GROVE CITY — Slippery Rock High graduate Sarah Cessar has been named Grove City College Sportswoman of the Year for 2013-14.

Cessar earned eight athletic letters at Grove City — four as a midfielder in soccer, three as a middle distance runner in track and one as a forward in basketball.

Last fall, she became the first Grove City women's soccer player to earn first team all-region in consecutive years. Cessar ranks second on GCC's all-time list with a time of 11 minutes, 27.26 seconds in the 3,000-meter steeplechase.

Last weekend, Cessar placed fourth in the steeplechase and seventh in the 5,000 meters to help the Wolverines win the Presidents' Athletic Conference women's track team title.

Senior football player Chris Gibbs was named GCC Sportsman of the Year.

MERIDIAN — Meridian resident Grant Foley, a sophomore on the United States Merchant Marine Academy baseball team, hit .310 as a third baseman this season.USMMA, a Division III program, finished with a record of 21-13-1, losing in the second round of the Landmark Conference playoffs.

RALEIGH, N.C. — The Carolina Hurricanes fired coach Kirk Muller and most of his coaching staff one week into Ron Francis' tenure as general manager.Assistants John MacLean and Dave Lewis also were fired and goal tending coach Greg Stefan was reassigned back to the team's pro scouting department.

TORONTO — Sidney Crosby of the Pittsburgh Penguins, Ryan Getzlaf of the Anaheim Ducks and Claude Giroux of the Philadelphia Flyers are finalists for the Ted Lindsay Award.The award is presented annually to the Most Valuable Player in the NHL.