briefs
In the NHL
Auston Matthews scored with 30.2 seconds left to give the Toronto Maple Leafs a 3-2 victory over the Detroit Red Wings on Sunday night.
- Taylor Hall scored on a rebound with 22 seconds left in overtime, giving the New Jersey Devils a 3-2 victory over the Carolina Hurricanes.
- Connor McDavid had his third hat trick of the season, and the Edmonton Oilers beat the Colorado Avalanche 4-2 to snap a six-game losing streak.
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- Pressed into action after Flyers starter Michal Neuvirth left with a lower-body injury, rookie goaltender Alex Lyon was confident at Madison Square Garden having played there before for Yale.
- Washington Capitals forward Devante Smith-Pelly is disgusted and saddened black athletes such as himself continue to be the targets of racial taunts from fans.
“It’s sad that in 2018 we’re still talking about the same thing over and over,” Smith-Pelly said Sunday, a day after he was singled out by four fans in Chicago.
“You’d think there would be some sort of change or progression, but we’re still working toward it, I guess, and we’re going to keep working toward it,” he said.
The comments were Smith-Pelly’s first a day after four fans were ejected from Chicago’s United Center for chanting a racial taunt while he served a penalty for fighting during the Capitals’ 7-1 loss to the Blackhawks. An off-ice official sitting next to Smith-Pelly notified building security, and the fans were ejected.
Smith-Pelly confirmed the fans were chanting “basketball, basketball, basketball,” and understood immediately what it meant in being directed at a black hockey player in a sport dominated by white athletes. Smith-Pelly said he was confronted with a similar chant during a tournament in British Columbia.
PAC swimming
The Grove City College women captured their league-best 16th Presidents’ Athletic Conference Swimming & Diving Championship Saturday evening.
The team title is Grove City’s 10th straight.
The conference championships were held at Grove City’s James E. Longnecker Competition Pool. Longnecker Pool has been the home of the league’s swimming and diving championships since 1990.
Grove City led the six-team championship field with 853 points. Saint Vincent College was the runner-up with 713 points and was followed by Westminster College in third (691), Chatham University in fourth (400), Washington & Jefferson College in fifth (248) and Bethany College in sixth (127).
PAC Swimmer of the Year honors went to Grove City sophomore Anne Shirley Dassow for the second-straight year. She is the first women’s swimmer to collect back-to-back MVP honors since W&J’s Kaitlyn Orstein won four straight from 2005-08.
On Saturday, Dassow won the 200 fly for the second-straight year with a time of 2 minutes, 1.10 seconds. Her time set Longnecker Pool, PAC open and PAC Championship records.
- The Westminster College men locked up their fourth-straight Presidents’ Athletic Conference Swimming & Diving Championship Saturday evening.
The conference championships were held at Grove City College’s James E. Longnecker Competition Pool. Longnecker Pool has been the home of the league’s swimming and diving championships since 1990. The team title is Westminster’s ninth.
Westminster led the five-team championship field with 908 points. Grove City was the runner-up with 903 points and was followed by Saint Vincent College in third (687), Washington & Jefferson College in fourth (248) and Bethany College in fifth (185).
PAC Swimmer of the Year honors went to Saint Vincent junior Jacob Davis. He is the first conference swimmer of the year in program history.