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Lone Oak’s 11th girls tennis state championship came with a big dose of drama and an upset.

Erica Rust and Elizabeth Skin-ner defeated Covington Notre Dame’s state runner-up team of Alyssa Kennedy and Catriona Shaughnessy in three sets to end an epic 2 1⁄2-hour match as Lone Oak won three of the fi ve match-es in the team fi nal at the Ken-tucky High School Athletic Asso-ciation’s state tournament at the University of Kentucky’s Boone/Downing Tennis Center.

“We were up against a lot there, and it was pretty wild,” Lone Oak coach Larry Hefl in said. “We won two of the fi rst three, and then two matches went to a third set. Mad-elyn Kauffman was playing (No. 3) singles for us and she lost her third set, and then we had to beat the state runner-up in doubles.

“They’re really good, but we were in it, and they had the same pressure on them. It came down to a couple of shots, and Erica and Elizabeth made two extremely ag-gressive shots to win it.”

Kennedy and Shaughnessy

were the No. 4 seeds in doubles and were beaten in the champion-ship match in three sets by a dou-bles team from Louisville Sacred Heart, which was beaten by Lone Oak in the team semifi nals.

Lone Oak’s boys also made the state fi nal in team competition, but were beaten 3-0 by Louisville St. Xavier, which beat them in the semifi nals a year ago. St. Xavier was the heavy favorite — both of its singles players reached the state fi nals and its two doubles teams advanced to the semifi nals.

The boys’ fi nals were played

early Saturday afternoon, after the singles’ and doubles’ state semifi nals were completed. The girls’ team fi nals were played after the four championship matches.

Notre Dame’s Madie Cook, the No. 1 seed, won the state cham-pionship and then beat Michelle McKamey 7-6, 6-1 in the team fi nals. Haley Dallas, who played doubles last week, won her match at No. 2 singles and the team of Brenna Adams and Ashton Farmer won their match at No. 2 doubles.

Lone Oak’s girls may have had

an advantage in that none of its players had reached the semifi -nals and didn’t play Saturday un-til the team fi nals.

“We had some rest, and that helped,” Hefl in said, “but sitting around all day and waiting is pret-ty hard, too.”

The Lady Flash has won 11 state titles in the past 21 seasons, with its fi rst coming in 1992. Next year will see Lone Oak go for a dozen, but it will also be the last chance as the school will be part of the

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BALTIMORE — I’ll Have Anoth-er did just that, winning another Triple Crown race with even more fl ash and dash than he did in the Kentucky Derby.

By surging past Bodemeister — again — this time in Saturday’s Preakness, all that stands in the way of racing glory is the Belmont Stakes in three weeks.

Win that and the smooth-strid-ing 3-year-old will fi nd himself in the company of Secretariat, Seat-tle Slew and Affi rmed, the last to win thoroughbred racing’s most coveted prize in 1978.

That’s heady company for a colt who has yet to be favored in any

of his seven races. That should change in the Belmont.

“We’re thinking Triple Crown, baby,” elated winning trainer Doug O’Neill said. “He’s a special horse. We’ll see how he comes out of it, and if he comes out of it in good shape, we’re heading to New York, baby.”

I’ll Have Another won by 1½ lengths in the Derby and by a neck in the Preakness — the same mar-gins Affi rmed posted in wins over rival Alydar in those two races 34 years ago.

But there’s one big storyline dif-ference this time: Bodemeister is skipping the Belmont. “He’s get-ting off the bus here,” trainer Bob Baffert said.

The 1 3-16-mile Preakness unfolded the same way as the 1¼-mile Derby, with the speedy Bodemeister moving to the lead under Mike Smith and I’ll Have Another hanging back in fourth in the 11-horse fi eld. The early frac-tions were slower than the Derby, but when it came time for Bode-meister to dig in, it was I’ll Have Another who found another gear under young jockey Mario Gutier-rez and reeled in the tiring paces-etter in the shadow of the wire.

Since Affi rmed became the 11th Triple Crown winner, 11 horses have won the fi rst two legs only to come up short in the 1½-mile

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JONESBORO, Ill. — Massac County’s offense has been the strength of its softball team all season. And despite four errors Saturday, the Lady Patriots’ de-fense could use a pat on the back, too.

With just a two-run lead, the Patriots were able to get out of a 1-out, bases-loaded fi fth-inning jam to defeat Carterville 3-1 in the Illinois Class 2A Anna-Jones-boro Regional championship game, Massac’s fi rst regional title in program history.

The Patriots will play Du Quoin, an 11-1 regional winner

over Johnson City, at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday in Pinckneyville in a Class 2A sectional game.

“It means a lot,” Patriots pitch-er Kaylee Childers said. “We’ve never done this before, and I think it’s very special. I think we all deserve it.”

An error followed by an inten-tional walk helped put Carterville on the bases before Childers re-corded her sixth and fi nal strike-out of the game against Carter-ville’s No. 4 hitter Meagan Moon and Dana Kaufman popped up to second base to end the fi fth in-ning.

“I think that really showed us that we’re not just an offensive,

hitting team,” Patriots catcher Madison Stephens said. “I think people see we have the offense, but we showed them today that we have the defense. With Kaylee in the circle, we’re already ahead of the other team.”

Childers gave up just two hits, including Carterville’s only run, a home run from leadoff hitter Kylee Rock.

Big sticks were at a premium for the Patriots, who recorded six hits. The Lions chose to inten-tionally walk Massac freshman Gracyn McBride three times af-ter she hit two home runs in Tuesday’s semifi nal game. Mas-sac scored its fi rst run on a con-

fusion play when two Patriots found themselves at third base and the ball at shortstop, causing Jessie Lamb to run in on an er-rant throw to home.

