In Brief
JACKSON TWP — Seneca Valley senior Ashley Rees will continue her academic and soccer careers at West Virginia Wesleyan.
Rees is a three-time all-section player with the Raiders and earned All-WPIALhonors her senior year. She was MVPof the WPIALAll-Star Game.
BRIDGEPORT, W.Va. — Tri-State PGApro John Aubrey Sr. of Butler teamed with amateurs Frank Rice, Greg Loverick and R.J. Olanyk to win the Pro-3 Amateur golf event Tuesday at the Pete Dye Golf Club.The quartet had a composite score of 58 to win the tournament by two strokes.Butler graduate Rob McClellan, the golf pro at Olde Stonewall Golf Club, carded a 69 for the lowest score among professionals. Aubrey carded a 73.Loverick ends with 300 gameGreg Loverick of the Crossbow Lounge team bowled a 300 game in the Men's City League Tuesday in a one-game roll off to end the season.Despite the loss to O'Donnell's Distributors, 1,231-1,147, Loverick rolled his third sanctioned 300 game.
MIAMI — Miami Dolphins running back Ricky Williams was suspended for the 2006 season by the NFL Tuesday for violating the league's substance abuse policy for the fourth time.The league announced the suspension after Williams' appeal of his latest positive drug test was denied. Williams met with NFL counsel Jeff Pash on April 10 in an attempt to have the league overturn the test.Williams' previous positive tests were for marijuana, which he acknowledged using. The latest test apparently involved a drug other than marijuana.The 1998 Heisman Trophy winner at Texas and 2002 NFL rushing champion, Williams retired and sat out the 2004 season, then returned last year to play for new Miami coach Nick Saban.
MILWAUKEE — Brett Favre has told the Green Bay Packers he will return to play this year, ESPN.com reported Tuesday.ESPN.com, citing anonymous team and league sources, said the veteran quarterback informed Packers general manager Ted Thompson and coach Mike McCarthy of his decision in a telephone conversation.Calls by The Associated Press to Thompson, McCarthy, team president Bob Harlan and Favre's agent, James "Bus" Cook, were not immediately returned.
DALLAS — Avery Johnson was honored as the NBA's coach of the year Tuesday after guiding the Dallas Mavericks to a team record-tying 60 victories this season.That mark was first set three years ago, when Johnson was still playing for Dallas.Johnson, in his first full season as coach, received 63 first-place votes and 419 points, 172 more than Phoenix coach Mike D'Antoni.
