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Baseball

A-Rod surgery ‘as planned’

Alex Rodriguez’s surgery to repair his right hip labrum went “as planned,” hip specialist Marc Philippon said Monday.

Philippon performed the operation on Rodriguez on Monday morning at Vail Valley Surgery Center in Vail, Colo. It went so smoothly, Philippon said in a midday conference call with reporters, that A-Rod was slated to check out of the hospital and ride the stationary bike that afternoon.

“The surgery went exactly as we planned,” said Philippon. “We will start him on his rehab this afternoon. There were no surprises – exactly what we prepared for.”

Philippon removed the “pincer” impingement, stabilized cartilage, repaired the labrum tear and debrided the lining of the cyst. It took 80 minutes.

Yankees manager Joe Girardi said: “That’s good the surgery went well. You just hope the rehab goes as well as the surgery.”

Rodriguez is expected to need six to nine weeks to return to game action with the Yankees.

Men’s basketball

Ex-Eagles All-GNAC

Central Washington seniors Jake Beitinger and Matt Penoncello have been named to the Great Northwest Athletic Conference all-star first team.

Both players started their college careers at Eastern Washington before transferring.

Penoncello finished the regular season as CWU’s leading scorer with 14.8 points per game and its second- leading rebounder with 5.8 rebounds per game, starting in all 24 games.

Beitinger earned all-conference honors for the second straight season after scoring 13.5 points per game with a team-high 5.9 rebounds per contest.

Then & Now

Sanders story delayed

The planned story on former Central Valley and Washington State basketball standout David Sanders was put on hold due to space restrictions in today’s section.

The story will run next Tuesday.