Lamb, who made the fi nal out in center fi eld, was 2-for-3 for the Patriots with two doubles. Her second double came with two outs up the right fi eld line to score Lakken Jones for the Patri-ots’ fi nal run.

Massac coach Pat Clark called the fi fth inning jam the Patriots’ fi nest defensive inning of the sea-son, but still came back to the of-fense.

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Massac County pitcher Kaylee Childers (28) joyfully greets outfielders Jessie Lamb (left) and Josie Garduno after Lamb made a catch in center field to end the top of the seventh inning. The Lady Patriots won their first Illinois Class 2A regional tournament, defeating Carterville 3-1 on Saturday at Jonesboro Elementary’s field.

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I’ll Have Another (9), ridden by Mario Gutierrez, beats Bodemeister, ridden by Mike Smith, to the finish line to win the 137th Preakness Stakes Saturday at Pimlico Race Course. I’ll Have Another will run for the Triple Crown at the Belmont.

LOUISVILLE — Marshall Coun-ty senior Lauren Miller was sec-ond in the 100-meter hurdles and had a pair of fi fth-place fi nishes in the 300-meter hurdles and long jump in Saturday’s Class 3A state track meet at the University of Louisville’s Cardinal Park.

Devan Doss had a third-place fi nish in the pole vault, giving the Lady Marshals 22 points and a 14th-place fi nish in the team standings.

On the boys’ side, Marshall and Graves County each scored 1 point. Graves’ Blake Allred, a se-nior, was eighth in the shot put and Marshall freshman Skyler VanMeter was eighth in the high jump.

BOYSTeam scores — 1. Lexington Bryan Sta-

tion 66; 2. Louisville Male 65; 3. Louisville Trinity 57; 4. Louisville Eastern 55; North Hardin 51; T34. Graves County 1, T34. Marshall County 1.

4x800 relay — 12. Marshall County, 8:24.80.

400-meter run — 18. Martin Carrillo, Graves County, :54.00

800-meter run — 12. Troy Lampkin, Mar-shall County, 2:00.17.

Shot put — 8. Blake Allred, Graves Coun-ty, 47-0.5; 16. Patrick Balisteri, Graves County, 43-8.75.

Discus — 11. Patrick Balisteri, Graves County, 132-0.

Long jump — 16. Cody Gregory, Marshall County, 20-0.

Marshall’s Miller takes second, two fifths in 3A

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HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL – First District (at Ful-ton County): Hickman County vs. Fulton County (5 p.m.). Second District (at Brooks Stadium): Lone Oak vs. Reidland (5 p.m.), Paducah Tilghman vs. Heath (7:30 p.m.). Third District (at St. Mary): St. Mary vs. Mayfi eld (5 p.m), Graves County vs. Ballard Memorial (7:30 p.m.). Fifth District (at Lyon Coun-ty): Crittenden County vs. Lyon County (5 p.m.), Trigg County vs. Livingston Central (7:30 p.m.).

HIGH SCHOOL SOFTBALL – First District (at Fulton County): Carlisle County vs. Fulton County (5 p.m.). Second District (at Lone Oak): Lone Oak vs. Paducah Tilghman (6 p.m.), Reidland vs. Heath (7:30 p.m.). Third District (at Ballard Memorial): Graves County vs. Mayfi eld (5 p.m.), St. Mary vs. Ballard Memorial (7 p.m.). Fifth District (at Lyon County): Livingston Central vs. Trigg County (5 p.m.), Lyon County vs. Crittenden County (7 p.m.).

TUESDAYHIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL – First District (at Ful-

ton County): Fulton City vs. Carlisle County (5 p.m.). Second District (at Brooks Stadium): Championship (6 p.m.). Third District (at St. Mary): Champion-ship (6 p.m.). Fourth District (at Marshall County): Murray vs. Community Christian (5 p.m.), Calloway County vs. Marshall County (7:30 p.m.). Fifth Dis-trict (at Lyon County): Championship (6 p.m.). Sev-enth District (at Madisonville): Caldwell County vs. Hopkins Central (4 p.m.), Madisonville vs. Dawson Springs (6 p.m.).

HIGH SCHOOL SOFTBALL – First District (at Fulton County): Hickman County vs. Fulton City (5 p.m.). Second District (at Lone Oak): Champion-ship (7 p.m.). Third District (at Ballard Memo-rial): Championship (6 p.m.). Fifth District (at Lyon County): Championship (6 p.m.). Seventh District (at Caldwell County): Caldwell County vs. Hopkins Central (4 p.m.), Madisonville vs. Dawson Springs (6 p.m.).

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PHILADELPHIA — An-dre Iguodala is winning games for the Sixers and winning over Philadelphia with each clutch basket.

Iguodala has long been blamed for the Philadel-phia 76ers’ eight-year run of painfully mediocre bas-ketball. Before this season, Iguodala had never won a playoff series. He was la-beled overpaid, overhyped, and he always led the Six-ers in trade rumors.

His most memorable shot before April? Most Sixers fans would shrug at the question.

This amazing and im-probable postseason, though? Take your pick.

Maybe it was the go-ahead free throws with 2.2 seconds left in Game 6 against Chicago that knocked out the top-seed-ed Bulls. The image of Iguodala standing on the scorer’s table and celebrat-ing with his teammates has been an oft-replayed scene over the last few weeks.

There’s a new No. 1 con-tender — and a 1A — after he helped the 76ers storm back from 18 down in the third quarter to beat the Boston Celtics in Game 4 on Friday night. The big reason the Eastern Confer-ence semifi nals are tied 2-2 going into Monday’s Game 5 in Boston rests on Iguo-dala’s late-game jumpers.

