BRIEFLY\In this hockey game, violence extended far beyond the players.A university hockey coach was suspended and several of his players faced possible criminal charges after they assaulted a referee with their sticks and fists following an overtime loss. Police opened an investigation into the assault, which occurred after the University of Moncton Blue Eagles, former national champions, lost their season-ending game Saturday on a controversial overtime goal to the University of Prince Edward Island The university was incorporated in 1969 with the merger of its predecessor institutions, Prince of Wales College (PWC) and St. Dunstan's University (SDU). Its campus is located on the SDU campus. at Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island Prince Edward Island, province (2001 pop. 135,294), 2,184 sq mi (5,657 sq km), E Canada, off N.B. and N.S. Geography One of the Maritime Provinces, Prince Edward Island lies in the Gulf of St. , Canada. "This was the most deplorable act of cowardice and unsportsmanship by a hockey team I have ever seen," said Gordon Lund, executive director of the Prince Edward Island Amateur Hockey Association. Referee Brian Carragher escaped serious injury when Moncton players backed him into a corner of the rink after the 3-2 loss. Several punched him in the head and midsection. Witnesses said Carragher, an official for 15 years, was speared twice in the groin with a hockey stick. HORSE RACING Unbridled's Song, winner of the 1995 Breeders' Cup Juvenile The Breeders' Cup Juvenile is a Thoroughbred horse race for 2-year-old colts and geldings raced on dirt. It is held annually at a different racetrack in the United States or Canada as part of the Breeders' Cup. , heads a list of 171 3-year-olds nominated to the $600,000 Jim Beam Stakes to be run March 30 at Turfway Park. The nominees include both colts that edged Unbridled's Song in his two races of 1996 - Appealing Skier, winner of the Hutcheson States on Feb. 4, and 143-to-1 long shot Built for Pleasure, winner of the Fountain of Youth Fountain of Youth legendary fountain of eternal youth. [World Legend: Brewer Dictionary, 432] See : Unattainability on Feb. 24. D. Wayne Lukas Darrell Wayne Lukas (born September 2, 1935 in Antigo, Wisconsin) is a former educator who became one of the most successful horse trainers in American Thoroughbred horse racing history and a U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee. , who has campaigned at Turfway all winter for the first time, has a dozen nominees, including Hennessy, Editor's Note, Victory Speech, Prince of Thieves, and Honor and Glory. TENNIS Top-seeded Thomas Muster was upset by Italy's Andrea Gaudenzi 6-3, 6-4 in the first round Italian Indoors ATP ATP: see adenosine triphosphate. ATP in full adenosine triphosphate Organic compound, substrate in many enzyme-catalyzed reactions (see catalysis) in the cells of animals, plants, and microorganisms. tournament in Milan. It was the second consecutive first-round elimination for Muster, who lost to Sandon Stolle in Dubai earlier this month. |
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