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Boudreau, Suter and Dubnyk will be in L.A. on Jan. 29.

By KENT YOUNGBLOOD [email protected]

Three, in this case, is good company.

That’s what coach Bruce Bou-dreau, defenseman Ryan Suter and goalie Devan Dubnyk all said after Wild practice Tuesday.

All three will be represent-ing the team at the NHL All-Star Game on Jan. 29 in Los Angeles. For each it’s an honor. For Suter, it’s his third trip, for Dubnyk his second straight. For Boudreau, it’s his first after knocking at the door a few times.

But what makes it special is that they’ll all be there together.

“We’ve been so good up and down the lineup this year, we should have lots of guys there,’’ Dubnyk said.

If the Wild goalie benefited last season from the rule that required each team to have a rep-resentative at the game, this year he is clearly the league’s elite in the nets. He leads the NHL with a 1.80 goals-against average and a .939 saves percentage. In his first

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By JERRY ZGODA [email protected]

Timberwolves backup point guard Tyus Jones appears on a hometown Minneapolis radio station twice a month, but he has yet to play his way into coach Tom Thibodeau’s rotation.

Called upon unexpectedly for the final 11 minutes Monday night, Jones made all three shots he attempted — including a timely three-pointer — and provided sta-bility and presence his team needed to keep a double-digit lead this time around and earn a victory over Dallas.

He hasn’t been utilized often this season, but nonetheless he has delivered when Thibodeau calls his name. In November, Jones played the final 18 minutes at Phoenix when his coach needed him in a dual point-guard backcourt to counter the Suns’ Eric Bledsoe-Brandon Knight combo and a 13-point defi-cit soon became a 13-point victory.

Jones more than ready when called by Wolves

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Richard Pitino has propelled Min-nesota basketball back into the Top 25. We shouldn’t be surprised. He’s one of the most experienced coaches in town.

In a neat trick, he’s also one of the youngest. Pitino is in his

fourth season at Minnesota yet is two years younger than P.J. Fleck, who looks like America’s nephew.

Pitino’s belated success offers a reminder of why Minnesota hired him and emphasizes why the school was wise to stick with him. It’s also a reminder of how volatile his profession can be.

Minnesota could have fired Pitino last spring. Instead, he is getting a chance to show off

coaching chops with his first impressive recruiting class.

Gopher men’s hockey coach Don Lucia has the longest tenure in town if we want to include the Big Ten’s version of college hockey as a major-revenue sport. I don’t.

Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve also has more tenure than Pitino. While the Lynx are an impressive opera-tion, the WNBA can’t be described

as a major-revenue league.Pitino has held his job lon-

ger than Bruce Boudreau, Tom Thibodeau, Mike Zimmer, Paul Molitor and Fleck. He is 34 yet already has taken a beating in the Big Ten, won an NIT title, dealt with a scandal, lost key recruits, started winning his share of recruiting jousts locally and nationally and elevated a

Old-timer Pitino rides ebb, flow of job

By MARCUS FULLER [email protected]

A big turnaround for Gophers men’s basketball this season is one thing for Richard Pitino. It’s another thing to be doing it with Minnesota natives powering that success.

In his first three seasons, Pitino had only one scholarship player from the state, Joey King, in his

rotation. That was the case only one other time in the previous 24 Gophers seasons, when Chad Kolander was the lone Minne-sotan with a main role for Clem Haskins in 1992-93.

Gophers fans — and recruits — have watched Pitino’s team go from eight victories last season

to a top-25 ranking this week, and three Minnesotans are at the fore-front of the transformation. Seeing the floor every night are starters Amir Coffey and Reggie Lynch and reserve Michael Hurt.

When Pitino saw an opportu-nity to bring in more local talent, he pounced.

“When you take a local kid, you can’t hide,” he said. “Because the families are there, the AAU coaches are there, the high school coaches are there. So everything you’ve talked about, you’ve got to hope it comes true. That’s your greatest recruiting asset is win-ning and getting guys better, espe-cially locally.”

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After playing in just one of the Wolves’ previous six games (and getting 4 seconds of game action in that one), second-year guard Tyus Jones was called upon Monday with Zach LaVine hobbled.

As he has done in many other situations this season, the former Apple Valley star and national champion at Duke delivered. Jones went 3-for-3 from the field, includ-ing a big three-pointer that helped the Wolves close out the Mavs.

Those types of players are invaluable in the NBA. But it also raises the question of whether Jones deserves more opportunities.

With Ricky Rubio and Kris Dunn healthy, it’s been a numbers game and Jones often has been the odd man out. But statistically the Wolves have been better on offense and defense when Jones has been on the floor.

Jones has at least carved out a niche as a true pro. Maybe he’ll get a bigger chance at some point to show he can be even more.

Read Michael Rand’s blog at startribune.com/randball. [email protected].

Does Tyus deserve to play more?

Royce White is playing com-petitive basketball again.

The Minneapolis native and former 2012 first-round NBA draft pick produced back-to-back triple-doubles over the weekend in the National Basketball League of Canada. He is the first player in NBLC history to achieve this feat.

White is a starting forward for the London Lightning of Ontario. His last action was in the 2015 NBA Summer League after playing in just three games with the Sacra-mento Kings in 2014.

The 6-8 White has battled an anxiety disorder that has been at the center of several well-doc-umented conflicts with his for-mer NBA employers. White has become an advocate for mental health awareness and started the organization Anxious Minds.

“How we live, how we think, how we feel, how we interact with one another is mental health,” White said in a recent interview with the NBLC.

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K N O W T H I SVikings defen-sive end Danielle Hunter made Pro Football Focus’ list of top 25 players under the age of 25. That’s a notable accomplishment for Hunter — and interesting because he’s the only Viking on the list even though lineback-ers Anthony Barr (24) and Eric Kendricks (24) were also eligible, as was receiver Stefon Diggs (23).

WATCH THISThe 24th-ranked Gophers are looking to avenge their only Big Ten loss of the season and stay unde-feated in confer-ence road games in Wednesday’s rematch at Michigan State.If you had guessed all of those things would be true after the first loss to the Spar-tans, you win a prize. 6 p.m., BTN.

R A N D O M FA N D O M“I’m a good Min-nesotan, uneasy with success, waiting for the other shoe to drop — in this case, the pat-ented Wild mid-winter swoon. Loved that they got 5 of 6 points in California, but we just went through this with the Vikes, so ...”“jabuyer” commenting on startribune.com.

T W E E T E D“This Minnesota Twins fan’s thoughts on trading Brian Dozier. Get a boat load for him. If that’s not offered, keep him. Pretty simple.”

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By MICHAEL RAND [email protected]

First, as always, the disclaimer: The comparisons between current Gophers football coach P.J. Fleck and former Gophers coach Tim Brewster start and stop with their outgoing styles. Fleck was brought in after coaching an unde-feated regular season at a D-I school. Brewster had never been a head coach or coordinator in his life when he was hired by the Gophers.

Big difference.There’s nothing wrong with genu-

ine enthusiasm, and there’s no reason Fleck can’t succeed with the Gophers even though Brewster did not.

OK, with that throat-clearing out of the way, a lot of people have suggested it would be fun to compare Fleck’s opening news conference Friday with Brewster’s opening news conference almost exactly a decade ago in Janu-ary 2007. Both were boisterous events filled with colorful phrases and visions of success. And let’s face it: every news conference starts to sound the same after a while. So: let’s have some fun. Below, you will find 10 quotes — five from Fleck and five from Brewster — from their first news conferences with the Gophers.

Can you guess who said what? The answers are at the end of the story.

1. “We share a vision of winning the Big Ten and having Rose Bowls. And I’m not afraid to say that because that’s

the way I live my life. I’m not afraid to hide behind something and say, you know, I can’t promise you something. I’m going to promise you a lot, because that’s the way I live my life. And that’s what I want to be able to create here at the University of Minnesota.”

2. “Our expectation is to win a Big Ten Championship now. We’re not interested in any rebuilding process. I’m very fortunate that I’m not coming into a situation that is decimated where there are no players. There are players here. … They’ve won a lot of games. They’re not void of talent, so we’re in a little different situation here than it is at most places that are going through the hiring process.”

3. “I tell you this, I’m very confident in doing the job I do, and you’re going to see that confidence flow through our players.”

4. “These players have a thirst right now, and I’m going to give them what they’re looking for. I promised them one thing, and that is I will never let them down.”

5. “We’re going to start here first. We’re going to recruit every kid in the state of Minnesota who we feel can help us [win] a Big Ten Champion-ship and take us to the Rose Bowl. I’m going to personally recruit the state of Minnesota.”

6. “We’re also going to recruit the finest student-athletes in the country, and you know where we’re going to start, and you know where we’re going

to build walls up around? Our elite state of Minnesota, and that’s what I’m dedi-cated to.”

7. “I went to the National Football League to get my Ph.D. in football. I was a great recruiter and a good football coach, but I wanted to study the game at a level in which you can’t do at the college game.”

8. “My entire life has been about run-ning into the fire, not away from the fire. I eat difficult conversations for breakfast, and that is why I took this job. For every reason not to take a job, that’s why I took it. That’s the story of my life.”

9. “Why the University of Min-nesota? Why not? This is a dream of mine ever since I was a little kid. To be able to play in the Big Ten, wasn’t fortunate enough to do that, got to play against Big Ten, but to coach in the Big Ten and to surround myself with peo-ple that would allow me to have that opportunity.”

10. “I feel like I am a Big Ten man. … I knew of the Golden Gophers’ reputa-tion but didn’t realize the University of Minnesota has won six national cham-pionships, 18 Big Ten championships, and gone to numerous bowl games. As I continued to study the academics of the school, the tradition, the football history, and the University itself, I got excited.”

Answers: Fleck: 1, 3, 6, 8, 9; Brewster: 2, 4, 5, 7, 10

Let’s play some who said it: Was it Brewster or Fleck?

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DAVID JOLES • [email protected] Former Gopher Tim Brewster sounded a lot like P.J. Fleck...

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CARLOS GONZALEZ • [email protected] Fleck has much more impressive résumé.

Kirk Ciarrocca will join him from WMU to be offensive coordinator.

By JOE CHRISTENSEN [email protected]

P.J. Fleck plans to stick with what has worked for him on offense. The new Gophers football coach will bring Western Michi-gan’s Kirk Ciar-rocca with him to Minnesota as the team’s next offensive coordinator, a source told the Star Tribune.

Ciarrocca, 51, spent the past four years as Fleck’s offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Western Michigan. The Broncos ranked ninth in the nation in scoring offense this past season, averaging 41.6 points per game.

In addition, Fleck has chosen a longtime, successful offensive line coach in Ohio State’s Ed Warinner, the source said.

Warinner, 55, worked as Ohio State’s offensive coor-dinator/tight ends coach this past season, but Ohio State moved in a new direction Tuesday by hiring former

Indiana coach Kevin Wilson to fill those roles. Warin-ner previously had been the Buckeyes’ offensive coordina-tor/offensive line coach.

Warinner also has coached the offensive line at Notre Dame, Kansas, Illinois, Army and Air Force. Some of his honors include 2014 Foot-ballScoop offensive line coach of the year, and 2014 Rivals.com Top 25 recruiter.

Ciarrocca has a reputation for developing quarterbacks, including Baltimore Ravens veteran Joe Flacco, when they were at Delaware a decade ago.

Ciarrocca also helped mold Western Michigan senior quar-terback Zach Terrell, who went to the school with no offers from Power Five programs, and passed for 33 touchdowns this past season with only four interceptions. Senior wide receiver Corey Davis blos-somed into an NFL prospect with 1,500 receiving yards.

Western Michigan ran a spread-option offense and ran the ball 634 times, with 378 passing attempts. The 13-1 Broncos had the nation’s 25th-ranked rushing offense, 49th-ranked passing offense and had the fewest turnovers in the country with eight.

Ciarrocca spent the 2008-

10 seasons at Rutgers as a co-offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach. Accord-ing to mlive.com, Ciarrocca helped Fleck land at Rutgers as well in 2010, after Fleck coached receivers at North-ern Illinois, his alma mater.

Ciarrocca and Fleck were reunited at WMU early in 2013, a few weeks after Fleck was announced as the school’s head coach.

Terms of the deals were not yet known. According to USA Today, Warinner made $654,500 last season at Ohio State and Ciarrocca made $320,000 at WMU.

Change is also coming to the Gophers’ defense. For-mer defensive coordinator Jay Sawvel is weighing three opportunities — one in the Big Ten, two in the ACC — a source familiar with his situ-ation said Tuesday.

Sawvel met with Fleck on Saturday, a source said, but both have moved in different directions. ESPN reported that Fleck will hire Robb Smith from Arkansas to be defensive coordinator, though Gophers sources have yet to confirm this.

Fleck told WCCO (830-AM) on Sunday that he hopes to have his coaching staff filled by Thursday.

Fleck selects a familiar face

Ciarrocca

The Tigers’ first national title in 35 years won’t be the last, says their coach.

By MARK LONG Associated Press

TAMPA, FLA. – Standing on college football’s biggest stage and hoisting its top prize, Clem-son coach Dabo Swinney and dynamic quarterback Deshaun Watson shared the ultimate hug and a few private words.

A formidable pairing. An improbable championship. An ideal ending.

Swinney and Watson’s finale together, a 35-31 upset victory against Alabama in the national title game Monday night, might just be a launch-ing point for the Tigers (14-1).

“You think this is the best of Clemson? Just wait the next five years,” Watson said Tues-day. “It’s going to be even more exciting, more awesome.”

The Tigers claimed their first national championship since 1981, ending a 35-year drought thanks to huge plays from Watson, his receiving corps and a defense deter-mined to avenge last year’s oh-so-close loss to the Crim-son Tide in the title game.

Although most expect Clemson to need a year or

two to reload — the Tigers are losing a handful of offensive and defensive stars — Swin-ney believes his team will get another title shot in the not-too-distant future, certainly not another three-decade wait.

“There’s no doubt in my mind that the best is yet to come for us,” Swinney said. “I mean, we’re going to con-tinue to improve, continue to get better. Winning national championships are hard. I mean, it’s very, very difficult to do. … It won’t be 35 years before Clemson will do this again.”

It’s certainly being built to compete with anyone in the country.

Swinney has five-star quar-terback Hunter Johnson, from Brownsburg, Ind., on the way to replace Watson, who gradu-ated in three years and is leav-ing early for the NFL draft. And Clemson annually has one of the top recruiting classes.

Swinney clearly has Clem-son rolling after consecutive trips to the title game.

“The best is yet to come for us,” he said. “For us it’ll be, like I said, enjoying this moment, but getting excited about com-ing back and seeing if we can charge back up the mountain next year.”

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CHRIS O’MEARA • Associated PressClemson QB Deshaun Watson, right, is NFL-bound, but Dabo Swinney, left, has the Tigers primed for an even brighter future.

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Green Bay Packers receiver Geronimo Allison has been charged with one count of misdemeanor mar-ijuana possession after a traf-fic stop in September.

The charge against Alli-son was filed in Manitowoc County Circuit Court on Dec. 15. A hearing was sched-uled for Jan. 23, according to online court records.

The case was first reported by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Tuesday.

Court documents show that Allison, 22, was issued a citation for driving 11 miles over the speed limit on Sept. 4. He later paid a $200 fine.

The misdemeanor mari-juana possession charge filed last month was also dated Sept. 4.

The Packers had a day off Tuesday. The team said in a statement that it was “aware of the matter involving Geronimo Allison. Because this is an ongoing legal mat-ter, we will refrain from mak-ing any further comment.”

An undrafted rookie free agent out of Illinois, Alli-son had emerged with eight catches for 157 yards and a touchdown in Green Bay’s last two regular-season games. He

could play a bigger role in the divisional round playoff game on Sunday against Dallas if Jordy Nelson can’t go because of a rib injury.

Edwards to coach in East-West game

Vikings defensive coordi-nator George Edwards will serve as one of the two head coaches in the 92nd annual East-West Shrine Game, a college all-star game that helps showcase draft-eligible prospects to NFL scouts.

Edwards will lead the West team on Jan. 21. For-mer NFL defensive tackle and Cardinals defensive line coach Brentson Buckner will coach the East.

Etc.• The 49ers interviewed

Carolina defensive coordina-tor Sean McDermott for their head coaching vacancy and ESPN analyst Louis Riddick for their general manager job.

• Former Vikings offen-sive coordinator Bill Mus-grave won’t be retained as the offensive coordinator by the Raiders, who are replac-ing him with quarterbacks coach Todd Downing.

• The Broncos met with Dolphins defensive coordi-nator Vance Joseph to inter-view for their head coaching vacancy and is considered the front-runner to replace Gary Kubiak, who retired because of health reasons.

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Jabrill Peppers is taking his do-it-all talent to the NFL.

The Heisman Trophy finalist announced his plans Tuesday to enter the draft and skip his senior season at Michigan.

“It’s one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to do,” Peppers said in an interview with Sports I l l u s t r a t e d . “I’m choos-ing between c e m e n t i n g my legacy as a college player and starting my pro legacy. It’s something you dream of when you were a kid. I was torn between the two.”

Peppers told the magazine he made his decision last week while with his family in New Jersey and told coach Jim Harbaugh on Monday.

“He thanked me and told me it was a pleasure to coach me,” Peppers said. “I told him it was a pleasure to play for him. He molded me for the next level, that’s how he oper-ates. He runs his program like an NFL team.”

The 6-1, 205-pound Pep-pers is projected to be a first-round pick in April. He led the Wolverines with 16 tackles for losses, including four sacks, ranked third with 72 tackles, had one intercep-tion and forced a fumble as a junior. He had 27 carries for 181 yards and three touch-downs on offense and also excelled on special teams.

• Other college standouts declaring for the NFL draft Tuesday included Wiscon-sin All-America tackle Ryan Ramczyk and Florida State tackle Rod Johnson.

Welcome backAbout 6,000 Clemson fans

turned out to welcome their national champion Tigers, capping a giddy day of cel-ebration after their team top-pled Alabama.

People screamed as the buses pulled up, calling out “DE-SHAUN” over and over as Tigers star quarterback Deshaun Watson walked

with his luggage and national championship hat into Clem-son’s football building.

“This means a lot,” said receiver Mike Williams, who like Watson will forego his final year in college and enter the NFL draft.

And what a way to leave. Watson accounted for 463 yards and four touchdowns in the 35-31 victory over the top-ranked and seemingly unbeatable Crimson Tide. Watson’s final college pass was a 2-yard throw to Hunter Renfrow for the game-win-ning score with one second left.

Foul or no foul?Clemson coach Dabo

Swinney says there should have been a foul called on the Tigers’ game-winning touch-down against Alabama, and it should have been called on the Crimson Tide.

Swinney said Tuesday there was defensive pass interference on Clem-son receiver Artavis Scott, who made contact with his defender and created some traffic that another Alabama defensive back got caught in on Renfrow’s 2-yard TD catch with one second left Monday night. Alabama coaches and players thought it was the other way around. No call was made.

“Yes, it’s a rub play, it’s a pick play,” Swinney said. “Artavis was actually trying to go pick the guy, but he couldn’t get there because he got tackled. I mean, literally, the guy tackles him.”

Etc.

• Ohio State hired former Indiana coach Kevin Wilson to be co-offensive coordina-tor with the newly hired Ryan Day and also coach tight ends. Wilson went 26-47 in six sea-sons at Indiana and last sea-son led the Hoosiers to their first bowl game since 2007.

• Alabama tailback Bo Scar-brough fractured a bone in his lower right leg in the national championship game. Coach Nick Saban said Scarbrough’s injury won’t require surgery and that he’s expected to fully recover.

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27 appearances, he never gave up more than three goals. He has five shutouts.

Suter leads the league’s defensemen in plus/minus (+24) and is second in the league in minutes played (27:16).

“It’s always special,’’ Suter said. “You’re always honored to be a part of it. I’ve never played on the 3-on-3 things, so that will be interesting.’’

The league named 44 play-ers to the All-Star Game, which has a 3-on-3 format featuring four 11-man teams. Boudreau will coach the Central Divi-sion team because the Wild has the best points percentage in the division. For Dubnyk, it is another step in a career that, just a few years ago, seemed to be going nowhere. Mired in Montreal’s farm system during the 2013-14 season, he found his way briefly to Arizona before being traded to the Wild in time for him to lead the team to the playoffs in the spring of 2015. Now he’s going to his second straight All-Star Game.

“You just appreciate it that much more,’’ he said. “Again, it’s an honor to be named among a group of the best players in the league. Coming from what happened, it’s just … I’ll make sure I’ll enjoy every second of it.’’

Of course it’s not easy being a goaltender All-Star weekend, when defense takes a back seat. Dubnyk joked that it’s an honor to be named to the team, not as much of an honor to play in it.

“I’ve got some improve-ment to do off my last year’s numbers,’’ he said. “I’ll see if I can keep it under a goal every two minutes.’’

Boudreau, who celebrated his 62nd birthday Monday, has been close a couple of

times. Once was an Olym-pic year, when there was no All-Star Game. Then, during the 2008-09 season, when he was in Washington, his team needed one point in a game at Montreal to clinch coaching duties. The score was tied, late,

when a shot from Montreal’s Sergei Kostitsyn from the blue line somehow found the back of the net with 22 seconds left in the game.

“That sorta ticked me off,’’ Boudreau said. “But, hey, I’ve got a chance there now. I think it’s great. I mean, I’m not greedy, I’ll take one.’’

And Dubnyk will take two, Suter his third.

“I’ve told everybody I’ve talked to that [Dubnyk] has had an amazing season,’’ Bou-dreau said. “He’s kept us in every game we’ve played. It’s a great pick. There are a lot of good goalies in the NHL, and he deserves it. Sutes has done everything. He’s our rock. Absolutely, he deserves it as well. I would have liked to have seen more players, but I understand the whole format.’’

