The news coming out of the Emirates is that the midfield trio of Cesc, Hleb, and Flamini have been declared match fit and will play Chelsea. RVP will be on the bench as Hleb starts in the slot behind Adebayor.
Man Utd just put the lumber on Liverpool’s Premiership chances winning 1-0, setting up a bit of a sticky situation between Rafa and his American handlers in their much anticipated meeting.
I know many of you that read our blog or the usual WSU coverage online already know a ton about Paul Wulff. But the Spokesman today hit a HOME RUN with the background story.
I believe that people really need to know what we’ve got here in coach Wulff. His hiring was big news in eastern WA, and in some pockets of Seattle, but otherwise it was barely a blip on the radar. But there’s just so much more than meets the eye with this guy. Again, Vince hits an absolute home run today with his story, and the accompanying unsolved murder story is a real eye-opener.
Seriously, can you imagine dealing with all this at such an early age? Maybe some of you have, and if so, you know the pain. But wow, wow, WOW. He’s really a moving story.
By the way, I wrote about it at AOL Sports today as well. Some of you know that I don’t write there as much as I used to based on the direction things have taken over there, away from the team-centric coverage and more big-picture stuff. But this story about Wulff, it’s just too good to ignore. I want the people on the national level that read that site every day to understand what we have in Wulff. AOL Sports gets 20-25 million hits a month, so they’re going to have to read about him now! Someone’s got to stick up for all things WSU, and as long as I can represent over there, I’ll throw stuff like this in their faces.
Other quickies for today:
We’ve got a new Cougar in the fold. Kamiak’s Skylar Stormo calls it a “dream come true” to get a scholie from Paul Wulff and WSU. A good 2-sport athlete with decent size at 6-4, 225, he reportedly runs a 4.8. Not blazing but not too bad either. He’ll likely play TE at WSU. You can check out his Scout.com player bio here. WELCOME TO THE FAMILY.
Here’s a look at the “new” Martin Stadium. Some of you have seen this, but some of you have not. I also included a shot of the new scoreboard. I particularly like the young alumni seating area down below, where tickets are capped at $99 the first three years after you graduate and you get to sit between the 30’s. That’s something that Sterk and company really need to do, and that is reel them in young and get them involved. Make the younger alums feel important, like they matter, and get them spending money early on. That’s the genius of what Oregon State has accomplished. They have Reser to name the field as their “sugar daddy”, but much of what has been done in Corvallis was based on getting those middle tier donors. They reached out to that group and they all feel part of the program, and it’s something that we must do as well. Note that I stretched the images a little bit so the resolution will probably be a little off, but you get the idea.
Speaking of scoreboard, here’s a really good shot I found that someone took at the end of the Apple Cup. If you look closely in the bottom towards the middle, you can see Alex Brink, Bobby Byrd and Chris Baltzer in a group hug. Byrd and Baltzer were Brink’s best friends on the team, so I thought that was a pretty cool shot.
That’s really it. Not much new news floating around out there. I did find KXLY’s recap of the ‘07 Apple Cup. It never gets old does it? And from a few different angles, Rick Lukens was right, Brandon Gibson couldn’t have been more wide open! I’ve got that game on my DVR and the week after xmas I’ll try and pull some highlights for your viewing pleasure, but for now, enjoy:
Labels: 2007 Apple Cup, Martin Stadium, Paul Wulff
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - The top three places in the Dutch first division remained unchanged after matches involving Ajax, PSV Eindhoven and Feyenoord were postponed due to a police strike.
Feyenoord had been scheduled to play AZ on Saturday, with first-place Ajax hosting second-place PSV on Sunday.
Ajax still leads with 31 points, PSV has 30 and Feyenoord and SC Heerenveen have 29.
Heerenveen easily beat NAC Breda 5-1 Saturday with two goals each from Gerald Sibon and Paulo Henrique. Also Saturday, it was: FC Twente 1, VVV Venlo 1; and De Graafschap 1, NEC Nijmegen 1.
