Minnesotan Tucker Hibbert won his ninth consecutive gold medal in SnoCross on Thursday night at the Winter X Games in Aspen, Colo., tying the record for consective wins in any X Games competition.
Hibbert, of Pelican Rapids, finished the race in 16 minutes, 5.7 seconds, nearly 11 seconds ahead of the runner-up.
It was his 10th gold overall in this snowmobile race; his first came in 2000.
"It's no secret that X Games is my favorite event of the year," Hibbert said before competing. "It was my first pro race and a place I've always felt at home."
After winning, he tweeted: "Unreal feeling. Excited, relieved and so proud of how hard #Team68 worked to get here."
U women at Bemidji St.
The No. 3-ranked Gophers women's hockey team will play a WCHA series at No. 7 Bemidji State this weekend. The opener is at 7 p.m. Friday at the Sanford Center, the second game at 4 p.m. Saturday.
Minnesota (22-3, 17-3) swept the Beavers 4-0 and 8-3 at home in mid-November.
Bemidji State (17-7-2, 12-7-1) is third in the conference standings — 14 points behind the second-place Gophers. Beavers junior goalie Brittni Mowat is seventh in the nation with a 1.57 goals-against average and a .942 save percentage.
