The Buffalo Sabres blew a golden opportunity to move into eighth place in the Eastern Conference, losing to the Carolina Hurricanes in overtime Thursday night, 3-2.
Jamie McBain scored just 26 in extra time for Carolina to secure the victory after burying a slap shot past Ryan Miller.
Brad Boyes scored for Buffalo for the second consecutive game since being acquired from the St. Louis Blues last Sunday. Steve Montador also scored for Buffalo.
With the loss, the Sabres fell to three points behind Carolina in the playoff race, though Buffalo still has two games in hand.
Buffalo remains on the road for weekend games in Philadelphia on Saturday and Minnesota on Sunday.
Lancaster entered their Section VI semifinal with Jamestown Thursday night brimming with confidence. They played the Red Raiders close in two games already this season. They were on the heels of a five-game winning streak and disposed of Kenmore West to get to Buffalo State College for the Class-AA final four.
It was starting to seem Lancaster was poised for a huge upset Thursday in their third try with Jamestown, but Jaysean Paige personally made sure the clock struck midnight on their fairy tale hopes.
The Jamestown junior put on arguably the best performance of anyone in Western New York this season, pouring in 42 points from literally all over the floor to lead Jamestown to a 68-53 and a date with Niagara Falls Saturday night for the Class-AA championship.
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How does a team go 7-for-18 from the free throw line, get only four points from their star center, connect on just a pair of three-pointers, and still blow the game open with a 19-point lead by the end of the third quarter?
The answer is when you play defense and rebound like top-ranked Niagara Falls does.
The Wolverines couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn from the perimeter or the free throw line. But a swarming defense and the offensive prowess of Marcus Feagin made up for it. Niagara Falls advanced the Class-AA Section VI final with a 50-43 over McKinley at Buffalo State College.
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Niagara County Community College’s Head Baseball Coach Matt Clingersmith will hold a press conference Friday, March 4 at 3:30pm in the Athletics lobby for the signing of nine High School Seniors to National Letters of Intent.
In attendance will be RHP-Brandon Bielecki from Clarence High School, SS/RHP Michael Elwood from Clarence High School, RHP-Angelo Harkins from John F. Kennedy High School, OF-Nicholas Kellner from Grand Island High School, OF-John Knauth from Orchard Park High School, 3B-Matthew Krettek from Cortice Secondary School, OF-Matthew Notaro from Williamsville East High School, OF/RHP-Michael Orlowski from Iroquois High School, and RHP-Paul Tronolone from St. Joseph’s High School.
I spoke to several people affiliated with St. Joe’s high school including Connor Rehbaum himself, and turns out at the Western New York Player of the Year candidate played the final three quarters last night with a broken nose against Canisius in the finals of the Manhattan Cup.
Canisius won the game, 57-53 after trailing by 14 at halftime to win the Cup for the second time in three years.
Rehbaum said he got hurt on the final play for the first quarter when he went up for a rebound and caught with an incidental elbow in the face. He said it was not intentional and “just part of the game.”
It’s undeniable the injury to Rehbaum, who averaged nearly 19 points per game this season, slowed him down as he played three quarters with cotton in his nose to stop the bleeding. Rehbaum exploded from the gate with eight points in the first quarter but finished with just 12 points. Joe’s was also hurt by center Reggie Agbeko’s ankle injury. Agbeko hurt it on the opening tip in the semifinal against Timon last Saturday and would sit the whole game.
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The No. 7 seed Canisius College women’s basketball team defeated No. 10 seed Niagara University 63-51 in the first round of the 2011 Spark Energy MAAC Championship at the Webster Bank Arena at Harbor Yard on Thursday. Canisius improves to 11-19 on the season and advances to Friday’s quarterfinal round, where the Golden Griffins will face No. 2 seed Loyola University at 9:30 a.m.
Senior Micayla Drysdale led Canisius with 13 points and a game-high eight rebounds. Sophomore Ashley Durham had 12 points and four assists in 24 minutes off the bench while freshman Jen Lennox had eight points in 19 minutes. Junior Steph MacDonald had 10 points, seven rebounds (five offensive) and three assists while sophomore Melissa Gardner had seven points, three blocks and three steals.
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Here comes my third crack at a mock draft since the NFL season ended; admittedly a figure that is probably three too many. I’ve always thought it was a joke people with few, if any intimate knowledge to an organization enter the business of predicting what each team in the NFL will do with their first draft picks to improve their respective teams. Factor in we’re merely into the first few days of March and there’s 32 general managers who don’t have much of an idea themselves yet of what they’ll do, and it becomes even more laughable.
Then again… it’s also fun.
At the same time, mock drafting is like an addiction for any writer. Minds run rapid with possibilities as each armchair GM with a laptop slaps a mock together in hope fans look back at and marvel at your prognostication prowess. That is unless, of course, your name is Mike Mayock and you’re the only analyst in the country to nail down Donte Whitner with the eighth overall pick in 2006. But I digress.
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