On Sunday, FC Utrecht beat Heracles Almelo 3-1 and Vitesse defeated Excelsior Rotterdam 3-0 with two goals from Santi Kolk. It was Vitesse’s first win in six games. FC Groningen beat Willem II 1-0 in the day’s other match.
Sparta Rotterdam beat Roda JC Kerkrade 3-2 on Friday.
The two postponed matches have not yet been rescheduled, and the police strike is set to continue.
Henk Kesler, chief of the Dutch soccer association, called striking police "spoiled brats" for seeking pay raises of up to 15 per cent.
Police demanded an apology.
"Let (Kesler) come down and stand in the ranks when there are rocks flying," police spokesman Wiep van der Pal told Dutch press agency ANP.
Fabio Capello has negotiated a two-year escape clause in his England contract to allow both him and the Football Association a get-out if the 2010 World Cup finals qualification campaign ends in disaster. Capello was finally officially announced as the new England manager yesterday, with the FA claiming that he had signed a four-and-a-half year contract to take him up to the 2012 European Championship.
In reality, Capello, who will sign his contract today, will have a 10-day period in the summer of 2010 when both he and the FA will discuss his position. The Italian will earn around £4m-a-year and the break clause gives the governing body some protection from the massive compensation pay-out they were forced to give to Sven Goran Eriksson last year. It also gives Capello the chance to walk away.
However, the mood was buoyant at FA headquarters in Soho Square yesterday after a week of detailed negotiations with Capello’s representatives, his son and lawyer Pierfilippo and the Spanish lawyer Julio Senn Gonzalez. The two men went through the contracts for Capello and his four Italian assistants in minutiae and any clause that caused confusion was sent back to Italy for double-checking and then amended accordingly.
The painstaking checking of contracts – which sources say is the most detailed yet for an England manager – meant the process was slow. It was also delayed by a disagreement over the salaries of the four assistants, Franco Baldini, Italo Galbiati, Franco Tancredi and Massimo Neri who The Independent reported yesterday will have their salaries divided up from a budget given to Capello. The FA said that it had not yet settled upon an Englishman but that Capello would “discuss with Sir Trevor Brooking how to integrate an English presence into the coaching set-up.”
The identity of that coach is yet to be decided but the four Italians will be at Soho Square today to sign their contracts and be introduced around the building. Capello’s grand presentation to the English media will be on Monday. He will start work on 7 January and already the FA is impressed by the detailed scouting plan that he and his assistants have devised to acquaint themselves with English football.
The new-year football programme will be enlivened by the presence of one of the four Italians at Premier League games. The four men plan to scout intensively and individually, allowing themselves to cover as many games as possible in the shortest space of time. They believe they can complete a detailed assessment of English talent within three months. Baldini in particular will be dispatched all over Europe to keep track of individuals who will be figuring in teams that England will be facing over the coming weeks and months.
The FA chief executive, Brian Barwick, said that Capello filled his criteria of a “world-class” manager. “I am delighted that Fabio Capello has agreed to become England manager,” he said. “When we set out to recruit the new manager, we said we were committed to appointing a world-class candidate. In Fabio Capello we have that man.
“Fabio is a winner,” Barwick added. “His record over the last two decades speaks for itself. At every club he has managed, Fabio has won the league title and Trevor and I were left in no doubt of his passion and commitment to bring that success to the England team.”
The FA board gave Capello their unanimous approval when Barwick contacted them yesterday. The speed of the appointment surprised the board who expected to be asked to vote at the next scheduled meeting on Thursday. They will be curious to know whether Alan Shearer, Stuart Pearce or David Platt have been approached with a view to being the “English presence” in the coaching set-up.
Platt’s command of Italian would make him an obvious choice, despite his failings with the England Under-21 side, because whoever takes the job will have to break into the group of Italians Capello is bringing with him. The Fulham manager, Lawrie Sanchez, said yesterday that the FA should dispense with an English coach because it was unlikely to result in an Englishman eventually being promoted to the top job.
