Dickey throws perfect game for Roth Brothers


Dickey throws perfect game for Roth Brothers

Crestview High School sophomore pitcher Dylen Dickey threw a perfect game for the Roth Brothers 16-and-under team on Thursday.

Dickey struck out eight in a 9-0 win over the Pittsburgh Curve in the opening round of the Triple Crown tournament. Chris Gurberry of Austintown Fitch High School caught the perfect game.

All-academic honors added to list for Connor

Youngstown Phantoms forward Kyle Connor has earned All-Academic honors, the United States Hockey League announced.

Managing the pressure of being a top prospect for the upcoming 2015 NHL Draft, Connor earned nearly straight A’s while attending Austintown Fitch High School. With coursework that included American Government, Consumer Math, Economics, and College Prep Writing, Connor maintained high grades while being named both the USHL Player and USHL Forward of the Year.

“Education is extremely important to me and is a big part of my life,” said Connor, who is committed to the University of Michigan.

Pens forward Dupuis cleared for return

Pascal Dupuis is good to go.

The Pittsburgh Penguins forward has been cleared to return to full-contact workouts after missing most of the 2014-15 season due to blood clots

General manager Jim Rutherford said Thursday the blood clot has dissolved and that doctors say Dupuis can play, though he will continue to take blood-thinning medication. The 36-year-old Dupuis had six goals and five assists in 16 games last season before being diagnosed with the blood clots in December. Rutherford called the news “a big step forward” for Dupuis, who has 188 goals during 13-plus seasons in the NHL with Minnesota, the New York Rangers, Atlanta and the Penguins.

Academic fraud nets UNC 1-year probation

An accreditation agency important to colleges receiving federal funds placed the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on probation for a year over its academic fraud scandal.

The board of Southern Association of Colleges and Schools’ Commission on Colleges decided Thursday to sanction the country’s oldest public university over failing to comply with several key operating principals including integrity and control of intercollegiate athletics.

The agency acted after learning last fall the broad scope of fake classes and artificially high grades in one academic department. A report revealed that the fake classes in the African studies department had gone on for nearly two decades. About half the 3,100 students in the classes were athletes. Chancellor Carol Folt says campus officials are working hard to prove reforms are in place.

Boston 2024 tries to reboot bid for Olympics

The sailing venue was relocated from Boston Harbor to the working class former whaling capital of New Bedford. Tennis dropped out of Harvard to move to the inner city.

Boston 2024 is hoping to turn around its struggling Olympic bid. Organizers are doing it by focusing more on communities that need the jobs and redevelopment they say the Olympics can bring. It doesn’t hurt that spreading the games out could help the sagging poll numbers that have plagued the effort since Boston was chosen as the American nominee to bring the Summer Games to the U.S. for the first time since 1996.

Bid organizers held a news conference at the Sportsmen’s Tennis and Enrichment Center in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston on Thursday. The potential Olympic venue is the nation’s first nonprofit African-American tennis club.

Staff/wire reports

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