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AND STAFF REPORTSWashington Capitals forward
Joe Snively had wrist surgery, the
team announced Sunday. The
Capitals said that the procedure
“to address the scaphoid bone on
his left wrist” was successful and
that he would be out four to six
weeks.
Snively had missed the past two
games after the team said he suf-
fered an upper-body injury and
listed him as week-to-week. Coach
Peter Laviolette said the injury
was something that had been an
issue f or a while.
In h is first NHL season, Snively,
26, has four goals and t hree assists
in 12 games. The Herndon native,
who grew up playing youth hock-
ey a t the Capitals’ practice facility,
was a bright spot for the team
during a rough stretch after he
was called up from the Hershey
Bears of the American Hockey
League.
Snively scored the first two
goals of his NHL career F eb. 10 in a
5-2 win at the Montreal Cana-
diens. He remains the Bears’
points leader this season, having
notched 15 goals and 23 assists for
38 points i n 35 games.
— Samantha PellRed-hot Robertson lifts Stars
J ason Robertson had his sec-
ond hat trick of the weekend as the
Dallas Stars beat the Minnesota
Wild, 6-3, on Sunday in St. Paul,
Minn.
Robertson is up to 29 goals on
the season, seven of which have
come in the past three games. He
had a hat trick Friday in a 4-3
overtime win against the Winni-
peg Jets.
Joe Pavelski and Jamie Benn
also scored for Dallas, and Riley
Tufte added his first NHL goal.
l RANGERS 4, JETS 1: Chris
Kreider scored twice and Igor
Shesterkin stopped 45 shots as
visiting New York beat Winnipeg.
Mike Zibanejad and Barclay
Goodrow also scored for the R ang-
ers, and Artemi Panarin and Jacob
Tr ouba each had two assists.
l LIGHTNING 6, BLACK-
HAWKS 3: Victor Hedman
scored twice and Mikhail Ser-
gachev had a goal and two assists
as Tampa Bay beat h ost Chicago.
The two-time defending Stan-
ley Cup champions came from
behind with a five-goal outburst
over seven minutes bridging the
second and third periods.
l HURRICANES 3, KRAKEN
2: Martin Necas scored with 9:38
remaining to give C arolina i ts first
lead of the game in a win over
Seattle in Raleigh, N.C.
Nino Niederreiter and Teuvo
Teravainen scored second-period
goals on power plays for the Hur-
ricanes, who stretched their
home-ice points streak to
11 games. Antti Raanta made
28 saves.
l KINGS 3, SABRES 0: An-
dreas Athanasiou scored twice,
including the 100 th goal of his
career, and Cal Petersen stopped
19 shots as visiting Los Angeles
defeated Buffalo.
The Sabres’ injury list grew
when top-line forward Alex Tuch
did not return after crashing
headfirst into the post during a
shorthanded rush w ith 8:55 to go.
l DEVILS 3, BLUES 2 (OT):
Dougie Hamilton scored in over-
time and rookie Nico Daws made
19 saves as New Jersey e dged
St. Louis in Newark.
Hamilton scored his ninth goal
of the season at 1:12 of the extra
session with a high shot to beat
Blues n etminder V ille Husso.
l DUCKS 3, SHARKS 2 (OT):
Rickard Rakell scored 14 seconds
into overtime, and A naheim
earned its second win over San
Jose during a six-game home-
stand.
Adam Henrique had a goal and
an assist f or the D ucks.
l GOLDEN KNIGHTS 2,
SENATORS 1: I n Las Vegas, Jack
Eichel scored a power-play goal
with 5.2 seconds remaining to lift
Vegas p ast Ottawa.
Jonathan Marchessault also
scored for the Golden Knights,
and Robin L ehner made 39 saves.
— Associated PressNHL ROUNDUPSnively out4-6 weeksafter wristprocedureC APITALS’ NEXT THREEat Calgary FlamesTomorrow 9NBCSWat Edmonton OilersWednesday8TNTat Vancouver CanucksFriday10NBCSW PlusRadio: WJFK (106.7 FM)Socka. The sophomore finished
with 19 points, 13 blocks, nine
rebounds and four assists.
“I really just tried to block out
everything going on and just be in
my moment,” Socka said. “The
last five games or so I haven’t
played very well, so I really want-
ed to step it up this game.”
Greenfield added 16 points,
15 rebounds and four assists for
Georgetown Day (24-4), which
posted its first winning season
since 20 13. An 18 -point loss to
Potomac School in the Independ-
ent School League final late last
month created a level of despera-
tion that propelled the Grasshop-
pers through the DCSAA playoffs,
Coach Pam Stanfield said.
