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Milburn turns in hole-in-one

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The Daily Gleaner/James West Pho

on his way to the title: Stephane Boudreau of the Fox Creek Golf Club of Dieppe shows the form that allowed him to post an even par 70 on the final day of the Austin Drisdelle Realty New Brunswick Junior men’s golf championship. His three-round total of 216 was enough to earn a two-shot victory over Colin Manning of Moncton and an exemtpion from today’s final round of team trials.

Bernita Milburn posted a hole-in-one on the par-3, 160-yard fourth hole at Mactaquac Provincial Park yesterday, using a number four hybrid to turn the trick. Witnesses were Paul Milburn and Bob Crawford.

V-Reds, Tommies open hockey season away

Both the defending Atlantic University Sport Men's Hockey Conference champion University of New Brunswick Varsity Reds and cross campus rival St. Thomas Tommies open the regular AUS hockey season on the road Friday, Oct. 17. The V-Reds, who completed the regular season with a 26-1-1 mark last year and rolled through the playoffs before losing to the University of Alberta Golden Bears in the national final, are in Charlottetown to face the rebuilding University of Prince Edward Island Panthers. The Tommies, who finished fourth in the regular season and defeated X in the first round of the playoffs before losing to the V-Reds, are in Moncton to face les Aigles Bleus. Tommies are home the next night, Oct. 18, to face the Panthers. UNB's home opener doesn't come up until Oct. 29 when they host the Tommies in the first of four regular season meetings.

Read leaves ski job so son can compete

TORONTO - Ken Read is leaving his job as president of Alpine Canada to open the door for his son to ski on the Canadian team.

Under the rules of Alpine Canada, employees cannot have children racing for the team.

"I'm quite comfortable with my decision," Read told The Canadian Press on Wednesday. Alpine Canada announced the move later in the day.

Read's son Erik, competing in the 15/16-year-old division, won a silver medal in downhill last year at the world junior championship in Spain. He is now a part of the Alpine Canada program.

Ken Read, 52, took over Alpine Canada after the Salt Lake City Olympics in 2002.

"After more than six years leading this organization I knew the day would come where I had to choose between working at Alpine Canada Alpin and my family," Read said in a release.

Murray hired to to take over LA Kings

LOS ANGELES - Terry Murray, who coached the Philadelphia Flyers to the Stanley Cup finals 11 years ago,will be introduced Thursday as the new head coach of the Los Angeles Kings, succeeding Marc Crawford.

Murray, who turns 58 on Sunday, has spent the last four seasons as an assistant coach with the Philadelphia Flyers.

He hadn't been a head coach in the NHL since being fired by the Florida Panthers following the 2000-01 season. He has a 360-288-89 regular-season record and a 46-43 post-season mark as a head coach.

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Former UNB head coach Mike Johnston, an associate coach with Crawford in both Vancouver and L.A. was interviewed.