Seneca Valley's boys basketball team (7-4) finished third in the eight-team C.J. Betters Holiday Tournament by posting a 62-48 victory over Hopewell (4-6) at the Community College of Beaver County Saturday night.

Pat Heery made the all-tournament team for the Raiders and Kevin Roehm was one of the event's $1,000 scholarship winners.

Aliquippa won the tournament by defeating Ambridge, 57-49, in the championship game.

BALTIMORE — Aubrey Huff has reached a preliminary agreement on a three-year, $20 million contract with the Baltimore Orioles, who hope the versatile free agent can add punch to a lineup that ranked 11th in the AL in home runs last season.The agreement was secured over the weekend, according to a source who spoke on condition of anonymity because the Orioles have not yet announced the deal. The contract will be finalized if Huff passes a physical, which will likely be administered this week in Baltimore.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Steve Aponavicius kicked a career-best 37-yard field goal on the final play and the 23rd-ranked Eagles beat the Midshipmen 25-24 in the Meineke Car Care Bowl to extend the nation's current longest bowl-winning streak to seven on Saturday.Aponavicius, who had never played organized football before going 2-for-2 on field goals against Virginia Tech on Oct. 12, was mobbed by his teammates after the kick, which gave BC its first 10-win season since 1984, when Doug Flutie won the Heisman Trophy.

TAMPA, Fla. — An achy Joe Paterno sounded more pessimistic Sunday about coaching Penn State from the sideline for the entire Outback Bowl — if he gets down there at all.Sore from running through "agility drills" in trying to get ready for Monday's game against No. 17 Tennessee, the 80-year-old Paterno may watch from the press box if he doesn't feel his rehabilitated left leg is ready. Paterno fractured the shinbone and tore two knee ligaments during a sideline collision in November.

NEW YORK — When the curtain closes on 2006, so does the brief run of the league's new basketball. The new year brings the return of the old ball, the leather one players said never should have been replaced.Players criticized the performance of the microfiber composite ball from the moment training camps opened. The NBA stood by the product, but players' complaints that it cut their skin followed by the filing of an unfair labor practice charge forced commissioner David Stern to put the new balls back on the rack.

NEW YORK — The NHL suspended Rangers forward Colton Orr for five games and Washington enforcer Donald Brashear for one on Sunday following New York's fight-filled victory over the Capitals.Orr received his ban for a cross-checking blow to the head of Washington forward Alex Ovechkin with 4:20 left in the Rangers' 4-1 victory on Saturday night.Brashear was given a match penalty for punching Rangers defenseman Aaron Ward at 7:39 of the final period as the Capitals forward skated off right after he fought Brendan Shanahan.

MIAMI — Florida International coach Cindy Russo got her 600th career victory on Saturday to become the 16th Division I women's basketball coach to reach that plateau.Russo's Golden Panthers (7-3) rallied from a 15-point deficit to beat Central Connecticut 73-51.In her 30th season as a coach, Russo is 600-255 — 560-233 in her 28 years at FIU. She was 40-22 in two years at Lamar, 1978-80.