Stringer

DETROIT Slippery Rock University graduate and Rutgers University women's basketball coach C. Vivian Stringer, the third winningest coach in women's college history, will be inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame.

The announcement was made Monday at Ford Field, the site of the men's national title game.

Stringer is 825-280 in 38 years of coaching and has taken three women's programs, Cheyney State, Iowa and Rutgers, to the Final Four.

Stringer will be inducted along with Utah Jazz coach Jerry Sloan and NBA greats Michael Jordan, David Robinson and John Stockton Sept. 10 to 12 in Springfield, Mass., home of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

LITITZ Butler's Carissa Chilcott finished second in the Future Novice Equitation on the Flat class at the Interscholastic Equestrian Association Zone II Finals at Linden Hall School over the weekend.The performance earned Chilcott a berth in the IEA National Finals, set for Lake Erie College in Painesville, Ohio, April 30 through May 3.Zone II includes 16 teams from New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. All first- and second-place riders are invited to the national finals.

JEFFERSON TWP Kevin Green, a junior on the Knoch wrestling team, placed fourth at the Middle Atlantic Wrestling Association's west regional tournament recently.Green's performance in the 16-man bracket qualified him for the eastern nationals May 3 to 4 in Salisbury, Md. Wrestlers from 15 states will compete in that event.Knoch's Col McLaughlin finished fifth in a 20-man bracket to qualify as the first alternate in the 110-pound weight class.

SEWICKLEY Joe Boros of Treesdale Golf and Country Club and amateur partner Dan Kubelick fired a 70 to tie for sixth place at the Minuzo Pro-Scratch Amateur at Allegheny Country Club Monday.Rob McClellan and Erik Lenyk of Butler Country Club, and Travis Dickson and Kirby Laughlin of Treesdale tied for eighth place with scores of 71 while John Aubrey Sr. and Don Erickson of Aubrey's Dubbs Dred tied for 12th place (72).Dickson tied for fourth (72) and McClellan (73) for sixth in the low professional event.

PITTSBURGH The Pittsburgh Steelers have re-signed another of their free agents, linebacker Keyaron Fox, to a two-year deal.The 6-foot-3, 235-pound Fox joined Pittsburgh last season after four years with Kansas City. He was mostly a special teams player for the Super Bowl champions, appearing in 13 games and finishing second on the team with a career-high 21 tackles in kick coverage.A third-round pick out of Georgia Tech in 2004, Fox has played in 53 regular-season games, with 73 tackles (52 solo) and one sack.