Juniors Naki Cobb had nine
points and Rhyan Baldwin added
seven for Banneker (18-6).ing, the predominantly green-
clad crowd rose to its feet and
began to roar.
After years of filling up the stat
sheet but not the win column, the
star senior guard made good on
her promise to bring a banner to
Georgetown Day: The Grasshop-
pers defeated Banneker, 5 9-26, in
the Class A girls’ game to give the
school its first DCSAA title.
“[Getting a standing ovation]
was just surreal, and I’m just so
appreciative for all of the fans,”
she said. “I really want to thank
our athletic department for al-
lowing us to recruit this year
because it allowed us to infuse a
lot of new talent that ultimately
made this banner season possi-
ble.”
Part of that new talent was the
game’s MVP, forward ZaniaBard’s r esurgence continued in
the second half, and it grabbed a
three-point lead with less than
two minutes to play. C learly shak-
en, Ballou turned to Martin, who
kept the Knights within reach.
“I had no idea I was going to get
game MVP,” the sophomore said.
“But I stayed up all night watch-
ing Kobe championship high-
lights, so when we won I had to
take my shirt off like him and get
right with my people.”
Martin had 21 points, 10 re-
bounds and two steals for the
Knights. Kwari Harvey a nd DeAn-
gelo Fogle had 12 points apiece to
pace Bard, a first-year program.Georgetown Day girls prevail
As Sofia Greenfield made her
final trip to the Georgetown Day
bench with 33.1 seconds remain-stepped to the free throw line and
began his routine: dribble, drib-
ble, spin, shoot.
He h it both free throws, paving
the way for game MVP Lorenzo
Martin to tear off his jersey and
jump into the stands when time
expired, and the Knights claimed
a 55-54 win Sunday afternoon at
George Washington’s Smith Cen-
ter.
“I’m a senior — this ain’t noth-
ing new to me,” Cooper said. “At
the end of every practice, we
shoot at least 20 [free throws]. I
knew what my t eam needed, and I
went out there and got it done.”
Ballou (17-8) jumped to a 16-6
first-quarter lead, but Bard
( 14-13) wouldn’t go away. The Fal-
cons used a run late in the second
to get within four points at half-
time.BY TRAMEL RAGGSWith less than 20 seconds left
in the D.C. State Athletic Associa-
tion Class A boys’ basketball
championship game and his team
trailing by one, Ballou’s Myron
Cooper gathered a loose ball and
attacked the basket with bad in-
tentions.
But just as the senior guard put
up the go-ahead shot attempt, a
Bard defender sent him and the
ball tumbling to the court. Amid
the chaos, which included Bard
players and its coaching staff
pleading with the officials to re-
consider the foul call, Cooper
DCSAA CLASS A BASKETBALL FINALS
Cooper makes it look routine as he delivers at line for Knights
BALLOU 55,
BARD 54BY MICHAEL ERRIGOKiki Rice wandered through
the postgame revelry inside
George Washington’s Smith Cen-
ter with a large glass trophy in her
left hand and a small snippet of
the net in her right. The Sidwell
Friends senior had led her team to
a 69-41 win over Georgetown Visi-
tation in the D.C. State Athletic
Association Class AA girls’ basket-
ball championship game, and her
face was slightly pink from exer-
tion and maybe a bit of embar-
rassment over the MVP trophy
she had earned.
Rice again was the selfless fo-
cus of the Sidwell offense, a role
she has perfected. She finished
with 10 points and 10 assists Sun-
day as the No. 1 Quakers earned
the first state title in program
history to wrap up a dominant
campaign.
In a season in which Sidwell
moved to the top of the D.C. area
and the nation, the Quakers beat
every local opponent by double
digits.
“That’s so important to us,”
Rice said. “Always great to go out
of town, but we had to assert our
dominance here at home. To win
the league, to win states — that’s
what we’ve always talked about.”
When they played in this cham-
pionship game in 2020, falling to
St. John’s, the Quakers looked like
a young team destined to rise to
local prominence. Instead, they
took the pandemic year to grow
into a juggernaut and have played
this season at a level well beyond
those aspirations. Even still, Sun-
day brought a major milestone.
“For any high school team, the
overall goal is to win the state
championship,” junior forward
Khia Miller said. “Day-to-day, we
don’t think about being the num-
ber-one-ranked team in the coun-
try — we think about winning a
championship.”
Against the No. 8 Cubs (23-5),
Sidwell (28-0) slowly took con-
trol. After a low-scoring first quar-
ter, the Quakers clamped downand got out in transition to start
building their lead. They gave up
just four points in the second and
led by 13 at halftime. Sophomore
guard Leah Harmon finished
with a game-high 24 p oints.
