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TORONTO - With a decent crowd on hand and a national television audience watching at home, the top players from the Canadian Womens Hockey League wanted to deliver in their inaugural all-star game Saturday.Mission accomplished.Team Red, led by captain Charline Labonte of the Montreal Stars, came through with an exciting 3-2 come-from-behind victory over Team White in front of 6,850 fans at Air Canada Centre.A total of 42 players — including many from Canadas gold-medal winning Olympic team — participated in the CWHL showcase. Rebecca Johnstons goal stood up as the winner as Team Red scored three unanswered goals in the third period.I think its important for us, I think the big thing for us and our league is to get it out there, get people aware of our league and where were playing outside of Olympic years, said Johnston.Stars forward Lisa-Marie Breton-Lebreux and Jamie-Lee Rattray of the Brampton Thunder had the other goals for Team Red. Natalie Spooner of the Toronto Furies and Kelli Stack of the Boston Blades scored for Team White, which was captained by Calgary Inferno forward Jessica Campbell.Johnston, an Inferno forward, completed the comeback as her low snapshot eluded Team White goaltender Genevieve Lacasse of the Blades. Despite a late charge with the goalie pulled, Team White could not beat Thunder goalie Erica Howe, who took the crease for the final 15 minutes.It was a great way to end a great day, said Rattray. There was awesome fan support. Its not often you get to play in front of a crowd like that, in a venue like that. I think its huge for the league. You look at how far its come, and having fans show up like they did is pretty special.Team White controlled the play in the early going. Labonte turned aside 10 of 11 shots with her only blemish coming after Inferno forward Haley Irwin scored on a tap-in after a nice passing play with Spooner.Christina Kessler of the Furies replaced Labonte in net for the second period. She shut down Thunder forward Carly Mercer on a breakaway after a nice stretch pass from Montreal Stars forward Carly Hill, but gave up a goal on the next shift when Stack scored on a rebound.Team Red came out strong in the third with three goals in five minutes. After the final buzzer, fans were treated to a skills competition that included a fastest-skater contest and a shootout.It capped a day that was viewed by many as a step forward for womens hockey.Weve now (taken) the next step (by having) an all-star game, said Spooner. To promote our top 42 players I think is really good for our league moving forward. Blues Jerseys 2021 . His fellow Finn, 21 years his junior, had just arrived in Anaheim and was hoping to stick with the Ducks. 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The Demon Deacons upset Duke 82-72 on Wednesday night after Coach K experienced enough dizziness and light-headedness to force him to kneel during a late timeout and skip his postgame news conference. Associate head coach Steve Wojciechowski -- who filled in for him -- says Krzyzewski has not been sick, is in good shape and expects to make a full recovery. "There was a great emotional investment in the game," Wojciechowski said, "and I think maybe the emotion got the better of him." The rest of the team might not have had that problem. Duke (23-7, 12-5 Atlantic Coast Conference) was playing for the first time in over a week -- after going 4-1 in an 11-day span before that -- and Wojciechowski says the Blue Devils simply werent prepared emotionally. After taking a late seven-point lead, Duke went without a field goal for 5 critical minutes while allowing the Demon Deacons (16-14, 6-11) to reel off 17 straight points and go up by double figures. "Im not sure that ... we were as prepared from an emotional standpoint," Wojciechowski said. "I dont know if our guys had the needed edge to compete against a Wake Forest team that played their hearts out." Tyler Cavanaugh scored a career-high 20 points, Travis McKie added 19 in his final scheduled home game and Codi Miller-McIntyre had 13 for the Demon Deacons. They followed one of their worst performances of the season -- a home loss to sub-.500 Boston College -- with one of their best. Their first win over Duke since 2009 also marked their biggest upset since they knocked off No. 2 Miami last February. "I couldnt picture a better ending," McKie said. "Everything was just perfect tonight. The fans were perfect. Me, being my last (home) game, everything we did was great." Jabari Parker scored 19 points and Rodney Hood added 16 for the Blue Devils, who missed six straight shots down the stretch and were just 6 of 27 from 3-point range while falling to 4-5 in ACC road games. Parkers dunk with just under 6 minutes left gave the Blue Devils their largest lead, 66-59, and by then, they appeared on their way to their ninth straight win in the series. Instead, thats when Wake Forest took command. "I knew we were going to win -- it was juust one of those feelings that you get down the stretch," Miller-McIntyre said.dddddddddddd "You could see it in all of my teammates eyes, that they werent ready to fall over." They didnt. After Devin Thomas and McKie hit two free throws each, Cavanaugh -- a sophomore backup forward -- became unstoppable. His left-handed jumper over Hood, who had four fouls, with 3 1/2 minutes left gave the Demon Deacons the lead for good at 67-66. After Miller-McIntyre hit a pretty crossover layup, Cavanaugh followed by sticking back Thomas miss to make it 71-66 with 2 1/2 minutes left. Coron Williams ended the run with a layup that was goaltended by Parker and made it 76-66 with 1:08 left. At the other end, Duke couldnt do anything right. A key 3-point attempt by Rasheed Sulaimon went halfway down before rimming out -- one of five 3-point attempts the Blue Devils missed during that untimely cold spell. And point guard Quinn Cook had a layup slammed hard off the backboard by Thomas. "All five guys were on the same page today," Thomas said. "We didnt let them get the 3s, because we know they live and die with the 3-ball." Sulaimon finished with 14 points for Duke, which had plenty of built-in excuses for perhaps taking the Demon Deacons lightly. Maybe they were rusty after not playing since a Feb. 25 rout of Virginia Tech. Maybe they were looking ahead to exacting revenge from North Carolina on Saturday night. Maybe they were overconfident after beating Wake Forest by 20 points last month at Cameron Indoor Stadium. Or maybe the Demon Deacons simply arent as bad as their record might indicate. "Heart. We played with heart," Cavanaugh said. "We know we can play with anyone." Williams and Arnaud William Adala Moto finished with 12 points each for Wake Forest, which led for all but about 3 minutes of the first half after holding Duke to one field goal in the first 7 1/2 minutes. They went up by eight points and responded to their only deficit of the half by reeling off the final seven points. Miller-McIntyres steal and layup just before the buzzer put the Demon Deacons up 36-33 -- just Dukes second halftime deficit of the season and first since the loss at Syracuse. "I thought they outfought us," Wojciechowski said. "This time of year, if youre not tough and youre not together for 40 minutes, it can be some very hard lessons." ' ' '

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