North-South games set Sunday in Columbus

North-South games set Sunday in Columbus

COLUMBUS

Several Mahoning Valley basketball players will close their varsity careers Sunday at the Ohio High School Basketball Coaches Association annual North-South All-Star games at Capital University.

Game times are: noon, girls divisions III and IV; 1:45 p.m., girls divisions I and II; 3:45 p.m., boys, divisions III and IV; and 5:30 p.m., boys divisions I and II.

Columbiana’s Baylie Mook and Windham’s Jessica Isler will play in the first girls game. Canfield’s Rachel Tinkey, Cardinal Mooney’s Jaclyn Yankle and West Branch’s Melinda Trimmer will play in the second girls game.

Ursuline’s Mark Hughes will play in the first boys game and Warren Harding’s Shondell Jackson will play in the final game.

Middle school students earn suspensions

CANFIELD

The Ohio High School Athletic Association has ruled that a Canfield Village Middle School wrestler and two football players participated in non-interscholastic events.

The wrestler’s penalty is to be ineligible for the next two events. One of the football players will be ineligible for the first two regular-season contests.

The OHSAA has accepted the school’s self-imposed penalty that the other student will be ineligible for all regular season contests next season.

Grove City’s Lyle set to retire

GROVE CITY, Pa.

Dr. Don Lyle, director of athletics and chairman of the department of exercise science and athletics at Grove City College, will retire from the College at the conclusion of this academic year.

Lyle is in his 13th year as athletic director and 19th year as department chair. The 2014-15 academic year is Lyle’s 43rd overall year at Grove City. He oversees the College’s intricate fitness and wellness program, its rapidly-growing exercise science major and Grove City’s 21-sport varsity athletics program.

NFL reinstates Vikings’ Peterson

MINNEAPOLIS

The NFL has reinstated Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson, clearing the way for him to return after missing most of last season while facing child abuse charges in Texas.

The league announced its decision on Thursday. Commissioner Roger Goodell sent Peterson a letter advising him of his reinstatement. Goodell wrote that Peterson will have to fulfill all the obligations of his plea deal with authorities after he reached a plea deal to reduce a felony charge to a misdemeanor.

Goodell also told Peterson he would have to continue attending counseling while adhering to the league’s new personal conduct policy to avoid further discipline.

Peterson’s agent has said the star running back wants to play elsewhere next season. But the Vikings say they have no plans to trade him.

NBA will test players for HGH

LOS ANGELES

NBA players will be blood tested for human growth hormone beginning next season, the league announced on Thursday.

The HGH testing will start during training camp next fall under the NBA’s anti-drug program, as part of the collective bargaining negotiations of 2011 between the league and the National Basketball Players Association.

All players will be subjected to three random, unannounced tests annually — two during the season and once in the offseason.

Should a player test positive, he will be suspended 20 games for a first violation and 45 for second. A player would be dismissed and disqualified from the NBA for his third violation.

Ducks scratch Sekac

ANAHEIM, Calif.

Among the Anaheim Ducks’ scratches for Thursday’s Stanley Cup Playoff game against Winnipeg was forward Jiri Sekac, a Youngstown Phantom from 2009-11.

Ducks defenseman James Wisniewski, who was traded to Anaheim by Columbus last month, also was scratched.

Staff/wire reports