Among those who might have merited consideration were Eric Staal, who leads the Wild with 35 points, and Mikko Koivu, who has 28 points and is a plus-19. The Blackhawks, who lead the Central Division because they have played five more games than the Wild, had a league-high four players selected for the game — goalie Corey Crawford, defenseman Duncan Keith, and forwards Patrick Kane and Jonathan Toews.

Three Minnesotans — Car-olina defenseman Justin Faulk (UMD Bulldogs), Buffalo for-ward Kyle Okposo (Gophers) and Rangers defenseman Ryan McDonagh (Cretin-Derham Hall) — will play in the game.

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N H L A L L - S TA R G A M EWhen: Sunday, Jan. 29Where: Los AngelesFormat: Three-on-three 20-minute games (with shoot-

outs if necessary). Each division has an 11-player team. The Atlantic Division plays the Metropolitan Division, and the Central Division plays the Pacific Division, with the winners meeting in the title game.

Central Division: Goalies Devan Dubnyk, Wild, Corey Crawford, Chicago; defensemen Ryan Suter, Wild, Duncan Keith, Chicago, P.K. Subban, Nashville; forwards Patrick Kane and Jonathan Toews, Chicago, Patrik Laine, Win-nipeg, Nathan MacKinnon, Colorado, Tyler Seguin, Dallas, Vladimir Tarasenko, St. Louis.

Atlantic Division: Goalies Carey Price, Montreal, Tuukka Rask, Boston; defensemen Victor Hedman, Tampa Bay, Erik Karlsson, Ottawa, Shea Weber, Montreal; forwards Nikita Kucherov, Tampa Bay, Brad Marchand, Boston, Auston Matthews, Toronto, Frans Nielsen, Detroit, Vincent Trocheck, Florida, Kyle Okposo, Buffalo.

Metropolitan Division: Goalies Sergei Bobrovsky, Columbus, Braden Holtby, Washington; defensemen Seth Jones, Columbus, Justin Faulk, Carolina, Ryan McDonagh, N.Y. Rangers; forwards Taylor Hall, New Jersey, Alex Ovechkin, Washington, Wayne Simmonds, Philadelphia, John Tavares, N.Y. Islanders, Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin, Pittsburgh.

Pacific Division: Goalies Mike Smith, Arizona, Martin Jones, San Jose; defensemen Cam Fowler, Anaheim, Drew Doughty, Los Angeles, Brent Burns, San Jose; forwards Jeff Carter, Los Angeles, Johnny Gaudreau, Calgary, Bo Hor-vat, Vancouver, Ryan Kesler, Anaheim, Connor McDavid, Edmonton, Joe Pavelski, San Jose.

Coaches: Bruce Boudreau, Wild (Central); Michel Ther-rien, Montreal (Atlantic); John Tortorella, Columbus (Met-ropolitan); Peter DeBoer, San Jose (Pacific).

STANDINGS SUMMARIESCAROLINA 5, COLUMBUS 3

Columbus .................................................................. 1 2 0—3Carolina ..................................................................... 0 3 2—5First: 1. Clm—Atkinson 20 (Johnson, Jenner), 1:08. Second: 2. Car—Skinner 15 (Ryan, Rask), 2:01. 3. Car—Ryan 8 (Skinner, Rask), 4:57. 4. Clm—Anderson 9, 8:01. 5. Car—Mcginn 2 (Tennyson, Hanifi n), 13:58. 6. Clm—Saad 15 (Wennberg), 19:05. Third: 7. Car—Staal 8 (Lindholm), 3:50. 8. Car—Rask 12 (Faulk, Skinner), 19:39. Shots: Columbus 6-8-13—27. Carolina 4-14-10—28. Power-plays: Columbus 0 of 4; Carolina 0 of 2. Goalies: Colum-bus, Forsberg 0-1-0 (27-23). Carolina, Ward 16-12-6 (27-24). A: 9,351 (18,680).

BUFFALO 4, PHILADELPHIA 1Philadelphia .............................................................. 0 0 1—1Buffalo ....................................................................... 0 3 1—4First: No scoring. Second: 1. Buf—Reinhart 9 (O’Reilly, Ristolainen), 5:15, pp. 2. Buf—Carrier 2 (Fedun, O’Reilly), 8:39. 3. Buf—Kane 10 (Reinhart, Bogosian), 19:51. Third: 4. Phi—Schenn 13 (Provorov, Giroux), 17:53, pp. 5. Buf—Foligno 8 (Reinhart, McCabe), 19:56. Shots: Philadelphia 13-13-14—40. Buffalo 8-13-6—27. Power-plays: Philadelphia 1 of 2; Buffalo 1 of 2. Goalies: Philadelphia, Mason 14-14-6 (26-23). Buffalo, Nilsson 7-3-4 (40-39). A: 18,920 (18,690).

BOSTON 5, ST. LOUIS 3Boston ....................................................................... 3 1 1—5St. Louis ..................................................................... 0 1 2—3First: 1. Bos—Vatrano 3 (Krug, Pastrnak), 8:19, pp. 2. Bos—Carlo 3 (Krejci, Vatrano), 15:20. 3. Bos—Marchand 14 (Bergeron, Pastrnak), 17:52.Second: 4. Bos—Krug 2 (Spooner, Marchand), 1:31, pp. 5. StL—Parayko 1 (Schwartz, Perron), 3:57, pp.Third: 6. StL—Berglund 8 (Perron, Pietrangelo), 10:14, pp. 7. Bos—Marchand 15 (Bergeron, Pastrnak), 18:43. 8. StL—Brodziak 6 (Upshall), 19:35.Shots: Boston 11-16-12—39. St. Louis 2-9-6—17. Power-plays: Boston 2 of 4; St. Louis 2 of 5. Goalies: Boston, Rask 21-9-3 (17-14). St. Louis, Hutton 4-5-2 (27-26), Allen 17-10-3 (11-8). A: 19,342 (19,150).

NASHVILLE 2, VANCOUVER 1 (OT)Vancouver .............................................................. 0 0 1 0—1Nashville ................................................................. 0 1 0 1—2First: No scoring. Second: 1. Nas—Watson 3 (Fisher, Josi), 0:35. Third: 2. Van—Sutter 11 (Edler, Baertschi), 19:11. Overtime: 3. Nas—Jarnkrok 6 (Josi), 4:58, sh. Penalties: Ekholm, NSH, (holding), 3:20.Shots: Vancouver 4-11-13-2—30. Nashville 8-10-7-1—26. Power-plays: Vancouver 0 of 3; Nashville 0 of 2. Goalies: Vancouver, Miller 12-10-2 (26-24). Nashville, Rinne 15-11-6 (30-29). A: 17,113 (17,113).

CHICAGO 4, DETROIT 3 (OT)Detroit..................................................................... 0 3 0 0—3Chicago .................................................................. 2 1 0 1—4First: 1. Chi—Campbell 4 (Toews, Hossa), 10:04, pp. 2. Chi—Panik 10 (Keith, Hartman), 10:30. Second: 3. Det—Athanasiou 8 (Vanek), 1:37. 4. Det—Tatar 9 (Larkin), 9:09. 5. Chi—Kero 1 (Hartman, Panik), 18:18. 6. Det—Glendening 2 (Miller, Nielsen), 19:41. Third: No scoring. Overtime: 7. Chi—Keith 2 (Panarin, Kane), 0:38, pp. Shots: Detroit 7-20-9—36. Chicago 16-11-15-1—43. Pow-er-plays: Detroit 0 of 1; Chicago 2 of 6. Goalies: Detroit, Mrazek 9-10-4 (43-39). Chicago, Crawford 16-8-3 (36-33). A: 22,019 (19,717).

SAN JOSE 5, EDMONTON 3San Jose..................................................................... 2 2 1—5Edmonton .................................................................. 1 0 2—3First: 1. SJ—Boedker 4 (Haley, Burns), 1:39. 2. Edm—Cag-giula 3 (Kassian, Pouliot), 15:53. 3. SJ—Burns 16 (Vlasic, Pavelski), 19:42.Second: 4. SJ—Boedker 5 (Burns, Karlsson), 2:24. 5. SJ—Boedker 6 (Haley, Vlasic), 8:55.Third: 6. Edm—Benning 2 (Lucic), 0:22. 7. Edm—Klefbom 7 (Nugent-hopkins), 3:45. 8. SJ—Couture 13, 5:06.Shots: San Jose 13-8-7—28. Edmonton 8-16-12—36. Pow-er-plays: San Jose 0 of 2; Edmonton 0 of 2. Goalies: San Jose, Jones 21-13-2 (36-33). Edmonton, Talbot 20-12-6 (28-23). A: 18,347 (18,641).

ANAHEIM 2, DALLAS 0Dallas ......................................................................... 0 0 0—0Anaheim .................................................................... 0 1 1—2First: No scoring.Second: 1. Ana—Silfverberg 12 (Vatanen, Perry), 14:33, pp.Third: 2. Ana—Cogliano 10 (Manson, Silfverberg), 14:42.Shots: Dallas 12-6-16—34. Anaheim 13-16-9—38. Power-plays: Dallas 0 of 3; Anaheim 1 of 4. Goalies: Dallas, Ni-emi 8-7-4 (38-36). Anaheim, Gibson 16-10-7 (34-34). A: 15,073 (17,174).

LEADERSSCORING GP G A PTSMcDavid, EDM ...........................42 14 34 48Crosby, PIT ................................33 26 18 44Kane, CHI ...................................43 12 32 44Tarasenko, STL..........................40 20 23 43Malkin, PIT ................................39 16 27 43Panarin, CHI ..............................43 17 24 41Seguin, DAL ...............................41 15 26 41Atkinson, CLS ............................39 19 20 39Kucherov, TB .............................35 16 23 39Burns, SJ ....................................40 15 24 39Voracek, PHI..............................42 13 26 39Kessel, PIT .................................39 13 26 39GOALIES GP Min GA AVGDubnyk, Wild .............................31 1868 56 1.80Holtby, Was ...............................32 1894 60 1.90Rask, Bos ...................................32 1893 61 1.93Howard, Det ..............................17 857 28 1.96Bobrovsky, Clm .........................34 1979 66 2.00Price, Mtl ...................................30 1781 63 2.12Budaj, LA ...................................35 1973 70 2.13Murray, Pit ................................19 992 36 2.18

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CENTRAL GP W L OT PTS GF GA HOME AWAY DIVChicago 44 27 12 5 59 124 107 17-4-4 10-8-1 9-6-1Wild 39 25 9 5 55 123 85 13-4-0 12-5-5 7-3-2St. Louis 41 21 15 5 47 117 123 16-5-4 5-10-1 9-6-2Nashville 41 18 16 7 43 114 111 11-5-5 7-11-2 9-8-1Winnipeg 43 20 20 3 43 118 126 11-8-1 9-12-2 9-4-1Dallas 42 17 17 8 42 109 127 11-6-4 6-11-4 8-8-3Colorado 39 13 25 1 27 79 130 5-13-1 8-12-0 5-11-0

PACIFIC GP W L OT PTS GF GA HOME AWAY DIVSan Jose 41 25 14 2 52 110 93 14-5-1 11-9-1 8-5-2Anaheim 43 22 13 8 52 115 113 14-5-2 8-8-6 10-2-4Edmonton 43 21 15 7 49 123 118 9-8-2 12-7-5 6-4-3Calgary 43 22 19 2 46 114 119 11-10-0 11-9-2 8-7-1Los Angeles 41 20 17 4 44 102 105 12-6-1 8-11-3 7-5-0Vancouver 43 20 19 4 44 106 123 15-6-2 5-13-2 8-5-1Arizona 40 12 22 6 30 86 128 7-10-2 5-12-4 4-7-5

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ATLANTIC GP W L OT PTS GF GA HOME AWAY DIVMontreal 41 25 10 6 56 125 97 15-4-2 10-6-4 10-1-4Boston 44 22 17 5 49 110 108 9-10-0 13-7-5 12-5-0Ottawa 39 21 14 4 46 99 102 12-6-4 9-8-0 6-5-1Toronto 39 18 13 8 44 120 116 10-7-2 8-6-6 8-4-1Florida 42 18 16 8 44 98 113 10-8-3 8-8-5 7-7-5Tampa Bay 42 19 19 4 42 118 127 11-7-2 8-12-2 8-3-2Buffalo 40 16 15 9 41 93 110 9-8-3 7-7-6 4-7-3Detroit 41 17 18 6 40 103 119 7-10-3 10-8-3 4-8-3

METROPOLITAN GP W L OT PTS GF GA HOME AWAY DIVColumbus 40 28 8 4 60 135 90 16-4-1 12-4-3 6-3-0Pittsburgh 39 26 8 5 57 139 109 18-2-2 8-6-3 10-4-0Washington 40 26 9 5 57 115 84 15-5-1 11-4-4 6-5-4N.Y. Rangers 42 28 13 1 57 146 107 13-7-1 15-6-0 10-5-0Philadelphia 43 21 16 6 48 124 133 13-6-3 8-10-3 4-4-1Carolina 41 19 15 7 45 109 111 13-4-1 6-11-6 3-7-2New Jersey 42 16 18 8 40 95 124 10-6-3 6-12-5 5-4-2N.Y. Islanders 38 15 15 8 38 106 117 11-7-4 4-8-4 4-5-2

TUESDAYAnaheim 2, Dallas 0Boston 5, St. Louis 3Buffalo 4, Philadelphia 1Carolina 5, Columbus 3Chicago 4, Detroit 3, OTNashville 2, Vancouver 1, OTSan Jose 5, Edmonton 3

MONDAYDallas 6, Los Angeles 4Florida 3, New Jersey 0Washington 4, Montreal 1Winnipeg 2, Calgary 0

WEDNESDAYFlorida at N.Y. Islanders, 6 pmMontreal at Winnipeg, 6:30 pmPittsburgh at Washington, 7 pmSan Jose at Calgary, 8:30 pm

THURSDAYMontreal at Wild, 7 pmVancouver at Philadelphia, 6 pmPittsburgh at Ottawa, 6:30 pmBuffalo at Tampa Bay, 6:30 pmBoston at Nashville, 7 pmDetroit at Dallas, 7:30 pmNew Jersey at Edmonton, 8 pmAnaheim at Colorado, 8 pmSt. Louis at Los Angeles, 9:30 pm

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Fans gave David Backes — returning to St. Louis as a Boston Bruin — a standing ovation following a video tribute during the first period of the Blues-Bruins game that Boston won 5-3 Tuesday night. Backes then delighted Blues fans again when he got into a fight.

Backes, who spent his first 10 seasons with St. Louis before signing with Boston as a free agent, fought with former team-mate Joel Edmundson late in the second to the enjoyment of the Scottrade Center

crowd. The Minnesotan dropped the gloves in retaliation for a hit on Bruins teammate David Krejci by Jori Lehtera.

Brad Marchand scored twice, including an empty netter, to help the Bruins improve to 2-0-1 in their past three games; Tuukka Rask made 14 saves. St. Louis hasn’t won two games in a row since Dec. 1.

Carolina 5, Columbus 3: Jordan Staal scored the go-ahead goal on a deflec-tion with 16:10 to play as the Hurricanes beat the Blue Jackets in Raleigh, N.C. Carolina has earned points in 13 of 14 home games.

Buffalo 4, Philadelphia 1: Evander Kane scored to cap a three-goal second-period surge in leading the Sabres over the Fly-ers in Buffalo. Chicago 4, Detroit 3: Duncan Keith scored a power-play goal 38 seconds into over-time, lifting the host Blackhawks over the Red Wings for their fourth win in a row.San Jose 5, Edmonton 3: Mikkel Boedker scored three goals for his fourth career hat trick to lead the Sharks in Edmon-ton. Brent Burns and Logan Couture also scored for the Sharks, who have won two straight since losing three in a row.

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CHRIS O’MEARA • Associated PressBoudreau will coach Central Division team.

ELIZABETH FLORES •Star TribuneDubnyk represented the team last year.

DAVID JOLES • Star TribuneSuter, on third trip, looks forward to 3-on-3.

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Nathan Adrian broke out of a shooting slump with a career-high 22 points, and No. 10 West Virginia beat No. 1 Baylor 89-68 on Tuesday night in Morgan-town, W.Va.

Baylor (15-1, 3-1 Big 12) com-mitted a season-high 29 turn-overs — the school record is 31 — in their first game as the nation’s top-ranked team in program history and never led. The loss means No. 5 Gonzaga is the only remaining unbeaten team in Division I.

“They just took us out of everything,” Baylor coach Scott Drew said. “We weren’t over-confident. They just kicked our butt.”

West Virginia (14-2, 3-1) started the second half with an 11-3 run and kept pouring it on, leading by as many as 26 points down the stretch.No. 2 Kansas 81, Oklahoma 70: Frank Mason scored 19 of his 28 points in the second half, and

the Jayhawks (15-1, 4-0 Big 12), who have won 15 straight, ral-lied to beat the Sooners (6-9, 0-4) in Norman.No. 3 Villanova 79, No 15 Xavier 54: Kris Jenkins and Josh Hart

each scored 20 points as the Wildcats (16-1, 4-1 Big East) routed the visiting Musketeers (13-3, 3-1).No. 6 Kentucky 87, Vander-bilt 81: Malik Monk scored six points in the final 32 seconds, and the visiting Wildcats (14-2, 4-0 SEC) held off the Com-modores (8-8, 2-2). Vanderbilt closed to 83-81 on Jeff Rober-son’s put-back with 17.9 sec-onds left but the rally fizzled from there.No. 9 Florida St. 88, No. 7 Duke 72: Xavier Rathan-Mayes scored 18 of his 21 points in the second half, helping the host Seminoles (16-1, 4-0) set a school record with their 11th straight win. Luke Kennard led Duke (14-3, 2-2) with 23 points.

Big Ten menMaryland 75, Indiana 72: Freshman Kevin Huerter hit a clutch three-pointer with 1:46 left, and the Terrapins (15-2, 3-1) got 18 points from Melo Trimble to edge the visiting Hoosiers (11-

6, 1-3) when Robert Johnson’s three-point shot clanged off the rim as time expired .

Nation womenNo. 1 Connecticut 102, South Florida 37: Top-ranked UConn tied its own NCAA record with its 90th consecutive win, rout-ing the Bulls in Hartford. San-iya Chong scored 20 points to lead six players in double fig-ures for the Huskies (15-0, 2-0 American Athletic Confer-ence), who matched the streak Geno Auriemma’s program set between November 2008 and December 2010. South Florida (13-2, 2-1) is 0-21 vs. UConn.

Big Ten womenMichigan State 94, No. 11 Ohio State 75: Guard Tori Jankoska scored 42 points to lead the Spartans (13-4, 3-1) over the visiting Buckeyes (14-5, 3-1). Her total was a Michigan State single-game record and also broke the school’s career scor-ing record.

EVANSTON, ILL. – The Cook County medical exam-iner said Northwestern women’s basketball player Jordan Hankins committed suicide in her dorm room earlier this week.

The office released the results of an autopsy on Tuesday, a day after the body of the 19-year-old Hankins was found.

Hankins was recruited out of Lawrence North High School in Indianapolis. She averaged 3.6 points in 11 games for the Wildcats this season.

Coach Joe McKeown called the 5- 8 sophomore a “remarkably dynamic young woman.” Because of the tragedy, Northwestern’s game against the Gophers on Wednesday was postponed.

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N’western player’s death ruled a suicide

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Baylor’s first game as No. 1 just awful

Associated PressWest Virginia’s Nathan Adrian took a shot while being closely defended. The Mountaineers pounded No. 1 Baylor 89-68.

previously troubled program into the national rankings.

If Fleck ever needs any advice on surviving the Uni-versity of Minnesota’s awk-ward sports culture, he can walk down the hall.

“It’s a little bit different with him,” Pitino said Tuesday. “Where I thought I struggled a little is that when I was hired, as lucky as I was to be hired, I didn’t really have a personal brand. What I mean by that is, we didn’t go to the tournament at FIU (Florida International.) We came close, but we didn’t.

“Nobody could say, ‘Hey, that’s the coach who went to the tournament.’ So I couldn’t sell that. The only thing I could sell was, ‘Hey, I’m Rick Pitino’s son.’ That’s not gonna work. I’m not selling that one.”

Pitino found himself with a high-profile job facing high expectations at age 30. What-ever Tubby Smith’s flaws, his formula kept his teams com-petitive, and he won an NCAA tournament game before Nor-wood Teague fired him.

“It was kind of difficult at first,” Pitino said, standing by the practice court in the Bier-

man Building. “Our facilities were very outdated. So we had to battle that. We redid this stuff, which I thought helped. We won the NIT my first year. I did think that helped.

“With P.J., he just went to the Cotton Bowl. He rebuilt a program where he won one game his first year. So he’s got a great personal brand. That doesn’t mean you’re not going to go through highs and lows. But he seems to be a very pos-itive person. I think he’ll be able to handle it just fine.”

Fleck and Pitino are in their mid-30s. The median age of

the other high-profile coaches in town is about 60.

“When you’re young, there is no manual for certain things, and the only way to get it is to experience it,” Pitino said. “So I do feel like after going into my fourth year I’m much more equipped to han-dle certain things.”

Pitino started to describe his job as “tough,” then stopped.

“I hate it when everybody says ‘It’s a tough job,’ ” Pitino said. “It’s a great job. We’re lucky. But it is up and down. One day everybody wants you fired, the next day every-

body loves you. I guess the older I get — and it’s weird, because I feel old — the more I realize you can’t get too high or low. It sounds cliché, but it’s very important for your mental stability.”

The Gophers will play at Michigan State on Wednesday. They are ranked 24th in the country and tied for first in the Big Ten. That kind of high is good for career stability.

Jim Souhan’s podcast can be heard at MalePatternPodcasts.com. On Twitter: @SouhanStrib. E-mail: [email protected]

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COLLEGE BASKETBALL

KEY HOMESTATE GOPHERS PAST, PRESENT AND ... FUTURE?

