Sports digest
Big Ten accolades
The Hawk Eye
Former Southeastern Community College pitcher Brock Alberts earned co-Big Ten Pitcher of the Week honors with Minnesota hurler Phil Isaksson.
Alberts, a senior right-hander, made his season debut last week in a come-from-behind victory over Xavier. Alberts threw 5 1/3 innings of no-hit ball. He scattered five hits, struck out a career-high 10 and did not walk a batter in picking up the win.
Bees looking
for housing
The Hawk Eye
The Burlington Bees are looking for housing for players and coaches for the 2008 season.
Bees players and coaches will be arriving in Burlington in late March and will be in town until the season ends in September.
Anyone with housing or apartment availability is asked to contact Chuck Brockett at 319-754-5705 or chuck@gobees.com
Blazers take second
The Hawk Eye
The Burlington Blazers seventh-grade boys basketball team finished second in the Mediapolis tournament this past weekend.
The Blazers defeated Mediapolis 46-40, West Central (Illinois) 41-35, and Notre Dame, 38-31, to advance to the championship game. There the Blazers lost 41-33 to the Iowa Inferno.
The members of the team are Austin Anderson, Ian O’Dear, Justin Randall, Zach Patterson, Joe Gates, Blaise Wellington, Adam Roy, Joe George, and Zach Libben. The team is coached by George Randall and Bob Roy.
Bees NASCAR pool Week 3 results
The Hawk Eye
The winning tickets in the Friends of Community Field NASCAR contest for week #3:
First place (tie) — 270 points; Ticket #20080329 and #20081111
Third place (tie) — 265 points; Ticket #20080958 and #20080249.
Commission overturns penalty against Wallace
The Associated Press
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A NASCAR appeals committee on Monday overturned all the penalties levied against Rusty Wallace Racing for an infraction discovered on David Stremme’s car before the season-opening Nationwide Series race.
Stremme was docked 25 points, car owner Ed Rensi was docked 25 points and crew chief Steve Darne was suspended six races and fined $15,000 because NASCAR said the cover on the oil tank was not securely fastened following qualifying at Daytona.
Wallace appealed, and the three-member National Stock Car Racing Commission ruled that the cover was indeed fastened.
“All bolts appeared to be fully engaged,” the panel wrote in its 2-1 decision. “The slight deflection at one corner of the cover which gave rise to the penalty was arguable, given the overall design of the oil tank reservoir encasement.”
It was a rare reversal by a panel that usually upholds most NASCAR penalties. In the 96 hearings held over the past eight years, the commission upheld 66 decisions. In two instances, the original penalty was increased.
Correction
The Associated Press
DES MOINES — In a March 1 story about the girls Class 4A title game between Iowa City High and Cedar Rapids Washington, The Associated Press incorrectly reported the name of the last Washington coach to win the state title. The coach was Paul James and not Stacy Frese, who was a player on that 1995 team. Also, the story incorrectly stated Stacy Frese is now coach at Maryland. Her sister, Brenda Frese coaches at Maryland.
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