Today is Friday, March 28, the 87th day of 2025. There are 278 days left in the year.

Today in history:

On March 28, 1979, America’s worst commercial nuclear accident occurred with a partial meltdown inside the Unit 2 reactor at the Three Mile Island plant near Middletown, Pennsylvania.

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In 1898, the U.S. Supreme Court, in United States v. Wong Kim Ark, ruled 6-2 that Wong, who was born in the United States to Chinese immigrants, was an American citizen. It was the first Supreme Court decision to rule on the citizenship status of a child born in the United States to noncitizen parents.

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In 2022, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed the Florida Parental Rights in Education Act (commonly referred to as the “Don’t Say Gay” law), which includes the prohibition of classroom discussion about sexual orientation or gender identity in some grade levels in Florida schools.

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Rested or rusty? For the University of Minnesota’s men’s hockey team, it was maybe a little bit of both on Thursday night.

After 18 days off, the Gophers jumped to a 2-1 first-period lead, and took a 3-1 advantage into the third period before Massachusetts made it a new game with three unanswered third-period goals and won it on Aydar Suniev’s second goal in overtime, 5-4, at Scheels Arena in Fargo, N.D.

The winning goal was contentious.

Minnesota’s Ryan Chesley was carrying the puck into the UMass end when it appeared he was tripped. Chelsey lost the puck, and the Minutemen turned play the other way and scored the winner. Dans Locmelis corralled the puck and took it into the Gophers’ zone before backhanding it toward the net. Suniev, charging the net, tapped it in.

Suniev added a third-period goal, and the Minutemen (21-13-0) got goals from Larry Keenan, Daniel Jenčko and Francesco Dell’Elce to advance to face Western Michigan (31-7-1), the NCHC’s regular-season and tournament champion, in the regional final Sunday at Scheels Arena.

Puck drop is to be determined.

Jimmy Snuggerud forced overtime with the second of his goals, making it 4-4 with 3:36 remaining after Dell’Elce had given UMass a lead.

Connor Kurth and Brody Lamb also scored for Minnesota (25-11-4), which hadn’t played a game since getting upset by Notre Dame in the first round of the Big Ten Conference tournament on March 9. That spurred concerns that the Gophers might be rusty for their NCAA tournament opener

Dell’Elce scored an even-strength goal to give the Minutemen a 4-3 lead with 4 minutes, 53 seconds remaining in regulation, but Snuggerud answered with his second goal to tie it and ultimately send the game to overtime.

Snuggerud scored a power-play goal at 14:14 of the first period to give the Gophers a 1-0 lead.

Keenan scored for UMass (20-13) just 20 seconds later to tie the score 1-1, but Lamb scored an even-strength goal with 1:11 left in the first period for a 2-1 lead.

Kurth made it 3-1 with an even-strength goal on assists by Jimmy Clark and Matthew Wood with six minutes left in the second period.

It stayed that way until Suniev scored an even-strength goal for the Minutemen to make it 3-2, and 1:35 later, Daniel Jenčko scored to tie the game, 3-3.

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FARGO — The few but proud Western Michigan faithful waved the “W” flag following forward Grant Slukynsky’s double-overtime goal on Thursday night at Scheels Arena

Slukynsky fired a backhand shot just outside the crease that trickled past a scrum of players and into the Minnesota State Mankato net. The goal powered the top-seeded Broncos’ 2-1 win over the No. 4-seeded Mavericks in the NCAA Division I Men’s Hockey Fargo Regional semifinals.

“I saw (Zach Nehring) cut to the middle, a big strong forward, and he was able to get it in on the net,” Slukynsky said of the goal. “I saw the puck there, got a swipe on it and fortunately it went in.”

The goal marked the Warroad native’s 10th of the season and first game-winning goal.

Western Michigan advances to the regional championship against the winner of No. 2 Minnesota and No. 3 Massachusetts at a to-be-determined time on Saturday at Scheels Arena.

The win marked Western Michigan’s seventh overtime win of the season and second consecutive double-overtime win. The Broncos defeated Denver 4-3 in the NCHC championship game last Saturday.

Western Michigan earned its first win in the NCAA tournament since a 2-1 overtime win over Northeastern in 2022.

