LEGION BASEBALL

Sherrill Post hosting pancake breakfast April 2

SHERRILL, N.Y. >> The Sherrill Post American Legion Baseball team will be hosting a pancake breakfast on Sunday, April 2 from 8 a.m. to noon at the Legion on East Seneca Street. The menu includes all-you-can-eat pancakes, sausage, scrambled eggs, tropical fruit cocktail, applesauce, orange juice, coffee and tea. Admission is a $7 donation with all proceeds going to the team. ary. Under a change this year to baseball’s joint drug agreement, he loses the salary of off-days during the suspension in addition to the pay on the days of games he misses.

“The evidence reviewed by my office does not support a determination that Mr. Familia physically assaulted his wife, or threatened her or others with physical force or harm,” baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred said in a statement. “Nevertheless, I have concluded that Mr. Familia’s overall conduct that night was inappropriate, violated the policy and warrants discipline.”

Manfred said Familia has undergone 12 90-minute counseling sessions, and the counselor said Familia was willing to take steps to ensure he will not be involved in another incident. Familia also will speak to other players about his learning process and will donate time and money to organizations involved in preventing domestic violence.

“With all that has been written and discussed regarding this matter, it is important that it be known that I never physically touched, harmed or threatened my wife that evening,” Familia said. “I did, however, act in an unacceptable manner and am terribly disappointed in myself. I am alone to blame for the problems of that evening.”

Familia was charged after his wife, Bianca Rivas, made several frantic 911 calls to Fort Lee police in which she described her husband as “drunk.”

“My husband had a little bit of alcohol, and he’s going crazy,” Rivas said in the 911 recording, according to excerpts of a transcript published by NJ. com.

Rivas was left with scratches on her chest and a bruise on her right cheek.

A judge dismissed a charge in December after the player’s wife told a prosecutor that her husband did not hurt her.