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C4 SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 2016 Record-Courier WWW.RECORDPUB.COM Berlin Reservoir: At its sum- mer peak, with water at 62 degrees. Lake Erie: Largemouth bass are most active near the shore. Lake Hodgson: Bass bite is now hottest at the south end. Lake Milton: Crappie bite is nearing its annual peak. Mogadore Reservoir: Shore- line cover is creating a variety of good bites. Mosquito Lake: Crappie is strongest at Pikie Bay. LaDue Reservoir: Weedline walleye bit is looming larbge. Nimisila Reservoir: Good bass bites can be found along the weelines. Water is at 64 de- grees. Portage Lakes: Bass are cur- rently in the midst of spawn- ing. Wingfoot Lake: Bluegill bite is now starting to heat up. — JACK KISER NORTHEAST OHIO FISHING REPORT RAVENS FROM C1 Titans 13U wins Krka Memorial Tournament title SPECIAL TO THE RECORD-COURIER T he Titans 13U travel baseball team won the Robert A. Krska Memorial Tournament in Barberton over the Memorial Day weekend. The Titans took first place in a 14-team field. The team includes (front row from left to right) Waterloo’s Tony Barber, Hudson’s Ben Coates, Streetsboro’s Alex Dabrowski, Field’s Hunt- er Long, Rootstown’s Drake Mason. (Back row from left to right) Coach Dave Dabrowski, Kent’s Kobe Thigpen, Cuyahoga Falls’ Marissa Brigger, Kent’s Trevor Woodward, Kent’s Kent Gordon, Field’s Jordan McComb, Field’s Mason Andexler, coach Jason Thigpen, coach Dale Brigger. MINOR LEAGUE ICE HOCKEY AHL CALDER CUP FINAL LAKE ERIE 5, HERSHEY 3 Monsters take 2-0 series lead over Bears By JIM SMITH | SPECIAL TO THE RECORD-COURIER After allowing a three- goal lead to evaporate, the Lake Erie Monsters held on to capture Game 2 of their best-of-7 Amer- ican Hockey League Calder Cup Finals se- ries against the Hershey Bears with a 5-3 victory on Friday at the Giant Center in Hershey. The Monsters lead the series 2-0 as the teams travel to Cleveland for Game 3 on Monday night at Quicken Loans Arena. Two power-play goals and an empty-net tal- ly were critical to Lake Erie’s success against the Bears. Lake Erie’s 18-year-old rookie defenseman, Zach Werenski, opened the game’s scoring on a pow- er play early in the first period after Hershey’s Chris Bourque took an unnecessary roughing minor 1:24 into the game. The Monsters added a second goal at 4:29 of the second period on an Oliver Bjorkstrand goal. It would be the first of two in the game for the Herning, who is a Den- mark native. Hershey’s Zach Sill closed the gap for the Bears after netting a 5-on-3 power-play goal of his own in the middle period, but Lake Erie’s Lukas Sedlak answered that goal after receiving a textbook tape-to-tape pass from linemate Ker- by Rychel. Sedlak buried a one-timer passed Her- shey goaltender Justin Peters. The goal was Sedlak’s ninth of the playoffs. With nearly two min- utes elapsed in the third period, Bjorkstrand tal- lied his second goal on a power-play chance and, with a 4-1 margin, the game seemed to be in hand for the Monsters. However, the Bears had other thoughts and earned a pair of goals within a span of less than two minutes near the midway point of the final period and with just over eight minutes re- maining in the third pe- riod, Lake Erie’s margin had been whittled to a single goal at 4-3. In their final attempt to earn the game-tying goal, Hershey pulled Pe- ters in favor of an extra attacker on the ice with two minutes remain- ing and, as can happen, that move resulted in an empty-net goal for Lake Erie’s Daniel Zaar. The goal was Zaar’s third in the two playoff games against Hershey and pro- vided the Monsters their fifth goal on the night. Peters finished the night with 24 saves on 28 shots, while Lake Erie’s Anton Forsberg saved 27 shots on 30 shots from the Bears. BLUELINE NOTES n The Monsters are 8-1 on the road during the playoffs and 13-2 over- all. The team