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MONDAY, APRIL 9, 2018

Wilson, Thomas book spots in high jump final By BRENT STUBBS Senior Sports Reporter bstubbs@tribunemedia.net GOLD COAST, Australia — Jamal Wilson and Donald Thomas booked their spots into the final of the men’s high jump with the third and 11th best qualifying performances of 2.21 metres at the Carrara Stadium yesterday morning. Leading the way in Group A, Wilson cleared all five marks that he attempted. After passing at 1.95 metres or 6-feet, 4 3/4-inches and 2.0m (6-6 3/4), it was smooth sailing for Wilson at 2.05m (6-8 3/4), 2.10m (6-10 3/4), 2.15m (7-0 1/2), 2.18m (7-1 3/4) and 2.21m (7-3). “It felt good, the track felt great and the atmosphere was great,”

Wilson said. “It was good.” When asked what the Bahamian HIGH jumpers Jamal Wilson (left) and Donald Thomas. public can expect in As for his performance, Wilson the final on Wednesday, Wilson said “we will let God said everything was “smooth” as silk as he cleared the first heights. do the rest.”

“I’m not too concerned about competition. It’s just between me and the bar,” Wilson said. “I’m just going to let these guys go out there and do what they have to do and I will do what I have to do. In the end, so be it.” Thomas, on the other hand, passed on the first three marks and came in at 2.10m (6-10 3/4) and cleared 2:15m (7-0 1/2) and 2.18m (7-1 3/4) without any problems on his first try. However, on 2.21m (7-3), he knocked down the first two attempts before getting some advice from Wilson and easily cleared the final attempt to get into the final as well. Thomas, who opted not to speak, said he will be ready for the final.

Sprinters advance to semis By BRENT STUBBS Senior Sports Reporter bstubbs@tribunemedia.net GOLD Coast, Australia — Day one of the athletic competition in the XXI Commonwealth Games saw sprinters Warren Fraser and V’Alonee Robinson make it to the semi-final of the men’s and women’s 100 metres, while Michael Mathieu just barely got into the semi-final of the men’s 400 metres. Sunday’s competition at the Carrara Stadium, however, didn’t go without its misfortune as sprinter Shavez Hart missed joining Fraser in advancing to the century’s semifinal. He ran 10.53 seconds for third in the second of nine heats and was 32nd overall. “I had a good run and everything looked good, so I really thought that I would have gone through,” he said. There was a false start with one competitor eliminated and after they settled down to run again, the race was recalled about 20 metres into it. However, the officials ruled that there was no infraction by any of the competitors. “When we got back the third time, I just tried to sit back because I didn’t want to got eliminated,” Hart said. “I felt pretty good, but I was just sitting back in the blocks waiting and I may have waited too late to make my move.” Fraser could only muster an eighth place finish in the last of three semis in the men’s straightaway race in a sub-par 10.44 that placed him 20th overall. “I don’t know,” said Fraser when asked what happened. “I tried, but I think I tried too hard. My body didn’t give me what I asked for.” And although he got to the semis, Fraser said it’s not something for him to celebrate because the goal was to get to the final and run fast enough to be in contention for a medal.

GOLD Coast, Australia — Steven Gardiner can now boast of being the Bahamas national record holder in both the men’s 200 and 400 metres. Taking advantage of his application for a green card in the United States, which required him to skip the trip to the Commonwealth Games, Gardiner participated in the 200m in the 2018 Miami Hurricanes Alumni at the University of Miami on Saturday.

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BASTIAN ENDS UP 31ST IN 50M FREE GOLD Coast, Australia — In his second event of the XXI Commonwealth Games, Izaak Bastian had to settle for sixth place in the fifth of eight heats of the men’s 50 metre freestyle at the Optus Aquatic Centre yesterday. Bastian’s time of 24.07 seconds placed him 31st overall in a field of 60 competitors - one was disqualified - and he is slated to return to the pool for his third swim in the men’s 200m individual medley at 11.21am Australian time in lane eight of heat three. The swimming segment will be completed on Tuesday. Bastian will be joined by Joanna Evans, who will also swim in her final event in the women’s 400m freestyle in lane three of heat four at 10:43am. Lilly Higgs, the other female on the team, is already done with her two swims. And N’Nyhn Fernander is still recovering after he was withdrawn from further competition and placed in isolation at the Games Village to be treated for Influenzavirus B.

CHARLTON BREAKS LOLO JONES’ 8-YEAR-OLD SCHOOL RECORD ON TRACK: Sprinters Michael Mathieu (top left), V’Alonee Robinson (top right), Shavez Hart (above left) and Warren Fraser can be seen yesterday on day 1 of the athletic competition at the XXI Commonwealth Games. “You always expect to perform better than the last time, so I know I could have done better,” Fraser pointed out. “I just have to head back to training and try to get my mind cleared up to race. I guess it’s too difficult for me trying to juggle grad-school with training.” Earlier in the day, Fraser advanced out of the preliminaries with the 17th best time overall after he got the second automatic spot in the first of nine heats in 10.37, ironically running out of lane eight in both rounds.

Robinson kicked off the programme for Team Bahamas in the heats of the women’s 100m. In the third of six heats, her season’s best time of 11.73 pushed her into the semis with the fourth fastest losing times. In the return for her second race of the day, Robinson didn’t have the turn over as she did the first time around and she had to settle for eighth place in 12.09 and 24th place overall. The fastest qualifying time was done by Asha Philip from Great Britain in 11.21.

In the process, Gardiner erased Commonwealth Games participant Michael Mathieu’s previous national record of 20.16 seconds that he set on May 6, 2012 at the Grand Prix Caixa Governo do Pera, Belem, Brazil. The tall, lanky 6-foot, two-inch Gardiner became the first Bahamian to break the 20-second barrier when he ran an impressive 19.75 to add his name in the record books next to the 400 record that he also holds. “I feel very excited about it,” Gardiner told The Tribune. “It’s a new national record and now I have the 200/400 double. I just want to say thanks to God and my coach for keeping me healthy. I wanted to get this national record and now I have it.” Looking back at the race, which was a reflection of the time when he burst onto the scene as a high school student in Abaco, Gardiner admitted that it was “poetry in motion” as he was able to improve on his start, taking control coming off the final bend and he just accelerated to the finish line. “For the first time, I think I executed the perfect race like my coach (Gary Evans) told me to,” Gardiner said. “I did everything

Mathieu, moments after running his first round of the men’s 400m at the Commonwealth Games, accepted the fact that if there was going to be anyone capable of surpassing his mark, it would have been Gardiner. “I knew that he would have after I saw him run 43 last year and his first 200 metres was pretty quick and he still holds it from there,” Mathieu said. “I knew then that he

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STEVEN GARDINER with coach Gary Evans. that he told me to do and here we are with 19.75.” The new barrier that he attained for his latest record-breaking feat was something that Gardiner admitted that he doesn’t expect Mathieu to be pleased, but he acknowledges that it comes with the territory. “Records are meant to be broken and so there’s always someone coming, so it’s just something that will happen,” Gardiner insisted.

