Feb 12, 2007 2 min read

Basketball Uniontown-Hempfield game cancelled

The Hempfield at Uniontown non-section boys basketball game, scheduled for tonight, has been cancelled.

The Spartans and Red Raiders have now finished their regular-season schedules, but both will be playing in the upcoming WPIAL playoffs.

Baseball

Twins, Mauer strike deal

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – AL batting champion Joe Mauer and the Twins agreed Sunday to a $33 million, four-year contract, avoiding salary arbitration and giving one of the team’s young stars the security of a long-term deal.

The 23-year-old catcher hit .347 with 84 RBIs last year to help the Twins rally from a 121/2-game deficit to win the AL Central on the final day of the regular season. He played in his first All-Star game last summer.

Baseballs to keep cool

NEW YORK (AP) – Baseballs will keep their cool this summer. The commissioner’s office is telling teams for the first time that balls must be stored at a uniform temperature after they are delivered from the manufacturer.

“The specifications that Rawlings recommends are a 70 degree temperature and 50 percent humidity,” baseball senior vice president Joe Garagiola Jr. said Friday.

“We have contacted all 30 of the clubs, and they have all confirmed to us that they will all be storing their baseballs in a temperature-controlled facility. We’re not going to have humidors everyplace, but every place will be temperature controlled, and so I think there will be a very high degree of uniformity.”

Tennis

Petrova tops Safarova

PARIS (AP) – Nadia Petrova came back from a set down to beat Lucie Safarova 4-6, 6-1, 6-4 Sunday and win the Open Gaz de France for her seventh career title.

The Russian player won her first title since beating Tatiana Golovin at Stuttgart, Germany, in October 2006. She had lost her two previous finals against Anna Chakvetadze and Maria Sharapova at Linz, Austria.