The teams were tied after 60 minutes but overtime saw the Danbury Jr. Hat Tricks come away with the close win over the Maryland Black Bears on Saturday, March 07, 2025.

The final score was 5-4.

Danbury’s

Brendan Boring

scored the game-winning goal.

The Hat Tricks opened strong, right after the puck drop with Kai Elkie scoring in the first period.

The Hat Tricks scored three goals in second period an held the lead 4-2 going in to the second break.

The Black Bears narrowed the gap again late in the third period when

Luke Janus

netted one, assisted by Isac Nielsen and

Mason Stenger

.

The Black Bears tied the score 4-4 with 31 seconds remaining of the third after a goal from Isac Nielsen, assisted by

Trey Hinton

and Mason Stenger.

In overtime, it took 4:21 before Brendan Boring scored the game-winner for the team.

Next games:

Both teams will be back in action on Friday, March 14, 2025 when the Black Bears face Northeast at 6 p.m. CST at Piney Orchard Ice Arena and the Hat Tricks play the Johnstown Tomahawks at 6 p.m. CST at Danbury Ice Arena.

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COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — Julian Reese had 19 points and 11 rebounds in his home finale, and No. 13 Maryland pulled away late for a 74-61 victory over Northwestern on Saturday.

The Terrapins (24-7, 14-6 Big Ten) had a sluggish day offensively but did enough to win for the seventh time in eight games — with the only defeat coming on a 65-foot shot at the buzzer against Michigan State late last month.

Ja’Kobi Gillespie scored 17 points for the Terps, and Derik Queen added 10 points and 10 rebounds.

Maryland snapped a three-game skid against Northwestern, which included an overtime loss to the Wildcats in January.

Nick Martinell scored 28 points for Northwestern (16-15, 7-13), which is still likely to reach the Big Ten Tournament despite the loss.

The Wildcats led for a good deal of the first half and were up 42-41 in the second before being outplayed down the stretch.

Take

aways

Northwestern: The Wildcats played Maryland tough this season, but they ultimately didn’t have enough offensive firepower, going 4 for 19 from 3-point range in this one.

Maryland: The Terrapins reached a new level after that loss to Northwestern earlier in the season. They’re 11-2 since then.

Key moment

A 14-4 Maryland run, which included 3-pointers by Gillespie and Rodney Rice, gave the Terps a 55-46 lead. They never looked back.

Key stats

Maryland had 16 offensive rebounds, while Northwestern managed only 17 defensive rebounds. The Terps had a 14-4 edge in second-chance points.

Up next

Maryland will be either the No. 2 or No. 3 seed in the Big Ten Tournament. The top 15 teams qualify. Northwestern was one of five teams tied for the final five spots with one game remaining, with Iowa just a game behind.

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Across the D.C. area, fired federal workers are looking at what their futures hold. One question that’s come up: Can they find similar salaries and benefits in the private sector?

During Thursday’s presentation by Maryland’s Board of Revenue Estimates, Robert Rehrman, director of the Bureau of Revenue Estimates, noted the comparatively high salaries that many of the state’s 161,000 federal workers earn.

“In recent years, the federal government has been employing a lot of folks,” Rehrman said. And in many cases, he continued, “Federal wages and employment has outpaced our private sector.”

“There are six counties where the average wage is $124,000 or higher,” Rehrman said. The highest earners, he said, are in Montgomery County, where the incomes are roughly $146,000.

“This is being driven by HHS, specifically, the FDA and the NIH,” he said. Many of those positions belong to employees who are in the medical and STEM fields with advanced degrees, he explained.

There are also seven counties where the government wages are double or greater than those in existing private sector jobs, Rehrman said.

Among the questions being asked, according to Rehrman, is, “How quickly can these individuals be reemployed, and can they gain wages similar to what they had as a federal employee?”

While trying to determine just how many people could be losing their jobs, Rehrman said they’ve analyzed announcements from each federal agency targeted for job reductions.

“Of the more than 100,000 job reductions that we think are in process, we think a little more than 11,000 will occur in Maryland,” he said.

Maryland Comptroller Brooke Lierman asked, “Will these federal workers stay in Maryland and find new jobs in the private sector? Can the private sector absorb them?”

On Thursday, Republican Senate Minority Leader Stephen Hershey issued a statement calling for “economic diversification.”

“No matter who has been in the White House, economists have warned for at least 20 years that our economy is too dependent on federal jobs,” Hershey wrote.

Hershey added that Maryland’s continued reliance on federal jobs makes “budget planning challenging when federal spending fluctuates.”

In an interview with WTOP, Senate Majority Whip Justin Ready, a Republican whose district includes Carroll County and part of Frederick County, said, “We have a lot of improving to do, and raising taxes on job creators and the so-called high earners, many of whom are job creators and investors themselves, is not the way to go.”

Ready was referring to bills in the General Assembly that would boost taxes and fees and Gov. Wes Moore’s plan to create two new tax brackets that target high earners — those earning $500,000 at 6.25% and those earning over $1 million at 6.5%.

Democratic lawmakers also proposed a business-to-business tax that’s intended to generate $1 billion, another measure designed to help shore up the state’s finances.

Ready said there’s a real urgency to improve the business climate in the state, and said the fiscal woes of the state “are entirely a self-inflicted problem.” He called for “common sense spending reforms and changes.”

“We’ve got to make our state more friendly and attractive to job creators of all kinds,” Ready said.

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