The UPEI women Panthers are in the AUS basketball semi-finals in Halifax. The Panthers got by UNB 76-70 in the quarterfinals. Reese Baxendale had 30 points and Jenna Mae Ellsworth added 28. UPEI meets Cape Breton today.
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The Holland College women’s Hurricanes are also semi-final bound in the ACAA playoffs at the Dal Agriculture. Holland College stopped UNB Saint John, 61-57. Jayla Verney and Jenna MacInnis with 14 points each
The #1 Holland College men are also in the sem-finals.
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The Toronto Raptors were 102-95 winners over Washington in the NBA. DeMar DeRozan had 23 points.
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The Victoriaville Tigres ran away with a 9-0 shutout over the Charlottetown Islanders in the Q. Ivan Kosorenkov scored four times and had a natural hat-trick. The Tigres beat first place Halifax, 8-2 on Wednesday.
Acadie-Bathurst dumped Saint John, 5-1. Summerside defenseman Noah Dobson with his 14th goal and an assist.
Cape Breton dropped Val-d’Or, 4-1.
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Summerside Western Capitals goalie Dominik Tmej made 49 saves and was the first star in a 3-1 edging of the South Shore Lumberjacks in the MHL. TJ Shea and Brodie MacArthur both had a goal and 2 assists.
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The Kensington Wild ripped the Charlottetown Pride, 8-1 to begin the PEI Major Midget finals. Evan Gallant had 3 goals and 2 assists for the Wild.
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Taylor Hall is on a 24 game point scoring streak in the NHL He scored his 29th goal on a power play but his New Jersey Devils lost 3-1 to Carolina.
The Montreal Canadiens doubled the NY Islanders, 6-3 Alex Galchenyuk with 3 goals and an assist.
Patrik Laine scored his 32nd which was the game winner as Winnipeg got by Detroit, 4-3.
Nathan MacKinnon with 2 goals and 3 assists helping Colorado to a 7-1 win over Minnesota.
Alex Burrows scored the winner as Ottawa edged Las Vegas, 5-4.
NHL
Winnipeg 4 Detroit 3
N.Y. Rangers 3 Calgary 1
Ottawa 5 Vegas 4
Nashville 4 Vancouver 3 (OT)
Montreal 6 N.Y. Islanders 3
Carolina 3 New Jersey 1
Florida 4 Buffalo 1
Colorado 7 Minnesota 1
Anaheim 4 Columbus 2
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Exhibition baseball….
Minnesota over Toronto, 2-1.
Boston 9 St. Louis 6
New York Yankees 5 Atlanta 2
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Kings County got by Pownal, 5-4 to even the PEI Midget AAA semi-finals, 1-1.
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Cap Pele trimmed the Eastern Maniacs, 8-7 in Junior B.
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Summerside Crunch over the Sherwood Falcons, 7-5 to even their Jr. C semi-final,1-1.
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The Eastern Express edged Western, 6-5 in the Bantam AAA semi-finals. The series is tied, 1-1.
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On Today
The Island Storm (13-15) is home to the Cape Breton Highlanders at 7.00 in NBL basketball.
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UPEI meets Cape Breton in the AUS women’s semi-final playoff action in Halifax AT 3.00.
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Holland College women meet Mount Allison at 3.00 at the Dal Agriculture Centre in the ACAA semi-finals.
Holland College men, the #1 seed, into the semi-finals at 6.00.
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The Tim Horton’s Brier begins in Regina as PEI’s Eddie MacKenzie plays Manitoba’s Reid Carruthers this afternoon in the opener.
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Summerside Caps in Yarmouth to play the Mariners at 7.30 in the MHL>
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The Eastern Canadian Biathlon championships on today at Brookvale.
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It’s Hockey Card Day in Canada where you could get a free pack of Upper Deck cards at Backmandy Collectibles on the corner of Belvedere and Mount Edward Road.