“We feel we could’ve won that
game a few years ago,” Miller said.
“But [the loss] makes it even bet-
ter to come back as an older team
and win it now.”
While the possibility of a na-tional tournament remains, Sun-
day was Rice’s final game with
Sidwell in the D.C. area. A star on
the soccer field and the basketball
court, she has garnered the type of
buzz rarely seen at t he high school
level. After Friday’s DCSAA semi-
final victory at Georgetown Uni-
versity, the UCLA commit spent
30 minutes wading through a
crowd of young fans asking for an
autograph or a picture.Rice joined this program as a
promising prospect ready to lift it
to the top of the Independent
School League, which the Quak-
ers hadn’t won outright in some
time. She will leave Sidwell hav-
ing helped take it as high as it
could go.
“I’m going to miss the atmos-
phere, the fans,” she said. “I can’t
wait to come back to D.C. as one of
them and watch this team.”DCSAA CLASS AA GIRLS’ BASKETBALL FINAL
Rice and the Quakers again state their case as area’s best team
SIDWELL FRIENDS 69,
G. VISITATION 41TERRANCE WILLIAMS FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
Sidwell Friends improved to 28-0 this season by beating Georgetown Visitation and winning its first state championship Sunday.BY KYLE MELNICKThree years ago, Caleb Williams
was a short middle-schooler sitting
behind the Sidwell Friends bench
at the D.C. State Athletic Associa-
tion Class AA boys’ basketball
championship game. When the
Quakers w on on a buzzer-beater in
overtime to announce themselves
as one of the D.C. area’s top teams,
Williams jumped to see snippets of
the on-court celebration.
At that moment, Williams de-
cided he wanted to help Sidwell
continue to make history. The
sophomore accomplished that
goal with his own buzzer-beater in
Sunday night’s D CSAA title game.
With just moments remaining
at George Washington’s Smith
Center, Williams grabbed his
teammate’s miss and finished a
reverse layup as the buzzer sound-
ed on No. 2 Sidwell’s 46-45 win
over No. 7 Wilson.
“I brought that dog out from
inside me,” said Williams, a
6 -foot-7, 215-pound guard. “It’s
crazy how we can be in the same
exact situation. Playing o n the b ig-
gest stage possible is something
that I really try to take pride i n.”
Sidwell’s three-pointer at the
overtime buzzer in 20 19, at Enter-
tainment and Sports Arena, also
came against Wilson. That w as the
Quakers’ first DCSAA crown.
Sidwell (29-1) has grown since,
this season claiming its first Mid-
Atlantic Athletic Conference title
since 2016 and finishing on a
2 7-game winning streak.
Wilson (27-5) led 4 2-32 with
5:52 remaining Sunday. T he Quak-
ers have one of the area’s fiercest
defenses, and they emphasized
that s trength in huddles d own the
stretch. The players assured one
another that their shots would
start falling.
The Quakers cut their deficit to
45 -44 with 6.6 seconds remaining.
Wilson appeared in c ontrol u ntil it
fumbled an inbound pass, giving
Sidwell the ball with 5.5 seconds
left.
Sidwell’s play was designed for
Williams to attack the basket, butwith him tightly defended, guard
Christian Gamble attempted a
three-pointer from the left wing.
Williams, in the paint, counted
down the seconds in his mind as
he boxed out. Williams’s defender
watched the shot miss the rim as
he jumped and put the ball in off
the b ackboard.
Williams, w ho had a g ame-high
20 points and 12 rebounds, began
turning to run back on defense
when the buzzer sounded and histeammates mobbed him.
“That team w e had [in 2019], no
one expected us to do anything
that whole season,” Gamble said.
“We won, but we still didn’t earn
any respect. People just thought it
was a f luke. But t his year, this t eam
is so t alented, and they’re going to
be great still next year.”
Gamble has played for the
Quakers for four years, and Wil-
liams has watched Sidwell’s as-
cent since his older b rother, Jelani,began attending the Northwest
Washington private school in
20 13. As h e and his teammates cut
down the n et a nd posed for photos
with the championship trophy,
Williams signed autographs on
children’s b asketballs. He h opes to
inspire the next generation to
shine f or Sidwell.
“We’re not leaving,” he said.
“We’re going to keep building t hat
culture and building that legacy
for t he guys after us.”DCSAA CLASS AA BOYS’ BASKETBALL FINAL
Williams hits b uzzer-beater, makes h is own mark for S idwell
SIDWELL FRIENDS 46,
WILSON 45TERRANCE WILLIAMS FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
C oach Eric Singletary, left, and Sidwell Friends players run onto the court after Caleb Williams (5) beat Wilson with a reverse layup.