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May 04, 2009
Playoff hockey

For those of you keeping an eye on Maine's incoming freshman class, goalie Shawn Sirman and Kingston of the Ontario Junior Hockey League are playing in the Royal Bank Cup, Canada's Junior A national championship.

The Voyageurs lost 5-0 to the Victoria (British Columbia) Grizzlies, the tournament host, in its opening game of the Royal Bank Cup. Sirman and the Voyageurs face the Summerside (Prince Edward Island) Capitals this afternoon in a round-robin game.

To follow the Royal Bank Cup via Hockey Canada, click here.

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Matt Duffy and the Florida Everblades prepare for Game Six of the ECHL's Kelly Cup South Division finals. South Carolina leads the best-of-seven series 3-2, and the series continues Tuesday in Estero, Fla., and Game Seven, if necessary, is scheduled for Wednesday.

Worth noting - Maine's graduation is Saturday. Duffy said via text message this morning that he plans to attend graduation, but with one provision. "It all depends on how we do," Duffy wrote.

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Rachel is in her fifth year as a sports reporter at the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram. A former college soccer and softball player, she covered sports at newspapers in Pennsylvania, Texas and Colorado before joining the Press Herald/Sunday Telegram staff in June of 2004.

Rachel takes over coverage of the University of Maine hockey team and was introduced to Maine hockey as a seventh-grader in Annapolis, Maryland, after reading a 1988 Sports Illustrated story about Shawn Walsh's impact on the program. Nearly 20 years later, she still has the four-page article in her possession.

She and her husband, Tommy (who also works for MaineToday Media, Inc.) are avid sports fans who root for the Pittsburgh Steelers, Pittsburgh Penguins and Kansas Jayhawks. After a year of marriage, their next step in life is to find a bigger house!



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