Iguodala shook off a shaky shooting night with a step-back jumper over a charging Ray Allen with 1:22 left for an 85-83 lead. Then he buried the dag-ger. Iguodala took the feed from a driving Lou Wil-liams and let rip a 3 from the wing — boom! A tie game became a fi ve-point lead with two fl icks of the wrist and Iguodala did what he wanted to do since he was the No. 9 overall pick in the 2004 draft — send a packed postseason Philly crowd into a frenzy.

Fans fi nally have a rea-son to cheer their All-Star.

After he won Game 6 from the line, coach Doug

Collins noted how Iguo-dala’s uneven career arc made him worthy of the accolades.

“For ‘Dre, he’s gone through a lot,” Collins said. “I told him, ‘Nobody de-serves this more than you do to have this moment. To move on and to be able to experience this.’”

Iguodala has heard since Allen Iverson was traded that he wasn’t ready to handle the responsibility of being “the man” for the Sixers. He signed an $80 million, six-year deal in 2008 that only served as a lightning rod for the fan base when he struggled to take the Sixers past 40 wins. He has almost $31 million owed to him over the fi nal two seasons of his deal — which still makes him an attractive trading chip for a contender look-ing to added one more All-Star to get to the next level.

Under Collins and a blossoming nucleus that includes Jrue Holiday, Evan Turner and Lavoy Allen, Iguodala has found his niche. He was fourth on the team in scoring his season (12.4 points), and was rewarded with his fi rst

All-Star berth. Iguodala is one of the top defenders in the league — his stout perimeter shut-down play is one tool that was never doubted — and is vying for a spot on the U.S. Olympic team.

He’ll never play like the superstar so many expect-ed of him. But he doesn’t have to on this unselfi sh team.

“I’m happy, but not as happy as I am for my teammates,” Iguodala said. “That’s something I’ve been trying to get better at as my career has gone on, which is the type of mark I leave for my teammates. I think back to (assistant) coach Aaron McKie. He didn’t do a lot on the court my fi rst year here and his last year here, but he left a mark on how my career would shape out because of how I followed him. So I’m trying to do the same things he showed to me for my teammates, and this is a part of it.

Like the rest of the Six-ers, he doesn’t want the run to end.

They know they need a better start than they had in Game 4 when Bos-

Reidland softball team-mates Rachael Dodd and Christina Winsett have made their college choices, Dodd with Freed-Hardeman and Winsett with Mid-Continent. Both Dodd, a third baseman, and Winsett, a fi rst base-man, have been mainstays in the lineup for Reidland, which won the All A Clas-sic state title in 2010 and

2011 and the overall state championship in 2010.

Paducah Tilghman’s K.J. Washington has signed a football letter of intent with Kentucky Christian University and is expected to be used as a wide receiver or defensive back. He will join Tilgh-man teammate Mason Malone, an offensive line-man, at KCU.

Blake Kettler, a four-

year starter for Tilgh-man’s baseball team, primarily behind the plate, has signed with Mid-Continent.

Elsewhere, former Heath standout Chris-tina Cash, now playing at Xavier, was a second-team all-Colonial Ath-letic Association pick. Cash, a sophomore, fi nished seventh in the conference tournament.

Reidland’s Dodd, Winsett make college choices

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Both Murray State and Mid-Continent fi nished their baseball seasons with losses.

Murray was swept by Eastern Kentucky in the fi nal Ohio Valley Confer-ence series and was elimi-nated from consideration from the OVC tournament, which begins this week at Pringles Park in Jackson, Tenn.

Eastern (31-21 overall, 19-7 OVC) beat Murray 5-4 on Thursday, 9-2 on Friday and 7-1 in Satur-day’s regular-season fi nale at Reagan Field, fi nishing

the season in a tie for fi rst place with Austin Peay but taking the No. 2 seed in the conference tournament. The Thoroughbreds end the season with a 23-33 re-cord and were 8-19 in the conference, fi nishing ninth in the 10-team league, one game ahead of Tennessee-Martin.

Mid-Con 2-2 at Series

Mid-Continent was beat-en 5-4 by Malone (Ohio) in its fi nal game of the Na-tional Christian College Athletic Association World Series at Mason, Ohio, but

went into the game know-ing that wouldn’t be able to advance out of pool play.

Mid-Continent went 2-2 in pool play, fi nishing in third place in the fi ve-team pool. On Thursday, the Cougars beat California Baptist 2-0 and got a 9-3 win over the same Bluefi eld (Va.) team that had beaten them in the regional fi nals.

Hunter Burge, a Carlisle County product, tossed seven shutout innings against California Baptist, and Graves County prod-uct Tyler Hall allowed one run in fi ve innings against Bluefi eld.

Murray swept by Colonels;Cougars drop to 2-2 at series

Staff report

District schedulesBaseballFIRST DISTRICT(at Fulton County)

MondayHickman County vs. Fulton County,

5 p.m.Tuesday

Fulton City vs. Carlisle County, 5 p.m.Wednesday

Championship, 5 p.m.–––

SECOND DISTRICT(at Brooks Stadium)

MondayLone Oak vs. Reidland, 5 p.m.Paducah Tilghman vs. Heath, 7:30

p.m.Tuesday

Championship, 6 p.m.–––

THIRD DISTRICT(at St. Mary)

MondaySt. Mary vs. Mayfi eld, 5 p.m.Graves County vs. Ballard Memorial,

7:30 p.m.Tuesday

Championship, 6 p.m.–––

FOURTH DISTRICT(at Marshall County)

TuesdayMurray vs. Community Christian, 5

p.m.Calloway County vs. Marshall County,

7:30 p.m.Wednesday

Championship, 5:30 p.m.FIFTH DISTRICT(at Lyon County)

MondayCrittenden County vs. Lyon County,

5 p.m.Trigg County vs. Livingston Central,

7:30 p.m.Tuesday

Championship, 6 p.m.–––

SEVENTH DISTRICT(at Madisonville)

TuesdayCaldwell County vs. Hopkins Central,

4 p.m.Madisonville vs. Dawson Springs, 6

p.m.Wednesday

Championship, 6 p.m.

