Penguins forward Evgeni Malkin collides with the Islanders’ Milan Jurcina as they fight for the puck during their Tuesday night game.
Michael Grabner, David Ullstrom and Kyle Okposo also scored, and Josh Bailey had three assists to help the Islanders end Pittsburgh’s 10-game home winning streak with ease. Okposo, Ullstrom and Nielsen scored within a 6-minute span of the second period to break things open.
James Neal scored twice for the Penguins — who lost despite outshooting the Islanders 54-18 — and Tyler Kennedy added a goal. Marc
The Cowboys are on a three game winning streak.
Has been rescheduled for May 15
McNeese State’s baseball game with UL Monroe in Monroe on Wednesday night was rained out.
The game has been rescheduled for May 15 in Monroe.
McNeese, now 7-11 overall and 4-2 in Southland Conference play, will return to action on Friday at home in a three game league series with Nicholls State.
CLEMSON, SC – Clemson Head Coach Dabo Swinney will welcome 48 returning lettermen, including 15 returning starters from the 2011 ACC Championship team to the first of 15 spring practice sessions on Wednesday. The Tigers are slated to begin practice a little after 4 PM on the practice fields behind the Jervey Athletic Center. Practices are closed to the public.
Clemson will close spring practice with the annual Orange-White game at Clemson Memorial Stadium on Saturday, April 14 at 4 PM.
The Tigers are coming off a 10-4 season that saw the program win its first ACC Championship in 20 years. The season included a school record four wins over top 25 teams, including a pair of wins over top 10 Virginia Tech teams, including the 38-10 win over a third ranked Virginia Tech team in the ACC Championship game.
The distinction of having scored the first ever international goal to have been recorded is held by an Englishman, William Kenyon-Slaney. The distinction of having scored the fastest goal at the European Championship finals is held by Michael Owen in a match against Portugal where he managed to score a goal in 2 minutes and 24 seconds. The distinction of having scored the fastest goal at the World Cup finals is also held by an Englishman, Bryan Robson and it stands at 27 seconds in a match against France in 1982. Most goals in a single World Cup qualifying campaign is also another record which is held by Wayne Rooney who scored 9 goals for the qualifying rounds of the 2010 world cup in 2009-09. Read full article…
At stake is a berth into the NCAA National Championship series this weekend as the NCHA O’Brien Cup playoffs will be play out at Hunt Arena at UW-River Falls.
The league’s top teams will battle through two days of grueling and intense competition and one team will lift the O’Brien Cup after Saturday’s championship game. The NCAA will announce the Div. III hockey field on Monday.
All four teams – UW-River Falls, Adrian College, UW-Superior and Lake Forest College – are playing well and have a legitimate chance to win the O’Brien Cup title. That should make for some exciting hockey action throughout the weekend.
In Friday’s first semifinal, UW-Superior plays Adrian College at 3:05 p.m. UW-River
The Cowboys are on a three game winning streak.
Has been rescheduled for May 15