SLIPPERY ROCK — Former Buffalo Bills assistant coach Eric Thatcher is joining the Slippery Rock University football staff as linebackers coach.

Thatcher served as the Bills' defensive quality control coach last season. He has also been a defensive backs coach at St. Vincent College and Mercyhurst.

Thatcher was a graduate assistant coach at Pitt for one year. He succeeds Raleigh Jackson, who left The Rock after one season to accept a similar position at Arkansas Tech.

SLIPPERY ROCK — Slippery Rock University shortstop Will Kengor has been named PSAC West Player of the Week.Kilgor had 10 hits in 21 at bats — a .476 average — with two doubles, a triple, four stolen bases, seven runs scored and five RBI.

SLIPPERY ROCK — Slippery Rock University’s Cameron Daugherty and Lexi Arnold swept the first PSAC Male and Female Field Athlete of the Week awards for the spring season.Daugherty won the pole vault and set a facility record with a vault of 16 feet, 6.75 inches at the Shamrock Invitational in Myrtle Beach, S.C.Arnold posted an NCAA provisional qualifying throw of 145 feet, three inches in the javelin at the Shamrock Invitational, finishing second in the event, first among Division II competitors.

SHANKSVILLE — Summer hours at the Flight 93 Memorial will be starting a month later due to automatic federal spending cuts.Winter hours of 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the National Park Service memorial normally change at the beginning of April to summer hours of 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., with the last entry at 6:30 p.m.But Superintendent Jeff Reinbold says that because of the federal cuts, the longer hours at the Somerset County park will not be starting until May 1.The park about 60 miles southeast of Pittsburgh commemorates the 40 passengers and crew members killed in the crash of the hijacked United Airlines flight during the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks.

PITTSBURGH — Police have identified a man who allegedly stabbed three people at a Target store, including a 16-year-old girl who remains hospitalized.Court records show that 41-year-old Leon Raymond Walls is being held in Allegheny County Jail, unable to post $250,000 bond.Investigators say Walls ran into the store in East Liberty on Monday after a fight nearby. They say he slashed two men and stabbed and seriously injured the girl. Police say she remains in serious condition.

STATE COLLEGE — Penn State says it is on track to complete most of former FBI director Louis Freeh's 119 recommendations to improve responses to safety and governance in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal.An update Tuesday on a university website said that more than 70 percent of recommendations were either completed or in the process of completion, with most of the rest ongoing or in progress. The school intends to finish implementing recommendations deemed appropriate by year's end.Former Sen. George Mitchell, who is the NCAA's independent athletics integrity monitor, has said the NCAA and Big Ten have allowed the university to bypass five Freeh recommendations that primarily have to do with human resources.

STATE COLLEGE — Penn State's iconic Nittany Lion shrine will be closed for renovations after graduation ceremonies in May.The university announced Tuesday that access to the shrine will be closed so construction can begin May 6. The project will include new landscaping and improvements to access and lighting; work is expected to be done by the first week of September.School officials say the shrine will be accessible from Aug. 5 to Aug. 11 for summer graduation pictures. The much-photographed statue of the mascot is a gift of the class of 1940; the class of 2012 voted to improve the shrine as its senior gift.