The Butler, Knoch and Freeport boys track and field teams will be competing in the first round of the WPIAL team playoffs at 3 p.m. Wednesday.

In one of four Class AAA meetings, Butler will square off against West Allegheny, Trinity and Canon-McMillan at Baldwin while Knoch will face Mount Lebanon, New

In one of four Class AA meetings, Freeport will face Freedom, Rochester and Charleroi at Mars (site only).Mars also will serve as the host site in the Class AA girls, where Freedom, Charleroi and Southmoreland will compete.

NELLYSFORD, Va. Brett Rinker of Slippery Rock fired a two-round 139 to capture first place in his age group at the recent Plantation Junior Golf Tour event at Stony Creek Golf Course at Wintergreen Resort.

The Butler Catholic Athletic Association held its annual sports banquet Sunday.Honorees and their awards include: Angela Kovac (Volleyball Coaches Award), Kyle Boyer (Soccer Coaches Award and Pastoral Award), Tori Sawhney (Soccer Coaches Award), Natalie Barkus (Coach "Coke" Kuciak Award, basketball), Olivia Wiest (Ella Frost Award, basketball, and Pastoral Award), Levi Leyland (Coach Harry Leyland Award, basketball) and Keenan Barlow (George Frost Award, basketball).Longtime Butler Catholic coach Harry Leyland received a plaque from the Butler Catholic Pastors and Athletic Association, declaring the gymnasium was renamed for him.

DALLAS - Former Kansas City Chiefs coach Frank Gansz, who spent much of his NFL and collegiate career working with special teams, died Monday at a Dallas hospital. He was 70.SMU spokesman Brad Sutton said Gansz developed complications after undergoing knee replacement surgery last week. Gansz had been special teams coach for the Mustangs last year.Gansz coached for 38 years, 24 in the NFL. He was head coach of the Chiefs from 1987-88. He also was an assistant for the Chiefs twice before taking over the head coaching job. Other stops included special teams coordinator for Jacksonville, Atlanta, St. Louis and Detroit, and well as stints at Philadelphia, Cincinnati and San Francisco. He was on the Rams' staff for their 2000 Super Bowl win.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. Greg Page, a former heavyweight boxing champion who suffered a severe brain injury in a 2001 fight, died Monday at his Louisville home. He was 50.His wife, Patricia Page, said he died of complications related to injuries he suffered in the fight.The March 9, 2001, fight left Page in a coma for nearly a week. He then had a stroke during post-fight surgery. He was paralyzed on his left side and received intensive physical therapy.

NEW YORK Expected to be among the favorites, Quality Road missed a final workout at Belmont Park Monday and was declared out of Saturday's Kentucky Derby by trainer Jimmy Jerkens.Quality Road developed a quarter crack on his right front foot last week, and missed significant training. He galloped Sunday on Belmont's training track, and Jerkens found a spot of blood on the newly patched crack.