AUGUSTA Brunswick High School girls basketball coach Sam Farrell was frustrated. His team, the same. Foul call after foul call went against his Dragons, with Lawrence standout Nia Irving and her teammates making steady trips to the free-throw line. But, Farrell kept calming his charges, telling them to play on and to keep working. This […]

AUGUSTA Forgive Hyde guard Antoine Montgomery if he has no recollection of the tough history the Phoenix boys basketball team has endured at the Augusta Civic Center. The junior, in his first season with Hyde, has heard the stories of last-second losses to teams like Valley and Forest Hills just over the past few years, […]

BRUNSWICK Over the course of the swimming season it became more and more evident that it was going to be really difficult to beat out the Cheverus High School boys swim team come time for the state finals. That theory held true on Wednesday, when the Stags captured its third straight Class A swimming championship […]

EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Not knowing what he was doing in the shootout didn’t seem to faze Martin Marincin. The Oilers defenseman from Slovakia scored the lone shootout goal in the 12th round, and Edmonton snapped a two game skid with a 4-3 victory over the struggling Boston Bruins on Wednesday night. The teams had […]

CHICAGO (AP) — Tomas Tatar scored in regulation and in the shootout, leading Jimmy Howard and the Detroit Red Wings to a 3-2 victory over the Chicago Blackhawks on Wednesday night. Gustav Nyquist also scored in the tiebreaker for Detroit, which won for just the third time in 11 shootouts this season. Darren Helm had […]

DELRAY BEACH, Fla. Taiwan’s Lu Yen-hsun upset top-seeded Kevin Anderson of South Africa 7- 6 (6), 6-3 on Wednesday night in chilly conditions in the second round of the Delray Beach Open. The 31-year-old Lu set up a quarterfinal match against fifth-seeded Adrian Mannarino of France, a 6-2, 6-2 winner over Denis Kudla of nearby […]