Cleveland State earns share of Horizon title

Torrey Patton tallied 16points and 10 rebounds to carry Cleveland State to a share of the Horizon League regularseason championship with a 67-55 win over Purdue Fort Wayne on Feb. 20.

Torrey Patton tallied 16 points and 10 rebounds to carry Cleveland State to a share of the Horizon League regular-season championship with a 67-55 win over Purdue Fort Wayne on Feb. 20.

Cleveland State shares the title with Wright State. Both sport 16-4 league marks after each split their weekend series.

Patton made 8 of 10 from the free throw line to help the Vikings set a record with their eighth conference road win.

Tre Gomillion had 18 points and six rebounds for Cleveland State (167). D’Moi Hodge added 13 points. Algevon Eichelberger had 11 points.

Jalon Pipkins had 17 points for the Mastodons (7-14, 6-14). Bobby Planutis added 12 points and seven rebounds. Demetric Horton had 10 points.

The Vikings improve to 3-1 against the Mastodons for the season. In the most recent matchup, Purdue Fort Wayne defeated Cleveland State, 75-68 on Feb. 19.

Hockey

MONSTERS LOSE » Host Grand Rapids’ Dennis Cholowski scored on a power play 1 minute, 5 seconds into overtime, and the Griffins beat the Monsters, 2-1, on Feb. 2.

Cleveland fell to 0-2-1 on the season.

Michael Rasmussen put the Griffins ahead, 1-0, with a power-play goal 3:35 into the third period. The Monsters answered a little more than five minutes later when Ryan McInnis scored his first goal of the year.

Grand Rapids outshot the Monsters, 30-23.

The Monsters will try for their first win of the season on Feb. 22 at Rockford..

GAME DELAYED » The setting was spectacular but the ice conditions were far from it, leading to an extended delay between the first and second period of the outdoor game between the Vegas Golden Knights and Colorado Avalanche at Lake Tahoe.

The NHL decided to halt the game for more than eight hours on Feb. 20 after bright sun and temperatures hovering around freezing led to poor ice conditions that had players and officials repeatedly falling because of holes on the ice.

Golf

BURNS HOLDS OWN » The wind stopped Sam Burns right when he was about to get started with a five-shot lead at the Genesis Invitational. Darkness stopped him right after two straight bogeys narrowed his lead to two. Thus ended a wild afternoon at Riviera, where the wind was raging so strong that it blew Keegan Bradley’s putt off the green at No. 10 and nearly blew Max Homa’s shot into the hole at the par-5 first. A four-hour delay didn’t make Riviera any easier. “It’s a hard course with no wind,” Burns said.