SoftballFIRST DISTRICT(at Fulton County)

MondayCarlisle County vs. Fulton County, 5

p.m.Tuesday

Hickman County vs. Fulton City, 5 p.m.

WednesdayChampionship, 5 p.m.

–––SECOND DISTRICT

(at Lone Oak)Monday

Lone Oak vs. Paducah Tilghman, 6 p.m.

Reidland vs. Heath, 7:30 p.m.Tuesday

Championship, 7 p.m.–––

THIRD DISTRICT(at Ballard Memorial)

MondayGraves County vs. Mayfi eld, 5 p.m.St. Mary vs. Ballard Memorial, 7 p.m.

TuesdayChampionship, 6 p.m.

–––FOURTH DISTRICT

(at Murray)Wednesday

Murray vs. Calloway County, 5:30 p.m.

Championship, Marshall County vs. Murray-Calloway winner, 7:30 p.m.

–––FIFTH DISTRICT(at Lyon County)

MondayLivingston Central vs. Trigg County,

5 p.m.Lyon County vs. Crittenden County,

7 p.m.Tuesday

Championship, 6 p.m.–––

SEVENTH DISTRICT(at Caldwell County)

TuesdayCaldwell County vs. Hopkins Central,

4 p.m.Madisonville vs. Dawson Springs, 6

p.m.Thursday

Championship, 6 p.m.

“I told them today that the thing that won us the game was their aggressive-ness on the base paths,” Clark said. “I just live by the philosophy that when you’re aggressive and make somebody make decisions and make plays, prob-ably more often than not, they’re going to work in your favor.”

Clark is in his fi fth season with the program and has been patiently building, motivating and waiting for this achievement.

“I just think it’s a testa-

ment to how hard these kids work,” Clark said. “The feeling I have is just inde-scribable. This is the most rewarding thing as a coach is to see these girls succeed and that’s the thing I’m most happy about today.”

–––Carterville 001 000 0 1 2 1Massac County 002 100 x 3 6 4

Jacobs and Kaufman; Childers and Ste-phens

WP: Childers (23-5). LP: Jacobs.2B: MC-Lamb 2. 3B: none. HR: C-Rock (0

on in 3rd). Top hitters: MC-Lamb 2-3 (RBI). Records: Massac County 30-5-1, Carter-ville 24-12.

Call Dusty Luthy Shull, a Sun sports writer, at 270-575-8662.

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MASSAC

McCracken County consoli-dation in the fall of 2013.

If nothing else, though, Lone Oak gets a chance at one last lick or two.

And with only two se-niors (Dallas and Skinner) on the seven-player ros-ter that competed in the

team format, the outlook is bright for next season.

“It’s a nice statement to make, with us just be-ing one year away,” Hefl in said. “Next year is a while away and I’m ready to think about it yet. I want to enjoy this one for a while.”

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TENNIS

Marshall County pound-ed out 20 hits and seven players had at least two hits in a 12-5 victory at Hopkins Central in Saturday’s high school softball action.

Catcher Abby Fiessinger was 3-for-5 with three RBI, while teammates Mallory

Young, Buzz Ray and Lexie Miller also had three hits.

–––Marshall County 310 032 3 12 20 1Hopkins Central 002 002 1 5 8 0Fehrenbacher and Fiessinger; Gordon,

Porter (3) and Childress.WP: Fehrenbacher. LP: Gordon.2B: MC-Young, Murphy, Stearns; HC-Flen-

er. 3B: MC-Ray, Murphy. HR: none. Top hit-ters: MC-Ray 3-4 (1 RBI), Miller 3-4, Fiess-inger 3-5 (3 RBI), Young 3-5 (2 RBI), Murphy 2-3, Moore 2-4 (1 RBI), York 2-5; HC-Flener 2-4. Records: Marshall County 16-10, Hop-kins Central 22-12.

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Massac County pitcher Kaylee Childers winds up for a pitch to a Carterville batter on Saturday in the Lady Patriots’ 3-1 win in the Illinois Class 2A Anna-Jonesboro Regional championship. Childers struck out six and gave up two hits in the outing.

High jump — 8. Skyler VanMeter, Marshall County, 6-0.

GIRLSTeam scores — 1. Louisville As-

sumption 63; 2. North Hardin 52; T3. Louisville Manual 43; T3. Lou-isville Male 43; 5. Lexington Dun-bar 42; 14. Marshall County 22.

100-meter hurdles — 2. Lauren Miller, Marshall County, :15.34; 16. Stephanie Russell, Marshall County, :17.11.

4x200 relay — 13. Marshall County, 1:47.88.

400-meter run — 16. Alyssa Bar-nard, Marshall County, 1:03.16.

300-meter hurdles — 5. Lauren Miller, Marshall County, :46.52; 16. Stephanie Russell, Marshall County, :48.95.

Long jump — 5. Lauren Miller,

Marshall County, 16-5.75; 13. Tory Fehrenbacher, Marshall, 15-5.75.

