Overtime

High School Basketball

Statistics must be in by Wednesdays

Individual basketball player statistics are due every Wednesday by noon, with no exceptions.

The Augusta Chronicle will publish a listing of area leaders in the following categories: Points, rebounds, assists and steals per game. Other categories where leaders will be tracked will be: field goal percentage, free throw percentage and 3-point field goal percentage.

The weekly statistics will run each Friday. Statistics can be faxed to (706) 823-3408 or e-mailed to Jeff Sentell at jeff.sentell@augusta chronicle.com. Please call (706) 823-3425 with questions.

College Football

Florida prep star will commit today

Highly-regarded prep quarterback Jonathan Garner will announce his college choice in a press conference today at his high school in Daytona Beach, Fla.

Garner will verbally commit to either Georgia Tech or Louisville. He visited Georgia Tech over the weekend.

The 6-foot-4 left-hander started four years at Daytona Beach's Mainland High School, winning 45 games and the 2003 state championship. Garner threw for more than 1,800 yards and 19 touchdowns last fall, guiding Mainland to the state semifinals.

Garner's commitment will be non-binding until he signs a national letter of intent Feb. 2, the first day of the 2005 signing period.

Gymnastics

Georgia's penalties are handed down

Georgia's gymnastics team lost a scholarship and its head coach's off-campus recruiting will be restricted as part of the penalties for breaking an NCAA rule.

The rules violation involved a free two-night trip to New York City that coach Suzanne Yoculan gave as a reward in May to six gymnasts who had completed their eligibility.

The trip was a violation of an NCAA bylaw regarding extra benefits for former student-athletes.

Though the infraction normally would be regarded as secondary, it was treated as a major violation by Southeastern Conference commissioner Mike Slive because of the recent rules violations found in the Georgia men's basketball program.

Georgia's overall athletic program is on probation for four years after the NCAA Committee on Infractions found academic fraud and improper player benefits in the basketball program.

Slive ordered the cost of the trip, valued at $730 per gymnast, must be repaid by the former student-athletes to a charity of their choice. Yoculan also must attend an NCAA rules compliance seminar this summer and she will be banned from off-campus recruiting in August.

Hockey

League suspends player for 25 games

A minor league hockey player was suspended for 25 games for hitting a referee.

Mike Wolf of the Flint (Mich.) Generals was disciplined by the United Hockey League for striking referee Steve Marofsky in the chest after a linesman pulled the

6-foot-5, 275-pound right wing away from a player in a Jan. 12 game at Port Huron (Mich.).

UHL vice president of hockey operations Brad Jones told the Flint (Mich.) Journal that game tape showed Wolf hitting Marofsky in the chest after a linesman pulled him away from a teammate.

"We're sending a message that we're not going to tolerate that," Jones told the Journal.

Softball

Former Washington doctor charged

A former University of Wash¤ington softball team doctor was charged in federal court with illegally obtaining prescription drugs.

The one count filed against William Scheyer alleges that from August 2001 to May 2003, Scheyer obtained possession of a controlled substance by "misrepresentation, fraud, forgery, deception and subterfuge."

The crime is punishable by a maximum of four years in prison, one year of supervised release and a $250,000 fine.Furnitureovertime