By BRENT STUBBS Senior Sports Reporter bstubbs@tribunemedia.net DEVYNNE Charlton, inspired by one of her role models of the sport in the stands watching her perform on Saturday, began her final outdoor season for the Purdue Boilermakers by breaking an eight-yearold school record that was previously held by American Lolo Jones. At the LSU Battle on the Bayou, Charlton broke the 100-metre hurdles school record for the 11th-ranked Boilermakers with a windlegal (+1.6) time of 12.70 seconds. That time broke her own school record by 0.04 of a second. It also broke the Bernie Moore Track Stadium record, previously held by Olympian Lolo Jones, by 0.01 of a second. “I didn’t expect to run that fast this early in the season, but the conditions were right and it came down to a perfect execution over the hurdles,” Charlton told The Tribune. “I executed a bit better, but I had to push harder out of the blocks and tried to stay mechanically sound the rest of the race.” With Jones in the stands, Charlton predicted that if she was there, she would do something special and came through in true form. She smashed the record which had stood since 2010. Charlton is now within 0.06 of a second of the Bahamian national record of 12.64 set by Texas senior transfer Pedrya Seymour at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. “I feel pretty good about the upcoming season. If you look back, I ran a PR of 12.9 and I am much further ahead of where I was then, so I am expecting something special to happen this year,” said Charlton, who is in her final season at Purdue under the

Michelle-Lee Ahye from Trinidad & Tobago won Robinson’s heat in 11.25 for the third fastest time. “I felt my first 40 to 60 metres wasn’t where I wanted it to be, so I tried to hold on as much as I could,” Robinson said. “It was still a pretty good feeling and I am just thankful that I was able to move it on to the next round.” Mathieu, having had his men’s national 200m record broken by Steven Gardiner on Saturday in Miami, Florida, barely got through his heat in the 400m, running 46.97 for fifth place. But after a disqualification of Matthew

Gardiner’s 19.75 new national record in 200m By BRENT STUBBS Senior Sports Reporter bstubbs@tribunemedia.net

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Stephen Newbold: ‘I can’t wait to go out there and perform’ By BRENT STUBBS Senior Sports Reporter bstubbs@tribunemedia.net GOLD Coast, Australia — Grateful for all of the obstacles that he’s had to endure during his young career, Stephen ‘Dirty’ Newbold would not give up the opportunity to continue running track and field for anything in this world. The 23-year-old quarter-miler said he believes that God has given him the ability to run and he’s going to continue to utilise his skills to the fullest. He’s here as a part of the Bahamian delegation that includes 19 track and field athletes who will be competing in the XXI Commonwealth Games. The athletic competition got underway yesterday at the Cararra Stadium. Newbold’s duties will be in the men’s 4 x 400 metre relay, but if the opportunity presents itself for him to compete in the 400m, just like it did to travel here ‘Down Under,’ Newbold said he will definitely embrace it. In fact, he said the warm reception he has gotten has inspired him even more. “It’s a wonderful feeling. This is my first time in Australia, my first time in the Gold Coast,” he said. “It’s lovely weather, lovely people. I can’t wait to go out there and perform.” Since he arrived here a couple days ago, Newbold said he has been doing some light shutouts, getting some massages and lifting weights to get his body acclimated to the weather. “Other than the travel route, I’m enjoying myself,” he said. “The Games Village is lovely, the officials lovely, the food lovely, I really can’t complain. It’s just a wait and see process to compete. Everybody knows Dirty. I go out there and give it my best, blood, sweat or tears. That is what they can expect from me.” Putting all that he’s been through behind him, Newbold said he’s concentrating on the future because he wants to get

STEPHEN NEWBOLD, eager to compete at the XXI Commonwealth Games, said he believes that God has given him the ability to run and he’s going to continue to utilise his skills to the fullest. back to where he was and get even further than that. “I had some injuries that prevented me from going forward, but I take it like a grain of salt,” he said. “I thank God, the Father for still allowing me to perform at this point. I had many collegiates who were aspiring athletes, but they are now working normal jobs. So I thank God for it. I can still compete professionally.” Without the support of his family, Newbold said he knows that it would have been impossible for him to get through his ordeals, which are his ghosts of the past. “I didn’t allow one injury to get to me or one setback to get to me,” he insisted. “I believe the Father has a plan for everybody and I believe his plan for me is to run through and to motivate other people. That’s what kept me in it.”

And even though a lot of the island nation’s elite athletes believe that they have to be in the United States to excel, Newbold said he wants to defy that myth and will continue to work on developing his skills under the tutelage of coach Shaun Miller, the father of Olympic champion Shaunae Miller-Uibo. “He’s a very lovely coach, so I can’t wait to perform so that I can show him that his work is not going to waste,” he stressed. “A lot of people say we don’t have all of the resources at home, but I believe we do. We just have to use them wisely and cautiously. Once you know how to improvise, anything is possible.” It’s with that possibility Newbold is holding on a glimmer of hope that he can get a chance to join the field in the men’s 400m with the absence of Bahamian

national record holder Steven Gardiner, who withdrew from the team because of visa issues in Florida where he now resides and trains. “I know they have a last minute technical meeting and anything could happen, but as it stands right now, I am just on the 4 x 4 team,” he said. So Newbold warned their arch-rivals to watch out for the Bahamas. “We have a lot of big countries missing, so if we don’t beat up on them here, I don’t know what to say,” he said. “We have a fairly good team. Once everybody brings their A-game, our performance should enable us to succeed and be victorious.” If he gets the nod, the heats of the men’s 400m will be held on Sunday and Newbold could join Michael Mathieu and Alonzo Russell. If he doesn’t, he will settle for the relay that will have heats on Friday, April 13 and the final on Saturday, April 14.

