[naviga:h3]KC grad Gibson joins 500-500 club[/naviga:h3]

SLIPPERY ROCK — Karns City graduate LeeAnn Gibson scored 10 points and grabbed 14 rebounds for Slippery Rock University in SRU’s 63-50 women’s basketball win over Pitt-Johnstown Wednesday night at Morrow Field House.

It was Gibson’s third successive double-double and she became the 17th player in Rock history to amass 500 points and 500 rebounds in a career. She now has 509 career rebounds.

SRU (7-17, 5-13) hosts Seton Hill at 1 p.m. Saturday.

[naviga:h3]Greaves hits for 25 in Westminster win[/naviga:h3]

NEW WILMINGTON — Moniteau graduate Alazia Greaves scored a career-high 25 points — 23 in the first half — in Westminster College’s 87-50 women’s basketball win over Geneva Wednesday night.

Greaves had five treys and six rebounds as well for the Titans (18-5, 11-3).

[naviga:h3]Injured Pedroia won’t be with Sox[/naviga:h3]

FORT MYERS, Fla. — Injured second baseman Dustin Pedroia won’t report to spring training with the rest of the Red Sox position players next week, manager Ron Roenicke said Thursday in somewhat of a eulogy for the former MVP’s career.

A four-time All-Star who was the AL rookie of the year in 2007 and the AL MVP in his second season, Pedroia has played in just nine games the last two seasons while trying to recover from the injury he sustained when Baltimore’s Manny Machado slid spikes-high into his knee in May 2017.

[naviga:h3]NASCAR renames champ trophy[/naviga:h3]

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — The trophy awarded to NASCAR’s champion will be called the Bill France Cup beginning this season.

The renaming is a tribute to Bill France Sr, who founded NASCAR in 1947, as well as his son, Bill France Jr., who elevated the sport to national prominence as chairman from 1972 to 2003.

The Bill France Cup was created by Jostens and maintains the size and shape of last year’s championship trophy. It features outlines of the 24 NASCAR Cup Series racetracks that comprise the 2020 schedule.