Bokondji Imama scored twice and Callum Booth made 25 saves to lead the Saint John Sea Dogs to a 5-0 win over Chicoutimi to take a 2 games to 1 lead in the semi final. Joe Veleno, Samuel Dove-McFalls and Mathieu Joseph also scored for Saint John. Game 4 goes tonight with game 5 at Harbour Station Friday night at 7.
In the NHL playoffs tonight, Nashville is at St. Louis and in the late game, Anaheim is at home against Edmonton.
The Saint John Riptide playoff run will start at Harbour Station on May 3rd at 7:00 as the Riptide host game one of their best-of-five first round series. The Riptide’s opponent has not yet been confirmed but if the playoffs were to start today they would face the Island Storm.
In the Majors, the Red Sox and Yankees were rained out……Chris Coghlan made an acrobatic, run scoring leap over All-Star catcher Yadier Molina and Marcus Stroman came across with the go ahead run after pinch hitting in the 11th inning and doubling for his first major league hit as the Toronto Blue Jays got by St. Louis 6-5……Trea Turner hit for the cycle and drove in 7 runs in Washington’s 15-12 win over Colorado. In other play, it was Detroit 19 Seattle 9…..Tampa Bay 2 Baltimore 0….Chicago Cubs 1 Pittsburgh 0 with the Pirates held to just 2 hits…..Houston 4 Cleveland 2….Milwaukee 9 Cincinnati 1…..Minnesota 8 Texas 1…..Chicago White Sox 10 Kansas City 5….Arizona 9 San Diego 3……Los Angeles Angels 2 Oakland 1 (11 innings) and Los Angeles Dodgers 2 San Francisco 1.
San Francisco ace pitcher Madison Bumgarner won’t need surgery on his pitching shoulder that was injured in a dirt bike accident but he will likely be out of action for two months.
In the NBA playoffs, it was Houston 105 Oklahoma City 99 to win series 4 games to 1…..San Antonio 116 Memphis 103 to lead 3 games to 2 and Utah 96 Los Angeles Clippers 92 to lead 3 games to 2.
