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Players honored

California senior guard Dani Mills was named the PSAC West women's basketball Player of the Week after scoring a game and season-high 21 points in Saturday's 63-54 victory over Indiana.

In Cal’s only game of the week, Mills hit nine of 16 shots as the Vulcans upset the PSAC West leading Crimson Hawks. The senior posted 10 more points than she scored in any other divisional game and nearly tripled her season average of 8.6 points per game.

• Washington & Jefferson College sophomore forward Emily Hays was selected as the Presidents’ Athletic Conference Women’s Basketball Player of the Week.

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Hays helped W&J earn a share of the PAC regular-season championship this past week by leading the Presidents to victories over Grove City, 67-49, and Thiel, 83-79. She averaged 17.0 points and 10.0 rebounds per game, while shooting 50 percent (15-for-30) from the field.

On Wednesday, Hays collected 12 points and five boards in the win over GCC. She then tallied career-highs of 22 points and 15 rebounds during the Presidents’ road victory at Thiel on Saturday.

• Waynesburg College senior guard Beau Wilson was selected as the Presidents’ Athletic Conference Men’s Basketball Player of the Week.

Wilson wins the award after leading the Yellow Jackets to two victories, including an 82-74 win over Saint Vincent. The four-year starter had a game-high 27 points versus the Bearcats, including 18 points in the second half.

The West Virginia native made 8 of 11 field against Saint Vincent, including six-of-nine from beyond the arc, with four steals. Earlier in the week, he helped Waynesburg to an 89-77 victory over Thomas More by scoring 22 points on 8-of-12 shooting with three rebounds and three steals.

Wilson averaged 24.5 points, 3.5 steals and 2.0 rebounds in the two games, while shooting 69.6 percent (16-of-23) from the floor, including 58.8 percent (10-of-17) from three-point territory.

In the NHL

Petr Tenkrat scored twice during a wild second period and helped the Boston Bruins beat the Philadelphia Flyers 6-3 on Monday night.

Marco Sturm, P.J. Axelsson, Brandon Bochenski, and Marc Savard also scored for the Bruins, who have won four of five.

• Scott Hartnell scored two goals in 23 seconds and the Nashville Predators went back on top of the Western Conference with a 4-1 victory over the Phoenix Coyotes.

The Predators, who snapped a two-game losing streak, leapfrogged idle Detroit into first place in the Central Division and the West. They did it despite not getting any points from new forward Peter Forsberg for the second straight game since he joined Nashville.

In college basketball

Freshman reserve Sherron Collins scored 20 points and led a key second-half run, and No. 6 Kansas beat Kansas State 71-62 to extend its winning streak in Manhattan to 24 games.

Mario Chalmers added 17 points, Darrell Arthur had 13 points and 12 rebounds, and Brandon Rush finished with 11 points for Kansas.

• A.J. Graves scored 20 points, Brandon Crone added 17 and No. 15 Butler beat Wisconsin-Green Bay 68-58.

• Freshman Lazar Hayward scored a career-high 18 points to lead No. 12 Marquette to a 80-67 victory over Villanova on Monday night.

Hayward, who entered the game averaging six points per game, had 13 in the first half before fouling out late in the second.


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