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Denton Record-Chronicle
Friday, April 17, 2015
Rangers jump on Penguins early in opener
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For Tampa Bay, it’s the sec-
ond straight season they’ve
dropped their opener in the first
round at home. The Lightning
also lost Game 2 at home on the
way to being swept by Montreal
a year ago.
Game 2 of this best-of-7
matchup is Saturday in Tampa.
The lightning were the
league’s highest-scoring team
while setting franchise records
with 50 wins, 108 points and an
NHL-best 32 victories at home.
They won three of four against
the Red Wings during the reg-
ular season, scoring five goals on
15 shots against Mrazek in a
home victory on Jan. 29 but los-
ing 4-0 when they faced the
young goalie again in Detroit on
March 28. That’s the only time
Tampa Bay’s potent offense has
been shut out this season.
Datsyuk’s 40th career playoff
goal came on Detroit’s first shot
of the game, but the Red Wings
wasted an opportunity to put
additional pressure on Bishop
when Marek Zidlicky turned the
puck over to Boyle, and the
Lightning center skated in on
Mrazek alone for an unassisted
By The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Derick Bras-
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sard and Ryan McDonagh
scored in the first period, and
Henrik Lundqvist made the
goals stand up as the New York
Rangers won the opener of their
playoff series with the Pitts-
burgh Penguins 2-1 Thursday
night.
power play connected. On its
third of four man-advantages
and the only one that threatened
— in the opening 20 minutes,
McDonagh’s slapper from mid-
point sneaked past Fleury.
Although New York kept
control early in the second peri-
od, Comeau lifted the Penguins
within one, knocking in a re-
bound with congestion around
Lundqvist’s crease for his first
career playoff goal. That perked
up the Penguins, with Malkin
and Brandon Sutter getting
dangerous chances, and Lundq-
vist flashing his right pad to
thwart Maxim Lapierre.
Fleury also was strong at the
other end, with the Rangers un-
able to convert several rebounds
off his sharp saves.
That led to a tense, scramble
third period in which the goal-
tenders dominated.
The last time the Rangers
won the Presidents’ Trophy was
also the last time they won the
Stanley Cup, 1993-94, with a
star-laden lineup. This group
doesn’t have a Mark Messier or
Brian Leetch, but it is deep and
resourceful.
Having made the finals be-
fore losing to Los Angeles a year
ago has given the Rangers a
sense of confidence they’d
lacked for much of the interim.
On Thursday, they showed it in
particular in shutting down
Crosby and Malkin.
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burgh’s top threats, Sidney Crosby
and Evgeni Malkin, for a fourth
straight victory over the Penguins
in the postseason. The Rangers
won the final three games of a sec-
ond-round series last year, rally-
ing from a 3-1 deficit
In compiling the best record
in the NHL, the Rangers fin-
ished 15 points ahead of Pitts-
burgh in the Eastern Confer-
ence. But after the first period,
these were two very even teams,
with Lundqvist and Penguins
goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury
particularly
Lundqvist finished with 24
saves, while Fleury was far busi-
er in making 36.
Blake Comeau scored in the
second period for Pittsburgh.
Game 2 is in New York on
Saturday night.
Brassard got things started
only 28 seconds in when Fleury
sent the rebound of Rick Nash’s
hard slap shot directly into the
slot. Brassard was uncovered for
a quick wrist shot, the center
screaming in delight as the puck
went in.
The Garden fans were cele-
brating again late in the period
when New York’s slumping
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Boyle in the first period and a
late goal to Nikita Nesterov that
enabled the Lightning to pull
within 3-2.
Tampa Bay outshot the Red
Wings 46-14, but went 0 for 7 on
the power play — failing to even
get a shot off on the final oppor-
tunity in the closing seconds.
It’s a nice start to the playoffs
for the Red Wings, who are
making their 24th consecutive
appearance but haven’t ad-
vanced beyond the second
round since 2009.
ravaged by injuries, barely
squeezed into the postseason,
needing to beat lowly Buffalo on
the final day. The Penguins also
have the bitter memory of blow-
ing that 3-1 lead to New York last
year. That was the only playoff
series in which the Rangers have
beaten the Penguins.
Red Wings 3, Lightning 2
TAMPA, Fla. — Pavel Datsy-
uk scored twice and Petr Mrazek
had 44 saves in his NHL playoff
debut to help the Detroit Red
Wings beat the Tampa Bay
Lightning 3-2 in Game 1 of their
Eastern Conference series
Thursday night.
Datsyuk scored on two of the
first four shots the Red Wings
got against Tampa Bay’s Ben
Bishop. Luke Glendening’s
short-handed goal gave Detroit
a 3-1 lead early in the third peri-
short-hand goal that made it 1-1
late in the opening period. It re-
mained even when Bishop got a
glove on Drew Miller’s short-
handed shot during Tampa
Bay’s first power-play opportu-
nity.
od.
