JOHNSTOWN — The Freeport hockey team lost a 6-3 decision to Bishop McCort in the PIHL Class A quarterfinals at the War Memorial Wednesday.

Freeport, the defending Penguins Cup champion, finished with a 14-8-2 record.

No details were available.

PCS grabs 1st place at tourney

The Portersville Christian School girls basketball team captured first place in the recent Underclassman Southwestern Christian Athletic Conference tournament.

Freshmen Taylor Zonts and Katie Coomber were named to the all-tournament team.

The Warriors will wrap up the season in a tournament this weekend in Erie.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Robby Gordon received a season-saving reprieve Wednesday from a NASCAR appeals committee when the three-member panel restored the 100 points he had been docked for an infraction at Daytona.The National Stock Car Racing Commission also lifted crew chief Frank Kerr's six-week suspension, but raised his monetary fine from $100,000 to $150,000. The fine is the largest in NASCAR history, topping the $100,000 set by Michael Waltrip last season and matched several times.The rare appeals victory drastically eases Gordon's burden for the future. Based on the penalty and a crash Sunday in Las Vegas that led to a 42nd-place finish, Gordon had plummeted to 37th in the standings.

DALLAS (AP) — Dirk Nowitzki was suspended without pay for one game Wednesday by the NBA for his hard foul on Utah's Andrei Kirilenko.Nowitzki will miss the Dallas Mavericks' next game, at home tonight against theHouston Rockets, who recently passed them in the tight Western Conference standings.Nowitzki received a flagrant-1 when he hit Kirilenko midway through the first quarter of a 116-110 loss to Utah on Monday. However, the league reviewed the play and decided to upgrade it to a flagrant-2. Had it been ruled a flagrant-2 at the time he would've been ejected.