Sanchez said: “It would be a sop. The same discussion was had when Sven-Goran Eriksson got the job five years ago, about bringing in English people to work with him, to be groomed. Sammy Lee was brought in, David Platt was brought in and [Steve] McClaren was brought in with a view to this being a one-off and in five years’ time we would have enough English managers with experience to do it.
“McClaren got the job but no longer has it and now we have gone back to foreign again for the foreseeable future. Doing the training and the bits and pieces around it is a great PR exercise but I don’t think it is particularly helpful to becoming a good manager. Steve McClaren was a club manager. The only way you learn management is by managing. We all know that No 2s stepping up haven’t had great success this season.”
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Here are the results of the Aftershock Events card at the All-Star Legacy Gym in Dulles, VA:
“Dangerous” Dana Dunston of Woodbridge, VA made his return after a seven-year layoff successful by winning a four-round split decision over Bernard “Bad Ass” Brown of Baltimore, MD. Dunston scored a knockdown in the fourth round that clinched the victory. Judges Brian Costello and Jerry Payne scored the bout for Dunston, 38-37 and 39-36 respectively while Judge Wayne Smith saw the bout 38-37 for Brown.
Dunston’s record is now 4-1, two KO’s while Brown is now 5-2-3, two KO’s.
Capitol Heights, MD featherweight Thomas “KO” Snow scored a second-round TKO over Terrence “T-Brick” Roy of Covington, TN. Snow scored three knockdowns enroute to the stoppage victory. Snow remains undefeated at 10-0, eight KO’s while Roy is 9-24, one KO.
Arlington, VA junior welterweight Bayan Jargal remained undefeated with a second-round knockout over Nate Francis of Sanford, NC. Jargal finished his opponent with a series of crushing body shots that dropped Francis to one knee. Francis couldn’t beat referee Joe Cooper’s 10-count and the bout was stopped at 2:16 of the second. Jargal is now 5-0-1, three KO’s. Francis falls to 2-5, one KO.
Featherweight Andre “Clockwork” Nichols of Woodbridge registered a solid third-round TKO over Yieta “King” Johnson also fighting out of Woodbridge. Nichols scored a pretty knockdown with a counter left hand in the second round and proceeded to batter Johnson throughout the third. Johnson did not come out for the fourth round.
Nichols’s record rises to 3-2, two KO’s while Johnson is 0-2.
Arlington, VA’s Tracey Brewer used a series of body shots to stop Travis Toler of Sharpsburg, NC in the second round. The body shots in the second dropped Toler to his knees and forced Toler to emit a loud groan. The bout was stopped at :56of the round. Brewer is 2-0, one KO while Toler is 0-5.
Woodbridge, VA cruiserweight Joe “Big Bang” Haggler scored a four-round technical knockout over Salisbury, MD’s Ozgar Yardimci. Haggler busted Yardimci’s nose in the second round and by the fourth, Yardimci couldn’t continue and his corner stopped the bout at 2:40 of the round. Haggler is now 1-1, one KO while Yardimci is 0-2.
This was the 15th card in the Commonwealth of Virginia in 2007, five more than last year. Virginia had at least one card a month from February through December.
Here’s the final BATB Post-Fight Wrap-Up Show for 2007.
Gabcast! Boxing Along the Beltway #95 - Full Report From Dulles, VA!
Henry “Discombobulating” Jones and I recap the final card of 2007 from the All-Star Legacy Gym in Dulles, VA!
Source: Results From Dulles!
North Korea will host a leg of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games torch relay, state media has reported.
The flame, which is due to pass through 22 cities in the four months before the Games, is expected to reach North Korean capital Pyongyang on 28 April.
Chinese and North Korean officials made the agreement in Pyongyang, said the official Korean Central News Agency.
