Grove City baseball selected for ECACGROVE CITY — The Grove City College baseball team has been selected to play for the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Division III Southwest championship this week.The Wolverines (25-16) will play Penn State Behrend (29-16) in a best-of-three series beginning with a 1 p.m. doubleheader Thursday in Erie. If needed, a 2 p.m. Friday game will be played.Grove City is making its first postseason appearance since 2011. One of the team's standouts is junior catcher Andy Fritz, a Knoch graduate who led the team with a .416 batting average and a program single-season record 16 doubles.Fritz is a second team All-Presidents' Athletic Conference selection.

SRU cager Brown off to LuxembourgSLIPPERY ROCK — Former Slippery Rock University men's basketball standout Antonio Butler has agreed to a deal with AS Soleuvre of the Total League in Luxembourg for the 2016-17 season.Butler becomes the 15th SRU basketball player to sign a professional contract in the past eight years.A 2015 SRU graduate, Butler was part of a team that won 41 games in two years with SRU. He averaged 15.8 points, 5.9 rebounds and 2.3 assists in his senior season of 2014-15. Butler will join former SRU player Cornelius Brown with Soleuvre next season.

Doping crackdown may affect OlympicsLONDON — In a major doping crackdown stretching back eight years, 31 athletes in six sports could be barred from competing in the Olympics after they were caught in retesting of drug samples from the 2008 Beijing Games, and other positive cases could emerge from the 2012 London Games.The International Olympic Committee opened disciplinary proceedings Tuesday against the 31 unidentified athletes from 12 countries who competed in Beijing and were planning to take part in the Rio de Janeiro Games in August.

Odor gets 8 games for baseball brawlTORONTO — Texas second baseman Rougned Odor was suspended for eight games and fined $5,000 by Major League Baseball for punching Toronto’s Jose Bautista on the jaw.Major League Baseball disciplined 14 players and staff for their roles during Sunday’s brawl at Arlington, Texas.

76ers get top pick from NBA lotteryNEW YORK — The Philadelphia 76ers won the NBA draft lottery and will have the No. 1 pick in June.The Los Angeles Lakers finished second but also felt like winners, as they would have dealt their pick to Philadelphia had they fallen out of the top three.