Sprinters advance to semis FROM PAGE 1 Hudson-Smith, Great Britain’s leading performer in the heats, Mathieu was moved up to the 24th and final spot for today’s semi-final. “It wasn’t what I expected,” said Mathieu before learning of Hudson-Smith’s DQ. “I got to the meet pretty late because I didn’t know that I was going to run the 400 until today. Although my name was there, they were supposed to take me out of it because I had an injury. “But once I got here, they told me that they couldn’t take me out so I still had to run.” As the race got underway, Mathieu said he felt flat and he wasn’t able to turn it on during the back stretch and it affected him coming on the home stretch as the top runners were already too far ahead of him. While here preparing to run, Mathieu also heard of Gardiner’s impressive 19.75 run at the 2018 Miami Hurricanes Alumni at the University of Miami on Saturday. That erased Mathieu’s previous national record of 20.16 seconds that he set at the Grand Prix Caixa Governo do Pera, Belem, Brazil, on May 6, 2012. “I knew that he would have after I saw him run 43 last year and his first 200 metres was pretty quick and he still holds it from there,” Mathieu said. “I knew then that he would do it, so it was just a matter of time.” On day two, Mathieu will be back for the semi-final when he will run out of lane two in the second of three heats in between Nigerian Chidi Okezie in lane one and Kimorie Shearman of St Vincent and the Grenadines in three. The first two in each heat and the next two fastest losing times will advance to the final on day three on Tuesday. In addition to the 400m, Mathieu will also have some relay duties when he runs on the men’s 4 x 400 team of Alonzo Russell, Stephen ‘Dirty’ Newbold, Ramon Miller, Ojay Ferguson and Teray Smith at the end of the week.

CHARLTON BREAKS LOLO JONES’ 8-YEAR-OLD SCHOOL RECORD FROM PAGE 1 leadership of Bahamian coach Rolando Greene and assistant Norbert Elliott. After the performance, Charlton won the 100m in a windy (+2.1) time of 11.34 seconds and she also led off the 4x100-metre relay team that included senior Savannah Roberson, junior Yakira Love and senior Savannah Carson. Charlton and the Boilermakers, which also features Bahamians Carmiesha Cox, Tamar Greene, Keanu Pennerman and Kinard Rolle, are back in action at the Louisville Invitational next week.

Gardiner’s 19.75 new national record in 200m FROM PAGE 1 would do it, so it was just a matter of time.” In producing the new mark, Gardiner adds his name to the 400m where he was also the first Bahamian to dip under the 44-second barrier. After lowering it a few times, it now stands at 43.89 – posted by Gardiner on August 6, 2017 at the IAAF World Championships in his second final heat before he won the silver in the final two days later. “It feels great. It’s something that I’ve been focusing on for a while,” said the Abaco native.

“Last year I was focusing on the 400m and this year my focus is on the 200m. This is my first time putting together a race like this, so I now know what to expect when I run it again.” His time is now listed as the second fastest so far in the world this year behind Clarence Munyal of the Republic of South Africa, who did 19.69 on March 16 in Pretoria. Gardiner, however, opened his season in Gainesville, Florida, where he ran 20.20 on March 29. Gardiner, now 22 years of age, said he never felt better than he did in 2014 at age 18 when he had his breakout senior year at

Moore’s Island under coach Anthony Williams when he ran 20.65 for the new national high school record. With his name now sitting on both the 200/400m national records, Gardiner said it’s back to training before he competes again in May. He and coach Evans are undecided yet on which event he will compete in. But, one thing is for sure, he feels he will be a contender whenever he steps up to the starting line. Also at the meet was Henri Delauze, competing unattached. He contested the men’s 400m where he was third in his heat in 48.40 for fourth place overall.

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Wilson : ‘I want to take the gold medal away from these games’ By BRENT STUBBS Senior Sports Reporter bstubbs@tribunemedia.net GOLD Coast, Australia — Having won medals at the CARIFTA Games to the Central American and Caribbean Games, high jumper Jamal ‘Marly’ Wilson said he just tastes the success as he gets set to make his second appearance at the Commonwealth Games. At the 25th version of the fouryearly games, Wilson said a medal here in the men’s high jump when the final is held on Wednesday night would be a crowning glory to his flourishing career. And if the weather here has anything to do with it, he’s confident that the sun will shine on his expected glaring performance. “I feel like I’m in the Bahamas,” said Wilson, who comes into the games as the second best high jumper in the island nation behind Donald Thomas. “The weather is the exact same thing. The beach is close and the people here are nice. I feel like I’m right at home.” Throughout his 13-year-old career travelling to compete, Wilson said the atmosphere here reminds him a little of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil where the 2016 Olympic Games was held. And when compared to his first

Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland in 2014, Wilson said this already tops that, so he’s confident that feeling will propel him as he surpasses his 14th place finish in the competition. “Just in terms of the weather alone, coming from the Bahamas, I really appreciate it,” Wilson stressed. It’s nice hot weather, cool breeze and every now and again, we have some rain. But everything is in place and I hope that can help me to perform very well.” The most difficult part of any competition, according to Wilson, is getting out of the preliminaries. And he did that last night to advance to the final. From here, Wilson said the sky is definitely the limit for him. “I’m in great physical shape. Two weeks ago is where I performed my season’s best of 2.31 metres or 7-feet, 7-inches, so I feel I’m actually there or either a step ahead of that,” he said. “Only time will tell. We have the first round of the high jump on April 9 and then we will take it from there.” The “we” Wilson is referring to is his long time personal coach Ronald Cartwright, who was unable to make the tedious trek for two days from the Bahamas to get here. “I wouldn’t say that with him not being here that I would

BAHAMIAN high jumper Jamal Wilson chats with Australian mountain biker Cherie Redecker in the Games Village. perform under par. It makes a difference because as a coach he makes me feel so comfortable doing things that I wouldn’t want to do. “So even though he is not here, I still have a job to do. As a professional athlete competing on the circuit, I would like to think that I have the experience of travelling

and competing without him. So with him not being here, would not stop the show. I still have to go out there and perform.” Wilson said there’s only one goal and that is to “beat the next man.” The 29-year-old graduate of Temple Christian and the University of Texas at Austin said it’s hard to put a mark on what he wants to jump. “I don’t want to subject myself to clearing just that height. It’s about competing. It’s about just staying focused in between each jump and take it one jump at a time. “I think the key to success is trying to clear the earlier heights as easy as possible. “So we’re going to be looking at first attempts each jump and just kind of have smooth sailing as I try to complete the rest of the competition. I just have to hope for the best and let God do the rest.” With a lot of people rooting for him to leave his stamp of approval on these games, Wilson is not applying any pressure on himself to get the job done. “If you look at my résumé, a lot of people don’t know that in those 13 years that I have been competing, a lot of people forget that I started out as a three-time CARIFTA champion and at one time I held the CARIFTA record as the

first person to go over 2.20m (7-2 1/2). “I was also a junior Pan Am medallist. The winning gene is there, so it’s no pressure. For me, I don’t look outward, but rather more inward because I’m more self-motivated. So I think once I go out there and execute, I will give myself a good opportunity to do very well at these games.” With Thomas in the mix in the competition, Wilson said he’s even more motivated to compete. “We all think about the magical thing and that is what gets us on the podium. I can’t speak for him. I don’t know where he’s at right now. Mentally, he’s in winning form and I can say the same for myself. When I look at him, I look at him as a competitor and I have to beat him too, so that is what I’m going out and to try to accomplish. “But I think with Donald Thomas and myself, when we link up, it brings out the best in me because he was the one that motivated me to jump high, coming from the junior ranks and into the same ranks. That same fire is there and so I want to compete well. I want to beat him and I want to take the gold medal away from these games.” In the meantime, Wilson said he hopes to check out the kangaroos and koalas to help keep his mind focused on the task ahead of him.

