Correction

Correction

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Jonas Ballard plays basketball at Fitch High School.

In Sunday’s paper, an incorrect first name was listed for him.

Prep basketball tickets on sale at Mooney High

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Tickets for the Cardinal Mooney-Crestwood boys basketball tournament game at Boardman High on Wednesday will be on sale from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. today and Wednesday at Mooney High.

They are $6 for adults and $4 for students.

Softball stadium gets dressing rooms

OKLAHOMA CITY

Teams who make it to the Women’s College World Series will finally have dressing rooms.

Instead of putting their uniforms on at the team hotel and then taking buses to Hall of Fame Stadium in Oklahoma City, teams will now be able to use one of four dressing rooms inside a new 10,000-square-foot multipurpose building dedicated Monday.

The new building, funded through an local bond issue, will be tested out for the first time during a softball showcase this weekend. It’s the latest addition to a stadium that’s trying to keep up with the rapid growth of the Women’s College World Series.

Soccer fans ruffled after player kicks owl

BOGOTA, Colombia

Soccer fans are crying fowl over kicking an owl. In fact, they’re crying a lot worse.

Panama defender Luis Moreno is facing sanctions after he kicked an injured owl that landed on the field during a game Sunday when his Colombian club Deportivo Pereira was playing Atletico Junior.

The owl is a mascot for Atletico Junior and was being treated Monday at a veterinary clinic in Barranquilla. The bird is expected to recover from a slight fracture of its right leg.

The owl had landed injured near the corner of the field when Moreno walked over and kicked it about three yards.

US men 4th in team event at Nordic worlds

OSLO, Norway

Marit Bjoergen of Norway captured her third gold medal at the Nordic world championships Monday before thousands of flag-waving fans, and the U.S. men finished fourth in the combined team event won by Austria.

The American team featured Olympic champion Billy Demong and two-time world champion Todd Lodwick and was 54.8 seconds behind the winners. The U.S. was second fastest in the relay but was unable to make up a 1:08 deficit after the ski jump.

Austria was led by Mario Stecher, who beat Tino Edelmann of Germany in a sprint finish. The Austrians started the cross-country relay in fourth place.

Star Swiss skier Janka has heart surgery

GENEVA

World Cup overall champion Carlo Janka has had surgery to correct an irregular heartbeat and hopes to race Saturday.

The Swiss ski federation says the operation was done last Wednesday. Janka is aiming to ski in a World Cup giant slalom at Kranjska Gora, Slovenia.

Janka, the Olympic champion in GS, was diagnosed with a heart rhythm problem in December. The 24-year-old Swiss originally planned to have surgery after the season but then chose to have it done during a break from racing. He says the timing was right after the world championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

Mascot controversy

MOSCOW

When the organizers of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics chose three mascots for the games, they might have thought the decision would satisfy almost everyone.

But now it looks like they pleased almost no one.

President Dmitry Medvedev is questioning whether the voting really reflected the people’s will. The creator of Misha the bear, the mascot of the 1980 Moscow Olympics, says one of the Sochi mascots is a rip-off of his design. And firebrand politician Vladimir Zhrinovsky says all three are an insult to Russia.

Vindicator staff/wire reports