has won seven consecutive play- off games. n Lake Erie was 2-for- 3 in power-play opportu- nities Friday night after not having any extra- man advantage oppor- tunities in Game 1 of the series. n The Hershey Bears are the AHL affiliate of the NHL Washington Capitals, while the Mon- sters are the affiliate of the NHL Columbus Blue Jackets CALDER CUP FINALS (Best-of-seven; x-if necessary) Lake Erie 2, Hershey 0 Wednesday, June 1: Lake Erie 4, Hershey 1 Friday, June 3: Lake Erie 5, Her- shey 3 Monday, June 6: Hershey at Lake Erie, 7 p.m. Saturday, June 11: Hershey at Lake Erie, 7 p.m. x-Sunday, June 12: Hershey at Lake Erie, 6 p.m. x-Tuesday, June 14: Lake Erie at Hershey, 7 p.m. x-Friday, June 17: Lake Erie at Hershey, 7 p.m. ASSOCIATED PRESS Pittsburgh’s Sidney Crosby (87) and Patric Hornqvist (72) celebrate the game-winning goal by teammate Conor Sheary (not shown) during overtime of Game 2 of the NHL Stanley Cup Finals on Wednesday in Pittsburgh. Game 3 is tonight. Sharks hope return home turns tide vs. Penguins STANLEY CUP FINALS By JOSH DUBOW | ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN JOSE, Calif. — The San Jose Sharks can take at least one positive out of losing the first two games of the Stanley Cup Final in Pittsburgh. Despite being severely outplayed for almost the entire two games, the Sharks still managed to lose by only one goal with the game-winner coming in the final three minutes of Game 1 and in overtime in Game 2. If the Sharks can somehow neu- tralize Pittsburgh’s decided edge in speed and get back to playing the style of play that got them this far for the first time ever they might be able to get back into the series when it shifts to San Jose for Game 3 on Saturday night. “In the playoffs, things are magni- fied so much,” Sharks defenseman Paul Martin said Friday. “You lose a game and it’s a close game you think about a big opportunity that you let slide away. But when you go over the film and watch the games, it’s right there for us. We got bet- ter from Game 1. Game 2 was a lot better. We haven’t played our best hockey yet.” The odds facing the Sharks are daunting. Of the 49 teams that have taken a 2-0 lead since the final went to the best-of-seven format in 1939, 44 have won the Cup. Teams win- ning the first two games at home have won 33-of-36 series. But the Penguins know better than to start planning any parades. Two of those three teams to rally af- ter losing the first two games on the road have done it in the past seven years, including Pittsburgh itself in 2009 against Detroit. Boston also overcame a 2-0 deficit to Vancou- ver in 2011. “We’ve talked about it,” said Pen- guins captain Sidney Crosby, who played on that 2009 team. “You ex- pect a really desperate hockey team. They’re only focused on winning one game. All their energy and ev- erything is toward just tomorrow night. We’ve all been in situations where you put all that energy and all that focus toward one game and you know they will be at their best.” Outside of a strong second peri- od in the opener and a good push late in regulation in Game 2 when San Jose tied the game and nearly scored the go-ahead goal, the Pen- guins have been the better team. They have a 71-48 edge in shots on goal, considerably more danger- ous scoring chances and have forced the Sharks defense into the kinds of mistakes they didn’t make the first three rounds. STANLEY CUP FINALS (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) Pittsburgh 2, San Jose 0 Monday, May 30: Pittsburgh 3, San Jose 2 Wednesday, June 1: Pittsburgh 2, San Jose 1, OT Saturday, June 4: Pittsburgh at San Jose, 8 p.m. Monday, June 6: Pittsburgh at San Jose, 8 p.m. x-Thursday, June 9: San Jose at Pittsburgh, 8 p.m. x-Sunday, June 12: Pittsburgh at San Jose, 8 p.m. x-Wed., June 15: San Jose at Pittsburgh, 8 p.m. A similar group of guys went undefeated Sch- neider’s senior year at Ravenna, in 1935, out- scoring