ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, Fla. — The Slippery Rock University women's tennis season ended Thursday with a 5-0 loss to fourth-ranked Lynn (Fla.) University in the Division II national quarterfinals.

The loss ended SRU's season at 22-6. The Rock had never advanced to the national quarterfinals before.

Three Rock seniors — Laura Handy, Jessica Hilborn and Casey Runyan — ended their collegiate careers. The trio helped SRU to four consecutive NCAA tournaments, four regional championship match appearances, four PSAC tournaments, two NCAA regional titles and a PSAC championship.

FOX CHAPEL — Meridian resident Grant Foley, a junior at Shady Side Academy, is the starting shortstop on the WPIAL Section 4-AA championship baseball team.Foley hit .387 during the regular season with 18 hits, 20 runs scored and 16 RBI.

BUFFALO TWP — The Freeport High softball team will open the WPIAL Class AA playoffs against Bishop Canevin at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Fairhaven Park in Robinson Township.

PITTSBURGH — Olympic star Sidney Crosby won't be joining Canada's team in the world hockey championships in Germany. Crosby, who played in all but one of the Pittsburgh Penguins' 95 games this season, including playoffs, turned down the invitation after being asked to replace the injured Ryan Smyth (ankle).Canada also found out one of its top scorers, Steven Stamkos, will sit out today's game with a possible concussion. The star forward from the Tampa Bay Lightning took an elbow to the jaw during a 4-1 loss to Switzerland and is being kept off the ice for a couple days as a precaution.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — NASCAR driver Brian Vickers was being treated for an undisclosed medical condition that will prevent him from racing this weekend at Dover International Speedway.Red Bull Racing said Vickers was hospitalized Wednesday night and being held for further testing. The team did not reveal where he was hospitalized.Red Bull said Casey Mears will replace Vickers this weekend in the No. 83 Toyota.

NEW YORK — Filmmaker Ken Burns is wading into baseball's steroids era for a postscript to his 1994 PBS documentary about the sport.The nine-part 1994 series "Baseball" was a refuge for fans during a year the sport was shut down for a strike.PBS says Burns is following it up with "The Tenth Inning," a four-hour documentary that will air Sept. 28 and 29, just before playoffs begin.The film essentially covers Major League Baseball since 1994. Covered are the rise in performance-enhancing drugs, the sport's international flavor because of Asian and Latino players, a new Yankees dynasty and the breakthrough of the Boston Red Sox.A DVD and Blu-ray disc will be available a week later with two additional hours of material.

SAN ANTONIO — Matt Jones eagled the par-5 14th hole and finished with a 6-under 66 to take a one-stroke lead Thursday after the first round of the Texas Open.Jones, the 30-year-old Australian who played at Arizona State, also had four birdies in a back-nine 30 on the Greg Norman-designed Oaks Course at TPC San Antonio, the tournament's new site after 15 years at La Cantera.