• Jeff Bianchi, the former Lampeter-Strasburg High School star, is dealing with an elbow injury.

Bianchi, 23, a shortstop on the Kansas City Royals' 40-man roster, is in the team's spring-training camp in Surprise, Ariz.

Last Sunday, the team announced that Bianchi would undergo Tommy John surgery to reconstruct his right elbow.

However, on Wednesday, Bianchi said he wanted to delay the surgery.

"I'll try to get out there and give it one last go and see if it responds in a positive way and I can play through it," Bianchi told reporters in Arizona.

The elbow injury is the latest in a series of injuries suffered by Bianchi, who was the Royals' second-round draft pick in 2005.

He had back problems in 2005 and underwent shoulder surgery in 2006.

Last year, he hit .300 with four homers and 28 RBIs in 60 games for Class A Wilmington and .315 with five homers and 42 RBIs in 68 games for Class AA Northwest Arkansas.

He also played in the Arizona Fall League, which features baseball's top prospects.

• Donegal graduate Chris Heisey is seeing plenty of playing time in his first spring training on the Cincinnati Reds' 40-man roster.

Heisey, the organization's Minor League Player of the Year last season, is the only player to appear in each of the Reds' first eight spring-training games.

Heisey, who homered in Friday's 3-2 win over the Dodgers, is 2-for-12 with a double, home run and one RBI. He has played both left field and right field.

Heisey started last season with the Class AA Carolina Mudcats, and was promoted to the Class AAA Louisville Bats in July.

He hit .347 with 13 homers and 40 RBIs in 71 games for Carolina and .278 with nine homers and 37 RBIs for Louisville.

Heisey, 25, who starred at Messiah College, is one of six outfielders on the Reds' 40-man roster, along with Wladimir Balentien, Jay Bruce, Chris Dickerson, Jonny Gomes and Drew Stubbs. Laynce Nix and Todd Frazier, non-roster invitees in camp, are also outfield possibilities.

• Cornell is a trendy pick to win a game or two in the NCAA men's basketball tournament.

The Big Red (27-4) won the Ivy League for the third straight year and have three players, all seniors, on the All-Ivy first team: center Jeff Foote, guard Louis Dale and swingman Ryan Wittman.

A fourth Cornell player, sophomore guard Chris Wroblewski, was an All-Ivy honorable-mention selection.

Wittman, an excellent shooter and the Ivy League's Player of the Year, is the son of Randy Wittman, a former Indiana University star who played and coached in the NBA.

Randy Wittman had the misfortune of being the Cleveland Cavaliers' head coach before the arrival of LeBron James.

The Ivy League has lost 11 straight NCAA tournament games. The league's last victory was in 1998, when Princeton beat UNLV in the first round.

The Ivy's last Final Four appearance was in 1979, when Penn beat Iona, North Carolina, Syracuse and St. John's before losing to Magic Johnson and Michigan State 101-67 in the semifinals.

The Spartans then beat Larry Bird and Indiana State in one of the NCAA's most famous championship matchups.