PCMHL:

The Pictou County Bantam A Crushers have captured the Northern conference championship last night as they defeated the Sydney Steelers 11-1.  Scoring for the Crushers was Ty Briand with 3, Dawson Mackay 2, Seth Gallant2, cameron Munroe, Colby Nichol, josh Macdonald, and Kayden Moulaison adding singles. The Crushers will now take on Tasa on the Day of Champions, Friday April 12th at 5:00  in Truro.

The PeeWee AAA Atlantics begin today at the Wellness Center with games going all weekend long.

Maritime Hockey League:

Last night in MHL action the Yarmouth Mariners dominated the South Shore Lumberjacks 6-1 to take a 2-1 lead in that best of 7.

QMJHL:

The Quarterfinals begin on Friday, here are the match-ups.

The Ryoun Noranda Huskies will play the Victoriaville Tigre.
The Drummondville Voltigeurs will take on the Sherbrooke Phoenix.
The Cape Breton Screaming Eagles will take on Rimouski
The Halifax Mooseheads and Moncton Wildcats will tangle.

NBA:

The Raptors improve to 56-23 with a 10 point win over the Brooklyn Nets 115-105.

MLB:

Matthew Boyd struck out 13 Yankees to help the Tigers scrape a 2-1 win from the pinstripes.
Randal Grichuk hammered 2 homers against the Orioles as they picked up a big 5-3 win.
The Sox finally get their second win of the year defeating the A’s 6-3.
The Braves hammered home 4 runs in the 9th to beat the Cubbies 6-4.

NHL:

3 games on tap last night.

Ottawa upended the rangers 4-1.
The Blackhawks needed a shootout but ended up dumping the Blues 4-3.
The Ducks extinguished the Flames 3-1.

And Alexander Ovechkin says he’s going to play as long as he needs to take away Wayne Gretzky’s all-time goals record. Ovechkin scored 50 for his 8th time this year which leaves him only 237 goals behind the great one. At 33 years old Ovechkin could actually make this happen.