the opposition, 184-19. Schneider was reportedly named Sec- ond Team All-Ohio, al- though Ohio High School Athletic Association re- cords could not confirm the accolade, and lat- er to the Ravenna and Portage County Halls of Fame. As if that weren’t enough, Schneider’s Ra- vens also earned a track and field league champi- onship that year. Betty and Leo Sch- neider remained in the Ravenna area, spending four decades with Sch- neider Realty, and their three kids remained in Northeast Ohio for many years as well. Leo Schneider died in 1990, Betty died in 2011, and five years later, the gift fell into Lunardi’s hands. The new athletic direc- tor quickly got in con- tract with the sisters, who discussed Lunar- di’s ideas via conference calls. The group developed an immediate syner- gy. Lunardi’s first idea, the shed by the tennis courts, was met with enthusiasm by the sib- lings. The shed can also be used as an impromptu concession stand when the school hosts tourna- ments. Lunardi had a couple of different ideas of what to do with the Schneider gift. He wanted to split it equally among sports, as well as boys and girls programs, and he didn’t want to spend it all at once. “My feeling was I wanted their name to continue to be brought up over the years for as long as the money is be- ing spent instead of a one-shot deal,” Lunar- di said. Sorboro said she and her two sisters appreci- ated Lunardi’s efforts. While Sorboro and her younger sister, Jean Kreyche, once a volley- ball and basketball play- er for the Ravens, live out of state, the oldest sister, Carol Martin, remains in Northeast Ohio, in Cha- grin Falls. Sorboro said that when the sisters reunite in their home- town this summer, they might just venture back to Ravenna High School and look out for a certain new shed by the tennis courts. “Mr. Lunardi was won- derful to work with,” Sorboro said. “I think we have fulfilled what my parents would have liked.” “Obviously for her dad, sports meant a lot to him,” Lunardi added. nn n Email: [email protected] Phone: 330-541-9459 Twitter: @JLRSports KO-10470441
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Berlin Reservoir: At its sum-mer peak, with water at 62 degrees.Lake Erie: Largemouth bass are most active near the shore.Lake Hodgson: Bass bite is now hottest at the south end.Lake Milton: Crappie bite is nearing its annual peak.Mogadore Reservoir: Shore-line cover is creating a variety of good bites.Mosquito Lake: Crappie is strongest at Pikie Bay.LaDue Reservoir: Weedline walleye bit is looming larbge.Nimisila Reservoir: Good bass bites can be found along the weelines. Water is at 64 de-grees.Portage Lakes: Bass are cur-rently in the midst of spawn-ing.Wingfoot Lake: Bluegill bite is now starting to heat up.
— JACK KISER
NORTHEAST OHIO FISHING REPORT
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Titans 13U wins Krka Memorial Tournament title
SPECiAL tO thE RECORD-COURiER
The Titans 13U travel baseball team won the Robert A. Krska Memorial Tournament in Barberton over the Memorial Day weekend. The Titans took first place in a 14-team field. The team includes (front row from left to right) Waterloo’s Tony Barber, Hudson’s Ben Coates, Streetsboro’s Alex Dabrowski, Field’s Hunt-
er Long, Rootstown’s Drake Mason. (Back row from left to right) Coach Dave Dabrowski, Kent’s Kobe Thigpen, Cuyahoga Falls’ Marissa Brigger, Kent’s Trevor Woodward, Kent’s Kent Gordon, Field’s Jordan McComb, Field’s Mason Andexler, coach Jason Thigpen, coach Dale Brigger.
mINOR lEAGuE IcE HOckEyAhl cAlder cup finAllAkE ERIE 5, HERSHEy 3
Monsters take 2-0 series lead over Bears
By JIM SMItH | SPECiAL tO thE RECORD-COURiER
After allowing a three-goal lead to evaporate, the Lake Erie Monsters held on to capture Game 2 of their best-of-7 Amer-ican Hockey League Calder Cup Finals se-ries against the Hershey Bears with a 5-3 victory on Friday at the Giant Center in Hershey.