T H E PA S TMinnesotans in the past 25 years who played in at least half the Gophers games in each season:1992-93: Chad Kolander1993-94: Kolander, John Thomas1994-95: Kolander, Thomas, Sam Jacobson1995-96: Thomas, Jacobson, Trevor Winter1996-97: Thomas, Jacobson, Winter1997-98: Jacobson, Kyle Sanden, Russ Archambault1998-99: Sanden, Joel Przybilla, Mitch Ohn-stad, Dusty Rychart1999-2000: Rychart, Przybilla, Ohnstad, Shane Schilling2000-01: Rychart, Schil-ling, Michael Bauer, Jeff Hagen2001-02: Rychart, Bauer, Rick Rickert, Jerry Hol-man, Mo Hargrow2002-03: Bauer, RickertHolman, Hargrow, Hagen, Ben Johnson2003-04: Bauer, Har-grow, Johnson, Hagen, Kris Humphries, Adam Boone, Brent Lawson2004-05: Hagen, Law-son, Spencer Tollack-son, Dan Coleman2005-06: Hargrow, Boone, Tollackson, Coleman, Zach Puchtel, Jamal Abu-Shamala, Jonathan Williams2006-07: Coleman, Tollackson, Abu-Shamala, J. Williams, Lawrence McKenzie, Bryce Webster, Bran-don Smith2007-08: Coleman, Tollackson, J. Williams, McKenzie, Blake Hof-farber, Al Nolen, Travis Busch2008-09: Nolen, Abu-Shamala, Hoffarber, Busch, J. Williams2009-10: Hoffarber, Nolen, Rodney Wil-liams Jr.2010-11: R. Williams Jr., Nolen, Hoffarber, Trevor Mbakwe2011-12: R. Williams Jr., Joe Coleman, Andre Ingram2012-13: Mbakwe, R. Williams Jr., Coleman, Ingram2013-14: Joey King2014-15: King2015-16: King

T H E P R E S E N TThree Gophers are from Minnesota, with two of them powering the 15-2 start. Amir Coffey (Hopkins) is the true freshman top recruit, junior Reggie Lynch (Edina) is the transfer stabilizing the post and freshman Michael Hurt (Roch-ester John Marshall) has shown promise in limited minutes.

T H E F U T U R ERichard Pitino and the Gophers did not sign any Minnesotans for the next class, the 2017 crop. Pitino missed on some and looked elsewhere (namely, the New York City area) for his two spots. It could be a different story in the years following, however. Here’s a look at the Minnesotans who are juniors, sopho-mores and freshmen in high school this season and have been offered a scholarship from the Gophers:2018 ClassRace Thompson (6-8 SF/PF), ArmstrongTre Jones (6-2 PG), Apple ValleyDaniel Oturu (6-9 PF/C), Cretin-Derham HallGabe Kalscheur (6-4 SG), DeLaSalle2019 ClassMatthew Hurt (6-9 SF), Rochester J.M.2020 ClassJalen Suggs (6-3 PG), Minnehaha Academy

Pitino had to do his biggest selling job to land Coffey, a top-30 national recruit and the high-est-ranked player to sign with the Gophers in seven years. The coach pitched a likely start-ing role, being featured in the offense handling the ball and winning at a high level.

So far, all of those things have come true, as the 24th-ranked Gophers (15-2, 3-1) carry their first top-25 ranking since 2013 into a rematch Wednesday with Michigan State (11-6, 3-1) in East Lansing.

Coffey, a 6-8 former Minne-sota Mr. Basketball from Hop-kins, knew if he signed with the Gophers and did well, others might want to follow him.

“I wanted to be another kid that stayed home,” Coffey said while being featured on Big Ten Network’s the Journey show Sun-day. “Showcase that it’s some-thing we can do.”

Coffey had 19 points in Sun-day’s 78-68 victory against Ohio State to be named Big Ten freshman of the week for the second time, after also lead-ing the Gophers in scoring with 17 points in a 70-66 victory at Northwestern.

“He’s never really had fresh-men moments,” Pitino said. “He’s a big-game player. When you need that big shot, he wants to take it.”

Coffey’s emergence could be a big influence on loaded in-state classes in 2018 and 2019. Pitino has offered schol-arships to Armstrong forward Race Thompson, Apple Valley point guard Tre Jones, Cretin-Derham Hall forward/center Daniel Oturu and DeLaSalle shooting guard Gabe Kalscheur in the state’s 2018 class. Michael Hurt’s brother, Matthew, is a five-star forward prospect with a Gophers offer in the 2019 class.

“There certainly is an impact,” said Richard Hurt, father of Michael and Matthew and co-owner of the D1 Minne-sota AAU program. “Kids look at certain things. They look at boxscores. They look at dunks. The dunk that Amir had the other night was amazing. When they’re watching games, you

can see who is playing well.”Oturu and Kalscheur both

were in the Williams Arena crowd against Ohio State. The

6-8 Thompson visited with the Gophers after a nonconference victory against Arkansas and came back to see the Big Ten

opener against Michigan State.“Amir is playing really good,”

said Thompson, the son of for-mer Gophers football star and career rushing leader Darrell Thompson, last month. “It’s fun to see that. I feel like I could be that in the next year and a half or so. I can pretty much see myself playing like that.”

The Gophers once earned the nickname “Big Man U” when Jim Dutcher had success with local post players such as Kevin McHale, Randy Breuer and Jim Petersen in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Now, Lynch is the first Minnesota native to start at center in eight seasons.

The 6-10 junior from Edina could start another trend of big men from the state playing for the Gophers. He’s one of the top centers in the Big Ten, lead-ing the conference and rank-ing fifth in the nation with 3.2 blocked shots per game.

Lynch, a transfer from Illinois State, was never offered a schol-arship by the Gophers out of high school. But he always wanted to be on the team, after watching Minnesota games with his uncle, Kevin, who played with Coffey’s

dad, Richard, on Sweet 16 and Elite Eight teams in 1989 and 1990.

“It’s cool to be able to say we have family members who were part of a good team here and now we are also creating one of our better teams in recent years,” Lynch said. “Amir and I are always trying to get some of the guys locally who we know and grew up with to come here.”

Pitino adds four-star New York City point guard Isaiah Washington and New Jersey shooting guard Jamir Harris for next season. But the Gophers didn’t land any of the six offered Class of 2017 local players.

But this season’s rise, with Cof-fey and Lynch leading the way, could help Pitino have more suc-cess with future in-state classes.

“Now I think the local guys and the recruits and everybody can say, ‘OK, this is how they envision playing. This is where I see myself fitting in,’ ” Pitino said.

For Coffey, it’s been a neat ride so far to see local fans cheering for the Gophers again.

“Just the year we’re having so far, it feels good,” he said. “To see packed houses and a lot fans com-ing to watch us play feels good.”

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Preview: The 24th-ranked Gophers (15-2, 3-1) are playing their first game as a ranked team since the 2012-13 season. The last time Minnesota was a top-25 team playing an unranked Michigan State squad was during the 1996-97 Final Four sea-son. Pitino defeated the Spartans in East Lansing, Mich., for the first time since 1997 in the Gophers’ last game at Breslin Center in 2014-15. Three out of the past four games in the series have been decided in overtime, including Michigan State’s 75-74 victory in Minneapolis on Dec. 27. The Spartans (11-6, 3-1) won without freshman G/F Miles Bridges, who is playing his third game since returning from an ankle injury.Players to watch: The Gophers won two consecutive road games after falling to Michigan State in the Big Ten opener. They were led by freshmen in both. F Eric Curry, who is recover-ing from a bruised heel, scored seven of his 10 points in over-time in the win at Purdue. G Amir Coffey scored a team-high 17 points in the victory at Northwestern. … Michigan State fresh-man F Nick Ward had 22 points and 10 rebounds at Minnesota.Numbers: The Gophers were last ranked on Feb. 4, 2013, at No. 18 in both the Associated Press and USA Today Coaches polls. Their first loss after that was 61-50 at Michigan State two days later.

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GOPHERS GAMEDAY6 p.m. at Michigan State • Breslin Center • BTN • (1500-AM)

A chance for payback at MSU

CARLOS GONZALEZ • [email protected] Coffey made the short pilgrimage from Hopkins to Williams Arena. “I wanted to be another kid that stayed home,” he said.



In a stunning decision, NASCAR driver Carl Edwards reportedly is walking away from the final year of his con-tract with Joe Gibbs Racing less than two months after nearly winning his first Cup championship.

Joe Gibbs Racing sched-uled a pair of news confer-ences Wednesday in which Edwards is expected to announce he will not drive the No. 19 Toyota next season. The second announcement is that

reigning Xfinity Series champion Daniel Suarez wi l l replace Edwards in the Cup Series.

The 37-year-old Edwards informed team owner Joe Gibbs right before Christmas that he no longer wanted to compete. Edwards has given no indication what he’s thinking or what the future may hold.

B A S E B A L L

Plouffe to Athletics?Longtime Twins third base-

man Trevor Plouffe has report-edly agreed to a one-year deal to join the Oakland Athletics.

Fox’s Ken Rosenthal reported that the deal is pend-ing Plouffe passing a physical.

Plouffe hit .260 with 12 hom-ers and 47 runs-batted-in in 84 games last season with the Twins. They waived him this past offseason.

A R O U N D T H E H O R NTennis: Maria Sharapova

will return from her 15-month doping ban at a tournament in Germany in April. ... Romanian tennis player Alexandru-Dan-iel Carpen was banned from the sport for life after admitting to a charge of match-fixing.

Athletics: A global group of anti-doping leaders is call-ing for Russian teams to be excluded from international competitions while establish-ing a process to allow individ-

uals from the country to com-pete if they can prove they have taken part in effective anti-dop-ing programs elsewhere.

Colleges: Iowa State extended Jamie Pollard’s contract through 2024, a deal that will make him the longest-serving athletic director in school history. Pollard joined Iowa State in 2005 and is the third-longest serving athletic director in the Big 12.

Skiing: Defending World Cup slalom champion Frida

Hansdotter of Sweden con-vincingly won the last race in the discipline ahead of next month’s world champion-ships, dominating Nina Loes-eth of Norway and Olympic champion Mikaela Shiffrin in a race in Flachau, Austria.

Soccer: A plan to ask St. Louis voters to approve $80 million in funding for a new soccer sta-dium has been dropped, threat-ening the effort to land a Major League Soccer expansion team.

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TUESDAYAtlanta 117, Brooklyn 97Houston 121, Charlotte 114Milw. 109, San Antonio 107Toronto 114, Boston 106Utah 100, Cleveland 92Washington 101, Chicago 99Detroit at SacramentoMiami at Golden StatePortland at L.A. Lakers

MONDAYTimberwolves 101, Dallas 92New Orleans 110, New York 96Okla. City 109, Chicago 94WEDNESDAYHouston at Twolves, 7 pmNew York at Philadelphia, 6 pmMemphis at Okla. City, 7 pmWashington at Boston, 7 pmCleveland at Portland, 9:30 pmOrlando at L.A. Clippers, 9:30 pm

THURSDAYIndiana at Denver, 2 pmNew Orl. at Brooklyn, 6:30 pmChicago at New York, 7 pmL.A.L. at San Antonio, 7:30 pmDallas at Phoenix, 9 pmDetroit at Golden St., 9:30 pm

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Gordon Hayward went blow for blow with LeBron James in the second half to help the host Utah Jazz beat the Cleveland Cavaliers 100-92 on Tuesday night.

Hayward had 22 points and went back and forth with James during a decisive third quarter. James brought the Cavs back from a 15-point halftime defi-cit before Hayward drove the lead back to 14. James finished with 29 points and Kyrie Irving added 20 for the Cavs.Houston 121, Charlotte 114: James Harden had 40 points, 15 rebounds and 10 assists for his second straight triple-dou-ble and the Rockets outlasted the Hornets for their ninth straight win. The Rockets missed 10 straight shots and let an 18-point lead evaporate before halting the slide.Milwaukee 109, San Antonio 107: Michael Beasley scored a season-high 28 points in place of an ill Giannis Ante-tokounmpo, and the Bucks rallied to beat the Spurs, who had their nine-game home winning streak snapped.Toronto 114, Boston 106: DeMar DeRozan scored a season-high 41 points as the host Raptors ended the Celt-ics’ four-game winning streak.Washington 101, Chicago 99: John Wall scored 26 points, including a game-winning baseline jumper with 5.9 sec-onds left, and added 14 assists as the Wizards moved above .500.

NotesGarnett to work with Clippers: Former Timberwolf Kevin Garnett has signed on as a consultant this week with the LA Clippers, ESPN reported. Garnett will occasionally help out at practices but will not be on the bench at games or travel with the Clippers. Garnett was with the team in Irvine during training camp, working out with the Clippers’ big men before the season.

Rose returns: Derrick Rose has returned to practice with the New York Knicks after missing their game the night before for what he described as family reasons.

The team later announced he had been fined for missing the 110-96 loss to New Orleans on Monday and said he was expected to be in uniform Wednesday night in Philadel-phia.

ROUNDUP

Hayward lifts Jazz in victory over Cavs

On Monday, he entered the game after Zach LaVine limped to the locker room a minute into the fourth quar-ter because of a hip contusion. Jones played the rest of the way alongside Ricky Rubio because the Mavericks, too, were play-ing two point guards together.

Thibodeau praised Jones for producing “big plays” and “timely plays,” but calls Jones’ role “situational” in a firm rotation where point guards Rubio and rookie No. 5 overall draft pick Kris Dunn are ahead of him in the depth chart.

“There are things he does well and there are things he has to improve upon,” Thibodeau said after prac-tice Tuesday. “You’re looking at your rotation. If he stays ready and the opportunity comes, he’ll get in there.”

Thibodeau was asked after Monday’s 101-92 victory what makes him nervous about playing Jones.

“Nothing really, to be hon-est with you,” Thibodeau said. “He’s great in practice. He’s great in preparation. I think he’s going to get better and bet-ter as time goes along. Every time he plays, good things do happen. I like his readiness. The hard thing when you settle on a rotation, there are players who are deserving. You can’t play everybody. If you do that, you’ll take away from other people.

“So you make a decision, and you go from there. But it doesn’t mean it always stays that.”

But it does mean patience is required, and Jones has kept his from November to January.

“I understand,” said Jones, a second-year player whom the Wolves acquired in a trade with Cleveland on draft night 2015. “Obviously, it’s frustrat-ing because everyone wants to play. It’s a little frustrating because you want to be out there helping contribute to the team. At the same time, Coach is calling the shots. He doesn’t have me in the rota-tion. That’s fine.

“You have to be the best teammate then, cheering on everyone and making sure you’re still into the game and

still helping out the team as much as possible.”

Jones played a total of nine minutes in the five

games before he finished the November game in Phoenix. He played in seven of the 20 previous games and only four

seconds in his most recent appearance against Portland last week before he played Monday’s final 11 minutes.

H i s re ad i n e ss h a s impressed teammates. The Mavericks collapsed around Wolves center Karl-Anthony Towns and he found Jones for that timely three-point shot with 2:45 left Monday.

“He’s an amazing player,” Wolves center Karl-Anthony Towns said. “He comes every day ready to work. You might not always see him when he comes in, but you always know he’s ready to go. … For him not to play a lot of time and then shoot those kind of shots, that’s big time. That’s what makes him a true professional, and that’s what is going to keep him in this league a long time.”

For now, Jones waits for his next chance.

“The only thing Tyus can do is really practice well, which he does every day,” Thibodeau said. “He’s so con-sistent, and he practices great. That gives me confidence that when he does go in, I know he’s going to perform well. He takes no shortcuts. He’s a great teammate. Even though

I know what he adds to our team even when he’s not play-ing, he’s a very important part of our team.”

Whatever it takesWolves backup forward

Nemanja Bjelica took just two shots in 29 minutes Monday and might have played his best game of the season — particu-larly defensively against mul-tiple positions — and had five rebounds.

“The important thing is that we won,” Bjelica said, “and I played all four quarters, so I know Coach valued me.”

Crunching numbersThe Wolves have expanded

their statistical-analytics staff by hiring Dwight Lutz and Nick Restifo as Basketball Operations Analysts. Lutz played at Trinity University in San Antonio and has worked the past four years for the NBA as a senior manager for game analytics and strategy. Restifo has a Master’s degree in data mining from Central Con-necticut State, was an advance scout in the D League and was analytics coordinator for the New Haven State men’s team.

Jones ready when called uponø TIMBERWOLVES from C1

Preview: The Wolves list starting shooting guard Zach LaVine as questionable after he sustained a hip contu-sion late in Monday’s third quarter and didn’t play the game’s final 11 minutes. He received treatment, but didn’t practice Tuesday and was in pain as he gingerly walked out of the team’s Mayo Clinic Square facility. “I’m all right, though,” he said. … The Rockets have won nine consecutive games and 20 of their past 22 games after Tuesday’s home victory over Charlotte. Included was their 111-109 over-time victory Dec. 17 at Target Center in which the Wolves led by 13 points with 3:24 left and still lost. … The Rockets have won the past eight meetings between the teams and 13 of the last 14 games between them.Players to watch: Rockets superstar guard James Harden scored 10 of his 28 points in OT in that game last month and had 40 points, 11 assists, 10 rebounds, two steals and two blocks in Sunday’s 129-122 victory at Toronto. The last two players who recorded 40-10-10-2-2 games were LeBron James (twice) and Michael Jordan. … Wolves center Karl-Anthony Towns scored 41 points against the Rockets in that game at Target Center.Injuries: LaVine (hip contusion) is questionable for the Wolves. Rockets F/C Clint Capela is out because of a frac-tured fibula. Eric Gordon (sprained toe) did not play Tues-day against Charlotte and won’t travel to Minnesota.

JERRY ZGODA

WOLVES GAMEDAY7 p.m. vs. Houston • FSN, WCCO (830-AM)

LaVine doesn’t practice, is questionable

AARON LAVINSKY • [email protected] Jones hasn’t gotten off the bench much, but he has produced when he has, earning praise from his coach and teammates.

W E S T E R N C O N F E R E N C ENORTHWEST W L PCT GB L10 STR HOME AWAY CONFUtah 24 16 .600 — 6-4 W-1 13-7 11-9 16-10Oklahoma City 23 16 .590 ½ 6-4 W-2 14-6 9-10 12-9Portland 16 23 .410 7½ 3-7 L-1 10-8 6-15 12-16Denver 14 23 .378 8½ 3-7 L-5 7-11 7-12 9-14Timberwolves 12 26 .316 11 3-7 W-1 7-13 5-13 5-17

SOUTHWEST W L PCT GB L10 STR HOME AWAY CONFSan Antonio 30 8 .789 — 7-3 L-1 13-5 17-3 17-4Houston 31 9 .775 — 9-1 W-9 16-3 15-6 20-6Memphis 24 16 .600 7 6-4 W-2 14-7 10-9 16-7New Orleans 15 24 .385 15½ 6-4 W-1 10-11 5-13 6-18Dallas 11 27 .289 19 4-6 L-3 7-11 4-16 7-18

PACIFIC W L PCT GB L10 STR HOME AWAY CONFGolden St. 32 6 .842 — 8-2 W-1 16-3 16-3 22-5L.A. Clippers 26 14 .650 7 4-6 W-4 14-6 12-8 18-9Sacramento 15 22 .405 16½ 5-5 L-3 7-10 8-12 11-13L.A. Lakers 15 26 .366 18½ 4-6 W-2 10-10 5-16 8-16Phoenix 12 26 .316 20 4-6 L-1 7-10 5-16 4-21

E A S T E R N C O N F E R E N C EATLANTIC W L PCT GB L10 STR HOME AWAY CONFToronto 25 13 .658 — 5-5 W-1 13-6 12-7 14-5Boston 23 15 .605 2 7-3 L-1 11-6 12-9 16-7New York 17 21 .447 8 2-8 L-2 11-8 6-13 9-12Philadelphia 10 25 .286 13½ 4-6 W-1 6-14 4-11 6-13Brooklyn 8 29 .216 16½ 1-9 L-7 7-12 1-17 3-20

SOUTHEAST W L PCT GB L10 STR HOME AWAY CONFAtlanta 22 16 .579 — 8-2 W-7 10-7 12-9 15-7Washington 19 18 .514 2½ 7-3 W-3 15-6 4-12 14-11Charlotte 20 19 .513 2½ 4-6 L-3 12-7 8-12 13-13Orlando 16 23 .410 6½ 4-6 L-3 7-13 9-10 9-15Miami 11 28 .282 11½ 2-8 L-2 5-13 6-15 5-16

CENTRAL W L PCT GB L10 STR HOME AWAY CONFCleveland 28 9 .757 — 7-3 L-1 18-3 10-6 20-6Indiana 20 18 .526 8½ 6-4 W-5 15-5 5-13 13-12Milwaukee 19 18 .514 9 6-4 W-1 11-9 8-9 13-13Chicago 19 20 .487 10 5-5 L-2 12-8 7-12 15-12Detroit 18 21 .462 11 4-6 W-2 10-9 8-12 11-14

STANDINGSATLANTA 117, BROOKLYN 97

Atlanta 35 26 25 31 — 117Brooklyn 29 14 27 27 — 97Atlanta: Bazemore 1-7 4-6 6, Sefolosha 5-10 0-0 10, Millsap 6-14 2-4 14, Howard 6-9 2-8 14, Schroder 7-14 3-3 19, Bembry 1-3 1-2 3, Prince 2-6 2-2 8, Scott 0-0 0-0 0, Humphries 5-8 3-4 13, Muscala 3-6 2-2 9, Delaney 5-6 1-3 12, Hardaway Jr. 3-9 2-4 9. Totals 44-92 22-38 117.Brooklyn: Lopez 8-14 2-4 20, Whitehead 3-8 0-0 7, Harris 1-2 0-0 2, Bogdanovic 5-10 3-3 16, Hollis-Jefferson 2-9 6-6 10, Scola 2-6 0-0 5, Acy 1-1 1-3 4, Hamilton 2-8 0-0 4, Dinwid-die 1-5 2-2 4, Kilpatrick 6-14 1-2 14, LeVert 4-9 2-3 11, Foye 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 35-87 17-23 97.Three-pointers: Atlanta 7-23 (Schroder 2-4, Prince 2-4, Muscala 1-2, Delaney 1-2, Hard-away Jr. 1-3, Bembry 0-1, Humphries 0-1, Millsap 0-1, Sefolosha 0-2, Bazemore 0-3), Brooklyn 10-29 (Bogdanovic 3-5, Lopez 2-6, Whitehead 1-1, Acy 1-1, Scola 1-2, Kilpatrick 1-3, LeVert 1-4, Harris 0-1, Foye 0-1, Hamil-ton 0-5). Fouled Out: None. Rebounds: Atlan-ta 53 (Howard 16), Brooklyn 48 (Scola, Hol-lis-Jefferson, Dinwiddie 7). Assists: Atlanta 25 (Schroder 10), Brooklyn 22 (Dinwiddie 5). Total Fouls: Atlanta 17, Brooklyn 24. Techni-cals: Brooklyn coach Kenny Atkinson, Brook-lyn team. A: 13,279 (17,732).

