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The Butler BlueSox' 2014 Prospect League schedule has been released.

The team will open its sixth season May 28 at Lorain County before hosting the West Virginia Miners May 29 and 30.

Half of the team's 30 home games will be played on Friday, Saturday or Sunday nights. Inter-division play will be featured for the first time since 2011.

The Champion City Kings of Springfield, Ohio — formerly the Slippery Rock Sliders — will remain in the East Division with the BlueSox.

ERIE — Seneca Valley graduate Alex Bilka and Butler graduate Taylor Troyan have earned All-Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference honors with Penn State Behrend women's soccer this season.Bilka, a freshman forward, was named first team after scoring 13 goals and 30 points, including three game-winning tallies.Troyan, a sophomore goalkeeper, had a 1.18 goals-against average.

ERIE — Seneca Valley graduate and Penn State Behrend freshman men's soccer player Anthony Crivelli has been named AMCC Newcomer of the Year.Crivelli is tied for the team lead with 10 goals, scoring nine of them over an 11-game span.

SLIPPERY ROCK — The Slippery Rock University men's and women's soccer teams moved up the ladder in the final National Soccer Coaches Association of America Division II poll of the season.The Rock women advanced three spots to No. 12 while the Rock men moved up eight places to No. 16.

GROVE CITY — Grove City College women's soccer senior midfielder Sarah Cessar, a Slippery Rock High School graduate, has been named first team All-Presidents' Athletic Conference.Cessar led the Wolverines with six goals and 17 points. She has 17 goals and 10 assists as a three-year starter with the team.

ATLANTA — Atlanta's mayor said that the city will demolish Turner Field after the Braves leave for a new stadium in the suburbs in 2017.Mayor Kasim Reed said at a news conference that the stadium will not be left vacant after the team starts playing at a new field in Cobb County in three years.

HOUSTON — The Houston Texans released nine-time Pro Bowl safety Ed Reed and put running back Arian Foster on injured reserve, the latest blows in a disaster of a season.Reed missed the first two games after hip surgery and was recently relegated to a backup role.

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