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COLUMBIA, S.C. -- No. 3 South Carolina finished off three cruise-control wins on its home court. Things wont be so easy next time against No. 4 Louisville.The Gamecocks (4-0) routed St. Peters 93-38 on Tuesday night in the Basketball Hall of Fame Womens Challenge. Alaina Coates has 16 points as all five South Carolina starters finished in double figures and handed the Peacocks (0-4) their 19th straight loss.Gamecocks coach Dawn Staley believes her program is ready for the step up in competition.Its a great way to put our identity on the line, Staley said. Its a good way to see where we match up with other great teams across the country.The tests wont stop for the Gamecocks after Louisville. Theyll travel to No. 14 Texas on Dec. 1, then close the road stretch at typically dangerous Duke. Theres also a home game Dec. 18 against No. 9 UCLA.Kaela Davis, the Georgia Tech transfer, scored 14 points, going 4-of-4 on three pointers. She said the teams runaway wins over the past three days -- the Gamecocks topped Hampton 92-38 on Sunday and Maine 79-42 on Monday night -- have helped the team develop flow and revealed deficiencies to work on at practice.Obviously, with our three-game stretch weve got coming up, we need to fine tune a lot of things, Davis said.Davis got the Gamecocks off quickly with a 3-pointer from the right corner. Allisha Gray and Bianca Cuevas-Moore also had early 3s and the Gamecocks led 13-2 four minutes in. Things trended South Carolinas way the rest of the game.The Gamecocks were up 64-21 at the break, tied for third most points in a half in program history.Aja Wilson had 14 points, Gray 13 and Cuevas-Moore 11 as the starter spent most of the final two quarters on the bench cheering their younger teammates.St. Peters coach Pat Coyle said the Gamecocks are hard for a team like hers to stop. We talk about the peaks and the valleys. If youve got good kids, you get out of the valleys quickly, which we do, she said. After Thanksgiving, well regroup.Talah Hughes led St. Peters with 11 points, its only double-figure scorer.THE BIG PICTURESt. Peters: The Peacocks had a terrible time in Columbia, losing all three games by awful margins: to Maine, 59-43; to Hampton, 71-42; and to the Gamecocks. St. Peters was out-rebounded by South Carolina 27-7 in the first two quarters and committed 12 turnovers. They let the Gamecocks shoot better than 68 percent in the first half. It looks like another long season for the Peacocks.South Carolina: The Gamecocks showed they be dangerous from the outside, too, to go along with their post success. Davis hit all four of her first-half 3-pointers. All seven Gamecocks who took shots in the first two quarters had a shooting percentage over .500. If South Carolina can knock down outside shots, it will add to the effectiveness of 6-5 Wilson and 6-4 Coates down low.POLL IMPLICATIONSFor South Carolina, its simple: Beat Louisville and stay No. 3 or higher. Lose to the Cardinals on Sunday and expect to slide down a few notches.HOT SHOOTINGThe Gamecocks finished with season highs in field goal shooting and three-point shooting. South Carolina hit 37 of 66 shots (56.1 percent) from the field while making 10 of 24 shots (41.7 percent) from behind the arc.SHE SAID ITFor me, its about bringing these kids to experience this environment. 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Cheap Bucks Jerseys . -- Nathan Pancel scored twice as the Sudbury Wolves defeated the North Bay Battalion 4-2 on Saturday in Ontario Hockey League action.MONTREAL -- After being run into for a second time in one period, ever-steady Canadiens goaltender Carey Price lost it.Price, who missed most of last season with a knee injury, pummeled New Jersey forward Kyle Palmieri with his blocker in the first period of Montreals 5-2 victory over the Devils on Thursday night.Earlier in the period, Price was bumped by Adam Henrique as the Devils center scored a goal. After Palmieri slid into Prices knees, the goaltender jumped on him and pounded on his head and back.I got run over on the first goal and then I took another one and I got fired up, I guess, Price said.Palmieri got a minor for goalie interference while Price got 4 minutes for roughing.It was nice to see the fire, Montreals Torrey Mitchell said. Everyone thinks hes just a calm, laid back guy, but hes competitive.All of us in here know that, so it was nice to see him fight back a little bit there. Obviously we dont want him doing that. We want to step in for him. But hes a competitive guy, so it was nice to see.Palmieri, who was dragged away by Jeff Petry as Price kept swinging, called it just a hockey play.Ive done it probably 50 to 100 times in my career. You go to the net and either its a trip or a push or you lose an edge. Its going to the net. Thats where you score goals. You go to the net, try to put a good shot on and you lose control.I dont know the rule, but any time youre on the ice defenseless and youre taking a blocker to the back of the head, its not a great situation to be in.Price settled down the rest of the way and made 19 saves while the Canadiens fired a season-high 49 shots at Cory Schneider.Mitchell scored twice and Phillip Danault, Artturi Lehkonen and Max Pacioretty also had goals for the Canadiens in their return from a five-game trip.Henrique scored a goal and set up one by Taylor Hall for New Jersey, which ended a two-game wiinning streak.ddddddddddddA wild first period included three goals, four goal reviews and Prices meltdown.Danault, who skipped the team skate Thursday morning due to an illness, opened the scoring at 12:49 on a disputed goal when he tipped Nathan Beaulieus shot past Schneider. It stood through an official review for a high stick and Devils coach John Hynes challenge that Schneider was interfered with by Danault just outside the crease.Henrique tied it at 16:19 when the rebound of P.A. Parenteaus shot went off him into the net just before Henrique rammed into Price. Again, the goal was upheld after two reviews.At 17:15, Mitchell elected to shoot on a 2-on-1 and the rebound went in off New Jersey forward Nick Lappins skate. Andrew Shaw picked up his second assist of the game on the goal.There was another small bump on Schneider before Lehkonen scored into an open side at 9:59 of the second, but at that point, both coaches had used up their challenges.Pacioretty was alone in front to score on a backhand that trickled through Schneiders pads 45 seconds into the third after Alexander Radulov forced a turnover.Henrique made a clever backhand pass for Hall to score into an open side on a power play at 3:07. Hall has scored in three straight games.Mitchell reached in from behind the net to tuck in his second of the game at 15:49.Game notesMontreal announced that D Greg Pateryn, who took a shot off a foot on Tuesday in St. Louis, will be out about eight weeks with a fractured ankle. .... Canadiens Ds Nathan Beaulieu (neck) and Zach Redmond (broken foot) returned from injuries. Offseason signing Redmond made his Canadiens debut.UP NEXTCanadiens: Host Colorado on Saturday night.Devils: Return home to host St. Louis on Friday night. ' ' '