooses baseball
Dave Shinskie, the Small School football player of the year last season at Mount Carmel, has decided to sign a pro baseball contract rather than play college football.
Shinskie, a quarterback who led Mount Carmel to two PIAA Class AA football championships, was given a $280,000 contract by the Minnesota Twins after being drafted in the fourth round of the June draft. He reports to the Twins' Gulf Coast League team in Fort Myers, Fla., this week.
Shinskie, a pitcher with a fastball that has been clocked at 93 mph, made a verbal commitment to attend the University of Delaware for football.