Correction

Correction

Poland High soccer player Troy Bole was a second-team selection for the All-American Conference’s American Division.

His name was misspelled in Saturday’s edition.

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Alonso celebrates ’best season’ of his career

SAO PAULO

Fernando Alonso stood on the Formula One podium spraying the customary champagne like a man with plenty of reasons to celebrate.

Despite falling just short of his third Formula One title for the second time in three years, Alonso showed no signs of sulking — calling this “by far the best season” of his career.

Alonso finished second to Jenson Button at the Brazilian Grand Prix on Sunday, which wasn’t enough to avoid also finishing second to Sebastian Vettel in the F1 drivers’ standings. He ended up losing the title by just three points — having finished four points behind Vettel in 2010.

Ex-White Sox pitcher Hal Trosky Jr. dies

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa

Hal Trosky Jr., who briefly played in the major leagues and was the son of the late Cleveland Indians great Hal Trosky Sr., has died. He was 76.

Mike Trosky, the younger Trosky’s son, says his father died Friday at a hospice house in Hiawatha after being diagnosed with lung cancer in August.

Trosky was born in Cleveland and played five seasons in the minors after being signed by the Chicago White Sox out of high school.

In 1958, he pitched two games for the White Sox. The Iowa Baseball Hall of Famer stopped playing after the 1961 season.

His father played first base for Cleveland from 1933 to 1941 and the White Sox in 1944 and 1946. He hit 216 homers with Cleveland — the fifth-most in franchise history.

Zettel edges teammate Schild to win slalom

ASPEN, Colo.

Austria’s Kathrin Zettel held off teammate and training partner Marlies Schild to win a World Cup slalom Sunday, skiing a blazing second run on a course on which she is much at home.

Zettel finished in a combined time of 1 minute, 42.46 seconds to edge Schild by 0.67 seconds. Tina Maze of Slovenia was third in a race Lindsey Vonn skipped as she recovers from an intestinal illness.

Schild was seeking her 34th career slalom win, which would match the discipline record of Swiss great Vreni Schneider. She looked on her way, too, after a swift second run through a challenging course. But Schild was eclipsed by Zettel, the last skier of the afternoon.

There’s something about the Aspen hill that suits Zettel. She also finished second in the giant slalom the day before, making it a highly productive weekend.

Cheerleader flips to beat Guinness record

EL PASO, Texas

A former University of Texas at El Paso cheerleader who traded her pom-poms for dog tags after graduating last spring has apparently backed into the record books — head over heels.

U.S. Army 2nd Lt. Jalyessa Walker did 49 consecutive back handsprings Saturday during halftime of the UTEP-Rice football game.

The crowd of nearly 20,400 in El Paso counted along as she tumbled from one end of the field to the other, past the end zone and into concrete, before stopping.

Walker said her goal was 50, but she ran out of room.

“As soon as I hit the concrete, I was starting to get tired and scared because I didn’t want to fall,” said Walker, 23.

In October, a Dallas high school cheerleader, Miranda Ferguson of St. Mark’s School of Texas, set the record with 35 consecutive handsprings, according to Guinness World Records.

Vindicator staff/wire reports