“They made it really hard on us,” said Broncos head coach Pat Ferschweiler. “When you force enough turnovers, you’re going to see some positive results.”

Minnesota State goaltender Alex Tracy kept the Mavericks’ hopes alive with key saves late in the first overtime period. Tracy, a finalist for the Mike Richter Award given to the top Division I goaltender, turned away a shot just outside the crease from Western Michigan forward Alex Bumpt before time expired in the first overtime.

Western Michigan maintained an 11-7 shot advantage after the scoreless first period. Minnesota State mustered only three shots in the first 15 minutes of the first period, but outshot the Broncos 4-2 to close a previous six-shot gap.

Broncos forward Liam Valente buried a power-play goal 48 seconds into the second period. Valente corralled a pass from Owen Michaels at the point and scored on a shot from the dot in the right circle. Valente’s goal came on the Broncos’ second power-play opportunity of the contest. Western Michigan entered the game converting 24.5% on the power play.

Western Michigan goaltender Hampton Slukynsky, who finished with 29 saves, denied a potential game-tying goal with 29 seconds left in the second. Mavericks forward Josh Groll hammered a one-timer from the slot, but Hampton Slukynsky made a split save to maintain the Broncos’ lead after two periods.

“I felt good all game,” said Hampton Slukynsky, who is Grant’s brother.

Minnesota State forward Kaden Bohlsen tied the game at 1:51 of the third period. Bohlsen reached across the crease and put away a loose puck along the goal line on a rebound of Zach Krajnik’s shot.

“I was in front of the net and saw them banging away at it,” Bohlsen said of the goal. “Luckily it slid behind the goalie and I whacked it in. Give all the credit to (Krajnik).”

This contest marked the first time the two programs squared off against each other.

Tracy stopped 42 shots. The Mavericks, who made their 10th appearance in the tournament, ended their season 27-9-3 overall. The team all slapped their sticks before the legions of Minnesota State fans that supported them all season.

“We have the best fan base in college hockey,” Bohlsen said. “They traveled all the way here to Fargo for us. Feeling that support throughout the year from them has been amazing.”

Ferschweiler said he’s not going to dwell on the win.

“I’m done celebrating now,” Fercshweiler said. “I’ve moved on. I’ll let (the players) enjoy it for a hot second and we’ll start preparing.”

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The start couldn’t have been much better for Minnesota; the finish was exhilarating.

Amaya Battle scored a career-high 35 points, including four free throws late in overtime, and the Gophers beat Gonzaga 82-77 in a Women’s Basketball Invitational Tournament quarterfinal on Thursday at Williams Arena.

Grace Grocholski finished with 20 points and Tori McKinney had 19 for Minnesota.

The Gophers (23-11) advance to the WBIT semifinals against Florida on Monday at Hinkle Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. The title game is Wednesday. Minnesota lost to St. Louis in last year’s lower-tier WNIT championship.

Grocholski scored on a jumper with 2:09 left in the extra session for a 75-72 lead. Yvonne Ejim scored to get the Bulldogs within one, but Battle made a pair of free throws with 1:28 left. Battle also tied a career high with 10 assists.

Two more free throws by Battle, one by Kennedy Klick and two from Grocholski finished off the Bulldogs. Klick’s point was the only bench point for Minnesota.

Both teams had a chance to win in the final minute of regulation.

Tied at 70 coming out of a timeout with 40.5 seconds left, Battle missed a jumper with 31 seconds left. Gonzaga got the ball and called a timeout.

As they did most of the game, the Bulldogs patiently worked their offense. But Ejim was forced into a low-chance, off-balance desperation jumper and the game went to overtime.

Ejim, the player of the year in the West Coast Conference, led the Bulldogs (23-11) with 27 points and 15 rebounds.

Battle had 13 points and McKinney 10, and Minnesota shot 71.4% in the opening quarter for a 25-16 lead.

But the Gophers made an offensive U-turn in the second quarter, being outscored 19-9. Minnesota made just 3 of 16 shots, missed all six attempts from deep and found themselves down 35-34 at the break.

Down by six after three quarters, back-to-back layups by Grocholski and Battle — on a feed from Grocholski — got Minnesota within 56-54 early in the fourth quarter, but Gonzaga scored nine of the next 12 points for an eight-point lead with 5 minutes left.

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