IN BRIEF
NEW WILMINGTON — The Slippery Rock High boys and girls soccer teams will be in action tonight.
The girls (14-2-2) will take on Mercyhurst Prep at 5:30 p.m. at Wilmington High.
The boys (16-2-1) will play Hickory at 7:30 p.m. at Wilmington.
ERIE — Butler graduate Steven Monnie finished third in the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference cross country meet recently, helping Penn State-Behrend win the league title for the third straight season.Steel Flynn, Tim Karls and Braden Davis are other Butler graduates on the team.Behrend will compete at the NCAA Division III Regional Championships Nov. 14 at Lehigh University in Bethlehem.
ERIE — The Slippery Rock University men's soccer team (16-3) faces Mercyhurst (14-5) in a PSAC semifinal at 1 p.m. today in Erie.The Rock finished the regular season one win shy of the school record. Today's winner faces the Millersville-Bloomsburg winner in the PSAC championship game Saturday.
CALGARY, Alberta — The provincial health minister wants to know if swine flu shots were "inappropriately diverted" to the Calgary Flames while thousands had to stand in line for hours for the vaccine.Alberta Health Minister Ron Liepert said Tuesday he doesn't know where the NHL team got the vaccine, adding that Alberta Health Services is the only supplier in the province. Team president Ken King says the club contacted the department and asked for the clinic.Health officials have begun an investigation into the special clinic, which was held for the players and their families Friday.Liepert says the vaccine would be diverted only with the approval of the chief medical officer of health, but he doesn't know if that was the case.Alberta's opposition parties say professional hockey players shouldn't be getting the vaccine ahead of cancer patients and pregnant women.
