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Alumni basketball

BOARDMAN — The Boardman High School alumni boy’s basketball game will be held at the high school gym on Nov. 28 at 5 p.m.

A social event will follow the game. For details call (330) 506-1726.

Volleyball honors

WOOSTER — Four local athletes were recognized by the Ohio High School Volleyball Coaches Association after participating in an Ohio all-star match.

Receiving awards were Canfield High’s Kalie Luklan (first team District One Division II); Alyssa Chine of Jackson-Milton High (Player of the Year District One Division IV); Rachel Kennedy, Springfield Local High (Player of the Year District One Division III); and Howland High’s Kelly Barzak (Player of the Year District One Division I.)

Biondillo decides

CANFIELD — Canfield High School senior Bianca Biondillo will play softball at Shepherd Univ. next year.

Biondillo played centerfield on Canfield’s state championship team in the spring and was an all-league selection.

At Canfield she has a 3.33 GPA.

Packages available

NILES — Niles High School is selling packages to its basketball games.

There are 10- and 20-game packages for students and adults as well as senior passes available.

For details call (330) 652-9968 ext. 114 or 115.

Meet the Cardinals

CANFIELD SEmD There will be a meet the Canfield High boy’s basketball team night at the school on Dec. 1 at 6:30 p.m.

Schwartz named

AUSTINTOWN — Mount Union College senior Stephanie Schwartz (Maplewood) was named Ohio Athletic Conference Women’s Basketball Player of the Week.

Schwartz led the Purple Raiders to a pair of wins, 82-51 over Fredonia St. (NY) and 74-63 over Allegheny for the championship at the National City Tip-Off Tournament this past weekend in Meadville.

For the week, Schwartz made 11 of her 13 shots, averaged 11 points per game and hauled down nine rebounds on her way to Tournament MVP honors.

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Hal Morris hired

PITTSBURGH — Former Cincinnati Reds first baseman Hal Morris joined the Pittsburgh Pirates on Monday as an area scouting supervisor in the upper Midwest.

Morris batted .304 during a 13-season major league career that included 10 seasons with the Reds. He finished second in the 1991 NL batting race with a .318 average.

He retired as a player following the 2000 season.

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Contador has surgery

MADRID, Spain — Alberto Contador, the 2007 Tour de France champion, underwent surgery Monday for a deviated septum and is expected to be at training camp this weekend to meet new teammate Lance Armstrong.

Contador will remain at Ramon and Cajal hospital overnight following his two-hour operation. The 25-year-old Spanish rider needed nasal surgery because of a crash at the Giro d’Italia in May.

Doctors decided not to remove a polyp from his vocal chords, recommending more conservative treatment.

Swimmer suspended

JERUSALEM — Israeli swimmer Max Jaben was suspended for one year Monday after testing positive for steroids earlier this year.

Jaben qualified to compete for Israel in the 200-meter freestyle at the Beijing Olympics, but was forced to miss the games after two tests in April and June showed he had used the anabolic steroid boldenone.

The 23-year-old Jaben could have faced a two-year ban but the Israel Swimming Association said it imposed a reduced penalty because it was his first offense and he missed the Olympics, spokesman Yaron Michaeli said.

Jaben moved to Israel from the United States in 2005. He will be eligible to compete again in June 2009.

Before immigrating to Israel from the United States, Jaben swam for the Kansas City Blazers club and for the University of Florida.

Volvo Race piracy

BRUSSELS, Belgium — The sailors aboard the sleek yachts of the Volvo Ocean Race fleet know how to fend with the dangers of icebergs, mountainous seas and violent thunderstorms. But until now, pirates were not on their radar.

With the race including Asian waters for the first time, piracy has become an added concern for the boats now sailing northward to India and then from there to Southeast Asia — until recently the world’s worst piracy zone before the surge of hijackings off the African nation of Somalia.

Vindicator staff/wire reports