Monday 19 Adar 5775 - March 10, 2015
As Jews around the World celebrated Purim, Jewish sports stars have had their own celebrations in various venues around the Globe... | |
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Women's Basketball: Ashdod's quest for the Eurocup title was thwarted on March 5, as they lost to Villeneuve, 56-72. Shay Doron scored 16 points for Ashdod in that contest. |
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Women's Collegiate Ten-pin Bowling: Fairleigh Dickinson University's Liat Vizenfeld was named NEC co-bowler of the week for the first week of February for her performance in the event in Altoona, PA. She averaged 207.7 per game, with a high score of 235, and made just under 97% of her non-split spare conversions. Their next event will be the conference tournament to be held March 21 & 22 at Howell Lanes in New Jersey. |
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Women's Golf (LPGA): Morgan Pressel has a scoring average of 73 for 14 rounds this year. She has earned $18,532 in the 4 events she has played thus far in 2015. |
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Ice Hockey (NHL): On March 3, Mike Cammalleri scored a goal for the NJ Devils as they proved to the Nashville Predators who was boss, by defeating them 3-1. Cammalleri's season record stands at 34 points (24 goals and 10 assists) in 52 games. Nashville Predators' Eric Nystrom is on the injured list and is expected to miss 4 weeks of action. He has 7 goals and 5 assists in 60 games this season. |
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(AHL): On March 1, Carter Camper scored a goal, but it was to no avail, as his team, the Binghamton Senators, lost to the Albany Devils by a score of 3-4 in overtime. On March 4, he recorded an assist in the Senators' 4-1 victory over the Admirals in Norfolk. On March 6, Camper scored 2 goals, including the game-winning-goal, in the Senators' 3-2 win over the Admirals in Norfolk in overtime. Thus far this season, Camper has 36 points (12 goals and 24 assists) in 58 games. |
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(European Hockey): In 50 games this season, Brett Sterling has 51 points (23 goals and 28 assists), 100 penalty minutes, and a +24 rating for Salzburg EC of the Austrian hockey league. Jacob Micflikier has 47 points (24 goals and 23 assists), 26 penalty minutes and a +13 rating in 54 games for Linkopings HC of the Swedish Hockey League. Evan Kaufmann has 28 points (12 goals and 16 assists) and 22 penalty minutes in 47 games for the Nuermberg Thomas Sabo Ice Tigers of the German DEL this season. |
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Women's Tennis (WTA): Shahar Peer is currently ranked 113th in the World. She has a singles' won-loss record of 3-5 and a 0-2 doubles' record, and has earned $27,970 thus far in 2015. |