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April 7, 1978
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Amateur Scoreboard
ONTARIO MAJOR LEAGUE (Final Standings) Emms Division Leydon Division GAMES COMPLETED Ottawa 5 at Toronto 7 London 0 at Sault Sta. Maris 6 Sudbury 3 at Kingston 5 Niagara Falls 0 at Hamilton 4 Kitchener 4 at Peterborough 7 Playoff Games Quarter-Finals (Kitcheners wins best-of-five series 3-2) (Best-of-five series tied 2-2) (Hamilton leads eight-point series 3-1) (Peterborough leads eight-point series 3-1) FINAL SCORING LEADERS QUEBEC MAJOR LEAGUE Playoff Games Quarter Finals (Trois-Riviores leads eight-point series 6-0) GAMES COMPLETED Wed. March 22 Quebec 3 at Trois-Rivieree 7 Fri. March 24 Trois-Rivieres 6 at Quebec 0 Sun. March 26 Quebec 3 at Trois-Rivieres 8 GAMES TO COME Wed. March 29 Quebec at Trois-Rivieres Fri. March 31 Trois-Riviores at Quebec (if necessary) (Cornwall leads eight-point series 6-0) GAMES COMPLETED Thu. March 23 Hull 3 at Cornwall 11 Sat. March 25 Cornwall 5 at Hull 2 Sun. March 26 Hull 0s at Cornwall 7 GAMES TO COME Tue. March 28 Cornwall at Hull Thu. March 30 Hull at Cornwall (if necessary) (Montreal leads eight-point series 6-0) GAMES COMPLETED Wed. March 22 Verdun 3…
Boston University NCAA Champs Beating BC In All-Eastern Final
PROVIDENCE— “When we came down here, we were 28-2 but we were on the outside, looking in,” said the rugged MVP of the 1978 National Collegiate Athletic Association Hockey Championship Tournament. “But we were the best team here, and now we’re on the inside, looking out.” The speaker was Jack O’Callahan, the junior defenseman from Charlestown, Mass., who serves as Boston University’s co-captain. He was referring to the 30-2 Terriers’ uphill battle through a long season, unblemished until the final weeks, a playoff disappointment, a reprieve by the vote of the NCAA Advisory Committee, and final vindication as the very best team in the country for the third time in eight years. The Terriers defeated Boston College, 5-3, in a nationally televised game before 11,038 in the Providence Civic Center to gain the NCAA…
Merrimack College Wins NCAA Division II Crown
SPRINGFIELD— The East may not have won the NCAA Hockey Championship since 1972 in Division One, but Merrimack College certainly got the ECAC off to a good start by romping to victory in the first NCAA Division Two championships held at the Springfield Civic Center. The Warriors, playoff runnerups to Bowdoin College in the Eastern section of ECAC Division Two, blasted Lake Forest College of Illinois 12-2 to win the crown after bumping Mankato State of Minnesota 6-1 earlier. The other Eastern Entrant, Elmira College, in only its third year of varsity hockey, didn’t fare so well as they lost 4-1 to Lake Forest on Friday and dropped the consolation 5-3 to Mankato on Saturday. Merrimack outshot a bigger, slower Lake Forest crew 41-14 and put the game away with a three-goal burst late…
College Races
NEW YORK COLLEGES (Final Standings) VARSITY DIVISION WESTERN DIVISION EASTERN DIVISION PLAYOFF SCORES Wagner 4, Stonebrook 2 FDU 10. NJIT 3 Wagner 11, FDU 4 St Johns 5, Koan 2 Wagner 5, St Johns 2 Kean 5. FDU 3 St Johns 4, Koon 1 Morris 14, Lohman 2 Upsala S. Quoons 3 Upsala 5, Morris 4 Queens 5, Lohman 2 Morris 10. Quoons 1 Upsala 4. Morris 3 (UPSALA wins championship)> FINAL SCORING LEADERS VARSITY DIVISION WESTERN DIVISION EASTERN DIVISION…
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