High jump — 11. Melanie McK-endree, Marshall County, 4-10.

Pole vault — 3. Devan Doss, Marshall County, 9-6; 14. Taylor West, Graves County, 8-0.

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CONCORD, N.C. — Jim-mie Johnson used a cal-culated strategy Saturday night to win NASCAR’s All-Star race and its $1 million prize for the third time in his career.

The fi ve-time champion won the fi rst 20-lap seg-ment of the Sprint All-Star race, then rode around at the back of the fi eld for the next 60 laps around Char-lotte Motor Speedway. His plan was to stay out of trou-ble, and make his play for the win in the fi fth and fi nal segment.

The new format this year set it up so that the win-ners of the fi rst four seg-ments would be the fi rst four drivers down pit road for a mandatory stop before the 10-lap sprint to the fi n-ish. Johnson’s win in the fi rst segment meant he was

guaranteed to be the fi rst driver down pit road, and he had the fi rst stall — the reward for his No. 48 Hen-drick Motorsports team winning Thursday night’s Pit Crew Competition.

The race was then just to beat everyone else off pit road, and Johnson did by edging Matt Kenseth across the line.

He then had a great re-start, and pulled away to become just the third driver — joining Dale Earnhardt and Jeff Gordon — to win three All-Star races. John-son’s other wins were in 2003 and 2006.

This win comes a week after his Darlington Race-way victory gave Hendrick Motorsports its 200th Cup win, and he celebrated by picking up team owner Rick Hendrick, who climbed halfway through the win-dow of the Chevrolet for

Johnson’s celebratory lap.“He said come pick me

up, and once I got to him, he didn’t want the ride,” John-son said. “I’m like, ‘No, no, I came to get you, Get on the car.’ It was great to take him around.”

Brad Keselowski, winner of the third segment, had no chance to catch Johnson over the closing 10 laps.

“It’s all about the restart,” Keselowski said. “The high line on the restart just wouldn’t go. I don’t know if I would have been able to do anything, but I would have liked another shot. We got beat by a fi ve-time champ and two-time All-Star win-ner, so I think we’re doing pretty good. We didn’t have enough to pull it off.”

Kenseth, winner of the second segment, fi nished third and was followed by Kyle Busch and Dale Earnhardt Jr., who won

Johnson cruises to 3rd win in NASCAR All-Star raceBY JENNA FRYER

Associated Press

CONCORD, N.C.— Dale Earnhardt Jr. knew he had a free pass into the All-Star race. But he didn’t want to get into the $1 million race that way.

Instead, Earnhardt led all 40 laps of Saturday night’s Sprint Showdown to race his way into the main event at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

“I feel real fortunate to have drove my way into the All-Star race,” Earnhardt said. “My fans work hard to vote, and I never assume that I’m going to win the vote. The fan support is a gift and I never take it for granted. We feel real lucky to have an opportunity to race. We’re going to enjoy it having earned our way in this year.”

Earnhardt won the All-Star race in 2000, and with it came a 10-year exemption into the event. It expired last season, and NASCAR’s most popular driver used the fan vote to make the race. This time, he battled Martin Truex Jr. around the track for the fi rst lap, surged ahead before the fl agstand, and never looked back.

He started 21st in the 23-

car All-Star race fi eld.“We would love to win a

million dollars, and we are pumped up,” he said. “We think we have a good shot.”

He squandered the fan vote last year, fi nishing 14th in the fi eld.

“I don’t inquire about the cars leading up to the race, I just assume we’re taking what he believes to be the best car for that event,” he said.

Earnhardt races way into All-Star raceBY JENNA FRYER

Associated PressIRVING, TexaS — Jason Dufner shot a 1-under 69 on Saturday, enough to keep a one-stroke lead head-ing into the final round of the Byron Nelson Champion-ship.

On a day when nine players had or shared the lead, Dufner was the one on top alone for the second day in a row when play was done. He was at 8-under 202.

Jason Day shot a 67, with his only bogey coming after missing a short putt on the 18th hole. He was a stroke back along with J.J. Henry and Dicky Pride. Henry also had a 67, and Pride shot a 69.

Vijay Singh had a 66 and was two strokes back. Matt Kuchar, who won The Players Championship last weekend, was four shots back after a 72.

Dufner carries lead into final round of Nelson

— Associated Press

GLADSTONE, N.J. (AP) — Morgan Pressel inched closer to her first LPGA Tour win since 2008, post-ing two very different victories Saturday to reach the semifinals of the Sybase Match Play Championship.

Pressel rallied from two down with three holes to play to stun No. 2 ranked Na Yeon Choi in the morning and rolled over Anna Nordqvist of Sweden in the after-noon quarterfinal at the Hamilton Farm Golf Club.

Pressel will face former NCAA champion Azahara Munoz in one of the semifinals Sunday morning, while American Vicky Hurst and Candie Kung will square off in the other match in this upset-marked tournament. The championship is Sunday afternoon.

Of the four players left, Pressel is the highest seed at No. 15. Munoz and Hurst have never won an LPGA event.

Pressel wins twice to reach semis of Sybase

— Associated Press

CASARES, Spain — Graeme McDowell held his nerve in a tense playoff against Sergio Garcia to squeeze into the semifinals of the World Match Play Championship on Saturday. In the tightest of the quar-terfinals, McDowell made his par putt on the first ex-tra hole from 5 feet but Garcia’s putt slid by the cup.

McDowell will play another Spaniard in the semifi-nal after Rafael Cabrera-Bello won 3 and 1 against compatriot Alvaro Quiros, who had eliminated reign-ing champion Ian Poulter. The other semifinal will pit Belgium’s Nicolas Colsaerts against Scotland’s Paul Lawrie after both eased to victories.