BASTIAN: ‘IT WAS KIND OF INTIMIDATING SEEING THOSE GROWN MEN OUT THERE COMPETING’ By BRENT STUBBS Senior Sports Reporter bstubbs@tribunemedia.net GOLD Coast, Australia — Although they were both battling the flu coming in from their outstanding performances at the CARIFTA Games in Kingston, Jamaica, Lilly Higgs and Izaak Bastian said the biggest obstacles for them was competing against the elite swimmers that came to the XXI Commonwealth Games. Higgs, coming off her fifth place in her heat of the women’s 200m breaststroke for 16th place overall on Saturday, had to settle for eight place in the women’s 100m breaststroke and 22nd overall on Sunday as she completed her appearance in her first Commonwealth Games. “I had another day to prepare, get adjusted to the time difference and get some rest, so it was a little bit better,” said Higgs. “So it was a little better than yesterday’s race. I think it was a pretty good swim, but I’m done now, so I can just watch the rest of the meet.”

Higgs, 17, said she got to swim against a lot of elite swimmers, so she really just wanted to see how she could compete. She posted times of two minutes and 42.65 seconds in the 200m breast and 1:12.78, but she admitted that there’s so much room for improvement. “This was my first big meet as I completed my Carifta experience, so I was pretty happy to be here ,” said Higgs, the high point winner in the 25-27 age group in Jamaica where she left her mark with four gold and three silver medals. Having now arrived in the big league, so to speak, with the elite swimmers, Higgs said she’s found out already that it’s not the same as the age group competition. “You don’t really swim as many events and it’s not as crowded because everyone is doing their own thing and preparing the way they need to,” she lamented. “So I definitely think I will learn from

this experience and work towards 2020 (Olympic Games) and just practice racing at a higher level.” With the Commonwealth Games, the second biggest sporting games in the world behind the Olympics, Higgs said she will now concentrate on her participation in the Central American and Caribbean Games July 19 to August 3 in Barranquilla, Mexico. At the same time, Higgs said she will continue to focus on her education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she’s pursuing her degree in exercise science after she’s done at William Amos Hough High School in Hunterville, North Carolina, this year. For Bastian, making it to the semi-final of the men’s 50m breaststroke was just the tip of the iceberg. As the youngest member entered in the men’s 50 metre breaststroke semi-final, Bastian

posted a time of 29.28 seconds for eighth place in the last of two heats. He finished 15th overall out of a field of 16 competitors. “I definitely wasn’t as nervous and it felt better than my first race,” said Bastian in comparing the two. “I could feel the difference and being in a faster heat made a difference. Plus, it was a night swim and I usually swim better in the night than in the morning.” The multiple CARIFTA medallist said it’s a vast difference competing here than what he has been accustomed to. “You have to focus on you because in the call room, you have to focus on you and now what your routine is before the race. You can’t look at anybody else,” he pointed out. “You have to focus on you and not what’s going on. “I was the youngest in the semi-final so for me it was kind of intimidating seeing those grown men out there competing. You hear about them and now you get to compete with them. I think that is going to help me this year.”

This year is a transitional one for Bastian, 17, as well as he has committed to attend Florida State after completing his senior year at St Andrew’s High School in Florida. “When I visited the school, I fell in love. I love the team and the coaches,” he said. “When I visited Auburn, another school of my choice, it didn’t feel the same, but I like the coaching staff at Florida State because they have done well in recruiting and preparing swimmers in the Caribbean. Before he enrols in Florida State, Bastian intends to compete in both the CAC Games and the Youth Olympics. “This is my first time in a big call room like this, so this will definitely give me more confidence,” Bastian stated. “I will be able to be more relaxed and focus a little more on myself inside the call room and walk everything out. “I think it’s the experience that I needed and getting to compete with these big grown men certainly gave me the experience. So I was very happy with that.”

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NPBA CHAMPIONSHIPS: GIANTS TOP THE ROCKETS 93-83, HIGH FLYERS STOP ALIV BUCKET

THE postseason accolades continue for Bahamian prep superstar DeAndre Ayton. Ayton was among several honourees at the NCAA basketball awards show hosted in Los Angeles on Friday. The Arizona freshman was named the “Karl Malone Power Forward” of the year, ahead of Duke freshman Marvin Bagley and three other finalists for the award. Ayton was also voted an Associated Press First Team AllAmerican. He was also the First Team All-American from the NABC, USBWA and Sporting News. Ayton averaged 20.1 points and 11.6 rebounds per game while shooting 61.6 per cent from the field. Ayton was the first player in the history of the Pac-12 Conference to earn Player of the Year, Freshman of the Year and Most Outstanding Player of the conference tournament in the same season. The two-time Pac-12 Player of the Week rewrote numerous pages in the Arizona Basketball record book, including becoming the first Wildcat since Al Fleming in 1975-76 to record a game of 20 or more points and 20 or more rebounds with his 26 points and 20 rebounds versus California on Senior Day. The Bahamas native also becomes the first Arizona player to earn first team distinction in the AP’s All-America honours since Jason Terry in 1999. In other Naismith positional awards, Purdue’s Carsen Edwards was named the Jerry West Award as the top shooting guard, Villanova’s Jalen Brunson won the

THE Division I pennant winners remained undefeated and the Division II defending champions took an early lead as both series got off to favourable starts for the top seeds in the New Providence Basketball Association Championships.

the score 52-32. The Rockets outscored the Giants 51-47 in the second half but never came within single digits. The Giants were outscored from beyond the arch but had a 20-point advantage on points in the paint and scored 26 points off turnovers.