WASHINGTON 101, CHICAGO 99Chicago 36 25 16 22 — 99Washington 26 23 32 20 — 101Chicago: McDermott 2-11 0-0 4, Gibson 3-11 3-3 10, Lopez 5-10 4-5 14, Carter-Williams 4-12 6-7 14, Grant 2-5 4-4 9, Felicio 1-3 2-2 4, Portis 5-8 0-0 13, Canaan 0-0 0-0 0, Rondo 6-13 0-0 12, Valentine 7-15 0-0 19. Totals 35-88 19-21 99.Washington: Porter 5-10 0-0 11, Morris 8-12 0-0 19, Gortat 5-8 0-0 10, Wall 11-21 3-4 26, Beal 7-15 2-3 19, Oubre 1-6 1-2 3, Smith 3-7 0-0 7, Burke 2-4 0-0 6, McClellan 0-0 0-0 0. To-tals 42-83 6-9 101.Three-pointers: Chicago 10-27 (Valentine 5-11, Portis 3-4, Gibson 1-1, Grant 1-1, Cart-er-Williams 0-2, Rondo 0-3, McDermott 0-5), Washington 11-22 (Morris 3-3, Beal 3-6, Burke 2-2, Wall 1-2, Smith 1-2, Porter 1-4, Oubre 0-3). Fouled Out: Morris. Rebounds: Chica-go 44 (Gibson 12), Washington 42 (Gortat 12). Assists: Chicago 19 (Rondo, Grant 6), Washington 24 (Wall 14). Total Fouls: Chica-go 18, Washington 24. Technicals: Gibson. A: 14,361 (20,356).

TORONTO 114, BOSTON 106Boston 18 37 29 22 — 106Toronto 23 23 34 34 — 114Boston: Crowder 4-10 0-0 9, Johnson 2-5 0-0 4, Horford 5-11 2-2 14, Smart 6-11 3-3 16, Thomas 8-19 8-9 27, Green 6-12 2-2 14, Brown 1-3 0-0 2, Jerebko 2-3 2-2 7, Olynyk 6-10 0-2 13, Rozier 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 40-85 17-20 106.Toronto: Carroll 4-10 0-0 11, Patterson 0-3 0-0 0, Valanciunas 6-18 6-6 18, Lowry 7-12 5-8 24, DeRozan 16-29 8-9 41, Ross 1-4 0-0 2, Nogueira 3-4 1-2 7, Poeltl 1-1 0-0 2, Jo-seph 2-5 2-2 7, Powell 1-1 0-0 2. Totals 41-87 22-27 114.Three-pointers: Boston 9-27 (Thomas 3-8, Horford 2-4, Jerebko 1-1, Olynyk 1-2, Smart 1-2, Crowder 1-5, Rozier 0-1, Johnson 0-1, Green 0-3), Toronto 10-22 (Lowry 5-6, Car-roll 3-6, DeRozan 1-2, Joseph 1-2, Noguei-ra 0-1, Patterson 0-2, Ross 0-3). Fouled Out: None. Rebounds: Boston 33 (Horford 9), Toronto 50 (Valanciunas 23). Assists: Bos-ton 21 (Thomas 7), Toronto 17 (Lowry 9). Total Fouls: Boston 20, Toronto 21. Techni-cals: Thomas, DeRozan. A: 19,800 (19,800).

HOUSTON 121, CHARLOTTE 114Charlotte 26 21 32 35 — 114Houston 32 35 29 25 — 121Charlotte: Kidd-Gilchrist 0-6 0-0 0, Williams 6-10 1-2 16, Hibbert 2-2 0-0 4, Walker 9-20 2-3 25, Lamb 4-12 2-2 11, Hawes 7-10 0-0 16, Ka-minsky 8-14 2-2 22, Sessions 2-5 0-0 5, Be-linelli 6-13 0-0 15, Graham 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 44-92 7-9 114.Houston: Ariza 5-10 3-5 16, Anderson 5-12 0-0 13, Harrell 5-5 4-6 14, Beverley 2-10 2-2 8, Harden 11-24 11-14 40, Brewer 7-10 0-0 15, Dekker 2-5 0-0 5, Hilario 3-6 4-6 10. Totals 40-82 24-33 121.Three-pointers: Charlotte 19-43 (Walker 5-11, Kaminsky 4-9, Williams 3-5, Belinel-li 3-9, Hawes 2-4, Sessions 1-1, Lamb 1-4), Houston 17-39 (Harden 7-14, Ariza 3-6, An-derson 3-7, Beverley 2-8, Brewer 1-2, Dekker 1-2). Fouled Out: Hawes. Rebounds: Char-lotte 43 (Williams 8), Houston 44 (Harden 15). Assists: Charlotte 30 (Walker 10), Hous-ton 25 (Harden 10). Total Fouls: Charlotte 21, Houston 17. A: 16,196 (18,055).

MILWAUKEE 109, SAN ANTONIO 107Milwaukee 23 30 30 26 — 109San Antonio 23 36 30 18 — 107Milwaukee: Antetokounmpo 0-3 0-0 0, Snell 3-6 0-0 8, J.Parker 9-16 2-2 22, Henson 3-6 0-0 6, Brogdon 5-11 4-5 17, Beasley 11-18 5-6 28, Teletovic 0-1 0-0 0, Maker 2-2 0-0 5, Monroe 7-13 0-0 14, Plumlee 1-1 0-0 2, Ter-ry 1-2 0-0 3, Dellavedova 2-5 0-0 4. Totals 44-84 11-13 109.San Antonio: Leonard 10-16 8-10 30, Lee 5-6 0-0 10, Gasol 3-9 0-0 6, T.Parker 7-15 0-0 14, Green 5-12 0-0 14, Bertans 4-7 0-0 11, Dedmon 2-6 1-2 5, Mills 0-3 0-0 0, Ginobi-li 1-6 0-0 3, Simmons 5-8 2-2 14. Totals 42-88 11-14 107.Three-pointers: Milwaukee 10-19 (Brogdon 3-5, J.Parker 2-3, Snell 2-5, Maker 1-1, Beas-ley 1-1, Terry 1-2, Dellavedova 0-1, Antetok-ounmpo 0-1), San Antonio 12-30 (Green 4-9, Bertans 3-6, Leonard 2-3, Simmons 2-4, Gi-nobili 1-5, T.Parker 0-1, Gasol 0-1, Mills 0-1). Fouled Out: None. Rebounds: Milwaukee 38 (Monroe 9), San Antonio 41 (Gasol 11). As-sists: Milwaukee 32 (Brogdon 6), San Anto-nio 22 (T.Parker 7). Total Fouls: Milwaukee 18, San Antonio 9. Technicals: Milwaukee defensive three second, Milwaukee team.

UTAH 100, CLEVELAND 92Cleveland 29 12 25 26 — 92Utah 29 27 19 25 — 100Cleveland: James 10-20 6-7 29, Love 4-14 2-2 12, Thompson 5-8 2-5 12, Irving 5-18 8-8 20, Liggins 2-4 0-0 6, Jefferson 0-2 0-0 0, Frye 1-6 3-3 5, Felder 2-3 0-0 4, Korver 1-5 0-0 2, McRae 0-0 0-0 0, Shumpert 1-5 0-0 2, Jones 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 31-85 21-25 92.Utah: Hayward 10-12 4-5 28, Favors 5-10 2-4 12, Gobert 5-7 1-1 11, Hill 5-11 1-4 13, Hood 7-15 0-0 18, Johnson 0-5 1-2 1, Ingles 2-5 0-0 5, Lyles 4-11 2-3 12, Diaw 0-1 0-0 0, Mack 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 38-79 11-19 100.Three-pointers: Cleveland 9-31 (James 3-6, Liggins 2-3, Love 2-6, Irving 2-8, Jefferson 0-1, Korver 0-2, Shumpert 0-2, Frye 0-3), Utah 13-34 (Hayward 4-5, Hood 4-10, Hill 2-3, Lyles 2-7, Ingles 1-4, Mack 0-1, Johnson 0-4). Fouled Out: None. Rebounds: Cleve-land 42 (Thompson 12), Utah 46 (Gobert 14). Assists: Cleveland 15 (James 5), Utah 22 (Hill 7). Total Fouls: Cleveland 19, Utah 21. Technicals: James, Cleveland team, Jeffer-son, Utah team.

SUMMARIES

RICK BOWMER • Associated PressUtah guard Rodney Hood fouled Cleveland’s LeBron James as he went to the bas-ket Tuesday night.



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ALPINE SKIING • BOYSSUBURBAN EASTAt Afton AlpsStillwater 685, East Ridge 619, Mounds View 598, Woodbury 545, White Bear Lake 502, Forest Lake 490, Cretin-Der-ham Hall 356, Roseville 312. Medalist: Kaarl Damberg, Mounds View, 1:01.34.METROPOLITAN AREAAt Buck Hill• Lakeville South 359, Wayzata 301.5, Burnsville 289. Medalist: Jack Lindsay, Burnsville, 41.59.

ALPINE SKIING • GIRLSSUBURBAN EASTAt Afton AlpsStillwater 718, Forest Lake 610, Wood-bury 603, White Bear Lake 490, Mounds View 479, East Ridge 441, Cretin-Derham Hall 335, Roseville 271. Medalist: Eliza-beth Kiresuk, Roseville, 1:03.15.METROPOLITAN AREAAt Buck Hill• Orono 345, Hopkins 274, Wayzata 235. Medalist: Rosie Hust, Orono, 46.51.

BASKETBALL • BOYSIMAC• Providence 60, St. Paul Academy 47METRO EAST• Hastings 78, Hill-Murray 57• Mahtomedi 102, Henry Sibley 58• North St. Paul 91, South St. Paul 71• Tartan 82, Simley 54MINNEAPOLIS CITY• Henry 84, South 45• North 60, Roosevelt 46• Southwest 92, Edison 55MINNESOTA RIVER• Belle Plaine at Mayer Lutheran, ppd.• Jordan at Norwood YA , ppd.• Tri-City United at LeSueur-Hen. , ppd.MCAA• Heritage 83, St. Croix Prep 64• SW Christian 63, Trinity 34• Legacy at New Life• Lester Prairie/Holy Trinity at PACT• Spectrum at Bethany• West Lutheran at MaranathaMISSISSIPPI 8• Monticello 67, St. Francis 44• Princeton 84, North Branch 52• Rogers 82, Chisago Lakes 59• St. Michael-Alb. 59, Cambridge-Is. 56• Buffalo at Big Lake, ppdNORTHWEST SUBURBAN• Anoka 64, Coon Rapids 53• Armstrong 83, Osseo 72• Blaine 69, Elk River 62• Champlin Park 86, Andover 62• Maple Grove 87, Totino-Grace 84• Park Center 64, Centennial 52• Spring Lake Park 102, Irondale 99, 3OTSOUTH SUBURBAN• Apple Valley 62, Rosemount 42• Lakeville South 73, Burnsville 71• Eastview 72, Shakopee 70• Farmington 68, Eagan 49• Lakeville North 62, Prior Lake 55SUBURBAN EAST• East Ridge 71, White Bear Lake 51• Forest Lake at Cretin-Derham Hall• Mounds View 57, Stillwater 54• Woodbury at Park of Cottage GroveTRI-METRO• Brooklyn Center 64, Columbia Hts 58• DeLaSalle 98, St. Anthony 64• St. Croix Lutheran 72, Fridley 60TWIN CITIES ATHLETIC• Hope Academy 107, Intern’l School 68• Nova Classical 66, Math & Science 58 WRIGHT COUNTY• Watertown-Mayer 86, Holy Family 74METROPOLITAN AREA• Breck 62, Mound Westonka 44• Chaska 63, Orono 61• Eden Prairie 69, Bl. Jefferson 60• Edina 81, Chanhassen 67• Liberty Classical 84, Lincoln Intern’l 28• Prairie Seeds 81, CHOF 71• SP Highland Park 72, Minnehaha 67• SP Humboldt 60, Concordia Acade-my 54• Waconia 78, Minnetonka 63• Wayzata 73, St. Louis Park 56 • Eden Valley-Watkins at Annandale, ppd• Owatonna at Red Wing, ppd• Winona at Northfi eld, ppd• Willmar at Hutchinson, ppd• Zimmerman at St. Cloud Cathedral, ppd MINNESOTA• Ada-Borup 41, Norman County East/Ulen-Hitterdal 40 • Bagley 68, Climax/Fisher 57 • Cass Lake-Bena 69, Deer River 63 • Cromwell 51, Floodwood 42 • East Grand Forks 74, Fertile-Beltrami 69 • Esko 64, Grand Rapids 57 • Eveleth-Gilbert 67, South Ridge 61 • Fairmont 57, Martin County West 31 • Hills-Beaver Creek 67, Adrian 64 • Jackson County Central 89, Blue Earth 40 • Kelliher/Northome 72, Bigfork 69 • Kimball 74, Howard Lake-Waverly-Win-sted 36 • Kittson County Central 57, Warroad 42 • McGregor 65, Wrenshall 40 • Nevis 67, Walker-Hackensack-Ake-ley 44 • Pipestone 84, Luverne 55 • Roseau 69, Clearbrook-Gonvick 51 • Sartell-St. Stephen 66, Sauk Rapids-Rice 65 • SW Minnesota Christian 89, Ellsworth 50 • St. Clair 67, Mankato Loyola 47 • St. Cloud Tech 66, St. Cloud Apollo 48 • Stephen-Argyle 78, Badger-Green-bush-Middle River 55 • Thief River Falls 76, Dilworth-Glyn-don-Felton 59 • Westbrook-Walnut Grove 66, Fulda 53 • Win-E-Mac 64, Red Lake County 42

BASKETBALL • GIRLSIMAC• Minnehaha 83, Mounds Park 32• Providence 69, St. Paul Academy 24METRO EAST• Hastings 45, Hill-Murray 29• Mahtomedi 52, Henry Sibley 43• North St. Paul 54, South St. Paul 44• Tartan 49, Simley 43METRO WEST• Bloomington Jefferson 60, Richfi eld 36• Chanhassen 47, Benilde-St. Marga-ret’s 36• Chaska 53, Bloomington Kennedy 42• Cooper 66, St. Louis Park 47MINNEAPOLIS CITY• Edison 42, Southwest 40• North 80, Roosevelt 55• South 93, Henry 18MCAA• Heritage 63, St. Croix Prep 51• Lester Prairie/Holy Trinity 91, PACT 33• Maranatha 70, West Lutheran 49• New Life 45, Legacy 43• SW Christian 48, Trinity 34MISSISSIPPI 8• St. Michael-Alb. 66, Cambridge-I. 26• North Branch 61, Princeton 50• Rogers 74, Chisago Lakes 42• St. Francis 58, Monticello 36• Big Lake at Buffalo, ppdNORTHWEST SUBURBAN• Anoka 55, Coon Rapids 35• Armstrong 52, Osseo 43• Champlin Park 66, Andover 41• Elk River 75, Blaine 43• Park Center 69, Centennial 55• Totino-Grace 64, Maple Grove 60• Spring Lake Park at IrondaleST. PAUL CITY• Central 60, Humboldt 24• Como Park 88, Highland Park 54• Harding 79, Washington 35SOUTH SUBURBAN• Apple Valley 55, Rosemount 47• Eastview 42, Shakopee 39• Lakeville North 81, Prior Lake 51• Lakeville South 55, Burnsville 50• Farmington at EaganSUBURBAN EAST• East Ridge 68, White Bear Lake 57• Forest Lake 80, Cretin-Derham Hall 71• Stillwater 77, Mounds View 62• Woodbury 46, Park 44TRI-METRO• Concordia Academy 55, Visitation 46• St. Anthony 74, DeLaSalle 71• St. Croix Lutheran 61, Fridley 48 WRIGHT COUNTY• Waconia 67, Holy Family 56• Watertown-Mayer 62, Mound Weston-ka 35• Annandale at New London-Spicer, ppd• Hutchinson at Delano, ppd• Dassel-Cokato at Glencoe-SL, ppd

• Litchfi eld at Rockford, ppdMETROPOLITAN AREA• Blake 58, CHOF 56• Holy Angels 66, St. Agnes 40 • Orono 62, Edina 49MINNESOTA• Ada-Borup 75, Norman County East/Ulen-Hitterdal 49 • Barnesville 68, Pelican Rapids 43• Bemidji 67, Crookston 48 • Cherry 66, Cook County 54 • Clearbrook-Gonvick 74, Blackduck 48 • Climax/Fisher 68, Bagley 45 • Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton 61, Breck-enridge 56 • Eveleth-Gilbert 60, Moose Lake/Wil-low River 35 • Fertile-Beltrami 74, Mahnomen 29 • Fosston 48, Win-E-Mac 43 • Hillcrest Lutheran 59, Battle Lake 47 • Kenyon-Wanamingo 49, Triton 27 • Kittson County Central 102, North Bor-der, N.D. 75 • Lac qui Parle Valley 61, Russell-Tyler-Ruthton 29 • Lake Crystal-Wellcome Memorial 55, Madelia 42 • Littlefork-Big Falls 76, Hill City 28 • Marshall 51, Fairmont 33 • Martin County West 56, Blue Earth Area 54 • Medford 56, Bethlehem Academy 52 • Mesabi East 53, North Woods 37 • Northern Freeze 43, Goodridge/Gry-gla-Gatzke 32 • Pillager 51, Upsala 46 • Pipestone 54, SW MN Christian 50 • Red Lake Falls 64, Red Lake County 51 • Sacred Heart 64, Warren-Alvarado-Oslo 37 • Walker-Hackensack-Akeley 59, Nev-is 17 • Worthington 55, Luverne 38

GYMNASTICSSOUTH SUBURBAN• Lakeville South 143.25, Prior Lake 140.6. All-around: Kailey Dobransky, Pri-or Lake, 37.375.• Rosemount 137.975, Eagan 137.575. All-around: Josey Schlie, Rosemount, 36.825.

HOCKEY • BOYSMETRO WEST• Benilde-St. Margaret’s at Chanhassen• St. Louis Park 4, Chaska 2NORTHWEST SUBURBAN• Elk River 4, Andover 2WRIGHT COUNTY• Delano 9, New Prague 0• Orono 5, Mound Westonka 4• Litchfi eld/D-C at Waconia, ppdMETROPOLITAN AREA• Eastview 6, Hopkins 0• Holy Family 3, Blaine 2• Mahtomedi 3, Blake 0• Minneapolis 7, South St. Paul 3• Shakopee 6, Providence Academy 3• St. Thomas Academy 6, Bl. Jefferson 2• Chisago Lakes at St. Paul Johnson• Northfi eld at Faribault• Rosemount at East Ridge• St. Francis at Forest Lake• St. Paul Academy at Bl. Kennedy• Becker/BL at St. Paul Highland Park, ppd• Farmington at St. Michael-Alb. , ppd• Hutchinson at Cambridge-Isanti, ppd• Monticello/A/ML at St. Cloud Cath. , ppd• Mora/Milaca at North Branch, ccd• Winona at Red Wing, ccd.MINNESOTA• Bemidji 7, Crookston Pirates 0 • Faribault 22, Northfi eld 4 • Grand Forks Central, N.D. 3, East Grand Forks 1 • Hermantown 4, Grand Rapids 3 • International Falls 5, Virginia/MIB 0 • Luverne 15, Fairmont Area • Marshall 12, Worthington/Fulda 1 • Proctor 3, Hayward, Wis. 1 • Red Lake 4, Kittson County Central 1 • Thief River Falls 5, Park Rapids Area 2

HOCKEY • GIRLSIMAC• Blake 4, Breck 2LAKE• Minnetonka at Eden Prairie• Wayzata 6, Hopkins/St. Louis Park 3METRO EAST• Simley at Hastings• South St. Paul at North St. Paul/TartanMISSISSIPPI 8• Cambridge-Is. /Mora/PC at St. Francis/NB• Princeton/BL/B 4, Chisago Lakes 1• Rogers 4, North Wright County 1NORTHWEST SUBURBAN• Blaine 4, Champlin Park 0• Elk River/Zimmerman 5, Andover 1• Irondale 2, Totino-Grace 0• Spring Lke Pk/CR 11, Armstrong/Coo 0SOUTH SUBURBAN• Eastview 2, Burnsville 0• Lakeville South 2, Lakeville North 1, OT• Shakopee 5, Prior Lake 1• Farmington at EaganSUBURBAN EAST• Cretin-Derham Hall 2, Stillwater 1• East Ridge 5, Woodbury 0• White Bear Lake 3, Park 0WRIGHT COUNTY• Delano/Rockford 2, New Prague 1• Holy Family/Wac at Hutchinson, ppdMETROPOLITAN AREA• Cloquet-E-C 4, Forest Lake 3, OT• North Metro 7, St. Paul Blades 4• Sartell/SR 4, Buffalo/ML 2• Benilde-St. Margaret’s at Minneapolis• Edina at Roseville• Holy Angels at Chaska/Chanhassen• Red Wing at Winona• Albert Lea at Minnehaha United, ppd• Bl. Jefferson/Kennedy at Dodge Co, ppd• Mound Westonka at Duluth, ppd• Prairie Centre at Litchfi eld/DC, ppdMINNESOTA• East Grand Forks 4, Grand Forks, N.D. 3 • Fairmont 1, Luverne 1, OT (tie) • Fergus Falls 4, Moorhead 3 • International Falls 5, Bemidji 2 • Marshall Tigers 9, Worthington/Fulda 0 • Roseau 11, Crookston Pirates 0

SWIMMING • BOYSSOUTH SUBURBAN• Eastview 96, Lakeville South 90• Rosemount 105, Apple Valley 73• Shakopee 99, Farmington 79

WRESTLINGBENILDE-ST. MARGARET’S TRI• Edina 51, Benilde-St. Margaret’s 24CHISAGO LAKES TRIANGULAR• Cambridge-Isanti 61, Andover 15 • Chisago Lakes 44, Andover 36 • Chisago Lakes 66, Cambridge-Isanti 10

SUMMARIES

BASKETBALL • BOYSAnoka 64, Coon Rapids 53Anoka 27 37-64Coon Rapids 24 29-53Anoka: Phipps 17, Prouty 14, Ostendorf 11, Larson 11, Lohse 4, Sieben 3, Hetrick 2, Lombard 2. Coon Rapids: Warner 20, Johnson 18, Lawal 7, Winston 4, Mwa-nasomwe 2, Carver 2. Armstrong 83, Osseo 72Armstrong 0 83-83Osseo 0 72-72Armstrong: Rollins 19, Saeed-El 19, Thompson 18, Miller 12, Green 9, Smith 4, Hostetler 2. Osseo: Theisen 26, Bez-dicek 15, Sinnen 9, Bezdicek 7, Hughes 5, Nelson 4, Harut 2, Page Jr 2, Booker 2. Blaine 69, Elk River 62Elk River 37 25-62Blaine 33 36-69Elk River: Burger 22, Morrell 19, Weege 12, Billman 5, Hills 4. Blaine: Weigand 16, Gerrety 15, Odegard 11, Larson 9, New-berg 8, Leo 7, Bynum 3. Breck 62, Mound Westonka 44Mound Westonka 24 20-44Breck 32 30-62Mound Westonka: Kraay 10, Dahl 9, Phommahaxay 9, McClennon-Nystrom 8, Orenge 8. Breck: Roddy 16, Roddy 13, Walton 11, Morton 9, Ganley 8, Willey 4, Slocum 1.

