Pictou County Minor Hockey:
Congratulations to the Pictou County Midget A Crushers, they defeated the South Shore Lumberjacks 6-2 at the Day of Champions in Truro this weekend to win the Championship.
The TASA Ducks defeated the Bantam A Crushers 9-2 to win the Bantam A Championship.
The PeeWee A Crushers dropped one to the Yarmouth Mariners, 9-2. With that Win, the Mariners are your PeeWee A Champions.
Big congrats go out to the Fundy-Highland Colchester Cyclones on capturing the Female Atom A provincial championship with a 5-0 victory over the Metro East Inferno Red.
The Pictou County Bantam AA Crushers captured a silver medal at the provincial championships in Yarmouth this past weekend. The Crushers advanced to the championship game with an exciting 4-3 OT win over Glace Bay. The win sent Pictou County to the title game where they faced the Halifax Hawks. The Crushers battled hard but came out on the wrong end of a 3-1 score. Lane Lochead picked up the lone Crusher goal. Logan Crosby was named tournament MVP and leading scorer. The Crushers successful season ended with a 44-10-3 record.
PCMS:
PC U12 girls lightening basketball team won the gold in the Cape Breton classic this past weekend.
Women’s Hockey:
It was Bronze for Team Canada at the IIHF Women’s World Hockey Championship,
They lost their semi-final game to Finland 4-2, they would go on to beat Russia 7-0 in the Bronze Medal game.
In the Gold Medal game, the Finnish team was robbed. Finland scored the game winning goal against the US to win the Gold Medal, BUT after a long review that goal was overturned because of goaltender interference, the game ended up going to a shootout where the Americans scored the winning goal and picked up the Gold Medal in the process.
Maritime Hockey League:
The Finals have begun in the MHL, The Yarmouth Mariners and the Campbellton Tigers played the first 2 games of their best of 7 this past weekend,
On Saturday, The Mariners shut out the Tigers, 3-0. On Sunday they picked up another win 2-1. Game 3 is this Thursday in Campbellton.
QMJHL:
We’re down to 4 teams in the QMJHL as they battle it out for the Presidents Cup!
The Rimouski Oceanic will face off against the Ryoun Noranda Huskies and the Halifax Mooseheads will play Drummondville. Both series kick off this Friday.
NBA:
Playoffs are underway in the NBA,
On Saturday, the Raptors lost the first game of the playoffs against the Magic, 104-101. Game 2 is tomorrow night at 10.
Last night the Celtics defeated the Pacers 84-74 to take a 1-0 series lead.
The Trailblazers took down the Thunder 104-99.
The Bucks unloaded on the Pistons 121-86.
The Rockets silenced the Jazz 122-90.
MLB:
The season is still young,
David Price was spectacular last night against the Orioles as the Red Sox pulled out a 4-0 win.
The Rays scored 5 runs in the 8th inning, that alone was enough to beat the Jays but they decided to score more anyway, 8-4 Rays final.
Masters:
Tiger Woods, you’re incredible.
13 years after his last Masters win and 11 since his last major victory, Tiger Woods drained a final put on 18 to the roar of golf fans around the world to win the Masters at Augusta.
NHL:
Last night,
The New York Islanders picked up a huge 4-1 win in Pittsburgh to take a strangle hold of that series 3-0.
The Blue Jackets are shocking the world, they picked up a huge W yesterday to take one step closer to sweeping the Lightning. They won 3-1 and lead the best of 7, 3-0.
The Winnipeg Jets needed a big win and they got one, 6-3 over the Blues. St Louis still leads that series 2-1.
The Golden Knights took a 2-1 series lead over the Sharks, defeating them 6-3.
Tonight,
The Bruins are headed to Toronto with the series tied 1-1. That game begins at 8.
The Capitals are looking to take control of their series against the Hurricanes, game 3 begins tonight at 8, the Capitals hold a 2-0 lead.
The Predators are going to Texas to face the Dallas Stars, that series is all even Stevens at 1-1.
Calgary and Colorado is also all even up, game 3 is tonight at 11.
This morning Toronto Maple Leafs forward, Nazim Kadri will have an in person hearing for his predatory crosscheck on Bruins forward Jake Debrusk during game 2 of the series.
Expect him to be suspended anywhere from 3-6 games.
