WSJM Sports February 18, 2022
High School Basketball
Boys
Tonight
Lakeshore @ Mattawan 7:00PM – News/Talk/Sports 94.9 WSJM
Portage Northern @ St. Joe 7:00PM
Battle Creek Lakeview @ Gull Lake 7:00PM
Loy Norrix @ Battle Creek Central 7:00PM
Cassopolis @ Marcellus 7:00PM
Howardsville Christian @ Bridgman 7:15PM
Buchanan @ Brandywine 7:15PM
Dowagiac @ Three Rivers 7:15PM
Edwardsburg @ Niles 7:15PM
Sturgis @ Plainwell 7:15PM
Paw Paw @ Otsego 7:15PM
Vicksburg @ Allegan 7:15PM
Lawrence @ New Buffalo 7:30PM
River Valley @ Lake Michigan Catholic 7:30PM
Michigan Lutheran @ Eau Claire 7:30PM
Bloomingdale @ Bangor 7:30PM
Centreville @ Hartford 7:30PM
White Pigeon @ Comstock 7:30PM
Saugatuck @ Fennville 7:30PM
Martin @ Watervliet 7:30PM
Lawton @ Coloma 7:30PM
Gobles @ Kalamazoo Hackett 7:30PM
Delton Kellogg @ Galesburg Augusta 7:30PM
Constantine @ Kalamazoo Christian 7:30PM
Parchment @ Schoolcraft 7:30PM
Girls
Cassopolis @ Marcellus 5:30PM
Bloomingdale @ Bangor 6:00PM
Centreville @ Hartford 6:00PM
White Pigeon @ Comstock 6:00PM
Saugatuck @ Fennville 6:00PM
Martin @ Watervliet 6:00PM
Lawton @ Coloma 6:00PM
Gobles @ Kalamazoo Hackett 6:00PM
Delton Kellogg @ Galesburg Augusta 6:00PM
Constantine @ Kalamazoo Christian 6:00PM
Parchment @ Schoolcraft 6:00PM
Dowagiac @ Three Rivers 6:00PM
Edwardsburg @ Niles 6:00PM
Sturgis @ Plainwell 6:00PM
Paw Paw @ Otsego 6:00PM
Vicksburg @ Allegan 6:00PM
Mendon @ Decatur 7:30PM
NCAA Basketball
Last night
Michigan 84, Iowa 79
Wolverines Beat Hawkeyes
Moussa Diabate scored 16 of his career-high 28 points in the second half and Michigan beat Iowa 84-79. Diabate, a freshman whose career high had been 15 points, was 12-of-15 shooting with eight rebounds for the Wolverines, who broke a seventh-place tie with the Hawkeyes in the Big Ten. Hunter Dickinson scored 14 points with nine rebounds and seven assists. DeVante’ Jones had 11 points and 10 rebounds. Keegan Murray scored 23 points with seven rebounds for Iowa, which had a three-game win streak end. Patrick McCaffery added 13 points.
NHL
Last night
Detroit Red Wings 3, New York Rangers 2 (Shootout)
Columbus Blue Jackets 7, Chicago Blackhawks 4
Tonight
Dallas Stars @ Chicago Blackhawks 8:30 pm
Red Wings Beat Rangers
Pius Suter scored the winner in the sixth round of the shootout, and Thomas Greiss made 37 saves as the Detroit Red Wings beat the New York Rangers 3-2. Detroit’s Lucas Raymond and the Rangers Mika Zibanjead each scored in the first round of the shootout before each team missed its next four attempts. Suter beat Igor Shesterkin, and Rangers forward Filip Chytil failed to convert. The Rangers, 16-4-3 at home, had a three-game winning streak halted.
Jackets Top Blackhawks
Red-hot Patrik Laine scored three goals to lead the Columbus Blue Jackets past the Chicago Blackhawks 7-4. Boone Jenner, Yegor Chinakhov and Max Domi each had a goal and assist for Columbus, which has won three of four. Oliver Bjorkstrand also scored in the finale of a five-game road trip. Laine’s first hat trick with Columbus extended his points streak to eight games, matching the second-longest of his career. He has 10 goals and six assists in the span, and 16 goals on the season. Elvis Merzlikins made 28 saves for the Blue Jackets. Philipp Kurashev, Ryan Carpenter, Alex DeBrincat and MacKenzie Entwistle scored for Chicago.
Olympics
Eileen Gu has captured gold in the women’s ski halfpipe final to become the first action-sports athlete to earn three medals at the same Winter Olympics. Gu warmed up with a score of 93.25 on her first run, before going even higher and even bigger to post a 95.25 her second. The standout American-born freestyle skier who represents China already possessed a gold from big air and a silver from slopestyle. Defending Olympic champion Cassie Sharpe of Canada finished second and her teammate Rachael Karker earned the bronze.
