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January 14, 2008 Archives

Boston Bruins center Marc Savard was selected Monday to the Eastern Conference team for the NHL All-Star game.

Savard, chosen for the first time in his 10 seasons, leads the Bruins with 47 points on 11 goals and 36 assists. He joins Boston defenseman Zdeno Chara, who was selected as a starter for the game, which will take place Jan. 27 in Atlanta.

Last season, his first with Boston, Savard had a career-best 74 assists and had 96 points, one less than his high set the previous season with Atlanta.

--AP

| Categories Bruins

HSGameTime readers were asked to vote between Thursday and yesterday on the best girls basketball team in Division II. The choices were limited to teams with winning league records as of Thursday afternoon. A huge turnout for Tiverton fans put the Tigers in the number-one position in the poll. There were more than 1,000 votes total, and here's how the teams ranked:

1. Tiverton
2. Mt. Hope
3. Barrington/Scituate (tie)
5. Woonsocket
6. Prout
7. North Providence
8. Westerly
9. Central/Mount St. Charles (tie)
11. Pilgrim
12. Portsmouth
13. Johnston
14. Chariho

| Categories High School

The Rhode Island Rams have fallen one place in both the AP writers poll and the ESPN coaches poll, but last week's loss to Dayton did not relegate them to the realm of the unranked.

URI is 23rd in the latest AP poll, down from 22nd last week, and 21st in the coaches poll, down from 20th.

| Categories URI Basketball