Brooklyn Center 64, Columbia Heights 58Brooklyn Center 35 29-64Columbia Heights 28 30-58Brooklyn Center: Pickford 18, Sprinkles 16, Patterson 12, Tahir 7, Prince 6, Col-lins 3, Decker 2. Columbia Heights: Rob-erson 20, Matthews 19, Kelly 11, Wright 4, Hussein 4. Champlin Park 86, Andover 62Champlin Park 41 45-86Andover 40 22-62Champlin Park: Wright 28, Hill 13, Hunt-er 13, John 12, Strong 7, Dubois 5, Ot-to 5, Smith 4. Andover: Rezac 24, Paul 13, Heath 8, Schumacher 5, Knoepfl e 4, Rooney 4, Hartle 4. Chaska 63, Orono 61Chaska 39 24-63Orono 32 29-61Chaska: Strazzanti 19, Hanson 18, Nich-olson 13, Kallman 8, Bjorklund 3, Ro-driguez 2. Orono: Bjorklund 19, Thom-as 16, Lecy 9, Sage 9, Mshihiri 4, Codute 2, Anderson 2. Cretin-Derham Hall 76, Forest Lake 72Forest Lake 40 32-72Cretin-Derham Hall 38 38-76Forest Lake: Larson 22, Jerde 20, Bre-itbach 11, Ball 8, Schrader 6, Colon 5. Cretin-Derham Hall: Prince 21, Oturu 21, Larson 12, King 11, Newton 5, Da-vis 4, Carter 2. DeLaSalle 98, St. Anthony 64St. Anthony 0 64-64DeLaSalle 0 98-98St. Anthony : Smith 19, Langums 18, Nel-son 14, Carpenter 8, Jah 5. DeLaSalle: Mar 27, Kalscheur 20, Booker 13, Terry 13, Irvin 9, Bledsoe 7, Moore 5, Lamin 4. East Ridge 71, White Bear Lake 51East Ridge 34 37-71White Bear Lake 21 30-51East Ridge: Brown Jr 20, Christenson 20, Carlson 8, Bennett 8, Remke 6, Vir-gin 5, Haskins 3, Franks 1. White Bear Lake: Charles 12, Beckler 8, Danenberg 8, Griefenhagen 8, Dezee 3, Scwartz 3, Dumas 3, Schochet 3, Richter 2, Lake 1. Eastview 72, Shakopee 70Eastview 27 45-72Shakopee 31 39-70Eastview: Bryan 31, Miller 18, Machacek 12, Raspberry 4, Carpenter 3, Larson 2, Ibrahim 1, Barry 1. Shakopee: Kutina 25, Budin 14, Katona 9, Adelman 7, Cordes 7, McKinney 3, Druvenga 3, Koenen 2. Eden Prairie 69, Bloom. Jefferson 60Eden Prairie 32 37-69Bloomington Jefferson 29 31-60Eden Prairie: Kluge 30, Chose 19, Dobbs 13, Pahl 3, Grundhauser 2, Christensen 1, Johnson 1. Bloomington Jefferson: Til-lotson 17, Riemersma 17, Hird 15, Gathje 5, Seymore 3, Evens 3. Edina 81, Chanhassen 67Chanhassen 32 35-67Edina 31 50-81Chanhassen: Prince 18, Carter 13, Weis-man 9, Wandling 8, Conklin 6, Weisman 5, Hutton 5, Mattern 3. Edina: McGrory 18, Nelson 15, Van Gorp 15, Hofrenning 10, Graf 6, Middleton 6, Krafft 5, Connell 4, Glenna 2. Farmington 68, Eagan 49Eagan 18 31-49Farmington 23 45-68Eagan: James 10, Streed 9, Ernst 9, So-rensen 7, VanWyk 4, Pixler 3, McCullum 3, Thompson 2. Farmington: Hinrich-sen 18, Wilson 16, Mendes 10, Weed 10, Freetly 8, Mogensen 2, Shrum 2, Bean 2. Hastings 78, Hill-Murray 57Hastings 41 37-78Hill-Murray 37 20-57Hastings: Levos 30, Brake 13, Wiese 8, Kummer 7, Nelson 6, Brown 4, Harald-son 3, Levos 3, Hollar 2, Zak 2. Hill-Mur-ray: Davis 20, Meniboon 7, Langer 7, Bechtold 6, Runyon 5, Kazos 5, Still 5, Smith 2. Heritage Christian 83, St. Croix Prep 64St. Croix Prep 26 38-64Heritage Christian 43 40-83St. Croix Prep: Metcalf 26, Wiering 19, Kaul 15, Have 4. Heritage Christian: Johansen 27, Woda 22, Halvorsen 15, VanderTop 8, Allen 7, Thurston 2, Fred-erickson 2. Lakeville North 62, Prior Lake 55Lakeville North 29 33-62Prior Lake 30 25-55Lakeville North: Reuvers 21, Schermann 12, Igbanugo 11, Wahl 10, Fossey 4, Lu-cas 2, Dooney 2. Prior Lake: Sitzmann 19, Preston 10, Collins 9, Fredrickson 6, Gus-tina 5, Garcia 4, Bernick 2. Lakeville South 73, Burnsville 71Burnsville 34 37-71Lakeville South 36 37-73Burnsville: Mursal 25, Hutchinson 14, Martens 12, Baisch 9, Miklowski 6, She-pley 3, Ihenacho 2. Lakeville South: So-renson 24, Jackson 15, Mitchell 11, Bai-ley 10, Carlson 8, Fiedler 3, Mast 2. Mahtomedi 102, Henry Sibley 58Henry Sibley 33 25-58Mahtomedi 50 52-102Henry Sibley: Satar 25, Korte 16, Cotton-Flowers 11, Vibar 6. Mahtomedi: Fox 27, Voyen 14, Frost 13, Praml 12, Siekmeier 10, Tuttle 6, Lindquist 5, Rock 5, Lero 4, Reyes 2, Newman 2, Shay 2. Maple Grove 87, Totino-Grace 84 [OT]Maple Grove 42 33 12-87Totino-Grace 36 39 9-84Maple Grove: Pickford 26, Davison 26, Hutchison 15, Horton 13, Ewefada 5, Al-len 2. Totino-Grace: Jacob 22, Kreuser 21, Kavolak 17, Mischke 8, Kittelson 8, Schmidt 7, Ban 1. Mpls. North 60, Mpls. Roosevelt 46Mpls. North 28 32-60Mpls. Roosevelt 20 26-46Mpls. North: Wilson 22, Johnson 16, Sanders-Smith 9, Johnson 6, El-Amin 2, Hines 2, Campbell 2, Jackson 1. Mpls. Roosevelt: Rogers 13, Sims 11, Johnston 11, Buchwald 9, Barnes 2. Mpls. Henry 84, Mpls. South 45Mpls. South 18 27-45Mpls. Henry 49 35-84Mpls. South: Omar 11, Riveness 6, Hol-ler 6, MacDonald 5, Jones 5, Gladney 3, Jones 3, Dowden 3, Kowouto 2, Lossow 1. Mpls. Henry: Scott 21, Wood 15, Lynn 12, Gravdal 11, Smith 10, Spates 4, Rollins 3, Johnson 2, Sanner-Robinson 2, Mar-tin 2, Abdullah 2. Mpls. Southwest 92, Mpls. Edison 55Mpls. Edison 33 22-55Mpls. Southwest 46 46-92Mpls. Edison: Chime 15, Boyd 12, Lang-ley 9, Hill 7, Walton 5, Houston 3, Rus-nacko 2, Davis 2. Mpls. Southwest: Poly-dorou 25, Hawkins 14, Berg 10, Deeq 9, Bogen-Grose 9, Brown 8, Steen 7, Blu-menfeld 4, Fischer 2, Kaatz 2, Van Wert 2. Monticello 67, St. Francis 44Monticello 27 40-67St. Francis 17 27-44Monticello: Todd 24, Hangsleben 8, Pup-pe 8, Useh 8, Sawatzke 6, Severson 4, Blackstone 4, Thompson 3, Schultz 2. St. Francis: Svihel 15, Marshall 10, Mat-thews 7, Kulsrud 5, Bednarz 5, Schro-eder 2. Mounds View 57, Stillwater 54Stillwater 27 27-54Mounds View 22 35-57Stillwater : Hatcher 14, Jingco 11, Braun 9, Lorenson 6, Yeary 5, Haggard 5, Shi-kenjanski 4. Mounds View: McMillan 23, Stone 13, Varberg 9, Etuko 7, Kim 3, Fahim 2. North St. Paul 91, South St. Paul 71North St. Paul 45 46-91South St. Paul 41 30-71North St. Paul: Phillips 22, Kpegeol 19, Dixon 16, Thomas 13, Geving 6, Golden 6, Yang 5, McDonough 2, Lankford-John-son 2. South St. Paul: Taylor 36, Shubat 14, Pipes 10, Olvera 3, Oberg 3, Hane 2.

Nova Classical 66, Math & Science 58Math & Science 25 33-58Nova Classical 35 31-66Math & Science: Smith 24, Elhassen 10, Johnson 8, Jeyachandran 7, Suri 5, Han-sen 4. Nova Classical: Boudreaux 12, Nelson 11, Olson 11, Arco 5, Abdullahi 4, Reinhardt 2, Greenfi eld 1. Park Center 64, Centennial 52Park Center 26 38-64Centennial 23 29-52Park Center: Kamara 16, Cook 11, Pur-nell 11, Dainja 7, Bonner 7, Broadway 5, Tamba 4, Ogechi 3. Centennial: McGreal 25, Taleen 17, Kuznia 4, Eason 2, Metz 2, Van Buskirk 1, Lyden 1. Princeton 84, North Branch 52North Branch 31 21-52Princeton 40 44-84North Branch: Brodin 20, Gazda 12, Link-ert 8, Ramberg 5, Tollberg 3. Princeton: Flicek 22, Williams 19, Schimming 11, Miller 7, Stimmler 7, Bebeau 6, Mueller 4, Schimming 4, Fleury 3, Angstman 1. Providence 60, St. Paul Academy 47Providence 30 30-60St. Paul Academy 15 32-47Providence: Servais 22, Blomberg 11, Anderson 7, Baird 5, Richelsen 4, Young 3, Paulson 3, Marsh 3, Kettler 2. St. Paul Academy: Grunau 22, Moore 8, Egly 6, Dicke 4, Elsaesser 4, Johnson 3. Rogers 82, Chisago Lakes 59Chisago Lakes 25 34-59Rogers 45 37-82Chisago Lakes: Johnson 17, Nelson 12, Thompson 11, Gillach 8, Hickcox 4, Gulbranson 4, Hedrick 3. Rogers: Belka 18, Spilles 13, Brenning 10, Franz 8, Wat-son 8, Camarote 8, Vazquez 8, Palm 4, Carik 3, Stull 2. Southwest Christian 63, Trinity 34Trinity 9 25-34Southwest Christian 26 37-63Trinity: Calcutt 12, Druffner 6, Rump-za 5, Wessel 4, Waldron 4, O’Connell 2, Masek 1. Southwest Christian: Bengston 13, Weiss 10, Wight 9, Sandness 7, Win-ters 6, Engstrom 4, Meinke 3, Reiskytl 3, Wight 2, Veurink 2, Solfelt 2. Spring Lake Park 102, Irondale 99 [OT]Irondale 36 34 12 6 11-99Spring Lake Park 33 37 12 6 14-102Irondale: Sutherlin 47, Paichang 19, Price 18, Pacheco-Ramirez 7, Simon 6, Irving 2. Spring Lake Park: Davis 29, Elk-erton 24, Whann 21, Ojile 11, Steward 9, Myren 8. St. Croix Lutheran 72, Fridley 60St. Croix Lutheran 27 45-72Fridley 17 43-60St. Croix Lutheran: Johnson 28, Maag 22, Kuckhahn 13, Arroyo 3, Eckl 2, Kletscher 2, Bratton 2. Fridley: Reeves 26, Sopa 10, Nelsen 8, Crandall 7, Cunningham 4, Pal 3, Soto 2. St. Michael-Albertville 59, Cambridge-Isanti 56 [OT]St. Michael-Albertville 22 31 6-59Cambridge-Isanti 29 24 3-56St. Michael-Albertville: Chomilo 25, As-bury 17, Brown 8, Mattson 4, Greenwaldt 3, Kartes 2. Cambridge-Isanti: Johnson 17, Abraham 12, Olson 8, Ledahl 8, Chro-my 6, Lundeen 4, Wylie 1. St. Paul Highland Park 72, Minnehaha Academy 67St. Paul Highland Park 38 34-72Minnehaha Academy 32 35-67St. Paul Highland Park: Kelly-Jabbar 21, Brodtman 17, Collins-Westlund 15, Conzet 6, Bue 5, Minefee 4, Aune 2, Lewis 2. Minnehaha Academy: Suggs 22, Lock-ett 12, Holmgren 11, Williamson 9, John-son 7, Stordahl 4, Bickham 2. St. Paul Humboldt 60, Concordia Acad-emy 54Concordia Academy 30 24-54St. Paul Humboldt 36 24-60Concordia Academy: Preble 19, Harbo 16, Vallin 9, Hackett 5, Osby 5. St. Paul Humboldt: Webster 18, Bryant 14, Riley 14, Tovalin 7, Jones 5, Bell 2. Tartan 82, Simley 54Tartan 42 40-82Simley 28 26-54Tartan: Horn 24, Whalen 22, Myles 7, Kimmons 5, Goergen 5, James 5, Walker 4, Winfi eld 3, Bereket 3, Maanum 2, Her-nandez 2. Simley: Smith 25, Binley 11, Tschida 6, Robinson 4, Nilsen 3, Vujov-ich 3, Johnson 2. Watertown-Mayer 86, Holy Family 74Holy Family 36 38-74Watertown-Mayer 47 39-86Holy Family: Cizek 19, Hendler 16, John-son 13, Hendler 7, Konz 5, Waterman 5, Fering 5, Torborg 4. Watertown-May-er: Berhow 27, Alger 15, McCleary 13, Theisen 12, Gehlhausen 12, Thibault 7. Wayzata 73, St. Louis Park 56Wayzata 40 33-73St. Louis Park 33 23-56Wayzata: Faust 13, Beeninga 13, Paulson 9, Lindberg 9, Baumgartner 8, Grosse 8, Galinson 7, Hempel 4, Jensen 2. St. Louis Park: Mayfi eld 16, Morrow 10, Whitlock 10, Domres 7, Lynch 7, Green 6.

BASKETBALL • GIRLSApple Valley 55, Rosemount 47Apple Valley 22 33-55Rosemount 26 21-47Apple Valley: Rolland 19, Robson 11, Baer 8, Bollum 5, Teske 5, Baxter 5, Par-ham 2. Rosemount: Olson 21, Essen 9, Elias 8, Derby 7, Morrissey 2. Armstrong 52, Osseo 43Osseo 23 20-43Armstrong 30 22-52Osseo: Reed 14, Porte 12, Homola 10, Haynes 4, Dienslake 2, Hampton 1. Arm-strong: Mutanda 21, Krsul 19, Patter-son 9, Bloom 3. Blake 58, CHOF 56CHOF 25 31-56Blake 24 34-58CHOF: Piepkorn 17, Piepkorn 16, Geerdes 12, Harms 5, Otten 4, Palen-schat 2. Blake: Harris 13, Moe 13, Grace 9, Gregor 9, Minde 4, Winkey 4, Phillips 4, Vavrichek 2. Champlin Park 66, Andover 41 [OT]Andover 18 23 0-41Champlin Park 36 30 0-66Andover: Daninger 16, Dagostino 10, Cole 4, Ruprecht 3, Mackey 3, Garcia 2, Cummings 2, Karp 1. Champlin Park: Hicks 29, Gerads 20, Johnson 8, Mocchi 5, Pollard 2, Worwa 2. Chanhassen 47, Benilde-St. Marga-ret’s 36Benilde-St. Margaret’s 23 13-36Chanhassen 31 16-47Benilde-St. Margaret’s: Whitfi eld 8, Wil-liams 8, Kosek 7, Fleming 7, Carter 5, Nichols 1. Chanhassen: Bren 14, Dam-mann 13, Brastad 8, Tollefson 4, Olson 4, Wall 2, Silbernagel 2. Chaska 53, Bloomington Kennedy 42Chaska 30 23-53Bloomington Kennedy 24 18-42Chaska: VanEps 23, Althaus 11, Matt-son 9, Robling 4, Goetz 2, Starr 2, Quinn 2. Bloomington Kennedy: Bryan-Jeffries 12, Husting 10, Graf 8, March 5, Finley 4, Singleton 3. Concordia Academy 55, Visitation 46Visitation 22 24-46Concordia Academy 17 38-55Visitation: Zenner 19, Bastiaens 8, Sch-reier 6, Koenig 5, Waldvogel 4, Callah-an 4. Concordia Academy: Neuman 30, Lecher 7, Tensaie 7, Robinson 5, Moore 5, Paul 1. Cooper 66, St. Louis Park 47St. Louis Park 33 14-47Cooper 39 27-66St. Louis Park: Coley 19, Miller 11, Olson 9, Mayfi eld 3, Reuter 3, Phillips 2. Coo-per: Wheeler 14, Gaston 13, Wheeler 12, Coops 9, Lynch 7, Johnson 7, Nance 2, Hepp 2.

