X-Men:
Congrats to X-Men basketball alumnus Joseph Odhiambo who successfully reached the Mt. Everest Base Camp (5,300m) on April 14th! He also raised over $3K for the education of kids in Nairobi, Kenya.
Gymnastics:
Six members of the Pictou County Gymnastics Club will be off to Atlantics this weekend.
Josie Conrad, (Open 6), Maddie Hawley (Open 6), Abby Conrad (Novice 6), Alana MacKinnon (Novice 5), Enja George (Tyro 5) and Jehona Durdle (Level 1, U12) all qualified at the recent provincial championships and will travel to Fredericton, N.B.
Telus Cup:
Last night the Cantonniers De Magog defeated the Halifax Macs 3-1, Ian Watt was the lone goal-scorer for the Macs who fall to 1-1 in the tournament.
U-18 World Hockey Championship:
IT was closer than they would have liked until the final half of the third where Canada managed to pull away from the Czech Republic and win 6-2. The Canadians take the top seed of Group A and will face Latvia on Thursday.
QMJHL:
Last night the Ryoun Norana Huskies took a stranglehold of their series against Rimouski, they won 5-2 to take a 3-0 lead in the best of 7 series.
On the other side of the coin it’s a tad bit closer, the Halifax Mooseheads notched two tallies in the first, Sanuel Asselin and Keith Getson and that’s all they needed to beat Drummondville 2-1 and take a 2-1 series lead.
NBA:
4 games last night and 3 eliminations….
The Denver Nuggets took a 3-2 series lead last night with a 108-90 win over the Spurs.
The Portland Trailblazers.. Sorry, Damien Lillard defeated the Oaklahoma City Thunder 118-115 with a last second 37 footer to eliminate the Thunder in 5 games. Lillard finished with 50 points.
The Philadelphia 76ers took home a big win against the Nets 122-100, that win eliminates the Nets in 5 games.
And finally, the Toronto Raptors got 27 points from Leonard to eliminate the Magic 115-96. Toronto will play the 76ers in the Semifinals.
MLB:
The Chicago Cubs are above .500 for the first time this year, they scored 4 in the first and never looked back, defeating the Dodgers 7-2.
The Tigers are playing good baseball early in the year, they scored 3 in the 4th and ended up getting the 4-2 win over the struggling Red Sox.
Kevin Pillar came back to Toronto only a few weeks after the trade and was given a huge ovation by the Toronto faithful. Pillar and his Giants would get the last laugh as well, defeating the Jays, 7-6.
NHL:
Wow, what a night for hockey.
The Vegas Golden Knights had a 3 goal lead half-way through the 3rd period but the sharks came roaring back with 4 goals in less than 5 minutes to take a 4-3 lead late in the 3rd but Jonathan Marchessault would tie it up with just seconds remaining to send the game into OT where Barclay Goodrow would score and send the Sharks to the semifinals with a 5-4 OT win.
The Toronto Maple Leafs had a chance to move on to the second round of the Stanley Cup playoffs for the first time in 15 years against the Bruins who were trying to get there for the 7th time in the last 11.
The Bruins came out hot scoring two goals late in the 1st, but the Leafs answered in the second when John Tavares sniped home his 2nd of the playoffs but it was not to be. The Bruins would add 3 goals in the 3rd period to eliminate the Leafs and advance to the semifinals.