The Monsters lead the series 2-0 as the teams travel to Cleveland for Game 3 on Monday night at Quicken Loans Arena.
Two power-play goals and an empty-net tal-ly were critical to Lake Erie’s success against the Bears.
Lake Erie’s 18-year-old rookie defenseman, Zach Werenski, opened the game’s scoring on a pow-er play early in the first period after Hershey’s Chris Bourque took an unnecessary roughing minor 1:24 into the game.
The Monsters added a second goal at 4:29 of the second period on an Oliver Bjorkstrand goal. It would be the first of two in the game for the Herning, who is a Den-mark native.
Hershey’s Zach Sill closed the gap for the Bears after netting a 5-on-3 power-play goal of his own in the middle period, but Lake Erie’s Lukas Sedlak answered that goal after receiving a textbook tape-to-tape pass from linemate Ker-by Rychel. Sedlak buried a one-timer passed Her-shey goaltender Justin Peters.
The goal was Sedlak’s ninth of the playoffs.
With nearly two min-utes elapsed in the third period, Bjorkstrand tal-lied his second goal on a power-play chance and, with a 4-1 margin, the game seemed to be in hand for the Monsters.
However, the Bears had other thoughts and earned a pair of goals within a span of less than two minutes near
the midway point of the final period and with just over eight minutes re-maining in the third pe-riod, Lake Erie’s margin had been whittled to a single goal at 4-3.
In their final attempt to earn the game-tying goal, Hershey pulled Pe-ters in favor of an extra attacker on the ice with two minutes remain-ing and, as can happen, that move resulted in an empty-net goal for Lake Erie’s Daniel Zaar. The goal was Zaar’s third in the two playoff games against Hershey and pro-vided the Monsters their fifth goal on the night.
Peters finished the night with 24 saves on 28 shots, while Lake Erie’s Anton Forsberg saved 27 shots on 30 shots from the Bears.
BLUELINE NOtESn The Monsters are 8-1
on the road during the playoffs and 13-2 over-all. The team has won seven consecutive play-off games.
n Lake Erie was 2-for-3 in power-play opportu-nities Friday night after not having any extra-man advantage oppor-tunities in Game 1 of the series.
n The Hershey Bears are the AHL affiliate of the NHL Washington Capitals, while the Mon-sters are the affiliate of the NHL Columbus Blue Jackets
cAlDER cuP FINAlS(Best-of-seven; x-if necessary)
Lake Erie 2, Hershey 0Wednesday, June 1: Lake Erie 4, hershey 1Friday, June 3: Lake Erie 5, her-shey 3Monday, June 6: hershey at Lake Erie, 7 p.m.Saturday, June 11: hershey at Lake Erie, 7 p.m.x-Sunday, June 12: hershey at Lake Erie, 6 p.m.x-tuesday, June 14: Lake Erie at hershey, 7 p.m.x-Friday, June 17: Lake Erie at hershey, 7 p.m.
ASSOCiAtED PRESSPittsburgh’s Sidney Crosby (87) and Patric Hornqvist (72) celebrate the game-winning goal by teammate Conor Sheary (not shown) during overtime of Game 2 of the NHL Stanley Cup Finals on Wednesday in Pittsburgh. Game 3 is tonight.
sharks hope return home turns tide vs. Penguins
STANlEy cuP FINAlS
By JOSH DUBOW | ASSOCiAtED PRESS
SAN JOSE, Calif. — The San Jose Sharks can take at least one positive out of losing the first two games of the Stanley Cup Final in Pittsburgh.
Despite being severely outplayed for almost the entire two games, the Sharks still managed to lose by only one goal with the game-winner coming in the final three minutes of Game 1 and in overtime in Game 2.
If the Sharks can somehow neu-tralize Pittsburgh’s decided edge in speed and get back to playing the style of play that got them this far for the first time ever they might be able to get back into the series when it shifts to San Jose for Game 3 on Saturday night.