A day earlier the torch is scheduled to pass through the South Korean capital of Seoul on its way north, say reports.
The torch, which will be lit at Olympia in Greece on 25 March, is due to cover five continents before the event begins on 8 August.
The planned 137,000-km (85,000-mile) relay route will include a trip to the top of Mount Everest.
The two Koreas have agreed to send a joint team of officials to the Beijing Olympics by train, as part of reconciliation efforts after their 1950-1953 civil war.
Source: Olympic torch ‘going to N Korea’
Jamaal Tinsley’s latest off-the-court trouble has convinced the Pacers forward to heed his team’s advice and hire a security guard.
Tinsley
“It was mine and the team’s decision to do it,” Tinsley told the Indianapolis Star. “They’ve been trying to make me do it for the last two years. It’s something I needed to do.”
The security guard will travel with Tinsley when he’s on the road and when he goes out in Indianapolis, the newspaper reported.
The latest episode was Tinsley’s third late-night incident in about 14 months. It is the latest in a three-year string of off-court problems that have engulfed the franchise, starting with a brawl with Detroit Pistons fans in 2004.
The Pacers have since traded two of the main participants in the brawl — Ron Artest and Stephen Jackson — but the franchise still is digging out, and Tinsley continues to find trouble.
He was there when then-teammate Jackson fired a gun into the air several times before being hit by a car at an Indianapolis strip club in October 2006. Tinsley and another Pacers player, Marquis Daniels, face a Jan. 14 trial on charges stemming from a bar fight nearly a year ago.
In the latest incident, Tinsley’s group had arrived at the “Cloud 9″ club in a Mercedes, a Rolls Royce and a Dodge Charger, all owned by Tinsley. Thompson said a group gathered around the Rolls Royce and gave Tinsley a hard time about his cars and his earnings.
After leaving the club, the group realized after leaving the club that a car and a pickup truck were following them, Thompson said, adding there were at least two people in the truck and four in the car.
Instead of going home, Tinsley’s group pulled into the Conrad Hotel parking lot, where someone in the pursuing vehicles opened fire with a .223 caliber assault rifle, spraying bullets on the hotel, Tinsley’s cars and nearby buildings.
Pacers trainer Joey Qatato was struck in both elbows as he sat with Tinsley in the Rolls Royce, which was hit by several bullets, as was the Charger. The 48-year-old Qatato was taken to Methodist Hospital, where he was treated and released.
Following the shooting at the hotel, Tinsley’s brother, James, was part of a group that chased the shooter in one of Jamaal Tinsley’s vehicles.
James Tinsley, who also has a gun permit, fired his 9 millimeter handgun during the chase but hasn’t been charged because the incident is still under investigation, Thompson said. Jamaal Tinsley did not participate in the chase.
Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.
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Tonight is Wild Head Coach Jacques Lemaire’s 999th game as a coach in the NHL. Knowing Lemaire, its just another game to him and his attitude will likely be much more determined how the team plays tonight in Los Angeles. Lemaire, who has known plenty of success as a player, winning 8 Stanley Cups (he would win 3 more bringing his personal total to 11; 1 as a coach and 2 as a consultant) in a hall of fame career with the Montreal Canadiens. Minnesota is looking to get a big win to finish out this road trip with 3 wins, which can be considered a significant accomplishment for a team that has to have felt as if it has been sputtering as of late. Can they earn the 2 points tonight?