East Ridge 68, White Bear Lake 57White Bear Lake 24 33-57East Ridge 26 42-68White Bear Lake: Perron 14, Janicki 12, Janicki 9, Molin 8, Odmark 4, Sicard 3, Anderson 3, Ferrand 2, Craigan 2. East Ridge: Sexe 27, Tomes 22, Kenol 16, Ya-covella 2, Stoehr 1. Eastview 42, Shakopee 39Shakopee 18 21-39Eastview 13 29-42Shakopee: Hutton 21, Stark 5, West 4, Zerr 3, Herold 2, Weiss 2, West 2. East-view: Walstad 10, Glas 7, Guebert 7, Crenshaw 6, Carpenter 6, Ranke 4, Pu-eschner 2. Elk River 75, Blaine 43Blaine 19 24-43Elk River 38 37-75Blaine: Sauve 12, Johnson 10, Erickson 7, Anderson 4, Pearson 4, Bryan 2, Fleek 2, Howe 2. Elk River: Kramer 23, Went-land 18, Haack 10, Person 7, Engebret-son 6, Lachmiller 4, Leuthold 3, Plautz 2, Haack 2. Forest Lake 80, Cretin-Derham Hall 71Cretin-Derham Hall 30 41-71Forest Lake 30 50-80Cretin-Derham Hall: Edinger 23, Mendez 19, Anderson-Manning 11, Hottinger 10, Sticha 5, Moore 2, Goaley 1. Forest Lake: Groeneweg 23, Hultman 17, Asperheim 12, Stumne 12, Moscatelli 8, Johnson 5, VanBergen 3. Hastings 45, Hill-Murray 29Hill-Murray 8 21-29Hastings 18 27-45Hill-Murray: Hartzel 8, Prokosch 7, Ru-nyon 6, Wren 6, Schneider 2. Hastings: Brake 13, Yaeger 10, Carlson 10, Mattson 7, Jackson 2, Tietjen 2, Kazmierczak 1. Heritage Christian 63, St. Croix Prep 51Heritage Christian 31 32-63St. Croix Prep 28 23-51Heritage Christian: Torve 20, Simon-son 18, Scott 15, Allen 8, Meissner 2. St. Croix Prep: White 22, Schulte 12, Fisher 11, Schulte 4, Hangge 2. Lakeville North 81, Prior Lake 57Prior Lake 29 28-57Lakeville North 42 39-81Prior Lake: Hofschild 21, Wheatcraft 15, Scholl 10, Anderson 5, Pitsch 3, Keating 2, Mosher 1. Lakeville North: Jensen 20, Carda 17, James 14, Tschida 7, Brown 7, Hendrickson 6, Bruce 6, Peterson 4. Lakeville South 55, Burnsville 50Lakeville South 32 23-55Burnsville 24 26-50Lakeville South: Biffert 10, Sather 10, Harvey 7, Guentzel 6, Cihunka 6, Guent-zel 5, Wolkow 5, Hicks 4, Uphoff 2. Burns-ville: Fee 12, Servais 8, Thompson 8, Fredericks 7, Cox 7, Diggan 7, Hamblin 1. Maple Grove 64, Totino-Grace 60Totino-Grace 28 32-60Maple Grove 32 32-64Totino-Grace: Weierke 16, Doran 10, Gannaway 9, Glynn 9, Meyer 8, Brunn 8. Maple Grove: Mlinar 20, Theis 13, Liimat-ta 7, Dodge 6, Rosa 6, Schulte 4, Rosta-mo 4, Moline 4. Maranatha 70, West Lutheran 49Maranatha 41 29-70West Lutheran 30 19-49Maranatha: Jarnot 27, Payne 17, Moore 11, Post 6, Davis 4, Thompson 2, Mont-gomery 2, Smestad 1. West Lutheran: Hoffer 17, Preus 15, Walberg 10, John-son 3, Paul 2, Bursch 2. Mpls. Edison 42, Mpls. Southwest 40Mpls. Southwest 19 21-40Mpls. Edison 24 18-42Mpls. Southwest: Campbell 9, Rich-ardson 9, Voss 8, Youngdahl 6, Mpaulo 5, Cottier 3. Mpls. Edison: Morrow 29, Vaughn 6, Poisson 4, Lewis 3. Mpls. North 80, Mpls. Roosevelt 55Mpls. Roosevelt 0 55-55Mpls. North 0 80-80Mpls. Roosevelt: Mpls. North: Mpls. South 93, Mpls. Henry 18Mpls. Henry 11 7-18Mpls. South 62 31-93Mpls. Henry: Prado 9, Whiting 4, Caprini 3, Braxton 2. Mpls. South: Hill 32, Lock-ett 19, Lutz 14, Hill 10, Cushing 9, John-son 4, Green 4, Dinger 1. Minnehaha Academy 83, Mounds Park 32Minnehaha Academy 50 33-83Mounds Park 17 15-32Minnehaha Academy: Pryor 22, Gallo-way 14, Curtis 10, Rhoades 10, Rhoades 10, Hudson 6, Barth-Lofton 4, Leiner 2, Galaviz Day 2, New 2, Balmeceda 1. Mounds Park: Goodno 22, Goodno 4, Kunze-Hoeg 2, Walker 2, Stone 2. New Life 45, Legacy 43New Life 27 18-45Legacy 21 22-43New Life: Hager 13, Gunderson 12, Nelson 9, Erickson 7, Hullett 4. Lega-cy: Smitsdorff 15, Weddle 10, Nelson 9, Smitsdorff 6, Shank 3. North SP 54, South SP 44South SP 19 25-44North SP 23 31-54South SP: Rutkowski 10, Skwira 9, Gerten 8, Youngstrom 6, Veldman 5, Go-mez-Balado 4, Bauer 2. North SP: Pratt 31, Anderson 12, Harris 4, McKane 4, Schouvieller 2, Pfefferle 1. Orono 62, Edina 49Orono 29 33-62Edina 24 25-49Orono: Andrew 18, Loder 17, Smaron 14, Case 5, Hughes 4, Rice 4. Edina: Jank 22, Coughlin 12, Nilsen 8, Kile 3, Hel-gren 2, Oyalo 2.

Park Center 69, Centennial 55Centennial 23 32-55Park Center 35 34-69Centennial: Stapleton 15, Orth 12, McAulay 11, Stapleton 9, Grow 8. Park Center: Simonet 19, Blakemore 15, Schaub 9, Michael 8, Hayes 6, Nickens 5, DuBois 5, Fields 2.

Providence 69, St. Paul Academy 24SPA 15 9-24Providence 46 23-69SPA: Crystal 10, Scott 5, Moore 4, McNa-mer 3, Carter 1, Saaverda-Weis 1. Prov-idence: Counts 19, Murphy 14, Koep-pl 9, McCarthy 7, Servais 5, Hoheneck-er 5, Trende 4, Mahowald 3, Kettler 2, Anderson 1. Southwest Christian 48, Trinity 34Southwest Christian 32 16-48Trinity 10 24-34Southwest Christian: Schwarz 17, Schmidt 15, Krommendyk 7, Schwen 6, Jones 2, Beard 1. Trinity: Frenz 17, Mi-chaud 10, Ennis 6, Bittner 1. St. Anthony 74, DeLaSalle 71DeLaSalle 40 31-71St. Anthony 32 42-74DeLaSalle: Weems 15, Gardner 13, Speidel 13, Travis 9, Francois 8, Cochran-Starr 5, Francois 5, Florey 3. St. Antho-ny: Wiebusch 18, Zeller 16, Zielsdorf 16, Sibbet 12, Koenig-Meehan 6, Thom-as 4, Thomas 2. St. Croix Lutheran 61, Fridley 48Fridley 19 29-48St. Croix Lutheran 30 31-61Fridley: Smith 17, Williams 6, Chalmers 6, Davis 5, Hawkins 5, Saunders 5, Teff 2, Deoni 2. St. Croix Lutheran: Moon 13, Gadison 12, Solseth 10, Miller 8, Avery 7, Maki 3, Mielke 2, Raasch 2, Stensland 2, Johnson 2. St. Michael-Albertville 66, Cambridge-Isanti 26Cambridge-Isanti 7 19-26St. Michael-Albertville 43 23-66Cambridge-Isanti: Cox 8, Brogger 6, Olander 3, Glotzbach 3, Hennen 3, Lar-kin 3. St. Michael-Albertville: Kramer 18, Johnson 12, Cox 5, Carlson 4, Dold 4, Heil 3, Coulson 3, Hanson 2, Christian 2, Bald-win 2, Johnson 2.

SP Central 60, SP Humboldt 24SP Humboldt 14 10-24SP Central 26 34-60SP Humboldt: Meadows 12, Rodriguez 5, Behnke 4, Rodger Neely 2, Stokes 1. SP Central: Karlen 38, Sutton 8, Richards 5, Patterson 3, Hopkins 2, Ward 2, Gubbrud 1, Montgomery 1. SP Harding 79, SP Washington 35SP Washington 14 21-35SP Harding 48 31-79SP Washington: McCaa 19, Green 7, San-tiago 3, Abdihoosh 2, Guerrero 2, Burn-side 2. SP Harding: Thomas 28, Poe 11, Owens 10, Ogitchida 9, Favors 6, Gas-terland 4, Gallegos 4, Smith 4, English 3. Stillwater 77, Mounds View 62Mounds View 27 35-62Stillwater 38 39-77Mounds View: Wendt 17, Becher 15, Kauls 13, Wendt 7, Saemrow 4, Galvin 2, Favilla 2, Van House 2. Stillwater: Scal-ia 23, White 16, Patterson 13, Houle 11, Whiddinton 9, Fultz 4, Lampright 1. Tartan 49, Simley 43Simley 23 20-43Tartan 25 24-49Simley: Lockett 15, Danso 12, Stens-gard 6, Miles 6, Paulsen 4. Tartan: Ma-son 15, Chevre 12, Ekereke 7, Roberts 6, Moeschter 5, McKinney 2, Hicks 1, Whitlock 1. Waconia 67, Holy Family 56Holy Family 25 31-56Waconia 29 38-67Holy Family: Bowlin 13, Conroy 12, Thompson 11, Jansen 7, Geurs 6, Stein-er 4, Vakulskas 3. Waconia: Marker 21, Freeberg 17, Kohner 8, Flemming 5, Zieske 5, Christians 4, Johnson 4, John-son 3. Watertown-Mayer 62, Mound Weston-ka 35Watertown-Mayer 28 34-62Mound Westonka 15 20-35Watertown-Mayer: Killian 19, Klitzke 12, Czinano 9, Schroeder 5, Knutson 4, Hei-lman 4, Ragner 4, Zuelzke 3, Oscarson 2. Mound Westonka: White 17, Thur-ston 5, Schaible 4, Wharram 4, Beyer 3, Christlieb 2.

HOCKEY • BOYSChanhassen 3, Benilde-St. Margaret’s 3 [OT]Benilde-St. Margaret’s 1 1 1 0-3Chanhassen 1 1 1 0-3First: B-Hoen (Garcia), 0:34. C-Moser (Haley, Worre), 12:00, pp. Second: C-Tru-so (Pries, Haley), 3:36. B-Sims (Collins), 10:47. Third: B-Collins (Newhouse), 1:13. C-Moser (Shelby), 16:13. Saves: B: Melin 9-5-8-6-28. C: Swisher 7-12-7-2-28. Delano 9, New Prague 0New Prague 0 0 0-0Delano 5 3 1-9First: D-Ylitalo (Meyers, Kruse), 4:21, pp. D-Halonen (Keranen, Meyers), 15:05. D-Keranen (Halonen, Meyers), 15:05. D-Ylitalo (Durst), 16:11. D-Ylitalo (Heik-kila), 16:44. Second: D-Heikkila (Daly, Glasrud), 7:06. D-Halonen, 10:29. D-Ker-anen (Halonen, Meyers), 12:09. Third: D-Halonen (Peterson, Keranen), 14:45, sh. Saves: N: Dorzinski 11-0-0-11; Skok 0-5-13-18. D: Hjelle 3-3-3-9. Eastview 6, Hopkins 0Eastview 2 4 0-6Hopkins 0 0 0-0First: E-Ford (Kukowski), 6:50. E-Ander-son (Desrocher, Bordson), 15:20. Sec-ond: E-Bordson (Desrocher), 0:52. E-Orman, 10:22. E-Desrocher (Anderson, Nunn), 11:58. E-Bordson (Anderson, Desrocher), 14:23. Saves: E: Beattie 7-6-5-18. H: Wilson 11-9-10-30. Elk River 4, Andover 2Elk River 2 0 2-4Andover 1 0 1-2First: E-Maass (Horn, Bizal), 0:50. E-Mi-chaelis (Horn, Perbix), 6:24. A-McNa-mara, 6:57. Third: A-Dainty (McNama-ra, Martell), 9:22, pp. E-Laabs (Perbix, Bizal), 15:29. E-Perbix (Maass, Perbix), 16:28. Saves: E: Meyers 4-2-5-11. A: Frit-singer 22-16-10-48. Holy Family Catholic 3, Blaine 2Holy Family Catholic 1 0 2-3Blaine 2 0 0-2First: H-Michel (Simon, Ziemer), 1:56. B-Vold, 2:12. B-Ulan (Stelzl), 10:13. Third: H-Reddan (Anderson, Almquist), 5:58. H-Almquist (Byers, Michel), 6:10. Saves: H: Moe 9-9-5-23. B: Daninger 15-13-9-37. Mahtomedi 3, Blake 0Mahtomedi 0 2 1-3Blake 0 0 0-0Second: M-Bartholomew (Skillings), 3:45, pp. M-Kneale (Huber), 5:59. Third: M-Vannelli (Mireault), 11:54. Saves: M: Huber 6-5-8-19. B: Broucek 7-9-6-22. Minneapolis 7, South St. Paul 3Minneapolis 4 1 2-7South St. Paul 0 2 1-3First: M-Gholl (Sorock, Sullivan), 0:34. M-Hale (Sullivan, Sorock), 2:08. M-Hale, 2:38. M-Hale (Sorock, Neal), 12:07. Sec-ond: S-Rohrer (Gellerman, Brandecker), 1:10. S-Brandecker (Gellerman), 12:50. M-Wendlandt (Warnert, Krause), 13:52. Third: M-Sorock (Neal, Hale), 9:42, pp. S-Williams (Vasquez, Gellerman), 10:01. M-Sorock (Gholl, Hale), 15:43. Saves: M: Holt 2-12-12-26; Walsh 0-0-3-3. S: Toens-ing 13-13-8-34. Northfi eld 4, Faribault 2Northfi eld 3 0 1-4Faribault 1 0 1-2First: F-Murphy (Vogelsberg, Kletsch-ka), 1:25. N-Hofstad (Hofstad, Winter), 5:23. N-Malecha (Kvernmo, Marvin), 10:26. N-Fox (Halvorson, Jirik), 15:46. Third: N-Halvorson, 9:48. F-Kelly (San-born, Teske), 13:39. Saves: N: Bielen-berg 4-5-3-12. F: Hullett 10-0-0-10; Vos 0-14-16-30. Orono 5, Mound Westonka 4 [OT]Mound Westonka 1 2 1 0-4Orono 2 1 1 1-5First: O-Burns (Eiss), 3:02. O-Suchy (Walker, Anderson), 6:42. M-Niederer (Hildahl), 14:05. Second: O-Walker (Will-son, Anderson), 3:16, pp. M-Kelly (Nie-derer), 4:10, pp. M-Niederer (Nelson), 14:57. Third: O-Burns (Anderson), 9:36, pp. M-Lee (Niederer), 9:52. OT: O-Suchy (Walker, Burns), -9:56. Saves: M: Coley 10-10-6-2-28. O: Babekuhl 11-8-10-1-30. Rosemount 2, East Ridge 0Rosemount 0 1 1-2East Ridge 0 0 0-0Second: R-Lanoue (Levandowski), 7:35. Third: R-Goret (Berg), 3:47. Saves: R: Lovich 4-9-5-18. E: Stearns 7-9-11-27. Shakopee 6, Providence Academy 3Shakopee 2 3 1-6Providence Academy 1 1 1-3First: S-Bode (Schulze), 2:49. S-Bode (Mcneil), 11:21. P-DeRosier (Bin-ger, Kramer), 15:49. Second: P-Wick-ham (Giesler), 3:03. S-Kratzke (Smieja, Kreuser), 8:55, pp. S-Holm (Schmid, Bro-sam), 13:11. S-Schmid (Kratzke, Law-rence), 15:58. Third: P-Murphy (Giesler), 8:24. S-Karst, 14:29. Saves: S: Bleess 15-13-11-39. P: Koskie 3-6-10-19. St. Francis 7, Forest Lake 2St. Francis 3 3 1-7Forest Lake 0 1 1-2First: S-Besch (Gilbertson, Kolb), 4:45. S-Barck (Gilbertson, Besch), 13:26, pp. S-Kaehler (Besch), 16:07. Second: S-Car-roll, 3:56. S-Besch (Gilbertson), 5:45, pp. S-Barck, 12:00, pp. F-Saltness (Rab-be), 15:50, pp. Third: F-Zowin (Mastell), 10:55, pp. S-Kaehler (Besch, Gilbertson), 13:31. Saves: S: Garaghty 7-11-10-28. F: Fiedler 11-6-0-17; Peterson 0-3-8-11.

St. Louis Park 4, Chaska 2Chaska 1 0 1-2St. Louis Park 0 2 2-4First: C-Pitlick (Warnert), 5:02. Second: S-Sorenson (Dvorak, Neudecker), 4:17. S-Sorenson (Plender), 8:18. Third: S-Neudecker (Pekarek, Sorenson), 1:21. C-Koster (Lavelle, Barrett), 11:15, pp. S-So-renson, 16:46. Saves: C: Urbanciz 6-11-11-28. S: Raasch 17-7-7-31. St. Paul Academy 10, Bl. Kennedy 1SPA 5 2 3-10Bloomington Kennedy 0 1 0-1First: S-McCabe (Kelly, Picciano), 1:04. S-Johnston (Bagnoli, Bowman), 2:48. S-Dahlseide (Bowman, Hosszu), 8:45. S-Kelly (Bowman, Lombard), 11:59. S-Pet-ronio (Parker), 15:22. Second: B-Arnold (Fuller, Ekholm), 1:54. S-Parker (Hosszu, McCabe), 15:11. S-McCabe (Kelly, Pet-ronio), 16:28. Third: S-McCabe (Kelly, Parker), 0:58. S-Parker (Dahlseide, Pic-ciano), 13:57. S-Johnston (Dahlseide, Gifford), 15:25. Saves: S: Beran 5-7-0-12; Reich 0-0-1-1. B: Dietz 16-11-6-33. St. Paul Johnson 8, Chisago Lakes 1Chisago Lakes 0 0 1-1St. Paul Johnson 2 4 2-8First: S-Heesch (Moberg, Wieffering), 12:45. S-Ranum (Fish), 12:54. Second: S-Heffernan (Fish), 0:43, pp. S-Austin (Campbell), 3:59. S-Austin (Fish), 8:44. S-Heffernan (Campbell), 13:16, pp. Third: S-Banegas (Fish), 6:03. C-Zaruba (Hel-land), 12:22. S-Moberg, 13:17. Saves: C: Stangl 8-0-0-8; Carlson 0-10-3-13. S: Weintzweig 6-5-5-16. St. Thomas Academy 6, Bloomington Jefferson 2St. Thomas Academy 0 5 1-6Bloomington Jefferson 0 2 0-2Second: S-Christy (Stucker, Stucker), 4:57. B-Lescarbeau (Ganske, Oppong), 6:02. S-Matsui (Christy, Reim), 6:15. S-Foley (Christy, Reim), 6:58. B-Gan-ske (Oppong), 8:06. S-Christy, 10:51. S-Christy (Stucker), 13:44, pp. Third: S-Winkler (O’Neill), 2:32. Saves: S: Kel-ly 4-4-2-10. B: Redepenning 5-12-11-28.

HOCKEY • GIRLSBlaine 4, Champlin Park 0Blaine 0 2 2-4Champlin Park 0 0 0-0Second: B-Rosenthal (Beebe), 6:22. B-Rosenthal (Brown), 16:17, sh. Third: B-Beebe (Wylie, Parent), 7:45, pp. B-Brown (Beebe, Rosenthal), 11:08. Saves: B: Cin 2-6-0-8. C: Burgoyne 19-8-16-43. Blake 4, Breck 2Blake 1 2 1-4Breck 1 1 0-2First: BR-Qualley (Billing, Riskevich), 4:28. BL-Delianedis (Burton, Willough-by), 14:25. Second: BR-Beniek, 3:47. BL-Burton (Daniel), 11:22. BL-Vojta (De-lianedis, Burton), 16:16. Third: BL-Burton (Chute, Wallin), 14:28. Saves: BL: Krue-sel 1-6-4-11. BR: Frantzick 12-10-9-31. Cloquet-E-C4, Forest Lake 3 [OT]Forest Lake 2 0 1 0-3Cloquet-E-C 0 2 1 1-4First: , 0:52. , 7:02. Second: C-Bender (Nelson), 7:25. C-Bender (Lundquist), 14:34. Third: C-Bender (Nelson), 6:46, sh. , 10:04. OT: C-Martin, 2:11. Saves: F: Bothun 7-3-8-3-21. C: Genereau 10-8-11-0-29. Cretin-Derham Hall 2, Stillwater 1Cretin-Derham Hall 2 0 0-2Stillwater 0 0 1-1First: C-Meyers (Ziegler), 2:22. C-Mey-ers (King), 14:25. Third: S-Nystrom (Jablonski), 16:15. Saves: C: Novak 3-11-5-19. S: Knox 13-6-8-27. Eastview 2, Burnsville 0Eastview 2 0 0-2Burnsville 0 0 0-0First: E-Snodgrass (Ford), 0:13. E-Luzum (Beckman), 16:03. Saves: E: Julian 6-7-4-17. B: Pester 10-14-5-29. Elk River 5, Andover 1Andover 0 0 1-1Elk River 3 0 2-5First: E-Johnson, 0:36. E-Spring-man (Westgaard, King), 8:10. E-Ko-rinek (Johnson), 16:11. Third: E-John-son (McLean), 0:20. A-Stauffeneker (Nowacki, Pelkey), 3:18. E-Bizal (West-gaard, King), 6:38, pp. Saves: A: Stumo 16-8-5-29. E: Jung 2-5-6-13. Lakeville South 2, Lakeville North 1 [OT]Lakeville North 0 0 1 0-1Lakeville South 1 0 0 1-2First: LS-Saufferer (McKinney, Donnel-ly), 3:02, pp. Third: LN-Flaherty, 4:40. OT: LS-Orr (Gill, Lauderdale), 1:23, pp. Saves: LN: Schneider 12-12-6-2-32. LS: Baker 5-5-12-0-22. North Metro 7, St. Paul Blades 4St. Paul Blades 0 1 3-4North Metro 3 1 3-7First: N-Bjork (Bodin), 1:21. N-Ballweber (Holton, Shadle), 11:09, pp. N-Ballwe-ber (Shadle), 13:11. Second: S-Zavoral (Jarrett), 1:18. N-Shadle (Denchfield, Holton), 11:27, pp. Third: S-Gabrielli (Za-voral, Sheridan), 1:14. N-Sjelin, 5:36. N-Denchfield (Donaldson), 11:16. S-Za-voral (Gabrielli), 13:54. N-Denchfield, 14:57. S-Zavoral, 16:45, pp. Saves: S: Nel-son 7-16-12-35. N: Almquist 7-7-11-25. Shakopee 5, Prior Lake 1Shakopee 0 3 2-5Prior Lake 0 0 1-1Second: S-Truax (Hespenheide), 3:10. S-Falk (Bachelor, Stave), 8:31, pp. S-Stave, 14:47. Third: S-Truax (Stave), 2:09, pp. P-Huntington (Gleason), 7:31. S-Stave, 8:56. Saves: S: Noess 6-5-3-14. P: Lewi-son 7-13-0-20; Hagen 0-0-5-5. Spring Lk Pk/CR 11, Armstrong/Coo-per 0Armstrong/Cooper 0 0 0-0SLP/CR 4 2 5-11First: S-Murphy (Schultz, Corrigan), 3:04, pp. S-DelCastillo (Corrigan), 10:08. S-Crawford (Murphy, Brazier), 12:28. S-Beczkalo (Northquest), 12:28. Sec-ond: S-Schultz (DelCastillo), 4:16, pp. S-Murphy (DelCastillo), 9:47, pp. Third: S-Schultz, 3:40, pp. S-DelCastillo (North-quest), 7:50. S-Corrigan (Brazier), 10:50, pp. S-Haas (DelCastillo), 11:50. S-Schul-tz, 15:40. Saves: R: Launderville 11-11-2-24; Miller 0-0-3-3. S: Miller 2-8-4-14. Wayzata 6, Hopkins/Park 3Wayzata 2 2 2-6Hopkins/Park 1 0 2-3First: W-McCollins, 0:46. H-Hanley (Glov-er, Haberman), 14:39, pp. W-Marshall, 15:30. Second: W-Russo (Hackley), 1:28. W-Johnson (Rezabek, Wisnews-ki), 13:05. Third: H-Patterson (Glover), 6:46, pp. W-Ocel (Urban), 9:01. H-Glover (Gleason, Fredrickson), 13:14. W-McCol-lins, 16:39. Saves: W: Garvis 10-11-17-38. H: Carlander 3-0-0-3; Gleason 0-3-0-3. White Bear Lake 3, Park of Cottage Grove 0Park of Cottage Grove 0 0 0-0White Bear Lake 1 1 1-3First: W-Shearen (Gast), 13:07. Second: W-Shearen (Shearen), 11:06, sh. Third: W-Healy (Shearen, DeLaRosa), 11:47, pp. Saves: P: Boreen 5-11-9-25. W: Frank 10-9-10-29.