McDowell edges past Garcia in Match Play

— Associated Press

Briefs

Belmont, the longest of the races also known as the “Test of the Champion.” The most recent try came in 2008, when Big Brown was pulled up around the turn for home and did not fi nish. Before that, Smarty Jones was run down in the fi nal 70 yards by Birdstone in the 2004 Belmont.

With the colorful and controversial O’Neill squarely in the limelight, scrutiny is sure to intensify about his violations for al-legedly giving his horses improper drugs. He was fi ned $1,000 and suspend-ed 15 days in one incident. He is contesting another.

“We know we play by the rules,” O’Neill said. “It’s all about the horse, and we’re just going to focus on the horse.”

O’Neill has been accused in California of “milkshak-ing,” the illegal practice of giving a horse a blend of bicarbonate of soda, sugar and electrolytes. The mix-ture is designed to reduce

fatigue and enhance per-formance.

The trainer’s most recent violation dates from an Aug. 25, 2010, race at Del Mar in California. A blood test on his horse, Argenta, showed elevated levels of TCO2 — the so-called milk-shake — before it fi nished eighth.

He faces penalties rang-ing from a minimum 90-day suspension and a $5,000 fi ne to a maximum 180-day suspension and fi ne of $15,000.

Any suspension almost certainly wouldn’t occur before the Belmont.

I’ll Have Another seems to have made a habit of close calls lately. Before the Derby and Preakness, the chestnut colt won the Santa Anita Derby by a nose over Creative Cause. As usual, owner Paul Reddam wasn’t sure his colt would come through this time.

“I didn’t feel confi dent we were going to get there until 10 yards from the wire,” Reddam said. “I wasn’t sure that we would

get there, but I knew that our horse had a lot of heart and a lot of fi ght.”

With a record crowd of 121,309 watching, I’ll Have Another was sent off as the second choice at 3-1, with Bodemeister the 8-5 favor-ite. The winning time was 1:55.94.

I’ll Have Another paid $8.40, $3.80 and $2.80. Bodemeister returned $3.20 and $2.80, and Cre-ative Cause paid $3.60 to show.

Zetterholm was fourth, followed by Teeth of the Dog, Optimizer, Cozzetti, Tiger Walk, Daddy Nose Best, Went the Day Well and Pretension.

Baffert, a Hall of Famer and fi ve-time Preakness winner, thought his colt — named for his 7-year-old son, Bode — would outlast I’ll Have Another.

“I felt really good about where he was,” Baffert said. “I really thought he was go-ing to do it. The winner is a good horse. He should get the respect now that he de-serves.”

The victory was worth $600,000, boosting his earning to $2,693,600. Not a bad return for Reddam, who bought the colt for $35,000 on the advice of O’Neill’s brother, Dennis.

“He showed he’s the real deal. He’s a real race horse. He gutted it out,” Reddam said.

“The other horse was not stopping. He ran a bang-up race, to come and catch him, how can you criticize that?

“For those who have fol-lowed the horse and bet on him, that’s been pretty rewarding. I don’t know if that will be the case next time, though.”

I’ll Have Another could have plenty of company for the Belmont, including some familiar foes from the Derby: third-place fi nisher Dullahan; seventh-place fi nisher Union Rags; eight-place fi nisher Rousing Ser-mon and 12th-place fi nish-er Alpha. Other possibles include Paynter — trained by Baffert — and Peter Pan winner Mark Valeski.

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Jimmie Johnson (right) celebrates with his crew after winning the NASCAR Sprint All-Star auto race in Concord, N.C., on Satuday, his third win in the race.

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NEWARK, N.J. — In his latest playoff gem, Henrik Lundqvist had little time to do more than stop every breakaway or 2-on-1 at-tempt New Jersey shot his way. When he took a mo-ment to breathe, Lundqvist had all the confi dence his New York Rangers would bail him out with a goal or two.

“You know sooner or later it’s going to turn,” he said. “It’s going to turn in our fa-vor.”

Unlike those dozens of Devils’ shots, his feeling was right on the mark.

Lundqvist had 36 saves, and Dan Girardi, Chris Kreider and Ryan Callahan scored third-period goals to lead the New York Rangers to a 3-0 win over the New Jersey Devils in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference Fi-nals on Saturday.

Girardi and Kreider scored goals only 1 min-ute, 57 seconds apart early in the third to seize the momentum in a packed building with fans of both teams at a fever pitch, and

give New York a 2-1 series lead. Indeed it was a quick span the Devils may long regret, especially after they dominated long stretches of Game 3.

“We played a real good hockey game,” Devils coach Peter DeBoer said. “We lost. We gotta fi nd a way to score a goal.”

The Rangers did, and they did so in a stretch that would compare to some of coach John Tortorella’s short and not-so-sweet press conferences. But Tor-torella abandoned his nor-mally terse responses to praise his goalie after the win.

“He a great competitor,” Tortorella said, “as far as his preparation and as far as what he does for this hockey club.”

Lundqvist was busy from the opening faceoff en route to his second shutout of the series and third in the postseason. Callahan iced it with an empty-netter late in third.

Game 4 is Monday in New Jersey.

Not even playing on home ice, where they had won

four straight, was enough to help New Jersey. The Rang-ers have won every Game 1, lost each Game 2, and rebounded to win Game 3 in every round this postsea-son. Each preceding series, of course, saw them win the all-important last one: Game 7.

Kreider, a rookie called up during Round 1 vs. Ot-tawa, has scored in every game of this series.

“I’d trade that for three wins,” Kreider said. “I’m worried about the next one.”