Division I Commonwealth Bank Giants – 93 Rockets - 83 THE Giants dominated the second quarter, built a doubledigit lead in the first half and held on to the game one win, powered by their high scoring wings. D’Shon Taylor scored a team high 24, Michael Bain Jr had 23 points, seven rebounds and six assists and Tehran Cox scored 12 to lead the Giants to the game one win. Kevin Hinsey and David Taylor each scored nine points and Darstyn Baker added eight. Livingston Munnings had 22 points and a game high 16 rebounds, Eugene Bain scored 25, Lyndrick Storr scored 16 and Barry Carter chipped in with seven. It was a slow start offensively for both teams with just 26 combined points in the first quarter. Tied at nine, the Giants ended the quarter on a 6-2 run and led 15-11. The Giants took control in the second when they opened the quarter on a 13-7 run. A Bain layup gave them a 28-18 lead at the 5:19 mark. Cox made a pair of free throws with just over a minute left to play to push the lead to as much as 16. They led 46-32 at the half. Hinsey gave the Giants a 20-point lead early in the third when his jumper made

Division II Breezes High Flyers - 85 Aliv Bucket Team – 73 DAVE Davis and Jeremy Neely combined for 44 points and led five High Flyers in double figures. Davis had 22 points and 17 rebounds, Neely scored 22 and Shanton Pratt finished one assist shy of a triple double with 10 points, 11 rebounds and nine assists in the win. Enrico Bethel scored 14 and Dwight Moss added 10. Rashad Ingraham led the Bucket Team with 22 points and a game high 22 rebounds. James Rolle finished with 14 points, Akeil Bullard and Kieran Mortimer each scored 13 and Anwar Neilly added eight. Aliv had a 12-point advantage at the free throw line but the Flyers scored 10 more points in the paint and six more points off turnovers. Breezes took an early 10-point lead in the first quarter when Pratt’s jumper made the score 16-6. They took an 18-13 lead at the end of the quarter and after their highest scoring quarter of the game, the Flyers took a 45-33 lead at the half. They led by as much as 16 and never by less than 10 in the second half. Game two in each series is all set for 7:30pm tonight at the AF Adderley Gymnasium.

DEANDRE AYTON, of the Bahamas, has been named the “Karl Malone Power Forward” of the year at the NCAA basketball awards show hosted in Los Angeles on Friday. Bob Cousy point guard of the year award, Villanova’s Mikal Bridges was named the Julius Erving small forward of the year and Seton Hall’s Angel Delgado was named the Kareem AbdulJabbar centre of the year. Ayton is already projected to be be one of the top three picks in the draft. If he goes with the

first pick, he will become just the second Bahamian to be selected behind Mychal ‘Sweet Bells’ Thompson, the first foreign-born player taken in the 1978 NBA Draft by the Portland Trail Blazers before he was traded to the Los Angeles Lakers where he won back-to-back titles in 1987 and 1988.

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Yohan Blake coasts in 100 metres, hammer time for England’s Miller By JOHN PYE AP Sports Writer GOLD COAST, Australia (AP) — Yohan Blake received an encouraging message from Usain Bolt before his Commonwealth Games debut, telling him: “I believe in you.” That came in the wake of another one from his fellow Jamaican that was more direct, Blake recalled: “You’ve got to win ... or you can’t go home.” No pressure at all. The 2011 world champion kicked off his Gold Coast 2018 campaign by qualifying fastest for the final after winning his semi-final heat in 10.06 seconds yesterday. That followed a 10.15 in his opening heat on the first afternoon of the track and field competition at the Carrara Stadium. Blake wants to add a Commonwealth title to his collection from the Olympics and world championships and, considering Bolt is the only person who has ever run faster times in the 100, he has a good chance. “There’s a lot more in the tank,” Blake said. Kemar Hyman of the Cayman Islands was nextquickest qualifier for today’s final in 10.10, fractionally ahead of Adam Gimili of England and Akani Simbine of South Africa. England’s Asha Philip led qualifiers into the women’s 100 final by winning her semi-final heat in 11.21 seconds. She was 0.01 ahead of Jamaica’s Christania Williams and 0.04 ahead of Michelle-Lee Ahye of Trinidad and Tobago. There was a shock in the pool in the blue-ribbon 100 freestyle, with Scotland’s Duncan Scott edging

Olympic champion Kyle Chalmers, who had to share silver with Chad le Clos of South Africa after a deadheat for second. “It is just I wasn’t fast enough on the night,” Chalmers said. In the women’s 200 backstroke, Canadians Kylie Masse and Taylor Ruck finished 1-2 ahead of Australia’s Emily Seebohm. Chalmers finished off the night by helping the Australians win the 4x200metre relay. Australia leads the medal standings with 31 gold medals and 84 overall, with England in second spot with 19 gold and 47 medals. Canada and India have seven gold medals apiece, Scotland with six, followed by New Zealand and South Africa with four golds each and Wales with three. • Elsewhere at the games on Day 4: TRACK AND FIELD — Uganda got its first gold medal of the games when Joshua Kiprui Cheptegei won the 5,000 metres in 13 minutes, 50.83 seconds from Mohammed Ahmed of Canada and Kenya’s Edward Pingua Zakayo. The first gold medal inside the track and field stadium went to England’s Nick Miller, who broke a 12-year-old games record with a hammer throw of 80.26 metres. Australia’s Matt Denny took silver at 74.88m and Mark Dry of Scotland produced a final throw of 73.12 to overtake Canada’s Adam Keenan for bronze. The first gold medals in the athletics programme were awarded in the 20-kilometre race walks, with Australia winning both the morning events.

SCOTLAND’s Duncan Scott celebrates after winning the men’s 100m freestyle final from South Africa’s Chad Le Clos, left, at the Aquatic Centre yesterday. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft) that I would have liked to win gold but when things like that happen, you have to stay in the moment and not lose focus,” Montag said. Dane Bird-Smith set a games record 1:19.34 to win the men’s race ahead of England’s Tom Bosworth and Samuel Ireri Tathimba of Kenya. Jemima Montag won the women’s gold after raceleading Claire Tallent was disqualified with two kilometres to go. The 20-year-old Montag finished the Currumbin Beachfront course in 1: 32.50, with Alana Barber of New Zealand taking silver and Bethan Davies of Wales picking up the bronze. Montag said the disqualification was “heartbreaking” for Tallent. “It’s not the way

BACK IN CYCLE — Matthew Glaetzer won the kilo time trial, a day after the sprint world champion’s tactical blunder led to a stunning early exit in his favourite race. “It’s a big day, I bounced back after a shocking day yesterday which was shattering for me,” Glaetzer said. “This is really good to come back and ... get one back for Australia, because I owed them one for yesterday.”