Latvian defender Vadim Demidov was playing in top league in Noway.

By PAUL KLAUDA [email protected]

Minnesota United signed Norwegian defender Vadim Demidov, who at age 30 is the oldest player to date on the new Major League Soccer franchise’s still-growing roster.

T h e c l u b announced his addition Tues-day, just three days before it makes the first pick in the MLS SuperDraft of college players in Los Angeles.

The 6-1 Demidov, listed as a center defender or defensive midfielder, has been playing in Norway’s top soccer league. He was among the players scouted by United Sporting

Director Manny Lagos during a trip through Scandinavia last fall.

Demidov has been with SK Brann since 2014, earning a reputation for smart, aggres-sive play. He previously played with clubs in top leagues in Germany, Spain and Russia.

Demidov called it a “really easy choice’’ to join the Loons in a statement the team released.

“I wanted to take on a new challenge and prove myself in a new league, and I am very happy to be able to do that here in Minnesota.’’

Lagos said the club was attracted by Demidov’s lead-ership qualities and willing-ness to be part of an expan-sion team .

United coach Adrian Heath lauded Demidov’s “winning mentality and work ethic that’s so important for a club in growth. He fits the mold of the players we desire .”

Demidov is a nationalized

citizen born in Latvia. His fam-ily moved to Norway when his father, an international hand-ball player, took a coaching position there.

He signed his first pro soccer contract in 2004 and got his first call up to Nor-way’s national team in 2008. He played for the team in 16 matches .

Demidov visited Minnesota for the first time last week . Lagos noted that Demidov will now be in a place that is home to nearly 1 million people of Norwegian heritage.

Lagos said he is looking at signing “a few more’’ players in Demidov’s age range as the club fills out its 28-player ros-ter. Demidov is the 12th signed player .

The team will begin pre-season training Jan. 23 and is expected to be in Arizona until early February and in Portland into the middle of February where it will play three games in a tournament.

COLLEGEFlorida State: OT Rod Johnson will enter the NFL draft. Iowa State: Signed athletic director Ja-mie Pollard through 2024. Michigan: LB/DB Jabrill Peppers will en-ter the NFL draft. Ohio State: Named Kevin Wilson co-offensive coordinator and tight ends coach. Wisconsin: OT Ryan Ramczyk will enter the NFL draft.

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NFL PLAYOFFSFAVORITE ....... LINE (O/U) .... UNDERDOGSATURDAYATLANTA ........... 4½ (51) ...............Seattle NEW ENGLAND 15½ (44) ........... Houston SUNDAYKANSAS CITY ... 1½ (44) .........Pittsburgh DALLAS ............. 4½ (52) ......... Green Bay

NBAFAVORITE ....... LINE (O/U) .... UNDERDOGWEDNESDAYWOLVES ..........OFF (OFF) .......... HoustonNew York ...........2 (210) .. PHILADELPHIA BOSTON ..........OFF (OFF) .... Washington OKLA. CITY .....4½ (204½).........Memphis PORTLAND......OFF (OFF) ........Cleveland LA CLIPPERS ... 9½ (209) ............ Orlando

NHLFAVORITE .............LINE .......... UNDERDOG WEDNESDAYNY ISLANDERS -120/+110 ............. FloridaWINNIPEG........ OFF/OFF .......... Montreal WASHINGTON -119/+109 .......PittsburghCALGARY ......... OFF/OFF ........... San Jose

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ON THE AIR WEDNESDAYBASKETBALL TIME TV RADIOCollege women: St. Bonaventure at St. Louis 11 a.m. NBCSNCollege men: G. Washington at VCU 5 p.m. ESPN2College men: Houston at E. Carolina 5 p.m. ESPNEWSCollege men: South Carolina at Tennessee 5:30 p.m. SECNCollege men: Gophers at Michigan State 6 p.m. BTN 1500-AMCollege men: Georgia at Mississippi 6 p.m. ESPNUCollege men: Dayton at Massachusetts 6 p.m. CBSSNCollege men: Seton Hall at Marquette 6 p.m. FS1NBA: Houston at Timberwolves 7 p.m. FSN 830-AMNBA: Memphis at Oklahoma City 7 p.m. ESPNCollege men: North Carolina at Wake Forest 7 p.m. ESPN2College men: Memphis at Tulsa 7 p.m. ESPNEWSCollege men: LSU at Texas A&M 7:30 p.m. SECNCollege men: Michigan at Illinois 8 p.m. BTNCollege men: Iowa State at Oklahoma St. 8 p.m. ESPNUCollege men: Temple at Connecticut 8 p.m. CBSSNCollege men: Butler at Creighton 8 p.m. FS1NBA: Cleveland at Portland 9:30 p.m. ESPN

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HOCKEYNHL: Pittsburgh at Washington 7 p.m. NBCSN

THE AP TOP 25The Top 25 teams in The Associated Press college football poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, final re-cords, total points based on 25 points for a fi rst-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote, and previous ranking: Record Pts Pv 1. Clemson (60) 14-1 1500 3 2. Alabama 14-1 1440 1 3. Southern Cal 10-3 1292 9 4. Washington 12-2 1277 4 5. Oklahoma 11-2 1252 7 6. Ohio State 11-2 1240 2 7. Penn State 11-3 1130 5 8. Florida St. 10-3 1105 10 9. Wisconsin 11-3 1032 8 10. Michigan 10-3 1001 6 11. Oklahoma St. 10-3 920 13 12. Stanford 10-3 730 16 13. LSU 8-4 651 19 14. Florida 9-4 640 20 15. W. Michigan 13-1 619 12 16. Virginia Tech 10-4 610 18 17. Colorado 10-4 585 11 18. West Virginia 10-3 368 14 19. South Florida 11-2 358 25 20. Miami 9-4 338 NR 21. Louisville 9-4 277 15 22. Tennessee 9-4 253 — 23. Utah 9-4 222 — 24. Auburn 8-5 206 17 25. San Diego St. 11-3 113 — Others receiving votes: Kansas St. 83, Georgia Tech 47, Nebraska 38, W. Ken-tucky 32, Air Force 30, Pittsburgh 21, Boi-se St. 19, Iowa 14, Gophers 12, Tulsa 10, BYU 9, Temple 8, Houston 8, North Caro-lina 8, Navy 1, Washington St. 1.

AMWAY TOP 25 POLLThe fi nal Amway Top 25 football coach-es poll, with fi rst-place votes in paren-theses, fi nal records, total points based on 25 points for fi rst place through one point for 25th, and previous ranking: Record Pts Pv 1. Clemson (60) 14-1 1500 3 2. Alabama 14-1 1440 1 3. Oklahoma 11-2 1308 7 4. Washington 12-2 1265 4 5. Southern Cal 10-3 1263 9 6. Ohio State 11-2 1186 2 7. Penn State 11-3 1123 5 8. Florida St. 10-3 1102 10 9. Wisconsin 11-3 1044 8 10. Michigan 10-3 986 6 11. Oklahoma St. 10-3 922 13 12. Stanford 10-3 791 16 13. Florida 9-4 673 18 14. LSU 8-4 641 20 15. Colorado 10-4 634 11 16. Virginia Tech 10-4 632 19 17. West Virginia 10-3 522 12 18. W.Michigan 13-1 449 14 19. South Florida 11-2 362 22 20. Louisville 9-4 338 15 21. Utah 9-4 303 23 22. Auburn 8-5 230 17 23. Miami 9-4 229 — 24. Tennessee 9-4 211 — 25. San Diego St. 11-3 102 — Others receiving votes: Nebraska 46, Kansas St. 44, Georgia Tech 24, Western Kentucky 23, Boise St. 20, Air Force 18, Iowa 17, Temple 16, Tulsa 11, Gophers 7, Georgia 5, Navy 3, Wake Forest 3, Arkan-sas 2, Troy 2, Washington St. 2, BYU 1.

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NEWS SERVICES

The Twins will have two more veteran starters at spring training.

Ryan Vogelsong, a 39-year-old righthander who made his MLB debut 17 years ago, has reached a verbal agreement on a minor-league contract with the Twins, according to a source with knowledge of the transaction .

The Twins also have reached a similar agree-ment with righthander Nick Tepesch, a 28-year-old former member of the Rangers’ start-ing rotation whose career was waylaid by thoracic outlet syndrome (TOS).

Tepesch reached the major leagues in just his third pro-fessional season, going 9-17 with a 4.56 ERA in 39 starts for Texas in 2013 and 2014 combined.

But he missed the entire 2015 season after experienc-ing elbow discomfort that

eventual required TOS sur-gery . He started one game for the Dodgers last season .

Vogelsong, after a decade of bouncing between the minor leagues and the Giants and Pirates, and a three-sea-son stint in Japan, experienced a career resurgence in 2011. He won 27 games with a 3.05 ERA over the next two seasons in San Francisco and earned an All-Star berth in 2011.

He went 3-7 with a 4.81 ERA for the Pirates in 2016, and spent 10 weeks on the dis-abled list after being struck in the face by a pitch .

PHIL MILLER

Canterbury announces 2017 schedule

Canterbury Park’s 2017 thoroughbred stakes sched-ule will consist of 32 races with more than $2 million in purses, racing officials at the Shako-pee track announced Tuesday.

The richest race of the season, the $200,000 Mystic

Lake Derby, will be run Aug. 26. The Minnesota Festival of Champions will be held for the 24th time Aug. 20. The six thoroughbred stakes that day, all reserved for horses bred in the state, will pay $410,000 in purse money.

Opening weekend will feature a pair of 5½ furlong sprints, the Paul Bunyan and L’Etoile du Nord Stakes on Saturday, May 6 with a purse of $50,000 each.

“I am pleased with the well-rounded stakes sched-ule ,” Canterbury president Randy Sampson said. “It will be very appealing to horse-men and owners across the country and continues our tradition of attracting quality fields that the horse-betting public seeks. ”

Owners of Minnesota-breds will have a pair of new state-bred turf stakes June 10, the Minnesota Turf and Minnesota Turf Distaff, both offering $50,000 purses.

MINNESOTA SCENE

Twins invite two pitchers to campUnited adds veteran to lead

Demidov

SOCCER

BASKETBALLNATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATIONPhiladelphia: Signed G Chasson Randle to a 10-day contract.WNBANew York: Named Swin Cash director of franchise development.

FOOTBALLNATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUEChicago: Signed WR Rueben Randle to a reserve/future contract. Cleveland: Fired defensive backs coach Louie Cioffi, inside linebackers coach Johnny Holland, offensive line coach Hal Hunter, assistant defensive backs coach Cannon Matthews and outside linebackers coach Ryan Slowik. Dallas: Released DT Shelby Harris from the practice squad. Signed DE Lenny Jones to the practice squad. Miami: Signed TE Chris Pantale, CB Dan-iel Davie, QB Brandon Doughty, OTs Jes-se Davis and Terry Poole, DEs Arthur Miley and Julius Warmsley, RBs Storm Johnson and Senorise Perry and LBs La-min Barrow, Deon Lacey and Brandon Watts to reserve/future contracts.

HOCKEYNATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUEColumbus: Recalled F Dante Salituro from Norfolk (ECHL) to Cleveland (AHL). Nashville: Assigned F Vladislav Ka-menev to Milwaukee (AHL). Recalled F Pontus Aberg from Milwaukee. New Jersey: Placed D Andy Green and D Yohann Auvitu on injured reserve; Greene retroactive to Jan. 3, Auvitu to Saturday. Recalled D Karl Stollery and F Blake Coleman from Albany (AHL). Tampa Bay: Reassigned G Adam Wil-cox to Syracuse (AHL). Recalled F Ga-briel Dumont and G Kristers Gudlevskis from Syracuse. Toronto: Claimed G Curtis McElhinney off waivers from Columbus. Washington: Reassigned Fs Paul Car-ey and Liam O’Brien to Hershey (AHL).AMERICAN HOCKEY LEAGUEBakersfi eld: Recalled F Jaedon Desche-neau from Norfolk (ECHL). Hartford: Released F Brandon Alderson from a professional tryout agreement and returned him to Greenville (ECHL). Milwaukee: Signed F Garrett Meurs to a professional tryout contract. San Jose: Recalled F Jake Marchment from Allen (ECHL). Texas: Assigned F Mike McMurtry to Idaho (ECHL). Wilkes-Barre/Scranton: Assigned F Jar-rett Burton to Wheeling (ECHL).

SOCCERMAJOR LEAGUE SOCCERMinnesota United: Signed D Vadim Demidov.LA Galaxy: Named Ante Razov and Rob Becerra assistant coaches and Daniel Gonzalez goalkeeper coach. Sporting Kansas City: Signed F Camer-on Iwasa and G Andrew Dykstra to one-year contracts.North American Soc-cer LeagueNew York Cosmos: Announced Rocco Commisso has purchased a majority ownership stake and will become their new chairman.

Houston: Named Darryl Robinson hit-ting coach, Aaron DelGiudice develop-ment coach and Lee Meyer trainer of Fresno (PCL); Omar Lopez manager, Chris Holt pitching coach, Troy Snitker hitting coach, Mickey Storey develop-ment coach, John Gregorich trainer and Mark Spadavecchia strength coach of Buies Creek (Carolina), Russ Steinhorn manager, Drew French pitching coach, Ben Rosenthal hitting coach, Jason Bell development coach, Elliot Diehl train-er and Hazael Wessin strength coach of Quad Cities (MWL); Morgan Ensberg manager, Bill Murphy pitching coach, Jeremy Barnes hitting coach and Daniel Cerquera trainer of Tri-City (NY-P); Er-ick Abreu pitching coach and Jacob Be-hara strength coach of Greeneville (Ap-palachian); Wladimir Sutil manager and Jose Rada pitching coach of the GCL As-tros; Dan Radison minor league funda-mentals coordinator; Ralph Dickenson minor league hitting instructor; Bry-an Baca minor league medical coordi-nator; Christian Bermudez Latin Amer-ican medical coordinator and trainer of the GCL Astros; and Jesse Michel minor league mental skills coordinator. Kansas City: Named Phil Falco strength and conditioning coach of Omaha (PCL); Leon Roberts hitting coach and Jarret Abell strength and conditioning coach of Northwest Arkansas (TL); Will Gilm-ore strength and conditioning coach of Wilmington (Carolina); Scott Thorman manager, Jesus Azuaje hitting coach and Saburo Hagihara strength and con-ditioning coach of Lexington (SAL); Da-mon Hollins hitting coach of Idaho Falls (Pioneer); Omar Ramirez manager, An-dre David hitting coach and Daniel Acc-ola trainer of Burlington (Appalachian); Gustavo Martinez pitching coach, Onil Joseph and Jose Gualdron hitting coach-es and Ramon Martinez and Sergio de Luna infi eld coaches of the DSL Royals; Eddie Rodriguez minor league fi eld co-ordinator; Mitch Maier minor league outfi eld and baserunning coordinator; and J.C. Boscan minor league catching coordinator. Oakland: Assigned INF/OF Max Muncy outright to Nashville (PCL).NATIONAL LEAGUECincinnati: Agreed to terms with RHP Louis Coleman on a minor league con-tract. Los Angeles: Designated INF Micah Johnson for assignment. Agreed to terms with RHP Kenley Jansen on a fi ve-year contract and Vidal Nuno on a one-year contract. New York: Agreed to terms with RHP Jennry Mejia on a one-year contract. Washington: Named Mike Warren strength and conditioning coach of Syr-acuse (IL); Tony Rogowski Latin Amer-ican strength and conditioning super-visor and strength and conditioning coach of the GCL Nationals; R.J. Guyer strength and conditioning coach of Har-risburg (EL); Gabe Torres strength and conditioning coach of Potomac (Caro-lina); Jorge Vasquez strength and con-ditioning coach of Hagerstown (SAL); and Shane Hill strength and condition-ing coach of Auburn (NY-P). AMERICAN ASSOCIATIONGary Southshore: Signed OFs Reggie Wilson and Anthony Cheky. Lincoln: Traded RHP Matt Larkins to Southern Maryland for a player to be named. Signed INF Cody Lenahan and RHP Zeb Sneed.

NCHC W L T SO Pts GF GAMinn. Duluth 8 3 1 1 26 41 27Denver 6 1 3 2 23 25 17North Dakota 5 4 1 1 17 34 20W. Michigan 4 5 1 1 14 27 31St. Cloud State 4 7 1 0 13 33 38Miami (Ohio) 3 4 3 1 13 25 32Omaha 4 6 0 0 12 34 42Colorado College 2 6 2 1 9 19 31Overall: Minn. Duluth 12-4-4, Denver 14-4-4, North Dakota 12-6-3, W. Michi-gan 10-5-3, St. Cloud State 9-10-1, Mi-ami (Ohio) 7-8-5, Omaha 11-8-3, Colora-do College 6-12-2.GAMES FRIDAYDenver at W. Michigan, 5:35 pmSt. Cloud State at Minn. Duluth, 7:07 pmMiami (Ohio) at North Dakota, 7:37 pmOmaha at Colorado College, 8:07 pm

WCHA W L T SW Pts GF GABemidji St. 15 3 2 2 49 49 26Michigan Tech 11 3 2 1 36 44 26MSU Mankato 9 5 2 0 29 49 36Bowling Green 9 8 1 1 29 57 42Ala.-Huntsville 7 9 2 0 23 46 59Ferris St. 6 8 2 2 22 44 46Alaska 5 9 2 2 19 41 58Lake Superior St. 6 9 1 0 19 47 53Anchorage 4 9 3 1 16 31 41N. Michigan 3 12 1 0 10 33 54Overall: Bemidji St. 15-8-3, Michigan Tech 15-8-3, MSU Mankato 13-7-2, Bowl-ing Green 11-12-2, Ala.-Huntsville 7-15-2, Ferris St. 7-13-2, Alaska 6-14-2, Lake Superior St. 9-12-1, Anchorage 5-14-3, N. Michigan 5-17-2.GAMES FRIDAYAlaska at Ferris St., 6:07 pmAnchorage at Mich. Tech, 6:07 pmLake Superior St. at N. Mich., 6:07 pmBowling Green at MSU Mankato, 7:07 pm

COLLEGE • WOMENWCHA W L T SW Pts GF GAWisconsin 13 2 1 1 41 63 15Gophers 12 2 2 2 40 52 27Minn. Duluth 10 4 2 1 33 47 26North Dakota 7 5 4 2 27 38 28Ohio State 4 10 2 0 14 20 44St. Cloud State 4 11 1 1 14 24 46Bemidji St. 4 11 1 0 13 25 46MSU Mankato 3 12 1 0 10 16 53Overall: Wisconsin 18-2-1, Gophers 16-3-2, Minn. Duluth 13-4-3, North Dako-ta 10-7-5, Ohio State 10-10-2, St. Cloud State 6-14-2, Bemidji St. 8-11-1, MSU Mankato 6-15-2.GAMES FRIDAYGophers at Minn. Duluth, 3:07 pmNorth Dakota at MSU Mankato, 2:07 pmBemidji St. at Ohio State, 6:07 pmSt. Cloud State at Wisconsin, 7:07 pmGAMES SATURDAYGophers at Minn. Duluth, 3:07 pmNorth Dakota at MSU Mankato, 2:07 pmBemidji St. at Ohio State, 3:07 pmSt. Cloud State at Wisconsin, 4 pm

UPPER MIDWESTSt. Catherine 5, Northland 4St. Thomas 3, Wis.-Superior 1Wis.-River Falls 3, St. Norbert 0

T E N N I SPRO • MENAPIA INTERNATIONALFirst round • Sydney, Australia• Alex de Minaur def. Benoit Paire, 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (1). • Mischa Zverev def. Nicolas Almagro, 6-4, 6-2. • Andrey Kuznetsov def. Martin Klizan (7), 2-6, 6-1, 3-0, retired. • Gilles Muller (6) def. Alexandr Dolgopolov, 3-6, 6-3, 7-5. • Marcel Granollers (8) def. Santiago Giraldo, 6-7 (5), 7-5, 6-3. • Jordan Thompson def. Nikoloz Basilashvili, 7-5, 6-2.ASB CLASSICFIrst round • Auckland, New Zealand• Joao Sousa def. Albert Ramos-Vinolas (5), 6-1, 7-5. • Ryan Harrison def. Guillermo Garcia-Lopez, 6-1, 6-2. • Brydan Klein def. Facundo Bagnis, 6-1, 6-7 (6), 7-6 (3). • Yen-hsun Lu def. Karen Khachanov, 4-6, 7-6 (5), 7-6 (9). • Marcos Baghdatis (8) def. Adrian Mannarino, 6-4, 6-4. • Jeremy Chardy def. Artem Sitak, 6-4, 6-2.

