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🗞 Headlines. Sturgeon Doesn’t Throw Away His Shot. OT Goal Gives Hamilton National Title. A Dynasty in River Falls. Middlebury Edges Tufts in WLax Final Rematch. Chesney the Kangaroo Flees Petting Zoo, Spends Three Days on the Lam

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Curtiss Sturgeon took his shot and sent the Hamilton faithful into a frenzy as the Continentals won the college’s first-ever national championship with a 2-1 overtime victory over three-time defending national champion Hobart.

The Statesmen (30-1) took an early 1-0 lead on a power-play goal from Kahlil Fontana but Hamilton (23-5-2) knotted the score on a tally from Luke Tchor in the early moments of the second period.

The Wisconsin-River Falls women’s ice hockey won its third consecutive NCAA Division III championship with a 4-0 whitewashing of Nazareth. The Falcons become the third program to “three-peat,” joining Middlebury (2004-05-06) and Plattsburgh State (2014-15-16-17).

Sophia Hess scored twice for UWRF (30-1) who outshot the Flyers, 44-22. Jordan O’Kane stopped 22 shots in recording the shutout, while MaKenna Aure was named the tournament’s Most Outstanding Player.

Top-ranked Middlebury scored three unanswered goals in a 5:41 span of the final period to break open an 8-all tie and down third-ranked Tufts, 11-10, in a rematch of the 2025 national final.

Schuyler Lloyd got the equalizer for the Jumbos (7-2) just 31 seconds into the final stanza to make it an 8-8 game. Maeve Lee scored off an assist from Caroline Adams with 10:40 on the clock to give the Panthers (9-0) the lead for good. Tallies from Skylar Lach and Kendal Coyne provided the insurance.

Tufts rallied with two late goals from Lloyd and Eleanor Helm to provide tense moments down the stretch.

Lach tied her career high with six points (4-2) for Middlebury, while Adams recorded her eighth hat trick of the season.

» Basketball. A pair of former DIII men’s basketball coaches have led their respective DI programs to the Final Four - Illinois’ Brad Underwood (Hardin-Simmons) and Arizona’s Tommy Lloyd (Whitman).

“How does a kangaroo escape a petting zoo?

It’s not the opening line to a dad joke. If you’re Chesney the kangaroo, you scale an eight-foot (2 1/2 meter) fence and go on the lam for three days, giving your keeper sleepless nights and sending residents of a small Wisconsin town on a search that would end happily on Saturday.

Chesney escaped about 11:15 a.m. last Wednesday. Though he stayed within a three-mile (5-kilometer) radius of the farm, he kept his pursuers guessing.

Colton Johnson, owner of Midwest Aerial Drone Services, has used heat-sensing drones to help hunters recover deer and reunite missing dogs with their owners. Add a kangaroo to the list.”

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