St. John’s native Maggie Connors is making a name for herself south of the border. Playing for Princeton University women’s hockey team she has been named the National Rookie of the Month. In eight games she had 10 goals and three assists.…
S A T U R D A Y The Port aux Mariners evened their best of seve West Coast Senior Hockey League final with a 7-3 win over Corner Brook Royals. Matt Robinson scored three times for the Mariners and Jasper Dicks added two goals. Darren Dean and Byron Francis had the other goals. Matt Colbourne, Tyler Hunt and David Budgell had the Royals markers. Game three will be played Friday at eight in Corner Brook. F R I D A Y The Corner Brook Royals won the opening game of the best of seven West Coast…
Great news for Newfoundland Curlers and fantastic news for Conception Bay South. The Pinty’s Grand Slam of Curling is returning to Conception Bay South Arena. The Boost National will be played in CBS December 10th to 15th. Last year CBS played host to a Grand Slam event and received rave reviews. …
The St. John’s Edge made it two in a row over Cape Breton with a 105-92 win Monday night before 2322 fans at Mile One. They improve to 19-15 on the season. Jared Nickens led the Edge with 22 points and Murphy Burnatowski added 19 and Desmond Lee 15. …
A look at the provincial senior hockey playoffs which were played this weekend. Clarenville Caribous have a two games to none lead over the St. John’s Caps. The Southern Shore Breakers are up two games to none over CB Blues in the East Coast senior hockey semis. The Grand Falls Windsor Cataracts and Gander Flyers are tied at a game apiece in the Central West playdowns. …
S U N D A Y The Newfoundland Growlers lost back-to-back games for only the third time this season, dropping a 4-3 shootout heart breaker to the Orlando Solar Bears Sunday afternoon at Mile One Centre. Josh Kestner opened the scoring 6:49 into the game redirecting an Adam Pardy point shot past Connor Ingram who got the nod between the Solar Bears pipes for the third straight game for an early 1-0 lead. The Growlers came out of the locker room hungry for revenge, not allowing a shot on goal until the 8:45 mark of the first period.…