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Basketball
Stringer testimonial set
The Albert Gallatin Education Foundation will host a testimonial dinner for Rutgers University women’s basketball coach C. Vivian Stringer on Monday, August 4, at Lakeside Party Center.
Stringer is an Edenborn native and a 1966 graduate of German Township High School. She coached Cheyney State to the NCAA Division II final four before leading Iowa and Rutgers to the NCAA Division I women’s final four.
Cost of a ticket is $40, with proceeds benefiting AGEF, a non-profit group that provides scholarships for Albert Gallatin graduates and mini-grants to Albert Gallatin staff members.
Beginning today, tickets will be available at Centra Bank offices in Uniontown, Walnut Hill, Smithfield and Point Marion. Other ticket locations are Howard’s Market in Masontown, the German Township Municipal Building and the law office of John Kopas in Fairchance. A limited number of tickets is available and sales will end on July 23.
Golf
Blue-White results
The team of Charles Trump Jr., Ron Smith, Brian Moody and Mike Revak took first place in the sixth annual Blue and White Golf Outing, sponsored by the Penn State Fayette Alumni Society.
First place in the women’s division went to Kathy Iannamorelli, Rita Peters, Carol Hankins and Sally Calabrese.
Baseball
Chacon grievance filed
NEW YORK (AP) – The players’ association filed a grievance Tuesday over the release of pitcher Shawn Chacon, saying the team’s decision to terminate his contract was without just cause.
Chacon cleared waivers and was released Monday, five days after a physical altercation with Houston Astros general manager Ed Wade in the clubhouse.
Chacon had a $2 million salary this year, and the decision to terminate the contract meant $983,607 won’t be paid. He also lost the chance to make up to $1 million in performance bonuses based on innings.
The union alleged Chacon was disciplined without just cause under the collective bargaining agreement and terminated without just cause under the uniform player contract.
The 30-year-old pitcher was suspended after shoving Wade to the floor before the Astros played Texas last Wednesday. Wade said he had asked Chacon to come into manager Cecil Cooper’s office for a meeting. Chacon refused, and the confrontation ensued.
The Astros said Chacon violated a provision in the uniform player contract that states the player may be terminated if he shall “fail, refuse, or neglect to conform his personal conduct to the standards of good citizenship and good sportsmanship or to keep himself in first-class physical condition or to obey to the club’s training rules.”
Chacon was 2-3 with a 5.04 ERA in 15 starts this season. He set a major league record for a starting pitcher with nine straight no-decisions to open the season.