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When Brandon McMillan hit Chilliwack’s Matt Strong hard into the boards late Saturday at Prospera Place, it shattered the glass, gave the fans something to cheer about and time to politely bolt for the exits.
Evan Pighin scored twice and Matt Esposito made 22 saves, as the Chilliwack Bruins beat Kelowna 4-1 in Western Hockey League play, heaping more misery upon the shoulders of the struggling Rockets.
1. Gamboa / Calcaterra def. Herb / Petruzzi (9-8, 7-5)
2. Baffa / Lucido def. Steinert / Rosenberger (8-4)
3. Dwojewski / Weissend def. Sarson / Adams (8-3)
Source: Bucknell Women’s Tennis Picks Up 6-1 Win Over Quinnipiac
In her second career start Joyce Novacek recorded her first career double-double with 11 points and 12 rebounds and Lauren Schober led five Bison in double figures with 17 points as the Bucknell women’s basketball team held off a pesky Navy squad for a 65-50 victory. The Bison have now won two straight games and are 10-12 overall and 5-3 in Patriot League play, just one game behind first-place Army and Holy Cross. The Mids fell to 5-18 overall and 1-7 in conference play.
Novacek, who has 25 rebounds over the last two games, hauled in eight boards in the first half. She had the first five rebounds overall for Bucknell, who outrebounded Navy 41-30. It was the fifth opponent this season the Bison have won the battle of the boards against and they are 4-1 in those games. Seven of Novacek’s caroms came on the offensive end. She also added a career-high 11 points, with eight of those coming in the second half when she made 4 of 5 field goals.
SAN FRANCISCO — Kirk Radomski, the former New York Mets clubhouse attendant, doesn’t have a smoking needle. He never witnessed Roger Clemens being injected with steroids. Nor did he ask Brian McNamee, Clemens’ former personal trainer, what he did with the performance-enhancing drugs Radomski supplied him.
BRISBANE stars Darren Lockyer and Karmichael Hunt will not follow Wayne Bennett out of Red Hill, quelling fears the Broncos are facing a player exodus.
The duo’s commitment to the Broncos came after it was revealed Brisbane skipper Lockyer would be consulted on which coach is the appropriate successor to six-time premiership-winner Bennett.
The Broncos face a $1 million retention battle in the coming months, with Sam Thaiday, Corey Parker, Joel Moon, David Stagg, Steve Michaels, Michael Ennis, Ben Hannant, Darius Boyd and Rodney Davies still without contracts for next year.
Sooners record seven top-five finishes at Adidas Classic.
Feb. 9, 2008
Complete Results
LINCOLN, Neb. – While the majority of Oklahoma track athletes were in New York City, a small group of Sooners traveled to Lincoln, Neb., for the Adidas Classic Saturday and came away with seven top-five finishes at the event hosted by the University of Nebraska.
Dominique Jacobs led the way, finishing second in the women’s long jump with a top mark of 18 feet and eight inches (5.69 meters).
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Many people questioned New York Islanders owner, Charles Wang’s sanity when he took the team’s backup goaltender, Garth Snow and made him the team’s General Manager finally replacing Mike Milbury. While that move seemed strange, the move just prior to that was even more unusual when Wang signed starting goaltender, Rick DiPietro to a 15-year deal, and made Ted Nolan head coach. While the sense of DiPietro’s contract has been debated, Nolan has been rather effective as the bench boss of the Islanders. This season, the scoring has been hard to come by and the Islanders are sitting at the bottom of a very tough Atlantic division. Meanwhile back in the State of Hockey, the team has weathered two very tough home losses. The first a late game collapse that saw the team lose to Detroit, and then a 1-0 loss at the hands of the Dallas Stars. The Wild should be a bit “angry” tonight, so will they use that to earn a victory over the struggling Islanders tonight?
From the drop of the puck, the game had a furious pace. Both teams were skating with lots of intensity, and the game would have the Wild and Islanders trading rushes up ice. Minnesota seemed to want to get on the scoreboard early, as they were swarming in the Islanders’ zone. The Wild were content to set up Kurtis Foster who was launching slappers from the point but few of the big blasts actually ended up reaching the Islanders’ Rick DiPietro. Minnesota’s pressure would yield an Islanders’ penalty when Blake Comeau earned a double-minor for high sticking that cost Mark Parrish a tooth. Parrish calmly bent down and picked up his loose chicklet and skated to the bench shaking his head, before showing off his new ’smile’ to his teammates.  The Wild were very patient on the man-advantage, perhaps too patient as the team did not exhibit good, quick puck movement which allowed the Islanders penalty killers to get into the shooting lanes. Making matters worse the Wild would lose their power play when Marian Gaborik hooked an Islanders defender. The Islanders would get a good cycling shift from its line of Ruslan Fedotenko, Trent Hunter and Josef Vasicek. This line of big forwards were able to operate down low and created some space that gave Trent Hunter the chance to rip a wrister that narrowly missed the Wild’s net. Minnesota would respond with a good cycling shift of its own, from Branko Radivojevic, Stephane Veilleux, and Eric Belanger.  The Wild would continue their pressure and Veilleux would slide a pass back to a waiting Kurtis Foster who would launch a one-timer that DiPietro clearly didn’t see until it was in the net to give Minnesota a 1-0 lead. After the goal, Minnesota would ease up and New York was able to create a little bit of pressure on Niklas Backstrom. The shots were even at six apiece but Minnesota was creating more high quality offensive pressure going into the 2nd period.
Rafael Van der Vaart
BERLIN – Hamburger SV and Bayer Leverkusen drew 1-1 Saturday in a match that did little for either team’s chances of winning the Bundesliga.
Netherlands captain Rafael van der Vaart put Hamburg ahead with a 27th-minute volley, and Leverkusen equalized through Manuel Friedrich in the 60th with a header but stayed winless against the top five teams in the standings.
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2008-2009 Maryland Terrapins Football Schedule
Aug. 30 Delaware
Sept. 6 at Middle Tennessee State
Sept. 13 California
Sept. 20 Eastern Michigan
Sept. 27 at Clemson
Oct. 4 at Virginia
Oct. 18 Wake Forest
Oct. 25 NC State
Nov. 6 at Virginia Tech (Thu.)
Nov. 15 North Carolina
Nov. 22 Florida State
Nov. 29 at Boston College
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