The Australians also won gold via Amy Cure in the women’s scratch race and Stephanie Morton, who increased her golden tally to three with victory in the keirin. THORPEDOED — Nothing was going to torpedo this Australian swimming great’s commentary gig — not even the police. Ian Thorpe had to walk to work on Saturday night after Queensland state police stopped the car he was travelling in on suspicion it was stolen. The car had interstate licence plates and was impounded. Police later confirmed the car was OK and nobody was charged or fined. Gold Coast 2018 Chairman Peter Beattie said it was a reasonable misunderstanding.

“If there’s any breaches of the law regardless of who it is, it’s administered equally and fairly,” said Beattie, a former Queensland state premier. “I’m sure Ian and others who were with him would have preferred that not to have happened, and so would we, but the reality is if the police believe a crime has been committed they will enforce the law.” NET SET, WOE — This is a major upset. New Zealand, which has reached the final every time netball has been played at the Commonwealth Games and has won two gold medals, was upset 57-53 by Malawi. The Malawi players piled on in celebration and danced in delight, and with good cause. The outcome means New Zealand has to beat England to ensure a spot in the top four.

PEATY EXTENDS UNBEATEN RUN WITH SWIMMING GOLD FOR ENGLAND By JOHN PYE AP Sports Writer GOLD COAST, Australia (AP) — Adam Peaty has gone full cycle, defending his Commonwealth Games title in the 100-metre breaststroke on Saturday to complete a four-year unbeaten run in the event. Since winning at Glasgow in 2014, Peaty has won an Olympic and two world titles over the distance and is showing no signs of ending the streak. The 23-year-old Englishman set a games record 58.84 seconds to secure gold, finishing more than a half-second ahead of compatriot James Wilby and South Africa’s Cameron van der Burgh was third. “Even though it is a gold medal, four years undefeated and it has completed the circle or the quad, I’m not happy with that form because it is not the best version of me,” Peaty said. “That was the first time ever I did not feel in control of the race — I let the event get to me and thought about the result not the process.” Chad le Clos became the first man to win the same event at three Commonwealth Games when he led from start to finish in the 200 butterfly and finished in a games record time of 1 minute, 54 seconds. Le Clos entered the games hoping to beat the record of 18 career medals at the games but can’t do that on the Gold Coast now after missing the podium in two of his first three events. Still, the 200 fly gave him a 14th career medal at the games. The swimming golds were more evenly distributed on Day 3 after Australia’s dominance in the pool the previous night. Canada’s world recordholder Kylie Masse edged Australian Emily Seebohm by 0.03 seconds to win the 100 backstroke in a games record 58.63 and Tatjana Schoenmaker won the women’s 200 breaststroke.

Mubashar converted to the delight of his teammates and coach Roelant Oltmans, who has returned to guide Pakistan after a stint with the India team. Australia’s Kookaburras, the gold-medal favourites, opened with a 4-0 win over South Africa.

NEW Zealand’s Sam Webster lifts his bicycle after winning gold in the Men’s Sprint at the Anna Meares Velodrome during the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane, Australia, on Saturday. (AP Photo/Tertius Pickard) Cate Campbell won the 50 freestyle for the home team and the Australians finished off the pool programme with victory in the women’s 4x200 freestyle relay in a games record 7:48.04. Australia topped the overall medal standings with 20 golds, six ahead of England and 15 clear of Canada. • In other events on Day 3: CYCLING — Sam Webster won the men’s sprint when he beat Jack Carlin of Scotland 2-0 in the final, giving him a second gold for the games after helping New Zealand win the team sprint. His run to the title included a semi-final win over Malaysia’s Muhammad

Sahrom, who had an upset win over world champion Matt Glaetzer earlier in the day. Glaetzer said he was embarrassed by an elementary error. “It’s devastating. It was a nightmare unfolding with three-quarters of a lap to go,” he said. Elinor Barker won the women’s 25-kilometre points race to give Wales its second gold of the games, and Australia picked up two more gold medals via Sam Welsford in the 15-kilometre scratch race and Kaarle McCullogh in the 500-metre time trial. IN THE MIX: — Finishing one of the showcase events for gender equity at the Commonwealth Games, Jake Birtwhistle grabbed a boxing kangaroo flag and carried it across the line to

clinch the triathlon mixed team relay for Australia. The team of Gillian Backhouse, Matt Hauser, Ashleigh Gentle and Birtwhistle won the mixed team event at the Broadwater in 1 hour, 17 minutes, 36 seconds on Saturday afternoon. England settled for silver and New Zealand captured bronze. England won the inaugural event at the Glasgow Games four years ago but it was the hosts who were too strong this time, with Gentle turning a 15-second deficit into a 39-second lead during the third leg. “I can’t believe I’ve got a Commonwealth Games gold medal and to feel as though I gave so much to the team as well, it’s really satisfying,” said Gentle, who missed out on a

podium finish in the individual event. “I’m just so glad I was able to perform for the team.” It means the Brownlee brothers leave the Gold Coast without a gold medal, with world champion Alistair and Jonathan combining with Jess Learmonth and Vicky Holland to get the silver. The brothers missed out on the medals in the individual event. WIN OR DRAW? — For Pakistan, this 2-2 draw had the feeling of a win after coming back from an 0-2 deficit and equalising after the fulltime siren against India. There’s always underlying emotion in Indo-Pak encounters, and there was no lack of tension in this. Pakistan was awarded a late penalty corner and Ali

WEIGHTY ISSUES — India’s Sathish Kumar Sivalingham won the 77-kilogram category in the weightlifting by 5 kilograms over England’s Jack Oliver. Yet it was Cameroonborn Francois Etoundi doing backflips after collecting a bronze medal for Australia. Etoundi injured his left biceps on his second attempt in the clean and jerk but didn’t want to let his coaches know how badly he was hurting. He went back out and secured the bronze, then accepted his medal with his arm in a sling. His most memorable display for the crowd, though, was undoubtedly a somersault. “This is my home crowd. I didn’t want to disappoint them,” he said. “I know that if I didn’t have this injury, this would have been a gold medal for sure.” GYMNASTICS GOLD — Nile Wilson beat fellow Englishman James Hall in the individual all-around final to claim his second gymnastics gold medal of the games. Wilson, an Olympic bronze medallist on the horizontal bar, did just enough to win with a combined 84.950. SQUASHED — Tesni Evans of Wales beat topseeded Laura Massaro to move into the Commonwealth Games women’s squash semi-finals against another English player, Sarah-Jane Perry. The 11-8, 11-8, 5-11, 15-13 win continued a recent run of wins for Evans against 2014 Commonwealth Games silver medallist Massaro, including the world championships in December.

