Dead player misidentified

Families and friends already stunned by the deaths of 15 players and team personnel for Humboldt’s youth hockey club got a new shock Monday when authorities announced that one of the dead had been misidentified.

The Ministry of Justice for Saskatchewan province said the mistake occurred partly because all the Broncos players had dyed their hair blond for the team’s appearance in the playoffs and because all the young men had similar builds.

The ministry said the body of Parker Tobin had been mistakenly identified as that of Xavier Labelle. It said Labelle was actually one of the 14 injured when the team bus was hit by a semitrailer truck Friday night.

Drew Wilby, spokesman for the ministry and Office of the Chief Coroner, apologized.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

A federal lawsuit has been filed against Michigan State University and three former men’s basketball players by a female student who accuses them of sexually assaulting her at an off-campus apartment.

The woman and players are not named in the suit which was filed Monday in U.S. District in Grand Rapids. It seeks compensatory and punitive damages.

Michigan State has been rocked for months by a sexual assault scandal involving a former sports doctor that now includes his ex-boss. Three exfootball players also were charged last year with sexual assault.

UW-Stout tabs new women’s coach: Hannah Quilling-Iverson was named as UW-Stout’s new women’s coach.

Quilling-Iverson was UW-Green Bay’s director of player development

BASEBALL

Boston Red Sox shortstop Xander Bogaerts is going on the 10-day disabled list because of a cracked bone in his left ankle.

The team said that an MRI confirmed the injury on Monday, a day after he was hurt. The injury is a non-displaced fracture and won’t require surgery. He is expected to miss 10-to-14 days.

Bogaerts, a 2016 AL all-star, left Sunday’s 8-7 over Tampa Bay in the seventh inning after injuring his ankle while sliding into the Rays dugout. He was covering third base and chasing his own mishandling of a ball relayed by leftfielder J.D. Martinez.

BIATHLON

Norwegian star Emil Hegle Svendsen, a fourtime Olympic champion, has retired from the sport.

Svendsen won individual and relay gold at the 2010 Olympics, and mass start and mixed relay gold in 2014. At this year’s Pyeongchang Olympics, he won two silver medals and a bronze.

HOCKEY

Jeff Blashill of the Detroit Red Wings will return as the United States coach for the upcoming IIHF World Hockey Championship in Denmark.

Blashill coached the U.S. at the world championships last year. USA Hockey announced Blashill would be back with Dan Bylsma, Don Granato and Seth Appert as his assistants.

Chicago Blackhawks star Patrick Kane will be the United States captain. Kane will lead a strong team that includes Buffalo Sabres rookie and world junior MVP Casey Mittelstadt.

CYCLING

French judicial officials launched an investigation into the death of 23-year-old Belgian rider Michael Goolaerts during the Paris-Roubaix cycling race.

Goolaerts died Sunday after collapsing during the one-day classic on cobblestones in northern France.

Organizers said in a medical statement that he suffered a cardio-respiratory arrest.