Bossier-Shreveport got a first-period goal from Kevin Cooper, then outlasted a furious charge by the Rocky Mountain Rage in winning a Central Hockey League playoff series-deciding third game 5-3 in Louisiana on Thursday. The loss ends the Rage’s season.
Behind Daymen Rycroft’s goal and assist, the Rage scored three second-period goals. But the Mudbugs kept pace, scoring four within the same 20-minute stretch. Shreveport advances to face the Colorado Eagles in Game 1 of the Northern Conference semifinals Sunday in Loveland.
Spinney still a go.
Despite frigid temperatures driven by wind and snow, the planned opening of Spinney Mountain Reservoir will go off as scheduled at 6:22 a.m. today, one half-hour before sunrise. State Parks manager Kevin Tobey said anglers should be alert to single-digit temperature; Tobey reported that toward sunset Thursday the popular impoundment still was free of ice. This is the second-earliest opener since March 24, 1999. Colorado State Parks began operating the lake in the early 1990s. Nearby Elevenmile Reservoir, also operated by the parks system, is open to fishing from shore. Charlie Meyers, The Denver Post
DU’s Worsley sets record.
Blake Worsley of the University of Denver finished sixth in the 500-yard freestyle at the NCAA men’s swimming and diving championships at College Station, Texas, with a time of 4:13.81. Worsley broke the school record he set earlier in the day in preliminaries by one one-hundredth of a second.
