Blackhawks right wing Jimmy Hayes skates with the puck against Red Wings defensman Jakub Kindl during their game Tuesday. Hayes scored the tying goal and set up the winning tally for Chicago.
Jimmy Hayes scored the tying goal in the second period and set up Marcus Kruger’s winning score in the third as Chicago earned its fourth consecutive victory since a nine-game losing streak.
Valtteri Filppula scored a power-play goal for NHL-leading Detroit, which had won six in a row. Jimmy Howard had 27 stops in his first action since being sidelined for two-plus weeks with a broken right index finger.
While Howard was back in the net for the first time since Feb.
Top seed Roger Federer swept past Nicolas Mahut 6-4 6-4 in the first round of the Rotterdam Open.
Federer, appearing at the indoor hardcourt event for the first time since winning it seven years ago, broke once in each set during a 67-minute triumph.
And the Swiss 16-time grand slam winner received a further boost when his scheduled second-round opponent Mikhail Youzhny withdrew from the tournament with a foot problem.
Federer goes straight through to a quarter-final date against Finland’s Jarkko Nieminen, who saw off Poland’s Lukasz Kubot 6-3 5-7 7-6 (7/2).
Cowgirls’ Georgetown (above) takes SLC honor.
Second straight honor for the Cowgirls
McNeese State’s Mariah Georgetown has been named the Southland Conference indoor female track and field athlete of the week.
She was honored for her performance in last week’s Vulcan Invitational indoor track and field meet in Birmingham when she broke her own school record in the 60 meter high hurdles.
The sophomore from Baker, LA and Bethany Christian High School ran second in the event with an 8.59 clocking, breaking her previous record of 8.61.
She has now set three school records this season.
Georgetown is the second straight Cowgirl honored as athlete of the week by the Southland Conference.
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Clemson women’s basketball signee Jonquel Jones has been selected by the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) as one of 20 players nationally to participate in the 2012 WBCA High School All-America Game presented by NIKE. The 21st annual All-America game will be played on March 31, 2012 at the Pepsi Center in Denver, CO, the site of the 2012 NCAA Women’s Basketball Final Four. “We are very excited for Jonquel on her selection,” said head coach Itoro Coleman, whose 2012 signing class is ranked among the top-20 nationally. “She will Read full article…
Britain’s Anne Keothavong was eliminated from the Pattaya Open in Thailand on Wednesday after losing her second-round match to Sania Mirza.
Keothavong, who stunned the second seed and world No16, Dominika Cibulkova, in round one for the biggest win of her career, was beaten 6-4, 7-5 by the Indian.
The 28-year-old Londoner, the British No2, broke her opponent once in each set but Mirza capitalised on Keothavong’s meagre 47% of first serves in to break four times in a match which lasted one hour and 39 minutes.
Cowgirls’ Georgetown (above) takes SLC honor.
Second straight honor for the Cowgirls
