WPPA / T-102 SPORTS / Saturday

LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL

BOYS

Pottsville 54, Panther Valley 36
North Schuylkill 65, Tamaqua 59
Weatherly 65, Nativity 46

TODAY

Pottsville @ Jim Thorpe 2:30 WPPA
Minersville @ Schuylkill Haven 2:30 T-102
Marian @ Nativity 6:30
Tamaqua @ Panther Valley 7:30
Blue Mt. @ Pine Grove 7:30
Tri Valley @ Williams Valley 7:30

GIRLS

Pottsville 52, Panther Valley 45 OT
Tamaqua 62, North Schuylkill 46
Nativity 61, Weatherly 30

TODAY

Pine Grove @ Saucon Valley 1:30
Minersville @ Lourdes 2:30
Marian @ Mahanoy Area 2:30
Williamsport @ North Schuylkill 2:30
Line Mt. @ Williams Valley 2:30
Jim Thorpe @ Shenandoah Valley 2:30

NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE

Philadelphia 3, Montreal 2

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Jeff Carter scored his 25th and 26th goals in the Philadelphia Flyers' 3-2 victory over the Montreal Canadiens on Friday night. Michael Leighton made 31 saves and Matt Carle netted the deciding goal in the second period.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - The Philadelphia Flyers have signed center Blair Betts to a two-year contract extension. Betts and the Flyers agreed to the extension on Friday. The 29-year-old Betts has six goals and 10 points in 39 games in his first season with the Flyers. He missed 19 games due to injury.

N-Y Rangers 3, Pittsburgh 2 OT

PITTSBURGH (AP) - Olli Jokinen scored at 1:02 of overtime to give the New York Rangers a 3-2 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins. Playing his fifth game with New York since being acquired from Calgary, Jokinen skated down the right wing and fired a wrist shot over goalie Marc-Andre Fleury's left shoulder.

New Jersey 5 Nashville 2
Vancouver 4 Columbus 3
Atlanta 3 Minnesota 2
St. Louis 4 Toronto 0
Colorado 2 Phoenix 1

Saturday's Games

Tampa Bay at N.Y. Islanders, 2 p.m.
San Jose at Buffalo, 7 p.m.
Philadelphia at Montreal, 7 p.m.
New Jersey at Carolina, 7 p.m.
Boston at Florida, 7 p.m.
Ottawa at Detroit, 7 p.m.
Washington at St. Louis, 8 p.m.
Dallas at Phoenix, 8 p.m.
Atlanta at Chicago, 8:30 p.m.
Anaheim at Calgary, 10 p.m.
Colorado at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.

AMERICAN HOCKEY LEAGUE

Friday's Games

Worcester 6, Bridgeport 1
Portland 3, Syracuse 1
Hershey 5, Albany 2
Wilkes-Barre/Scranton 3, Binghamton 2, SO
Providence 7, Hartford 1
Abbotsford 3, Rochester 2
Norfolk 3, Lowell 0
Lake Erie 5, Hamilton 4, SO
Manchester 4, Springfield 1
San Antonio 3, Peoria 1
Rockford 4, Milwaukee 2
Chicago 4, Texas 1
Manitoba 5, Toronto 1
Grand Rapids 7, Houston 2

Saturday's Games

Adirondack at Portland, 7 p.m.
Providence at Springfield, 7 p.m.
Abbotsford at Hamilton, 7 p.m.
Syracuse at Manchester, 7 p.m.
Binghamton at Albany, 7 p.m.
Bridgeport at Hartford, 7 p.m.
Hershey at Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, 7:05 p.m.
Lowell at Norfolk, 7:15 p.m.
Lake Erie at Rochester, 7:35 p.m.
Chicago at Texas, 8 p.m.
Milwaukee at Rockford, 8:05 p.m.
San Antonio at Peoria, 8:30 p.m.
Toronto at Manitoba, 8:30 p.m.
Grand Rapids at Houston, 8:35 p.m.

MEN'S TOP 25 COLLEGE BASKETBALL

PITTSBURGH (AP) - Gilbert Brown and Ashton Gibbs made two free throws in the final 30 seconds and No. 25 Pittsburgh staged a frantic rally to tie it in regulation, then weathered three
exhausting overtimes and West Virginia's own comeback to beat the No. 5 Mountaineers 98-95. Gibbs and Brad Wanamaker scored 24 points each.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Jack Eggleston scored a career-high 24 points and Penn used a strong second-half run to upset Cornell 79-64, snapping the Big Red's eight-game winning streak. Zach Rosen added 22 points and six assists for the Quakers, who shot a season-high 56.3 percent from the field.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Herb Magee has career win Number 900 in sight. Magee has coached Division II Philadelphia University for 43 years and won his 899th game when the Division II Rams beat Holy Family on Friday. Magee can get No. 900 when the Rams play Bloomfield College on Saturday.

PITTSBURGH (AP) - The Pittsburgh Steelers will treat 2010 as if it were a capped season and will not take advantage of the lack of an NFL collective bargaining agreement to try to add more quality free agents than usual. Director of football operations Kevin Colbert acknowledges the Steelers could be at a competitive disadvantage, but he says a commonsense approach is the right one.