Lundqvist was fantastic as he showed again why he led the Rangers to an East-ern Conference-high 109 points. He stoned Adam Henrique on a nice back-hander late in the second period to keep it scoreless entering the third, setting the stage for New York’s late magic.

He also toyed with Ilya Kovalchuk all game and stopped him on a nice breakaway in the second. Kovalchuk, who scored in Game 2, couldn’t get un-tracked and neither could the rest of the Devils.

Lundqvist, N.Y. Rangers blank Devils for 2-1 lead

BY DAN GELSTONAssociated Press

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — For three years now, coach Dave Tippett has kept the Phoenix Coyotes together when they had every off-ice reason to fall apart. When they struggled to fi ll their rink, when the franchise seemed headed to Winni-peg, Tippett and his players kept improving and win-ning.

Now that they’re stuck in a 0-3 hole in the Western Conference fi nals against an opponent seemingly touched by playoff destiny, Tippett and the Coyotes still aren’t folding against may-be their longest odds yet.

In Game 4 on Sunday, the Los Angeles Kings will attempt to clinch just their second trip to the Stanley Cup fi nal.

The Coyotes still haven’t given up hope of reaching their fi rst.

“There’s nothing to say now,” Tippett said after

the Coyotes’ late-afternoon workout Saturday at the Kings’ training complex. “We’ve got to win. Hope-fully we can push it back to Phoenix and keep the series going.”

Only three NHL teams have overcome this daunt-ing defi cit, but Phoenix is confi dent it has resources it hasn’t tapped while getting outscored 10-3 so far by the eighth-seeded Kings, who have lost just once in 12 playoff games.

The Coyotes know Los Angeles better than most opponents after splitting the six-game season series and fi nishing two points ahead of the Kings for the Pacifi c Division title, so they know it’s possible to beat L.A.

Doing it has been another matter entirely.

“Being down 3-0 is a big enough mountain, and then this team is rolling pretty good,” Coyotes forward Ray Whitney said of the Kings.

“We realize how diffi cult it’s going to be, but we’re not throwing everything in.”

If the Coyotes were the quitting types, they all would have fl ed the desert a few years ago when the club went into bankruptcy and became ownerless. They were written off as a fi nan-cial disaster of the NHL’s southern land rush of the 1990s, a struggling club that would eventually wind up in Winnipeg, Hamilton, Quebec City or someplace else where ice doesn’t melt quite so quickly.

But the Coyotes have thrived under those dire circumstances ever since Tippett took over from Wayne Gretzky in 2009. With fi nancial worries and tiny crowds — Phoenix was last in the NHL in atten-dance this season, too — the Coyotes have made three straight playoff appear-ances, culminating in this unprecedented run to the conference fi nal.

Down 0-3, Coyotes aren’t giving up in West final

BY GREG BEACHAMAssociated Press

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Revisit people, places and proj-ects you haven’t dealt with for a long time, and consider what’s worth resurrecting. Reminiscing will help you learn what not to do should similar circumstances occur. A humble approach will be valuable.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Adaptability will ease tension and help you avoid opposition. Plan to have fun and enjoy the people you love. Don’t let a re-lationship that isn’t working put a wedge between you and your goals. Make up your mind. Get on with life.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Preparation is key if you want

your expertise to be recognized. You will face competition that requires you to be imaginative and realistic to achieve victory. A secret you hold will give you the edge. Make a judgment call.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Those who rely on you will ques-tion your actions. Let the results speak for you. You have to do what’s best for the majority, even if it means not being able to pro-tect someone who made a mis-take.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Laugh at your mistakes. Being humble and gracious will spare you a lot of grief in the end. You may want to step back and take a day to re-assess a situation you face. Per-sonal pampering will help ease

your stress.VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):

Listen to any complaints being made. Your insights and solu-tions will put you in a good posi-tion regarding your own personal interests. You can make a calcu-lated change, but make sure you are doing so for the right reason.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Em-phasize discipline and hard work and you will win approval. Some-one may try to force you into mak-ing a change that isn’t in your best interest. Taking a broader look at the possibilities will help you decide what you should do.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You have a choice. Don’t limit what you can do. Venture down a path that allows you to use

your imagination and talent. The outcome will impress someone who has doubted your ability in the past. Choose your partners wisely.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Honesty is the best policy. Leading someone on will back-fi re. Show gratitude toward those who have helped you. A realistic view of your situation will be nec-essary if you want to avoid oppo-sition. Don’t let temptation lead you astray.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You can listen to what everyone else has to say and the demands being made, but that doesn’t mean you have to accommodate what’s being asked of you. Size up your situation and you’ll soon

realize the action you must take.AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):

Sit tight. Watch what everyone around you is doing before you make a move. Excess will be a problem, whether it’s you being overindulgent or someone else. Don’t lose sight of what you know you should be doing.

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Monsignor William Hodge of St. Nicholas Roman Catholic Church in Atlantic City, N.J., (left) thanks rocker Sammy Hagar for a $10,000 donation to his church’s food pantry. The former Van Halen singer said he’s not surprised the Van Halen tour ap-pears to be crumbling, with dozens of dates postponed.

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Right now, Sammy Hagar is awfully glad he’s not in Van Halen anymore.

The legendary rock band he led for more than a de-cade after replacing David Lee Roth in 1986 launched a tour in February with Roth back at the helm. But Van Halen on Thursday postponed dozens of shows this summer that had been scheduled for months, without giving a reason.

Hagar thinks he knows why.

“They’re hard people to get along with, those broth-ers,” Hagar told The As-sociated Press on Friday. “Otherwise I’d still be in the band.

