Friday, February 16, 2018

Sports News- Friday, February 16th, 2018

NCAA Division I Baseball
Army-West Point will open their season this afternoon, tomorrow, and Sunday against Michigan.

Cornell will open their season next Friday (February 23rd) at Texas A&M to kick off a three-game weekend set. Cornell won their final two games of the 2017 season.


NCAA Division I Women's Polo
Cornell will be in action this evening at home against the Maryland Polo Club. Cornell brings an eleven-game win streak into the matchup (last lost during a fall semester matchup back in October).


NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey
Army-West Point will be at Bentley tonight and tomorrow night for two Atlantic Hockey contests. Army is currently 9-9-6 in conference play.


NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse
Army-West Point will be back in action tomorrow at home (February 17th) against Rutgers.
Army has won three straight dating back to the 2017 season finale with wins on Saturday (February 10th) against Massachusetts and Tuesday (February 13th) against NJIT to open the season 2-0.


NCAA Division II Men's Tennis
3-0 Young Harris will host Auburn-Montgomery tomorrow (February 17th) and King University Sunday (February 18th), as they will be looking to build on a three-game winning streak to open the season. Also at stake is a potential for their first 4-0 start to the dual season since the 2016 spring season.


NCAA Division II Women's Basketball
Lander defeated Young Harris 80-58 last night (February 15th) to improve to 15-4 in Peach Belt play- second place in conference behind 17-2 North Georgia- and 20-5 overall. Young Harris drops to 6-13 in Peach Belt competition and 9-17 overall.
Lander will be as South Carolina-Aiken and Young Harris will be at Columbus State tomorrow (February 17th).
In the previous Young Harris-Columbus State meeting back in January, Young Harris won 93-92 in overtime.


NCAA Division II Men's Golf
Young Harris finished second out of seventeen teams in their spring-schedule-opening Spring Kickoff Intercollegiate and North Georgia finished third out of nineteen teams in their spring-schedule-opening Coastal Georgia Winter Invitational on Monday (February 12th) and Tuesday (February 13th)
Both Young Harris and North Georgia will return to action at the Hurricane Invitational on Monday, February 26th and Tuesday, February 27th.


NCAA Division II Baseball
North Georgia will host Trevecca Nazarene in a doubleheader this evening and a solo game tomorrow (February 17th) and Sunday (February 18th). North Georgia is currently 2-4 and have lost three in a row.
Young Harris will host Lander in a three game Peach Belt set today, tomorrow, and Sunday. Young Harris is currently 3-4 but are coming off of a 4-3 road win over Lee University on Tuesday (February 13th)- their first-ever win over the Lee-U Flames.


American Ninja Warrior
U.S.A. vs. The World- Sunday, March 11th on NBC.


NBA Action Yesterday (February 15th)
Timberwolves 119, Lakers 111
Timberwolves now 36-25

Nuggets 134, Bucks 123
Nuggets now 32-26


NFL News
Quarterback A.J. McCarron is now an unrestricted free agent.

After eighteen seasons with the Raiders, kicker Sebastian Janikowski will not be brought back to Oakland for the 2018 season (he will also become an unrestricted free agent).

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