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IN BRIEF

The under-card is nearly set for the Brian Minto-Jermell Barnes fight Tuesday night at the Butler Days Inn.

The boxing card gets under way at 8 p.m. The bouts are as follows:

Mike Word (Milwaukee, Wisc.) pro debut vs. opponent to be determined, 4 rounds, cruiserweight

Delany Howard (Cleveland, Ohio) 2-0 vs. opponent to be determined, 4 rounds, junior middleweight

Vincent Arroyo (Buffalo, NY) pro debut vs. Damon Antoine (Akron, Ohio) 1-4-1, 4 rounds, junior welterweight

Cliff McPherson (Cleveland, Ohio) pro debut vs. Joey Fischer (Milwaukee, Wisc.) 0-2, 4 rounds, junior middleweight

Chris Stallworth (Pittsburgh) 6-1 vs. Roosevelt Johnson (Cleveland, Ohio) 2-3, 6 rounds, cruiserweight

Brian Minto (Butler) 19-1, vs. Jermell Barnes (Rochester, NY) 17-9, 8 rounds, heavyweight

Steve Stepanian will be among the 10 current and former high school football coaches that will be inducted into the Pennsylvania Scholastic Football Coaches Association' Hall of Fame July 22 at the Hershey Lodge & Convention Center.Stepanian, who died in 1976, will be posthumously honored.Stepanaian was an All-American in football and basketball at Grove City College in 1921 and 1922 and was the head football coach at Charleroi High School. Over the next 25 years, he football team was 144-68-31, winning WPIAL championships in 1923 and 1936.Current Slippery Rock High School coach Clyde Conti will also be honored.

The Seneca Valley girls medley relay, which captured the WPIAL and PIAA championships this past winter, have been ranked No. 12 nationally.Individually, Stacie Safritt ranked No. 33 in the 100 free and 50th in the 50 free; Kylie Gamlier No. 92 in the 100 breast and 137th in the 100 fly and the 400 freestyle relay ranked No. 45.

John Aubrey Sr. of Aubrey's Dubbs Dred Golf Course placed second at the U.S. Senior Open Sectional Qualifier Thursday at Williams Country Club.Aubrey's 70 put him as the first alternate behind Roy Vucinich of Moon Township, who won with a 5-under par 67.Joseph Holcomb (70), Casey Courneen (70) and Larry Milosh (71) are the next three alternates.

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