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Weather postponesmany games
Because Mineral Ridge High students did not have school, Friday's boys basketball games at Crestview were postponed and will be made up on Feb. 3. The junior-varsity tipoff is set for 6 p.m.
Friday's LaBrae-Liberty game has been rescheduled for the this afternoon, with the junior-varsity tipoff set for 2 p.m. at Liberty High.
The Girard-Newton Falls game will be made up tonight at 8 at Newton Falls High.
JCC sponsors3-on-3 event
YOUNGSTOWN -- The Jewish Community Center will host a men's 3 on 3 Basketball Tournament (with a maximum of four players per team) on Feb. 18 from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m.
Registration will begin at 8:15 a.m. Sixteen teams will play three rounds, a semifinal and a championship game to compete for a 200 prize.
Registration deadline is Feb. 5. For more details, call (330) 746-3251 ext. 152.
Bowling halloffers applications
BOARDMAN -- Applications for the Greater Youngstown Bowling Association Hall of Fame are available at area establishments and at the association offices at 7255 Glendale, GYBA Hall of Fame chairman John Beene announced.
The last day to submit candidates' applications is March 16.
The GYBA's Hall of Fame class for 2007 will elected on April 21 and selections will be honored at the hall of fame and awards dinner on July 1 at the ITAM Centre on Meridian Rd.
In addition to Beene, HOF permanent board members are: Russ Turner (vice-chairman), Ted Bundy (secretary), Jack Carter, Joe Haus, Jackie Martin, Jack Kechler, Greg Hartman and George Mays. Outside members are: Holiday Bowl's Tom Eframedes and Rich Wilson of Boardman Lanes.
Bowler representatives are: Ray Bakes, Dan Donatelli Sr., Tim Graham, Neil Guerrieri and Jim Ellis.
REGION
Anaheim, Columbus deal six players
COLUMBUS -- The Columbus Blue Jackets traded right wing Joe Motzko and center Mark Hartigan to the Anaheim Ducks on Friday, picking up center Zenon Konopka and left wing Curtis Glencross.
The deal also included draft picks, Columbus giving up a conditional seventh-round pick in either 2007 or 2008 and the Ducks throwing in a fourth-round selection in this year's draft.
"Zenon Konopka and Curtis Glencross are two young guys who have a chance to develop into solid NHL players," Blue Jackets president and general manager Doug MacLean said. "Konopka in particular is a hardworking, character player who we think has a real good upside."
Motzko, 26, had one goal in 11 games with the Blue Jackets this season, spending most of his time at the club's top affiliate in Syracuse of the American Hockey League. Hartigan, 29, played on a regular basis at the end of last season and totaled 16 goals and 10 assists in 73 NHL games with Columbus and Atlanta. The Blue Jackets have few young centers on the current team or in the minors and Konopka, 26, fills that need. He had four goals and three assists in 23 games with Anaheim, all during the 2005-06 season. This year he has collected 11 goals and 24 assists with Portland of the AHL.
Glencross, 24, made his debut with the Ducks this season, appearing in two games and picking up his first NHL goal. He has spent most of his first three professional seasons in the AHL.
Columbus assigned Konopka and Glencross to Syracuse.
NATION
Pro Bowl subsare named
Defensive tackles John Henderson and Pat Williams were selected Friday as injury replacements for next month's Pro Bowl.
Jacksonville Jaguar Henderson replaces New England's lone selection, Richard Seymour, and Minnesota Viking Williams is filling in for Chicago's Tommie Harris.
Henderson, who joins teammate Rashean Mathis in Honolulu for the Feb. 10 game, had 64 tackles, 12 quarterback pressures and 3.5 sacks last season. It will be his second trip to the Pro Bowl.
This is Williams' first Pro Bowl selection in his 10-year career. He had 59 tackles, 14 quarterback hurries and five passes defensed. He will join three teammates -- center Matt Birk, guard Steve Hutchinson and defensive tackle Kevin Williams.
Flyers' Forsbergfuture up in air
VOORHEES, N.J. -- Peter Forsberg's next great feat all depends on his resistant right foot.
The only thing he'd like to straighten out more than the foot in his ill-fitting skate is his future. Not even Forsberg is sure if he'll finish a second season with the Philadelphia Flyers, re-sign with the franchise, or soon ask for a trade to a Stanley Cup contender.
The former MVP might even retire. It all depends again on how Forsberg feels after his latest attempt at finding out why his right foot can't bond with his skate.
"I need to fix my foot," Forsberg said after Friday's practice. "I don't want to go through another year like this when I can't do my best. I feel like I want to do more, but I can't because my foot is in the way."
Vindicator staff/wire reports