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Team USA GM Johannson dies unexpectedly
Longtime USA Hockey executive and U.S. Olympic men’s hockey general manager Jim Johannson died unexpectedly Sunday at age 53, shocking the sport less than three weeks before the start of the Pyeongchang Games.
Johannson died away in his sleep at his home in Colorado Springs, according to USA Hockey. His death came in the midst of the most highprofile role in his career: putting together the U.S. men’s Olympic hockey team without NHL players going to South Korea, a position he relished after doing so at several world junior and world championships.
“He had a couple of the greatest days of his life at USA Hockey recently to be able to call all these guys that never thought in their lives they’d play on a U.S. Olympic hockey team, and he got to tell them that they realized a dream,” USA Hockey execute director Pat Kelleher said by phone.
Quinnipiac outshoots Siena, 76-69
Chaise Daniels scored 17 points, Rich Kelly 16 and Jacob Rigoni 15, and Quinnipiac shot 61 percent in beating Siena 76-69 on Sunday.
Cameron Young added 10 points for the Bobcats (7-13, 4-4 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference), who were 27 of 44 from the floor in snapping a twogame skid and swept the season series.
Khalil Richards made four of Siena’s 11 3-pointers and scored 14 points with Evan Fisher scoring 13 for the Saints (6-15, 3-5). Jordan Horn added 10 points as did Manny Camper.
Camper, a freshman who hadn’t scored and played just 23 minutes this season, scored all his points in the final 2½ minutes with his 3-point play getting the Saints within seven with 48 seconds left before Rigoni made two free throws.
Charles sparks UAlbany in rout of UMBC
ALBANY, N.Y. >> Travis Charles scored 21 points, David Nichols scored 17 while Alex Foster grabbed 13 rebounds and Albany dismantled UMBC 83-39 on Sunday.
Ahmad Clark made two 3-pointers and the Great Danes had a 20-4 lead with just over seven minutes before halftime. Albany (16-6, 4-3 America East) never trailed.
After UMBC’s Daniel Akin made a layup to make it 8-4 with 15:24 to go before halftime, the Retrievers didn’t score again until the 6:52 mark of the first half, missing nine shots during that stretch.
Albany led 36-12 at the break, and continued the one-sided affair after intermission with a 13-0 run as Nichols made a pair of 3s. UMBC (13-8, 4-2) didn’t score until 16:37 left with Joe Sherburne’s layup to make it 49-14.