Minnesota started out with good jump in its skates to start the game against the Kings. The Wild were pressing the attack, cycling the puck well in the Los Angeles zone and generating chances early and often on Jean-Sebastien Aubin. With the flu ravaging the team, energy winger Aaron Voros was watching much of the 1st period from the bench, the Wild opted to move up defenseman Brent Burns to forward. Burns seemed to relish the freedom of playing on the wing, and he got involved right away by throwing his big 6′4″ frame around. Another energy player for the Wild who was getting another look on the top line was Todd Fedoruk, and the “Fridge” was looking very natural working with Pavol Demitra and Marian Gaborik. A nice outlet pass by Kim Johnsson would go along the boards to Marian Gaborik who got behind the Kings’ defense and he would fire a wicked wrister that found the twine behind Aubin to give the Wild a 1-0 lead. The Kings would try to rally back, with a nice shift by Anze Kopitar to hit Johnsson and knock the puck loose before allowing Dustin Brown to move in for a point-blank chance on Josh Harding and he would make the save. The Wild’s penalty kill would come up big to stop the league’s 4th best power play (at home). Minnesota would again pressure and draw a penalty on Anze Kopitar. On the ensuing power play, it would be the Kings that would get the best chance off of a poor cross-ice pass between defenseman that had Michal Handzus race down the ice on a breakaway and his high wrister was robbed by a fantastic glove save by Harding. The Kings tried to rally back, but the Wild’s defense did a good job at taking the body, and made quick but sound decisions with the puck. The State of Hockey kept dictating the pace of the game, and some of its lesser players started to fire shots on goal; including two quick snap shots by Dominic Moore. A late penalty by Kyle Calder, would give Minnesota a power play and the Wild would move the puck well down low, and Pavol Demitra came very close to giving the Wild a 2-0 lead but after a lengthy review it was ruled ‘no goal’ (and that was the correct call). Minnesota had to feel very good about its play in the first period, carrying a 1-goal lead into the 2nd.
In the 2nd period, the Wild had a slow start despite starting with a power play. In some ways the Wild seemed to be “coasting” and this allowed the Kings to take control of the play. A bad Wild penalty almost came back to bite Minnesota when former Wild 2nd round pick and current Kings forward Patrick O’Sullivan who wound up and ripped a slapper that was deflected by Mike Cammalleri and off the crossbar. Minnesota would earn the big kill, and this seemed to allow the Wild to find its legs. The Wild started to attack and its pressure would again draw penalties on the Kings. The Wild would take advantage of a 5-on-3 when Brian Rolston would blast a slapper that Aubin had no chance on to put Minnesota up 2-0. Yet, the rest of the power play saw the Wild “coast” and not move the puck with much deliberateness and this lethargic play would then turn into penalty trouble for the Wild. On the man advantage, the Kings tried to work the puck to the points where Jack Johnson and Lubomir Visnovsky were waiting to tee up blasts from the point, but Minnesota would again step up its game physically. This physicality was perhaps best seen by some of the hits Martin Skoula was delivering. Not normally known for his ability to deliver hits, but he gave two big hits in the period; the first a nice hip check on Anze Kopitar and the 2nd a great open ice hit on Mike Cammalleri as he was about to get a scoring chance in the slot. Towards the end of the 2nd, the Wild stopped moving their feet and this would keep Minnesota on the penalty kill. Luckily for the Wild, Josh Harding was excellent between the pipes coming up with big saves on what seemed to be a Kings power play for the last 5 minutes of the 2nd period. With the seemingly consecutive Kings power plays, Minnesota would seem to escape still up 2-0 going into the 3rd.