Datsyuk scored again just 8
seconds into the second period,
with Darren Helm getting his
second assist of the night on the
power-play goal.
Mrazek, named Detroit’s
starter for Game 1 over veteran
Jimmy Howard, gave up a
short-handed goal to Brian
UNT advances at conference tourney
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Guyer
the quickest wins of the season,
defeating the Lady Techsters’
Taly Merker 6-0, 6-1 in a match
that took only 45 minutes to
complete.
The other North Texas sin-
gles win came from Agustina
Valenzuela, who beat Tarran-
num Handa 6-2, 6-4.
Playing side by side on
Courts 1 and 2, UNT’s singles ef-
forts by Kseniya Bardabush and
Anastasiya Shestakova were al-
most mirror images of each oth-
er. Both won the first set, lost the
second and bounced back to
lead the third before being called
off the court with unfinished re-
sults.
Tech’s No. 1 team 8-5 to get
things started. After Cordero
and Valenzuela lost to Chiacchio
and Merker, Shestakova and
Alexis Thoma won 8-3 to grab
the first point for the Mean
Green.
North Texas tennis
Conference USA tournament
UNT 4, Louisiana Tech 0
From UNT sports information
HOUSTON - The hero of
North Texas’ first-round Confer-
ence USA tournament match
had not won in singles since
March 7. And with only five
courts available and Ana Sofia
Cordero the No. 6 seed, she had
to sit around for 45 minutes af-
ter doubles play for a court to
open up.
But Cordero’s performance
Thursday was worth the wait, as
she defeated Manoela Chiacchio
6-2, 6-1 to lead the Mean Green
to a 4-0 victory over Louisiana
Tech to advance to the second
round.
‘While I was waiting, I was
cheering on my teammates and
visualizing my match and how it
was going to turn out,” Cordero
Coppell won the tourna-
ment, beating Allen by two
strokes. Southlake Carroll fin-
ished third, as all three of those
teams will advance to the state
tournament April 27 and 28 in
Austin.
Adams, who will return ev-
eryone on his team except for
Gleadhill, who signed with
Schreiner, said this week’s expe-
rience will go a long way toward
his program’s success in the fu-
ture.
said. “I served very well today
and I was dominating with my
forehand, trying to make her
run a lot.”
“Winning the doubles point
was huge, and I thought we
played really well in singles,” La-
ma said. “[Tech] never went
away and they competed hard.
We knew at the 1-2-3 spots they
were really talented, but I
thought that our depth really
showed off today.”
Next up for North Texas is
No. 66 Old Dominion, which
defeated UAB 4-0. The Lady
Monarchs are the No. 3 seed and
have won nine of their last 10
matches.
“It was a great experience for
us, especially [Wednesday] be-
ing paired with teams that shot
298 and 300 and stuff like that
[Allen and Coppell]. That was a
great experience,” Adams said.
‘We talked about it today. They
don’t hit their shots much differ-
ent than we do; it’s just their
short game around the greens
that sets them apart. They real-
ized if they work at it they can
get to that same point.”
ADAM BOEDEKER can be
reached at 940-566-6872 and
via Twitter at @aboedeker.
“The girls played a lot better
today,” Guyer coach Roddy Ad-
ams said. “I think they were a lot
less nervous and in the end they
felt really good about what they
did. Yesterday they didn’t have a
smile on their face. Today they
had a smile on their face.”
Guyer was led by sophomore
Emily Hunt, who fired an 80.
She was followed by sophomore
Destany Hall and senior Piper
Gleadhill, who each shot 83, and
freshman Isabella Washka’s 84.
Sophomore Mallery Horn shot a
97 to round out the scoring.
“You’ve got to give it to Ana
Sofia — she was absolutely on
fire and having fun out there,
and she ended up closing the
match,” UNT coach Sujay Lama
said. “She has been striking the
ball really well this whole week
in practice, and she has been re-
ally motivated. We thought she
would do well and she proved us
right.”
Right before Cordero took
Court 5, UNT’s Franziska
Sprinkmeyer recorded one of
In doubles, Bardabush and
Sprinkmeyer won their first
match since April 5, beating
Former swimmer thrilled to help others
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By John Marshall
Associated Press
PHOENIX — There were
days, particularly right after her
accident, when Amy Van Dy-
ken-Rouen just curled up in a
ball and cried.
Even now, 10 months since
she severed her spine in an ATV
crash, Van Dyken-Rouen has
those moments when reality be-
comes a little too much to bear.
But no matter how down she
might get, how hard her rehabil-
itation becomes, Van Dyken-
Rouen keeps pushing forward
with the tenacity that helped her
win six Olympic gold medals in
swimming.
“It’s not an easy transition,
but the thing I look at is I’m
alive,” she said. “There was a
great possibility when I first got
injured that I wasn’t going to live
to see this day. Take a moment,
cry it out, then move on. That’s
how I can remain so positive.”
Van Dyken-Rouen’s celebrity
and eternally optimistic view-
point have made her a perfect
advocate for people with spinal
cord injuries.
