Regan puts UNH in driver's seat
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The University of New Hampshire was expected to beat Providence in the first game of their Hockey East best-of-three quarterfinal series last night. The tournament's top-seeded team and the fourth-ranked team in the country, the Wildcats won the regular-season conference title and almost everyone expected them to dispatch eighth-seeded Providence almost just by taking the ice.
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Northeastern field hockey coach Cheryl Murtagh doesn't want the glare of the spotlight that shines on her to detract from a team that has been the America East champion for the past three years and has been to the NCAA tournament 13 times.
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Itâs not surprising the Notre Dame players and coaches were using words like âdevastating,â âheartbreakingâ and âunbelievableâ following Saturdayâs 24-23 home loss to Boston College.
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Any time two Hockey East teams face off, the game will yield a fair amount of drama. When it's the iron of the conference, as it was last night between Boston College and New Hampshire, there is the potential for many subplots.
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AMHERST -- There is no out of bounds. When a deflected pass flew over the scorer's table at practice Tuesday, three Minutemen raced after it, wrestling for the ball in the Mullins Center seats. University of Massachusetts men's basketball coach Travis Ford would have it no other way. Ferocity: That's one thing he's looking for.
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WORCESTER -- When Holy Cross coach Tom Gilmore looked up at the clock late in the fourth quarter of yesterday's game against Northeastern, he had to wonder where the second half had gone.
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MISSOULA, Mont. -- In a game in which something had to give, New Hampshire's defense gave the most.
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University of Connecticut coach Randy Edsall stood at midfield yesterday, wheeling back and forth so he could watch the offense and defense at the same time.
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Kent Baer knows he has a difficult task as Notre Dame's interim head coach.
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J ohn Doherty's ice hockey career at the University of New Hampshire is over. The sophomore defenseman from Lynnfield left the Wildcats last month, just nine games into the team's season. Doherty, who had a goal and two assists in 16 games last season, did not register a point this season in limited playing time.
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SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- Boston College's top-ranked hockey team arrived at Notre Dame intent on keeping its perfect record intact, maintaining its top ranking in the polls, and delivering coach Jerry York his 700th career victory.
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When Brendan Walsh decided to leave Northeastern University as an assistant coach last year to realize his dream of becoming a Boston police officer, the lure of the sport never left him. Tonight, the Dorchester native will have the best of both worlds.
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DURHAM, N.H. -- For virtually the entire season, they have been the team to beat in Hockey East. They have been consistent, stingy in allowing goals and proficient at generating them. They have lost back-to-back games only once and that was in late October. When league coaches talk about the gold standard, they point to the University of New Hampshire.
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James VanRiemsdyk scored off a scramble in front at 4:49 of the third period to break a 3-3 tie and Jerry Pollastrone redirected a puck home at 14:31, lifting New Hampshire to a 5-3 victory over Boston University last night in front of 6,024 at Agganis Arena, and a sweep of the two-game weekend series.
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Northeastern has developed an outstanding first line, and the Huskies were able to hold off the University of Massachusetts, 2-1, at Matthews Arena last night on the strength of a power-play goal by top-line center Jason Guerriero and a shorthanded score by linemate Mike Morris. Jared Mudryk, the third member of the line, assisted on Guerriero's goal.
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Robbie Barker had a goal and two assists to help sixth-ranked New Hampshire beat Michigan Tech, 4-3, last night in the consolation game of the Great Lakes Invitational in Detroit. Brett Hemingway's power-play goal 3:09 into the second period gave New Hampshire (12-4-2) a 3-2 lead.
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Harvard seemed to be a sure bet in the first round of the women's Beanpot last night, skating into Walter Brown Arena as the top-ranked team in the nation with a 19-1-0 record. Northeastern, meanwhile, was stacking up losses through January as its young team slogged through a difficult Hockey East schedule.