PRO • WOMENAPIA INTERNATIONALSecond round • Sydney, Australia• Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova def. Svetlana Kuznetsova (5), 7-5, 6-3. • Barbora Strycova def. Roberta Vinci (9), 6-2, 6-3. • Eugenie Bouchard def. Dominika Cibulkova (3), 6-4, 6-3. • Daria Kasatkina def. Angelique Kerber (1), 7-6 (5), 6-2. • Caroline Wozniacki (10) def. Yulia Putintseva, 6-0, 7-5. • Johanna Konta (6) def. Daria Gavrilova, 6-1, 6-3. • Duan Ying-Ying def. CoCo Vandeweghe, 6-3, 6-2. • Agnieszka Radwanska (2) def. Christina McHale, 7-6 (1), 6-1.HOBART INTERNATIONALSecond round • Hobart, Australia• Veronica Cepede Royg def. Andrea Petkovic, 6-3, 0-6, 6-4. • Elise Mertens def. Sachia Vickery, 0-1, retired. • Monica Niculescu (3) def. Kirsten Flipkens, 6-3, 6-2. • Jana Fett def. Lizette Cabrera, 6-1, 6-3.

T R A N S A C T I O N SBASEBALLAMERICAN LEAGUEBaltimore: Agreed to terms with RHP Cody Satterwhite on a minor league contract. Cleveland: Released LHP Edwin Esco-bar. Detroit: Agreed to terms with RHPs A.J. Achter, Collin Balester, Jake Brigham, Waldis Joaquin, Jorge Marban, Edward Mujica and Thad Weber; LHPs Travis Blackley and Anthony Vasquez; INFs Omar Artsen, Zack Cox, Sean Halton, Efren Navarro, Brett Pill, Gabriel Quin-tana, Brendan Ryan and Logan Wat-kins; and OFs Jim Adduci, Quincy Lati-more, Ronnie Mitchell, Juan Perez and Alex Presley on minor league contracts.

B A S K E T B A L L

TIMBERWOLVES STATISTICS(Through Tuesday)Player G Min Pts Reb AstWiggins ...........38 36.8 21.9 4.2 2.3Towns ...............38 35.6 21.7 11.6 2.9LaVine ..............37 37.4 20.4 3.3 3.1Dieng ................38 32.9 10.6 7.9 2.1Muhammad .....34 17.8 7.7 2.6 0.4Rubio ................33 31.5 7.3 4.0 7.4Bjelica ..............36 16.7 5.9 3.1 1.1Payne ...............10 8.8 4.8 1.8 0.4Dunn.................38 16.9 3.9 2.2 2.5Jones ................22 10.5 3.3 1.2 2.0Aldrich .............34 11.4 2.4 3.6 0.5Rush .................13 10.9 2.1 1.2 0.5Hill ......................5 7.9 2.0 2.6 0.0Lucas III .............5 2.1 0.4 0.0 0.2Totals ...............38 241.5 103.0 42.9 22.5Opponents.......38 241.5 104.9 40.4 22.0

HOUSTON STATISTICS(Through Tuesday)Player G Min Pts Reb AstHarden .............37 36.5 28.0 8.2 11.9Gordon .............37 30.7 17.9 2.8 3.0Anderson .........37 30.8 13.9 5.3 0.9Ariza .................37 33.9 12.7 5.3 2.2Capela..............26 24.9 12.0 8.0 0.9Harrell ..............28 19.1 10.0 4.0 1.0Beverley ..........24 30.7 9.3 6.3 4.4Nene .................32 16.7 7.4 3.6 0.9Dekker .............37 18.8 6.7 4.2 1.1Onuaku ..............1 8.4 6.0 3.0 1.0Brewer .............37 14.7 4.0 1.9 1.1McDaniels .......19 8.7 2.7 1.2 0.2Ennis ................21 7.7 2.3 0.6 1.2Wiltjer ................8 3.5 1.3 0.9 0.0Brown ................7 3.5 0.3 0.4 0.0Totals ...............37 242.0 114.9 45.0 26.0Opponents.......37 242.0 107.0 42.4 21.4

GOPHERS MEN’S STATISTICS(Through Tuesday)Player G Min Pts Reb AstMason ..............17 33.8 14.4 3.5 5.7Coffey ..............16 30.8 12.8 3.5 2.9McBrayer .........17 31.0 12.1 2.1 3.1Murphy ............17 26.6 10.6 8.5 0.9Springs ............17 20.9 9.1 3.1 1.4Lynch ................16 20.8 8.6 6.0 0.4Curry ................17 20.1 5.9 5.8 1.3Konate .............17 10.5 2.2 3.5 0.1Gilbert ..............11 6.1 2.2 1.2 0.2Hurt ..................15 6.6 1.2 0.6 0.3Rudrud ...............4 1.8 1.0 0.2 0.0Diedhiou ............3 2.3 0.7 0.7 0.0Sharp .................6 1.8 0.3 0.0 0.3Haugh ................4 1.0 0.0 0.2 0.5Totals ...............17 200.0 77.4 40.5 16.2Opponents.......17 200.0 66.6 38.6 12.2

MICHIGAN ST. MEN’S STATISTICS(Through Tuesday)Player G Min Pts Reb AstBridges ............10 30.4 14.3 8.2 2.0Ward ................17 19.6 13.8 6.6 0.6Harris ...............17 24.0 12.6 3.3 1.6Winston ...........17 20.6 7.2 1.8 5.9McQuaid ..........16 22.3 6.3 1.6 1.5Ellis III ..............17 14.9 5.8 2.6 0.8Langford ..........17 19.6 5.8 2.1 1.4Nairn Jr. ...........17 24.3 4.4 3.1 3.9Goins ................17 18.5 3.3 4.8 0.5Ahrens .............17 10.2 3.2 1.8 0.4Van Dyk............17 10.4 2.0 2.7 0.6Roy .....................4 1.0 0.8 0.3 0.0George ...............4 1.3 0.0 0.8 0.3Totals ...............17 201.4 72.7 37.6 18.4Opponents.......17 201.4 67.9 34.6 13.2

H O C K E Y

WILD STATISTICS(Through Tuesday)Player GP G A TP +/- PIMStaal .................39 13 22 35 12 16 Coyle ................39 13 19 32 12 22 Granlund ..........39 10 21 31 19 6 Koivu ................39 12 16 28 19 12 Niederreiter ....39 9 15 24 15 10 Zucker ..............39 9 15 24 23 16 Suter ................39 5 18 23 24 14 Parise ...............30 8 12 20 -2 18 Spurgeon .........35 5 12 17 22 14 Dumba .............39 6 10 16 14 39 Pominville .......39 5 11 16 0 2 Brodin ..............39 3 11 14 2 14 Haula ...............29 6 5 11 3 10 Stewart ............39 7 3 10 -1 47 Eriksson Ek .......9 2 3 5 2 2 Scandella .........28 2 2 4 -3 12 Schroeder .........9 2 2 4 1 0 Dalpe .................9 1 2 3 0 9 Folin .................28 0 3 3 11 20 Graovac ...........31 3 0 3 1 4 Prosser ............17 0 2 2 -3 4 Bertschy ...........5 0 1 1 0 4 Gabriel .............11 0 1 1 0 24 Pulkkinen..........9 1 0 1 -1 2 Cannone ...........3 0 0 0 0 0 Mitchell ...........10 0 0 0 -1 0 Olofsson ...........1 0 0 0 1 0 Reilly .................9 0 0 0 0 2 Totals ...............39 122 206 328 0 347 Opponents.......39 83 148 231 0 339Goalies W L OT SO Sv% GAAKuemper ..........21 7 3 5 .939 1.80Dubnyk .............4 2 2 0 .902 3.21Totals ...............25 9 5 5 .930 2.10Opponents.......14 21 4 2 .894 3.09

COLLEGE • MENBIG TEN W L T SW Pts GF GAGophers 3 1 0 0 9 16 15Penn State 3 1 0 0 9 15 7Wisconsin 3 1 0 0 9 18 10Ohio State 2 2 0 0 6 16 12Michigan 1 3 0 0 3 10 19Michigan St. 0 4 0 0 0 6 14Overall: Gophers 11-5-2, Penn State 14-2-1, Wisconsin 10-7-1, Ohio State 10-4-4, Michigan 8-10-1, Michigan St. 4-12-1.GAMES FRIDAYMichigan at Gophers, 8 pmMich. St. at Penn State, 6 pmNonconferenceArizona St. at Ohio St., 6:05 pmGAMES SATURDAYMichigan at Gophers, 7 pmMich. St. at Penn State, 6 pmNonconferenceArizona St. at Ohio St., 1:05 pm

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

T U E S D AYMENBIG TEN Conf. Overall W L W LGophers 3 1 15 2Maryland 3 1 15 2Purdue 3 1 14 3Michigan St. 3 1 11 6Nebraska 3 1 9 7Wisconsin 2 1 13 3Northwestern 2 2 13 4Penn State 2 2 10 7Iowa 2 2 10 7Illinois 1 2 11 5Michigan 1 2 11 5Indiana 1 3 11 6Ohio State 0 3 10 6Rutgers 0 4 11 6Maryland 75, Indiana 72

NSIC Conf. OverallNorth W L W LMSU Moorhead 8 2 13 3St. Cloud State 7 2 11 7Northern St. 7 3 11 5Minn. Duluth 3 6 4 11Minot St. 3 7 7 9Mary (N.D.) 3 7 5 11Bemidji St. 3 7 5 10Minn.-Crookston 2 8 6 10South W L W LSW Minnesota St. 8 2 13 2Upper Iowa 8 2 11 5Augustana 7 3 12 4MSU Mankato 6 4 11 5Sioux Falls 6 4 10 8Winona St. 4 6 7 7Wayne St. 3 7 5 11Concordia (St. Paul) 1 9 4 13Bemidji St. 77, Minn.-Crookston 75MSU Mankato 76, Concordia (StP) 56Minn. Duluth at St. Cloud State, ppd.TOP 25#10 West Virginia 89, #1 Baylor 68#2 Kansas 81, Oklahoma 70#3 Villanova 79, #15 Xavier 54#6 Kentucky 87, Vanderbilt 81 #9 Florida St. 88, #7 Duke 72#23 Florida 80, Alabama 67Texas Tech 66, #25 Kansas St. 65MIDWESTAkron 89, Cent. Michigan 85Auburn 77, Missouri 72Ball St. 85, Miami (Ohio) 74DePaul 64, Providence 63E. Michigan 81, Bowling Green 53Green Bay 80, N. Kentucky 71N. Illinois 74, Kent St. 70SE Missouri 83, Tennessee Tech 78W. Michigan 90, Toledo 74EAST Canisius 86, Fairfi eld 72George Mason 75, St. Joseph’s 67Harvard 70, McGill 45Manhattan 78, Niagara 69Ohio 74, Buffalo 72

SOUTH Delaware St. 69, NC Central 68Jacksonville St. 81, Fort Valley St. 69Morgan St. 62, Florida A&M 59Virginia Tech 83, Syracuse 73 SOUTHWEST Mississippi St. 84, Arkansas 78 WEST UNLV 71, New Mexico 66San Diego St. 76, San Jose St. 61

WOMENBIG TEN Conf. Overall W L W LMaryland 3 0 15 1Ohio State 4 1 14 5Michigan 3 1 14 4Michigan St. 3 1 13 4Purdue 2 1 11 6Illinois 2 1 7 9Northwestern 2 2 13 4Indiana 2 2 12 5Rutgers 2 3 5 13Iowa 1 2 10 6Penn State 1 3 11 5Gophers 1 3 10 7Nebraska 1 4 5 12Wisconsin 0 3 5 11Michigan 78, Indiana 74Michigan St. 94, #11 Ohio State 75Nebraska 62, Rutgers 57

NSIC Conf. OverallNorth W L W LMSU Moorhead 10 0 13 1Northern St. 7 3 11 3Minn. Duluth 7 3 9 5St. Cloud State 5 5 7 7Mary (N.D.) 4 6 9 9Minn.-Crookston 4 6 4 10Bemidji St. 1 9 4 10Minot St. 1 9 3 13South W L W LSioux Falls 8 2 12 2Winona St. 8 2 13 3Wayne St. 7 3 12 3Augustana 7 3 12 5Concordia (St. Paul) 5 5 9 7MSU Mankato 3 7 7 7Upper Iowa 2 8 2 12SW Minnesota St. 1 9 1 13Concordia (StP) 72, MSU Mankato 61Minn.-Crookston 83, Bemidji St. 75TOP 25#1 UConn 102, #20 South Florida 37#16 Texas 66, Oklahoma St. 35#21 DePaul 78, St. John’s 66

W E D N E S D AY

MENBIG TEN#24 Gophers at Michigan St., 6 pmMichigan at Illinois, 8 pm

MIACSt. Olaf at St. Thomas, 3 pmAugsburg at St. Mary’s, 7 pmBethel at Gustavus, 7 pmMacalester at St. John’s, 7 pmCarleton at Concordia (Moor.), 7:45 pmWIACWis.-Eau Claire at Wis.-La Crosse, 7 pmWis.-Oshkosh at Wis.-Platteville, 7 pmWis.-River Falls at Wis.-Whitewater, 7 pmWis.-Stout at Wis.-Stevens Point, 7 pmUPPER MIDWESTNorth Dakota St. at South Dakota, 7 pmTOP 25 #12 Butler at #8 Creighton, 8 pm #11 North Carolina at Wake Forest, 7 pm Pittsburgh at #14 Louisville, 6 pm

WOMENBIG TENNorthwestern at Gophers, ppd.Penn State at #3 Maryland, 5:30 pmIllinois at Iowa, 7 pmPurdue at Wisconsin, 7 pmMIACCarleton at Concordia, 5:45 pmGustavus at Bethel, 7 pmSt. Benedict at Macalester, 7 pmSt. Catherine at Hamline, 7 pmSt. Mary’s at Augsburg, 7 pmSt. Thomas at St. Olaf, 7 pmWIACWis.-La Crosse at Wis.-Eau Claire, 7 pmWis.-Platteville at Wis.-Oshkosh, 7 pmWis.-Stevens Point at Wis.-Stout, 7 pmWis.-Whitewater at Wis.-River Falls, 7 pmUPPER MIDWESTIUPUI at South Dakota St., 7 pm South Dakota at Oral Roberts, 7 pmTOP 25#2 Baylor vs. TCU, 7 pm #15 Virginia Tech at #14 Miami, 6 pm #18 West Virginia at Texas Tech, 6:30 pm #22 Oklahoma at Iowa State, 7 pm Kansas at #25 Kansas St., 7 pm

S U M M A R I E S

NSIC • MENConcordia (StP) ..................25 31 — 56MSU Mankato .....................40 36 — 76Concordia (StP): Ambriz 7, Siganos 12, Keefe 10, Brown 5, McRoy 2, Powell 5, Newsome 2, Matthews 13MSU Mankato: Austin 9, Fuqua 20, Harp-er 4, Witthus 18, Krieger 5, Sampson 2, Asche 2, Knuth 4, Kirksey 12

NSIC • WOMENConcordia (StP) ...18 11 26 17 — 72MSU Mankato ......14 10 15 22 — 61Concordia (StP): Schmitt 26, Russell 17, Jones 12, Shiffl ett 7, B. Miller 6, Dorr 4MSU Mankato: Delzotto 12, Scherber 9, Muth 9, Schroeder 5, Dahl 3, Jordan 9, Anderson 8, Shumski 4, Klug



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Professional fisherman Dave Csanda will break down different approaches for catch-ing smallmouth vs. largemouth bass in live presentations Thursday and Friday at the opening of the 47th annual Minnesota Sportsmen’s Show in downtown St. Paul.

Csanda, who lately has been heavily involved in the non-profit group “Let’s Go Fish-ing,” which provides outings to

older adults, the disabled and veterans, said he’ll differenti-ate “when, where and how’’ to catch each species. In a sepa-rate presentation, Csanda will coach anglers how to trigger walleye strikes with more aggressive techniques than traditional live bait jigging.

“Triggering strikes is dif-ferent than tempting strikes,’’ Csanda said.

Show hours Thursday at RiverCentre are 2-9 p.m. Hours Friday are noon to 9

p.m. Saturday, the show runs 10 a.m.-9 p.m., and on Sunday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Adult admission is $9; kids 6-12 are $2.50; those under age 6 are free.

Mille Lacs hotWalleye fishing has been

good so far this winter on Mille Lacs, and ice fishing houses are expanding farther onto the big lake.

“We’re not catching just walleyes from the 2013 year class,’’ said Kevin McQuoid

of Mac’s Twin Bay Resort on Mille Lacs. “We’re catching bigger walleyes, too, and also fish in the 9- and 10-inch range, which is good to see.’’

McQuoid said he has about 120 of the 160 houses his resort either owns or moves for cli-ents on the ice. He’s plowing roads over 16 to 18 inches of ice.

Northern pike fishing in the shallows also has been good this winter on Mille Lacs.

The Mille Lacs winter wall-eye limit is one fish between

19 and 21 inches, or one lon-ger than 28 inches. Mille Lacs northern pike winter anglers and spearers can keep up to five fish, with one longer than 30 inches. But to keep the 30-plus-inch fish, anglers and spearers must have caught or speared two northern pike shorter than 30 inches and have them in their possession.

Anglers citedFour of six Department of

Natural Resources conserva-

tion officers on northern Min-nesota duty last week reported tagging ice anglers for mari-juana and/or drug parapher-nalia possession while check-ing them for fishing-regulation compliance.

Conservation officers Ben Huener (Roseau); Nicholas Prachar (Baudette West); Jeremy Woinarowicz (Thief River Falls West); and Han-nah Mishler (Baudette East) encountered and cited the anglers.

FIELD REPORT

Bass fishing tips part of Sportsmen’s Show

With two more likely infected deer found, hunt might get bigger.

By TONY KENNEDY [email protected]

With test results showing that two more deer in Fillmore County might have been carrying chronic wasting disease (CWD), state wildlife officials said Tuesday they are considering killing more white-tails than originally planned to stop the disease from spreading.

Michelle Carstensen, wildlife health program supervisor for the state Department of Natural Resources (DNR), said it was a “bummer’’ to receive a preliminary finding of CWD in two more adult deer inside the agency’s newly created CWD management zone. But she said there’s still reason to believe the outbreak can be halted.

“We’re going to figure this out and get rid of it,’’ Carstensen said Tuesday .

Confirmation of the new cases would bring the total number of CWD-positive deer to five. The first two were killed by hunters last fall between Preston and Lanes-boro and the third was killed last fall near the village of Bucksnort, east of Chatfield. All three of those animals were antlered bucks.

The two new cases are adult female deer that were traveling together last week when they were shot at the same time, by the same hunter. They were living near the area where the Preston-Lanesboro bucks were harvested, Carstensen said.

When the DNR late last year established its CWD management zone within a 10-mile radius of Preston, officials said they needed to test 900 adult deer to grasp the outbreak of fatal brain disease. It is only the second recorded out-break of CWD in wild deer in Minnesota. In 2010, one infected whitetail was confirmed near Pine Island. In that case, an aggressive special hunt of 4,000 deer seemed to extinguish the disease.

Carstensen said that more than 900 adult deer might need to be killed now that new cases are sus-pected and because a recent aerial survey showed considerably more deer living in the management zone than originally thought. The aerial survey results estimated a total deer population for the area of 10,574 to 12,738 whitetails, with high densities of deer around the core areas where the first three CWD-positive deer were shot.

Carstensen said the DNR hasn’t yet decided how many more deer should be killed.

“I don’t know what ‘more’ is at this point,’’ she said.

More tests will give the state a better assessment of CWD’s prev-alence in the area and possibly remove more infected deer from the population. Deer have to be dead to be tested for CWD and the DNR collected 461 samples through Monday, 370 negatives, the two sus-pected cases and others pending.

The special season runs through Jan. 15. The next day, landowners in the zone can begin to harvest more deer under spe-cial permits. Five tags are issued to each landowner and more are available upon request. So far, the DNR has issued about 115 land-owner shooting permits. And if that doesn’t achieve the needed mortality, the DNR has said it could contract with sharpshoot-ers to finish the hunt.

Carstensen said she and other biologists have been encouraged

that all five deer confirmed or suspected with CWD looked nor-mal and were not suffering from advanced symptoms. That could mean the outbreak is young and easier to curb, she said. It takes three years in most cases for CWD-infected deer, elk or moose to look visibly weak.

The DNR on Tuesday also re-emphasized a ban on citizens feeding deer in all of Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted and Winona counties. Also banned are attractants such as salt blocks

and commercially packaged deer urine, used by hunters as a lure.

The purpose of the bans are to reduce the number of deer con-centration sites, where CWD can spread.

Carstensen said the DNR might never determine what started the Fillmore County CWD out-break. She believes the disease entered the area by human-aided movement of deer, not from wild CWD-infected deer from infected regions of Wisconsin and Iowa. She said the disease could have

spread from a commercial deer or elk farm; from a hunter killing a CWD-infected deer in another state and importing the carcass or from someone illicitly releas-ing a bio-engineered buck into the wild for hunting without knowing it was infected.

Carstensen said she’s asked the Minnesota Board of Animal Health for information about any deer farms in the management zone that are out of business.

“We might not ever find out,’’ she said.

CWD proving tough to stop

BRIAN PETERSON • [email protected] P E R S I S T E N T P R O B L E M : The first hunt to kill deer in Minnesota to check for CWD was in 2002, above. And now there is another.

T E S T I N G C O M I N G A L O N G : As in 2002, above, the DNR again is collecting and testing deer carcasses for CWD. This time, 370 deer have tested negative, two positive in preliminary findings and the results on 89 more are pend-ing.

DENNIS ANDERSONStar Tribune

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