Sports Digest: Maine Celtics open G League season with 116-103 win in Georgia

BASBETBALL

Sam Hauser scored 27 factors to steer the Maine Celtics to a season-opening 116-103 G League win over the Faculty Park Skyhawks on Friday in Faculty Park, Georgia.

Luke Kornet added 18 factors and 11 rebounds whereas three gamers – Theo Pinson, Chris Clemons and Jaysean Paige – scored 13 every.

Sharif Cooper led the Skyhawks with 23 factors.

HOCKEY

ECHL: The Florida Everblades opened a three-goal lead and held off the Maine Mariners for a 4-1 ECHL win on Friday in Portland.

Objectives by Dylan Vander Esch and Alex Aleadry early within the third interval gave Florida a 3-0 lead after a first-period aim by Blake Winiecki. Maine obtained on the board with a aim by Lewis Zerter-Gossage, assisted by Brendan Robbins and Andrew Romano, however might get no nearer. John McCarron added an empty-net aim for the Everblades.

Maine goalie Jeremy Brodeur made 29 saves, whereas Cam John son had 24 for Florida.

SKIING

SHIFFRIN INJURED: Mikaela Shiffrin, a two-time Olympic gold medalist, is just not capable of ski and put together the best way she wish to at present due to a damage again that she likened to “a really extreme muscle spasm or form of a pressure.”

Talking by way of video convention from Edwards, Colorado, the American Alpine star mentioned she hasn’t “actually been capable of do a lot of any snowboarding in any respect” since Oct. 23, when she received the season-opening large slalom in Sölden, Austria, for her seventieth profession World Cup victory. Anticipated to be one of many essential faces of the Beijing Video games in February, Shiffrin already owns three medals from previous Winter Video games, together with three World Cup general titles. She has the third-most race wins in World Cup historical past, trailing solely Lindsey Vonn and Ingemar Stenmark.

“I simply must let it heal. It doesn’t take that lengthy if I simply take the time. However I wish to be coaching proper now. So I take a day, after which I’m like, ‘All proper, possibly it’s adequate; I can exit and ski.′ After which I’m going out and ski and I take a number of turns, and I’m like, ‘Ow. It’s actually painful,’” the 26-year-old mentioned.

Her goal is to enter each particular person race in Beijing: slalom, large slalom, downhill, super-G and the mixed (which provides occasions from downhill and slalom).

AUTO RACING

NASCAR CUP: Kyle Larson was the perfect of NASCAR’s 4 title contenders Friday within the closing observe earlier than the championship is determined within the season finale at Phoenix Raceway.

Larson turned within the high velocity of 135.293 mph among the many 4 finalists and was second-fastest general in 10-lap common at 131.935 within the No. 5 Chevrolet. Larson additionally set the quickest five-lap common.

The championship showdown Sunday on the mile monitor comes all the way down to Hendrick Motorsports vs. Joe Gibbs Racing. Larson and reigning Cup champion Chase Elliott characterize Hendrick, the winningest group in NASCAR historical past. Martin Truex Jr. and Hamlin will race for the checkered flag for JGR.

Elliott was fifth with a high lap of 135.019, Hamlin was eighth at 134.118 and Truex was 18th at 133.427. Elliott was proper behind Larson for finest 10-lap common at 131.776. The beginning order for the championship race shall be set at Saturday’s qualifying session.

GOLF

PGA: Matthew Wolff was on the verge of constructing a giant lead Friday at Mayakoba till a pair of late bogeys pressured him to accept a 3-under 68 and a two-shot lead over fast-closing Scottie Scheffler within the World Broad Know-how Championship in Playa del Carmen, Mexico.

Scheffler, who has carried out properly in majors and within the Ryder Cup however hasn’t received on the PGA Tour, was nearer to the minimize line than the lead till he ran off 5 straight birdies, the final one a 35-foot putt on the par-3 eighth. He completed with a par for a 64 and wound up inside two pictures of the lead.

Carlos Ortiz of Mexico and defending champion Viktor Hovland of Norway every had 65 and had been three pictures behind. Hovland overcame a weird break on No. 1 after he made the flip when his strategy took a wild bounce and went out-of-bounds, resulting in double bogey.

EUROPEAN TOUR: Nino Bertasio carded a 2-under 69 to carry a two-shot lead after the second spherical of the Portugal Masters in Vilamoura, Portugal.

Bertasio entered the day with a four-shot lead after capturing a 61 on Thursday however noticed it halved, with Adri Arnaus, Lucas Bjerregaard, Matthieu Pavon and Thomas Pieters all two strokes again heading into the weekend.

CHAMPIONS TOUR: The opening spherical of the TimberTech Championship in Boca Raton, Florida, was washed out by rain, and the plan is to play 36 holes on Saturday.

The match is the second of three within the postseason for the Charles Schwab Cup.

TENNIS

BILLIE JEAN KING CUP: Russia received the decisive doubles match to beat the US 2-1 and attain the ultimate in Prague.

Veronika Kudermetova and Liudmila Samsonova defeated the American pair of Shelby Rogers and Coco Vandeweghe 6-3, 6-3 after the groups cut up the 2 singles matches.

Russia took a 1-0 lead when Samsonova rallied from a set all the way down to beat Sloane Stephens 1-6, 6-4, 6-3.

Danielle Collins leveled the match with a 6-7 (9), 7-6 (2), 6-2 victory over Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova.

PARIS MASTERS: High-ranked Novak Djokovic beat unseeded American Taylor Fritz 6-4, 6-3 to succeed in the  semifinals and stay on track for a record-extending sixth title on the match.

Djokovic subsequent faces seventh-seeded Hubert Hurkacz, who beat James Duckworth 6-2, 6-7 (4), 7-5 to safe the final spot for the season-ending ATP Finals.

Defending champion Daniil Medvedev, the No. 2 seed, saved three set factors at 5-4 and 0-40 within the first set earlier than beating French qualifier Hugo Gaston, 7-6 (7), 6-4.

SOCCER

MLS: Main League Soccer’s 2022 season will begin Feb. 26 and its postseason closing shall be on Nov. 5, a month sooner than this yr, to finish play earlier than the World Cup begins on Nov. 21.

The league mentioned that its common season will finish Oct. 9.

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