The Wild would start the 3rd on the power play, but the team’s first play with the puck was rather ominous as Pavol Demitra would give a drop pass that no Wild player wanted to take (despite four Minnesota players standing around it) but Los Angeles’ Alexander Frolov was all too happy to oblige. The Wild would take the puck from Frolov and get the power play set up but were only able to create quick re-direct by Mark Parrish. The Kings would take advantage of the Wild’s sloppy play with the puck and get a great close in flurry when Anze Kopitar would fire a puck on Harding, who made the first save and then made a great toe save on a 2nd shot, and Kyle Calder would lift the puck over the net despite a sprawling Minnesota goaltender. The Wild seemed to be playing rope-a-dope, and just defend its two-goal lead. Former NFL coach Jerry Glanville used to say “the prevent defense often only ends up preventing you from winning when you use it,” and it seemed as if the colorful coach might be proven right as their passive strategy resulted in Wild penalties. On a delay of game penalty, for clearing the puck into the crowd by Martin Skoula, but luckily for him the Wild’s penalty kill worked like a well-oiled machine and did not even give the Kings so much as a shot on goal. However, a hooking call on Todd Fedoruk and another blatant dive by Patrick O’Sullivan again yielded in a Kings power play. Once again the penalty kill played well, with Stephane Veilleux putting on a clinic of how to have an active stick when you’re down a man deflecting a number of Kings cross-ice passes out of the offensive zone. The Wild would earn a power play when Mike Cammalleri plowed over Josh Harding, but Minnesota was too passive in creating chances and they would come up empty. Los Angeles Kings head coach pulled Aubin to give his team an extra attacker and too many times the Wild tried to be too cute with the puck instead of clearing the zone. Those missed opportunities to relieve pressure, the Kings would get a late goal when Cammalleri would unleash a wrist shot that a screening Rob Blake would deflect by Harding to cut the Wild lead in half, 2-1. Minnesota would scramble to defend its lead against a desperate last attack by the Kings and they would escape with a 2-1 victory.
Harding was absolutely magnificent, bailing his team out big time by making 35 saves to earn a huge win for the State of Hockey. Wild Head Coach Jacques Lemaire will likely not be all that happy that Harding had to stop 35 shots to get a win, and apart from the first period and a short spurt in the 2nd the team really seemed to put the game in cruise control any other time. In all honesty, that isn’t good enough. While it may have worked against the Kings, the Wild still need to demonstrate they can give a 60-minute effort. The penalty kill came up big, making the Kings go 0-for-8 on the power play, but once again most of the credit had to go Harding for his poised play between the pipes for the Wild.
Minnesota now returns home for a 3-game homestand with its first game Tuesday against the Nashville Predators. Hopefully the Wild can finally rid themselves of the flu, and take advantage of this momentum they have built for themselves with these last two victories.
Wild Notes:
~ The Wild roster tonight is as follows: Marian Gaborik, Pavol Demitra, Brian Rolston, Pierre-Marc Bouchard, Mark Parrish, Eric Belanger, Stephane Veilleux, James Sheppard, Todd Fedoruk, Aaron Voros, Brent Burns, Dominic Moore, Sean Hill, Kurtis Foster, Martin Skoula, Nick Schultz, Keith Carney, Kim Johnsson, and Niklas Backstrom backed up Josh Harding. Matt Foy, Derek Boogaard, and Branko Radivojevic were out of the lineup with sickness, yet officially were “healthy” scratches. Mikko Koivu, Petteri Nummelin were out with injuries.
~ The 3 Stars of the Game were: 1st Star Josh Harding, 2nd Star Marian Gaborik, 3rd Star Anze Kopitar
~ The Wild’s AHL affiliate, the Houston Aeros dropped two hard fought games against eastern teams, Springfield Falcons (4-3 loss in a shootout) and Worcester Sharks (4-2 loss) respectively. It was a good weekend for Wild prospect, Benoit Pouliot who had 2 goals and 1 assist in those games.
~ In Western Hockey League action Wild prospect Cody Almond had a goal and a fight in a 3-2 win for his Kelowna Rockets over the Saskatoon Blades in overtime.
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Source: Harding’s brilliance allows Wild to sneak by with a 2-1 win over Los Angeles
Syracuse Crunch
SYRACUSE, N.Y. - It was one of those nights for the Hamilton Bulldogs.
Zenon Konopka had two goals and three assists and Joakim Lindstrom added a goal and five assists as the Syracuse Crunch blasted the Bulldogs 9-2 in American Hockey League action Saturday night.
Konopka’s goals came 10 minutes apart in the third period, by which time Syracuse had already built a comfortable lead. The Crunch (13-15-1-1) scored three times in each period, going 2-for-5 with the man advantage while adding a short-handed goal from Adam Pineault.
