Rivalry week transferred over to the ice last weekend. When fighting on the ice, locked in a frenzied flurry of tossed punches and tugged jerseys with an opponent, the strategy is simple. “Get him before he gets me,” Sean Wormald said. Wormald, Nick Skuraton and Dylan Rohar were the starting first line when Saturday’s game [...]
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It was just another goal — for a few seconds. After junior Sean Wormald netted the Cool Cats’ fifth goal of the night, it started to play out like any other goal. The crowd cheered, the players circled up and hugged, and the fans warmed up for another round of chants. Five seconds later, three [...]
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Before UK football can win the battle on the gridiron, it had to win the battle in the homes of recruits. The 2010 UK football recruiting class has officially taken shape after National Signing Day. The class includes the top-two Kentucky prospects and a four-star tight end, and was ranked 49th in the nation by [...]
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Rob Docherty stands on the sideline, arms casually crossed. It is 3 a.m. on a Sunday morning and the scene that unfolds before him is a Division II club hockey game, but he is not a normal coach. What makes a grown man want to give up his weekends seven months a year and stay [...]
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On a night when charity was everywhere in the Lexington Ice Center, the home team had to earn everything. UK hockey sold products off the ice, such as Ashley Judd posters and customized jerseys, in its ‘Hockey for Haiti’ campaign. The product on the ice was giving nothing in a 4-3 win over Dayton. UK [...]
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Billy Glass still doesn’t know what’s going on with the UK hockey team. UK (18-9) dropped a pair of away games to Bowling Green (10-7) over the weekend in what was supposed to be a momentum-building series. Instead, the Cool Cats lost the games 9-5 on Friday and 6-3 on Saturday. “I’m still trying to [...]
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One name was conspicuously absent from the UK hockey team’s starting lineup. Tony Valerino — the star of the team, the one with signs proclaiming his goal-scoring feats, the one with a name tailor-made for pregame introductions — was not announced as a starter before last weekend’s games against Lindenwood. Valerino has been ruled academically [...]
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Coming out of a long holiday break, the UK hockey team doesn’t expect a holiday hangover. “We’re riled up,†head coach Rob Docherty said. “We have to come out strong to start the second half of the season. We will need 110 percent effort in both games.†The first game back from a long layoff [...]
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There were presents, the year-end countdown, snowballs and time to relax. There was no hockey. The holidays gave the UK hockey team (17-6) a much-needed break from the in-season grind of midnight hockey double shifts. “We needed it,†head coach Rob Docherty said. “They got to go home, relax, and take some pressure off. Everyone [...]
Continue reading …UK hockey players stood and banged their sticks on the ice in salute to a supportive fan base after the clock had wound down to zero on the first half of their season. The fans returned the love, passing on the chance to run for an early exit to stay in their seats past 2 [...]
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