“In the playoffs, things are magni-fied so much,” Sharks defenseman Paul Martin said Friday. “You lose a game and it’s a close game you think about a big opportunity that you let slide away. But when you go over the film and watch the games, it’s right there for us. We got bet-ter from Game 1. Game 2 was a lot better. We haven’t played our best hockey yet.”
The odds facing the Sharks are daunting. Of the 49 teams that have taken a 2-0 lead since the final went to the best-of-seven format in 1939, 44 have won the Cup. Teams win-ning the first two games at home have won 33-of-36 series.
But the Penguins know better than to start planning any parades. Two of those three teams to rally af-
ter losing the first two games on the road have done it in the past seven years, including Pittsburgh itself in 2009 against Detroit. Boston also overcame a 2-0 deficit to Vancou-ver in 2011.
“We’ve talked about it,” said Pen-guins captain Sidney Crosby, who played on that 2009 team. “You ex-pect a really desperate hockey team. They’re only focused on winning one game. All their energy and ev-erything is toward just tomorrow night. We’ve all been in situations where you put all that energy and all that focus toward one game and you know they will be at their best.”
Outside of a strong second peri-od in the opener and a good push late in regulation in Game 2 when San Jose tied the game and nearly scored the go-ahead goal, the Pen-guins have been the better team.
They have a 71-48 edge in shots on goal, considerably more danger-ous scoring chances and have forced the Sharks defense into the kinds of mistakes they didn’t make the first three rounds.
STANlEy cuP FINAlS(Best-of-7; x-if necessary)
Pittsburgh 2, San Jose 0Monday, May 30: Pittsburgh 3, San Jose 2Wednesday, June 1: Pittsburgh 2, San Jose 1, OtSaturday, June 4: Pittsburgh at San Jose, 8 p.m.Monday, June 6: Pittsburgh at San Jose, 8 p.m.x-thursday, June 9: San Jose at Pittsburgh, 8 p.m.x-Sunday, June 12: Pittsburgh at San Jose, 8 p.m.x-Wed., June 15: San Jose at Pittsburgh, 8 p.m.
A similar group of guys went undefeated Sch-neider’s senior year at Ravenna, in 1935, out-scoring the opposition, 184-19. Schneider was reportedly named Sec-ond Team All-Ohio, al-though Ohio High School Athletic Association re-cords could not confirm the accolade, and lat-er to the Ravenna and Portage County Halls of Fame. As if that weren’t enough, Schneider’s Ra-vens also earned a track and field league champi-onship that year.
Betty and Leo Sch-neider remained in the Ravenna area, spending four decades with Sch-neider Realty, and their three kids remained in Northeast Ohio for many years as well. Leo Schneider died in 1990, Betty died in 2011, and five years later, the gift fell into Lunardi’s hands. The new athletic direc-tor quickly got in con-tract with the sisters, who discussed Lunar-di’s ideas via conference calls.
The group developed an immediate syner-gy. Lunardi’s first idea, the shed by the tennis courts, was met with enthusiasm by the sib-lings. The shed can also be used as an impromptu concession stand when the school hosts tourna-ments.
Lunardi had a couple of different ideas of what to do with the Schneider gift. He wanted to split it equally among sports, as well as boys and girls programs, and he didn’t want to spend it all at once.
“My feeling was I wanted their name to continue to be brought up over the years for as long as the money is be-ing spent instead of a one-shot deal,” Lunar-di said.
Sorboro said she and her two sisters appreci-ated Lunardi’s efforts. While Sorboro and her younger sister, Jean Kreyche, once a volley-ball and basketball play-er for the Ravens, live out of state, the oldest sister, Carol Martin, remains in Northeast Ohio, in Cha-grin Falls. Sorboro said that when the sisters reunite in their home-town this summer, they might just venture back to Ravenna High School and look out for a certain new shed by the tennis courts.
“Mr. Lunardi was won-derful to work with,” Sorboro said. “I think we have fulfilled what my parents would have liked.”
“Obviously for her dad, sports meant a lot to him,” Lunardi added.
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