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PATRICK Reed reacts to his birdie on the 12th hole in the fourth round at the Masters golf tournament yesterday. INSET - Former Masters champion Sergio Garcia helps Reed with his green jacket. (AP)

Reed wins first major title, holding off Fowler at Masters By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Patrick Reed became famous playing for his country. He won for himself yesterday at the Masters. Rory McIlroy came after him early. Jordan Spieth briefly tied him for the lead. Rickie Fowler birdied the last hole to leave him no room for error. Reed never flinched through it all on a raucous afternoon at Augusta National, calmly rolling in a 3-foot par putt for a 1-under 71 and a one-shot victory. Captain America is now the Masters champion. Even as the loudest cheers were for everyone else, Reed earned all the respect with two big birdie putts on the back nine, one key par and plenty of grit. The 27-year-old Texan becomes the fourth straight Masters champion to win his first major. Fowler holed an 8-foot birdie putt on the final hole for a 67. He had to settle for his third runner-up

finish in a major. He left the scoring cabin when Reed two-putted for par down the slippery slope on the 18th green and waited for a chance to greet Reed. “Glad I at least made the last one, make him earn it,” Fowler said with a grin. “You had to do it didn’t you?” Reed told him as they exchanged a hug. “You had to birdie the last.” Spieth put up the most unlikely fight and was on the verge of the greatest comeback in Masters history. He started nine shots behind going into the final round, and was inches away on two shots from a chance at another green jacket. His tee shot on the 18th clipped the last branch in his way, dropping his ball some 267 yards from the green. His 8-foot par putt for a record-tying 63 narrowly missed on the right. He had to settle for a 64. Reed won for the sixth time in his PGA Tour career, though he was best known for the trophies he shared at the Ryder Cup. He is ferocious in match play, especially

RICKIE Fowler hits on the fourth hole during the fourth round at the Masters golf tournament yesterday. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson) the team variety, and his singles victory over McIlroy at Hazeltine in 2016 led to the nickname of Captain America. McIlroy, meanwhile, will have to wait another year for a shot at the career Grand Slam. Trailing by

three shots to start the final round, he closed to within one shot after two holes. That was as close as he came. McIlroy’s putter betrayed him, and he was never a factor on the back nine. He closed with a 74 and tied for fifth.

Tiger Woods improves in the final round, welcomes break By MARK LONG AP Sports Writer AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Tiger Woods nearly aced a hole and made his lone eagle of the week. The four-time Masters champion somewhat returned to form at Augusta National. It was just a few days too late to be more than an afterthought at golf’s first major. Woods closed with a flurry, recording a 3-under 69 in the final round at the Masters. He finished 1 over for the tournament and left the hallowed grounds feeling a little better about his game. Woods last played the event in 2015. He returned the last two years for the champions’ dinner, but didn’t get on the course. The hiatus left him feeling nostalgic during his walk to the 18th green. “This is one of the greatest walks in all of golf,” Woods said afterward. “And I had missed it for the last couple of years. I hadn’t been able to play in it, so now I’m glad I’m competing in this tournament. And to face the challenges out there, I missed it. I really did. I missed playing out here. I missed competing against these guys. Such a great event. Best (event) in all of our sport.” Woods started the weekend more than a dozen shots out of the lead and knew he would need something special to happen to get back in contention. It never happened. Never even came close, either. But there were some glimpses yesterday in his traditional red shirt. Woods had two birdies and an eagle on the back and looked like he would get to even par for the event. He lamented his iron

TIGER Woods prepares to hit out of the woods off the second fairway during his final round in the Masters at Augusta National Golf Club yesterday. (AP) play for the fourth straight day and loathed two threeputts, including one for bogey on No. 18. “Another loose day with the irons,” he said. “And I putted awful. It was possibly the highest score I could have shot today. All in all, a bittersweet ending.” He still drew one of the round’s largest galleries, giving spectators a reason to get to the course long before the leaders arrived at the practice range. They simply wanted to catch a glimpse of one of golf’s greatest players. Woods is assured of moving back into the top 100 in the world, notable only because he was at No. 1,199 just over four months ago when he returned from yet another long layoff following a fourth back

surgery. “I think things are progressing,” he said. “It was a little bit disappointing I didn’t hit my irons as well as I needed to for this particular week. You miss it just a touch here it gets magnified. And I just didn’t do a good enough job this week in that regard. But overall I’m five or six tournaments into it, to be able to compete out here and to score like I did, it feels good.” Woods plans to take some time off this month, maybe even putting the clubs in the closet for a few weeks to “kind of get away for a while.” “The run up to this event is pretty hard and pretty gruelling,” said Woods, who finished 12th, tied for second and tied for fifth in three tournaments on the

Florida Swing. “I pushed myself pretty hard to get ready. And I peaked at it four times over the course of my career, and it’s tiring.” He can take some solace in making six birdies or better in the final round — nearly as many as he made in the first three rounds combined. The best one came early Sunday. Woods nearly aced the 240-yard, par-3 fourth. His tee shot landed a few feet short of the flag, bounced a couple of times and then skirted by the left edge of the hole. He was left with a left-to-right-breaking 10-footer that he dropped in the left side of the cup. His eagle putt at the par-5 15th was even better. He drained a sweeping 30-footer after reaching the

green in two. Those shots provided a brief snippet of what might have been at Augusta National had Woods had better control with his irons. Woods missed greens right and left, never really getting approach shots in the precise spots on treacherous greens. His errant ways left him starting a lot sooner than expected Sunday and finishing shortly after the leaders teed off. “My swing is slightly off,” he said. “I was pleased with the way I was able to drive it, but I just could not convert with my irons. I struggled with obviously controlling the shape. Can’t control the shape. Can’t control the distance. And it was one of those weeks in that regard.”