Andrew Murray, Steven Goertzen, Andrei Plekhanov and Brett Motherwell each had a goal and an assist while Tom Sestito scored the other Syracuse goal.
Ajay Baines and Greg Stewart countered for the Bulldogs (8-12-0-5), who have lost five straight.
Karl Goehring earned the victory with a 34-save performance for the Crunch.
Cedrick Desjardins and Yann Danis combined to stop 28 shots for Hamilton.
OHL
The Erie Otters have Zach Torquato and Ryan O’Reilly to thank for their hottest home stretch in two seasons.
Torquato and O’Reilly extended their point streaks while Nick Palmieri had the game winner to lead the Otters to their fourth consecutive home victory, a 4-3 triumph over the Kingston Frontenacs in Ontario Hockey League action Saturday night.
Torquato extended his career-high point streak to 11 straight games with a goal 3:55 into the opening period. He has eight goals and 17 points during the streak, including goals in seven of those games.
O’Reilly assisted on the goal to run his point streak to five games (3-8). He has six multi-point outings in the past 11 games.
They both finished their night in style, assisting on Palmieri’s winning goal with 30 seconds left in the third period _ two minutes after Kingston’s Jessie Brown tied the score at 3-3.
The Otters (8-22-2-1) have their longest home winning streak since recording a club-record eight straight victories in the 2004-05 season.
Elsewhere in the OHL, it was: Belleville 5 Niagara 2; Saginaw 7 London 2; Peterborough 5 Sudbury 2; Sault Ste. Marie 3 Mississauga 0; Sarnia 4 Barrie 3 (OT) and Owen Sound 4 Plymouth 2.
At Erie, Ont., the Otters continued their home-ice magic from the outset against the Frontenacs (8-20-0-1).
Less than four minutes after Torquato opened the scoring, rookie defenceman David Shields recorded his first OHL goal and point to hand the Otters a 2-0 lead. He fired a wrist shot from the blue-line that slipped through a crowd in front of the net and past goaltender John Murray, who the Frontenacs acquired from Kitchener last weekend.
The Frontenacs sliced the Otters’ lead in half on Bobby Mignardi’s unassisted goal six seconds into a power play. His wraparound shot squeezed through rookie goaltender Shane Owen’s left pad and the post.
Sean Jones restored the Otters’ two-goal lead with 8:52 left in the second. Jones has six goals and 13 points in 11 games with the Otters, and has failed to record a point in only one game since being acquired from Sault Ste. Marie last month.
Kingston winger Josh Brittain scored with 5:52 left in the second to send the Frontenacs into the final period trailing 3-2. Brown then tied the score with 2:29 left in regulation, but Palmieri followed with the game winner.
Bulls 5 IceDogs 2
At Belleville, Ont., Chris Mifflen scored a goal and added an assist as the Bulls (20-8-3-2) beat Niagara (18-15-0-1).
Spirit 7 Knights 2
At Saginaw, Ont., Jack Combs scored twice and added an assist as the Spirit (13-14-3-1) crushed London (20-11-1-2).
Petes 5 Wolves 4
At Peterborough, Ont., Pat Daley scored a goal and added an assist as the Petes (14-18-0-2) edged Sudbury (8-26-0-1).
Greyhounds 3 Majors 0
At Mississauga, Ont., Jacob Lalonde had a goal and an assist and goaltender Bryce O’Hagan posted the first shutout of his OHL career as Sault Ste. Marie blanked the Majors (17-14-1-0).
Sting 4 Colts 3 (OT)
At Barrie, Ont., Mark Katic scored the overtime winner and added two assists as Sarnia (17-15-1-0) edged the Colts (17-16-1-1).
Attack 4 Whalers 2
At Owen Sound, Ont., Matt Carter scored two goals and added an assist as the Attack (13-19-2-0) doubled up Plymouth (19-8-2-2).
Source: OHL: Otters knock off Frontenacs