Not long after the June 6 ac-
cident left her with no feeling
below the waist, Van Dyken-
Rouen became an inspiration
for others with similar injuries.
At first, she offered hope and
encouragement through social
media. She later started Amy’s
Army, a part of the Amy Van Dy-
ken Foundation that provides
necessary medical supplies for
people with spinal cord injuries
who can’t afford them.
Van Dyken-Rouen’s latest
endeavor is serving as captain
for Team Reeve, a community-
driven fundraising arm of The
Christopher & Dana Reeve
Foundation.
The Reeve Foundation creat-
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er than that, he played well. He
three-putted too many greens.
To play as well in the two days
and not score, it’s a lesson
learned. You just have to get
used to different greens.”
Maxey said it can be hard to
align all parts of the game, espe-
cially on a difficult course such
as Rawls.
“He wasn’t happy with the re-
sults, but it’s not like he hit the
ball all over the course,” Maxey
said. “There are days when you
don’t hit the ball well and you
score, and then there are days
when you do hit the ball well and
you don’t.”
Maxey said he hopes Mercer
learned something from his
time playing with college-level
players and that Thursday’s ex-
posure to the district champion
had an uplifting effect.
“He hit the ball great for two
days,” Maxey said. “He played
with the district champion today
from Wichita Falls and he was
right there playing with some
good kids. We were paired with
some Fort Worth and El Paso
kids, so to be paired up with the
Wichita Falls kid, it affected his
attitude and his competitive-
ness.”
ed the new position for Van Dy-
ken-Rouen to amplify its grass-
roots fundraising efforts to im-
prove the quality of life and po-
tentially find cures for people
with spinal cord injuries.
Van Dyken-Rouen is cur-
rently trying to recruit people to
run in the New York City and
Chicago marathons for Team
Reeve, which raised $600,000
from various athletic events and
local gatherings in 2014.
The role is a perfect fit for her.
When Superman actor
Christopher Reeve was para-
lyzed from a horse-riding acci-
dent in 1995, Van Dyken-Rouen
admittedly knew very little
about spinal cord injuries.
As Reeve became an activist
for people with disabilities and
spoke openly about his life as a
quadriplegic, Van Dyken-Rou-
en, like so many others, began to
see people with spinal cord inju-
ries in a different light.
“He kind of made it more
OK, I guess, for people to be in
wheelchairs, in my mind,” said
Van Dyken-Rouen, who has
started to regain movement in
her hip flexors and quad mus-
cles through rehabilitation.
And that’s a legacy Van Dy-
ken-Rouen wants to continue.
One of the most highly dec-
orated swimmers in Olympic
history, Van Dyken-Rouen had
her world turned upside down
after flying over the handlebars
of an ATV and severing her spi-
nal column.
In addition to the life-alter-
ing shock of paralysis and the
complications that go with it,
Van Dyken-Rouen found herself
confronted with realities that
come with a severe injury:
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The TWU gymnastics team
added another student-athlete
to its 2016 signing class. Jenna
Cashmore of Sarasota, Florida,
has signed a national letter of in-
tent and will join the Pioneers
for the 2015-16 school year.
Cashmore and fall signees
Erin Alderman, Megan Gentry
and Anna Gortner will join the
team as freshmen next season.
“Jenna is an outstanding ath-
lete and an all-around compet-
itor,” TWU assistant coach Gar-
rett Griffeth said. ‘We are really
looking forward to her immedi-
ate impact on all four events and
expect her to be a presence in the
back of our bars lineup for the
TWU gymnastics
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Brennan Linsley/AP file photo
Amy Van Dyken-Rouen leaves Craig Hospital on Aug. 14 in En-
glewood, Colo. Now that she’s in a wheelchair after an ATV
accident, the Oylmpic swimmer is a spinal cord injury advo-
cate.
next four years.”
Cashmore has competed for
Lakewood Ranch Gymnastics
for six years and was a Level 10
gymnast in 2014 and 2015. She
captured three uneven bars ti-
tles during the 2015 season and
was the all-around champion at
the Gasparilla Classic.
In 2014, Cashmore placed
fourth in all-around and first on
bars at the Florida Level 10 state
meet.
Fighting with insurance compa-
nies, finding and paying for
medical supplies like wheel-
chairs and shower chairs, all the
little hassles of a suddenly new
world she wasn’t prepared for.
‘You don’t expect this to hap-
pen and you’re hit with all this
drama and trauma, you
shouldn’t have to deal with all of
this stuff on top of trying to learn
how to live,” she said. “So many
people helped me get my wheel-
chair and my shower chair that I
needed to pay it forward. The
way I see it, if you don’t pay it
forward, you’re kind of a
schmuck.”
The other aspect of Van Dy-
ken-Rouen’s activism is chang-
ing the public perception of peo-
ple with spinal cord injuries.
She was a member of the Ad-
vanced International Education
Certificate honors program at
Sarasota High School.
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