Du hockey team remains hot
Two goals from freshman forward Ty Loney helped the 15th-ranked University of Denver hockey team extend its winning streak to five games Saturday night with a 6-3 road victory over struggling Alaska Anchorage.
Joey LaLeggia, Jason Zucker, Nick Shore and Chris Knowlton also scored for the Pioneers (15-8-3, 10-5-3 Western Collegiate Hockey Association). DU sophomore goaltender Sam Brittain made his season debut and finished with 24 saves. Alaska Anchorage (6-16-2, 3-16-1) has lost seven consecutive games.
The Pioneers host Front Range rival Colorado College on Friday.
• Senior goaltender Stephen Caple posted the second shutout of his Air Force career Sunday, helping the Falcons defeat Canisius 3-0 in an Atlantic Hockey Association game in Buffalo, N.Y.
The Falcons (12-7-5, 10-4-4 AHA) scored two power-play goals in the second period and outshot the Griffins (8-14-3, 8-8-2) overall 27-14.
Colorado picks up two more pledges. With national signing day approaching, the Colorado football program on Sunday received commitments from cornerback Jeffrey Hall of LaPlace (La.) St. Charles Catholic in suburban New Orleans and tight end Vincent Hobbs of Mesquite Horn (Texas) High School near Dallas, according to .
Hall (5-foot-11 and 180 pounds) told the recruiting-based website that he picked CU over Indiana and Arizona. He made nine interceptions last fall as a senior — his first season playing cornerback.
Hobbs (6-4, 240) was ranked the nation’s 31st-best tight end by after catching 45 passes as a senior. His offer list also included Memphis, Colorado State, New Mexico and Florida Atlantic.
Both are rated three stars (out of five) by . National letters of intent can be signed beginning Wednesday. Tom Kensler, The Denver Post
Dussault wins. Gunnison’s Rebecca Dussault won the women’s title Sunday in USA Triathlon’s Winter Triathlon National Championship at Homestake Lodge.
Dussault won the women’s title for the third time in four years, finishing in 1:16:10 — the fifth-fastest overall time Sunday. Defending champion Emma Garrard of Park City, Utah, was second in 1:21:22.
The men’s title was won by Mike Wolfe of Helena, Mont., who completed the 5-kilometer run, 10-kilometer mountain bike and 5-kilometer cross country ski course in 1:10:20.