REDICK SCORES 18 AS SIXERS BEAT MAVS FOR 14TH STRAIGHT VICTORY PHILADELPHIA (AP) — J.J. Redick scored 18 points, and the surging Philadelphia 76ers matched a franchise record with their 14th consecutive victory, 109-97 over the Dallas Mavericks yesterday. Ben Simmons added 16 points, nine assists and seven rebounds, and Robert Covington had 15 points and 10 rebounds. Two years after going 10-72, the Sixers (50-30) clinched homecourt advantage in the first round of the playoffs and secured their first 50-win season since Allen Iverson’s 2000-01 team, which lost in the NBA Finals. The only other time the Sixers won 14 straight in a single season, Dr. J and Moses Malone delivered Philadelphia its last NBA title in 1983. Harrison Barnes scored 21 points on 9-of-25 shooting, and Dennis Smith Jr. added 20 points for the Mavericks, who have lost three straight and six of seven. PACERS 123, HORNETS 117 CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Domantas Sabonis scored a career-high 30 points, Victor Oladipo had 27 points on 12-of-15 shooting and the Pacers beat the Hornets to keep alive their slim hopes of winning the Central Division title. Lance Stephenson, a former Hornet, had 10 rebounds, 10 assists and eight points for the Pacers, who have won seven of their last nine games. Rookie Malik Monk led the Hornets with 22 points in their final home game of the season. For Indiana (48-33) to win the Central and earn home-court advantage for the first round of the NBA playoffs, it needs to beat Charlotte on Tuesday night and have the Cleveland Cavaliers (49-31) lose their final two games against the New York Knicks. The Pacers have the tiebreaker advantage over the Cavaliers after taking three of four in the season series, including a 124-107 win in November. HAWKS 112, CELTICS 106 BOSTON (AP) — Taurean Prince scored 33 points, and the Hawks rallied for the road win. Isaiah Taylor and Dewayne Dedmon scored nine straight points for the Hawks after they trailed 103-101 with 2 minutes remaining. With the No. 2 spot in the Eastern Conference already locked up, Celtics coach Brad Stevens left Al Horford, Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown and Terry Rozier on the bench for the entire fourth quarter. Rozier had 10 points, nine assists and eight rebounds for Boston, which had beaten Atlanta in the other three meetings this season. Tatum scored 19, Horford had 16 and Greg Monroe scored 17 as the Celtics lost for the third time in four games.

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Atletico holds Real Madrid 1-1 in fight for 2nd place By TALES AZZONI AP Sports Writer MADRID (AP) — Cristiano Ronaldo scored for the 650th time in his career on Sunday but Antoine Griezmann responded with a goal of his own to leave Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid even in a city derby that allowed Barcelona to move closer to the Spanish league title. Atletico held Real Madrid 1-1 at Santiago Bernabeu Stadium to keep a four-point lead over its city rival in the fight for second place in the Spanish league. The result benefited league leader Barcelona, which defeated Leganes 3-1 on Saturday with a hat trick by Lionel Messi to stay 11 points in front of Atletico at the top with seven matches left. Atletico won La Liga in 2013-14 but has finished third behind either Barcelona or Real Madrid in all other years since 2012-13, which was the team’s first full season under coach Diego Simeone.

“I’m not happy because we wanted to win, we wanted the three points to try to stay close to Barcelona,” Simeone said. “We needed more. Our goal is always to try to do the best we can against the powerhouses of Real Madrid and Barcelona. As an Atletico fan I would have been proud of how we have been competing against them.” Madrid hasn’t finished worse than second since 2014, when it trailed Atletico and Barcelona. Before then, the last time it failed to finish in the top two was in 2003-04, when it was fourth behind Valencia, Barcelona and Deportivo La Coruna. Ronaldo opened the scoring with his 650th career goal — for clubs and country — early in the second half with a shot from near the far post after a long cross by Gareth Bale from the left flank. Griezmann equalised less than five minutes later with a strike from near the penalty spot after a move

started by Vitolo inside the area. “We deserved more, it’s a shame,” Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane said. “But in the end we also could have lost the match. This is how it goes in football.” Of Ronaldo’s 650 goals, 446 came with Real Madrid, 118 with Manchester United, 81 with Portugal and five with Sporting Lisbon. Ronaldo has scored 20 goals in his last 10 matches in all competitions, including his acclaimed bicycle kick in the 3-0 first-leg win at Juventus in the Champions League quarter-finals midweek. Zidane rested some of his regular starters ahead of the return leg against Juventus on Wednesday at Bernabeu, including midfielders Luka Modric and Casemiro. Striker Karim Benzema also started from the bench, replacing Ronaldo in the 64th. Atletico hasn’t lost at Bernabeu in five seasons now in the Spanish league.

finding the net from inside the area.

REAL Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo walks along the pitch after scoring a goal against Atletico Madrid at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium yesterday. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco) game after game,” Zidane said. Marcelo had a good opportunity for Real Madrid in the first half with a curling shot that struck the crossbar. Atletico striker Diego Costa caused most of the problems for Real Madrid early on. He had a goal disallowed for a foul on Ramos before

Real Madrid, which had won six in a row, had the most dangerous scoring chances throughout. But the hosts brought out a great performance by Atletico goalkeeper Jan Oblak, who made one of his best saves on a last-minute free kick taken by Sergio Ramos. “Oblak is a great player, he has been showing it

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WINDS S at 7-14 Knots SSW at 6-12 Knots S at 6-12 Knots SSE at 4-8 Knots SSE at 6-12 Knots SSE at 6-12 Knots ESE at 6-12 Knots E at 7-14 Knots S at 6-12 Knots S at 6-12 Knots SSW at 8-16 Knots SW at 6-12 Knots SE at 4-8 Knots SE at 6-12 Knots E at 6-12 Knots E at 7-14 Knots SE at 6-12 Knots ESE at 7-14 Knots ESE at 6-12 Knots ESE at 7-14 Knots S at 4-8 Knots S at 4-8 Knots SE at 6-12 Knots ESE at 7-14 Knots SE at 6-12 Knots SSE at 6-12 Knots

WAVES 2-4 Feet 2-4 Feet 1-2 Feet 1-2 Feet 1-3 Feet 2-4 Feet 1-3 Feet 2-4 Feet 1-3 Feet 2-4 Feet 2-4 Feet 1-3 Feet 1-2 Feet 1-2 Feet 1-3 Feet 2-4 Feet 1-3 Feet 1-3 Feet 2-4 Feet 3-6 Feet 1-2 Feet 1-2 Feet 1-2 Feet 1-3 Feet 1-3 Feet 2-4 Feet

VISIBILITY 10 Miles 10 Miles 10 Miles 10 Miles 10 Miles 10 Miles 10 Miles 10 Miles 10 Miles 10 Miles 10 Miles 10 Miles 10 Miles 10 Miles 10 Miles 10 Miles 10 Miles 10 Miles 10 Miles 10 Miles 10 Miles 10 Miles 10 Miles 10 Miles 10 Miles 10 Miles

WATER TEMPS. 74° F 74° F 80° F 80° F 78° F 78° F 80° F 80° F 77° F 77° F 77° F 77° F 79° F 79° F 81° F 81° F 81° F 81° F 80° F 80° F 74° F 74° F 80° F 80° F 79° F 79° F

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