Bill Ballou
Sports Writer at Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Bill Ballou has covered the Boston Red Sox for the Telegram & Gazette of Worcester since 1987.
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2 weeks ago |
masslive.com | Bill Ballou
WORCESTER — The Railers must love the DCU Center to death because they are doing everything they can to make sure that Sunday was not the last hockey game they play here this season. It was a wonderful game that ended on a sour note as the visiting Adirondack Thunder prevailed in overtime, 3-2. The match was close all the way. It featured lots of contact, a drop or two of blood and splendid goaltending on both ends.
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2 weeks ago |
masslive.com | Bill Ballou
WORCESTER – It can be really hard to project the outcome of a game between a team that has nothing to lose and one that has everything to lose. Such was the case Saturday night in the match here between the Railers and the Adirondack Thunder. Worcester won by a goal, of course, 3-2. Each of the Railers’ last seven victories have been by one goal including a shootout triumph. Adirondack is out of the playoff race and using many new faces.
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1 month ago |
masslive.com | Bill Ballou
WORCESTER – There is probably no practical way to do this, but if the Railers could start every game in the third period they might go unbeaten. They survived another slow start Saturday night and beat the Trois-Rivieres Lions in overtime, 5-4. They did it by fashioning the second-greatest comeback in the city’s 25-year hockey history.
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1 month ago |
masslive.com | Bill Ballou
PORTLAND, ME – It was that avid hockey fan, Abraham Lincoln, who said that you can kill all of the penalties some of the time, and some of the penalties all of the time, but you can’t kill all of the penalties all of the time. The Railers had their six-game string of not allowing a power play goal snapped Friday night in a 5-3 loss here to the Maine Mariners. Two of the Maine goals came on power plays.
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1 month ago |
masslive.com | Bill Ballou
WORCESTER – The Worcester Railers have not played seven periods of sudden death overtime the last two nights here – it only feels that way. Less than 24 hours after Worcester took a wild 6-5 decision from the Norfolk Admirals, the Railers beat the Southerners, 2-1, in an equally tense affair Saturday night. The victory kept them two points ahead of Reading in the North Division playoff race, although the Royals have two games in hand. Reading also won Saturday night – they beat Trois-Rivieres, 2-1.
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