“I’m surprised it took this long” for the tour to experience major diffi cul-ties, he added. “I predicted this was going to happen a lot sooner. I lost money on that bet!”

A source familiar with

the tour who was not au-thorized to speak publicly confi rmed to The Associat-ed Press on Thursday that some of the band’s long-scheduled performances this summer are being postponed. The group’s website lists active tour dates through June 26.

Representatives of the band and AEG, which is promoting the concerts in some regions, did not re-spond to messages from the AP.

Hagar actually had two go-rounds with Van Halen, but left each time after clashes with guitarist Ed-die and drummer Alex Van Halen.

Roth left the band in 1985 to launch a solo ca-reer after similar person-ality clashes with the Van

Halens, but reunited with them in 2007.

In February, the band re-leased its fi rst studio album together in 28 years, “A Different Kind Of Truth,” and has been touring to support it.

Hagar was in Atlantic City at his Sammy’s Beach Bar on the Boardwalk, where he donated $10,000 to St. Nicholas Roman Catholic Church for its food pantry. He said he tries to donate to food banks in each city he visits while on tour with his current band, Chickenfoot, which was to play The House of Blues on Friday night.

“They make the money go so far,” he said of the food pantries. “They can get 2 ½ meals out of a dol-lar!”

Hagar: Not surprised at Van Halen tour woes

BY WAYNE PARRYAssociated Press

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — Best-selling author Dan Brown made a rare public appear-a n c e in New H a m p -shire on F r i d a y , s a y i n g very little about his next nov-el other than he’s well into the writing process.

“The Da Vinci Code” author, who grew up in New Hampshire, spoke at a benefi t for The Music Hall’s “Writers on a New England Stage” series in Portsmouth.

Brown is working on a new book that again fea-tures Harvard symbolo-gist Robert Langdon as protagonist.

In addition to “The Da Vinci Code,” Langdon’s appeared in “Angels and Demons” and “The Lost Symbol.”

Brown was witty throughout the session in the late 19th century brick theater, and set the tone of the evening with several personal anec-dotes from his childhood, which infl uenced his thoughts on the tense co-existence of science and religion.

Despite persistent questioning from his fans and the media, Brown was tight-lipped about

his next novel.Brown said it took a

year and a half to re-search and that he is “well into the process of writing it.”

“The novel will be set in Europe, in the most fas-cinating place I’ve ever been,” he said.

Asked when the new book will be released, he said only “It’ll be done when it’s done.”

The author said he felt no pressure to complete the novel soon.

“My publisher wants good books, not quick ones,” he said.

It was a rare chance to hear from the 47-year-old, who seldom makes public appearances while writing.

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INDIANAPOLIS — Re-freshed in body and spirit, the Miami Heat returned to practice reunited and refo-cused.

There was no looking back. No heartfelt apolo-gies given. No need for a detailed autopsy of Dwy-ane Wade’s ugly sideline exchange with coach Eric Spoelstra in Game 3.

What’s done is done. All that’s for another day. Right now, it’s time to save the season.

“We move on,” Wade said.

Down 2-1 in the Eastern Conference semifi nals to the ready-to-rumble Indiana Pacers, the Heat were back on the fl oor Saturday after staying away from Bankers Life Fieldhouse for a day to decompress following their stunning 94-75 loss, a de-feat amplifi ed by the clash between Wade and Spoels-tra during a timeout in the third quarter.

On Friday, Wade drove to Bloomington, Ind., and visited Indiana coach Tom

Crean, his college coach for three years at Marquette. LeBron James went to the movies, catching “The Dic-tator.” Spoelstra joked that he locked away the keys to the team bus so players couldn’t get to the arena.

“We wanted to get away,” Spoelstra said as his team prepared for Sunday’s Game 4.

Wade, who scored just fi ve points on 2-of-13 shoot-ing and had fi ve turnovers in Thursday’s blowout, insists that any apparent problems with Spoelstra

were overblown. He down-played their fi ery spat.

“Things happen,” said Wade, who refused to ac-knowledge his quarrel with Spoelstra following the game.

“In a perfect world a lot of things would go differently, but it’s not a perfect world. A lot of stuff in our game is in the heat of the battle, emotional-type things. When something happens, it happens and we move on as a team.

“Me and coach have been together for nine years in

some capacity. We’ve had many different conversa-tions, some like that and some not. It wasn’t the fi rst, it won’t the last. We know how to move on from things and we know each other wants the best for each oth-er.”

“There’s no harm done. We’re a family.”

Spoelstra knows the dis-pute didn’t look good to the outside world, but it’s just part of professional sports.

“Your communication sometimes is not for every-body’s living room, but it’s

normal in our living room,” he said. “We’ve moved well beyond that. Dwyane and I have been together for a long time, nine or 10 years. That’s the least of our con-cerns the last two days.”

With an aggressive ap-proach on both ends of the fl oor, the Pacers have won the past two games to put the Heat in an unforeseen hole and place their title hopes in serious danger. A win on Sunday would put Indiana up 3-1 and send the panic meter to code red in south Florida.

Wade, Heat move on after Game 3 internal strugglesBY TOM WITHERS

Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — Noth-ing was going to rattle the calm, cool and collected Spurs. Not even a 24-point defi cit.

Tim Duncan scored 19 points, helping engineer a defi ning 24-0 run in the third quarter, and San Anto-nio defeated the Los Angeles Clippers 96-86 on Saturday to take a commanding 3-0 lead in their second-round playoff series.

“We didn’t plan on being down that much,” said Dun-can, who at 36 is hungry to win the team’s fi fth NBA championship and fi rst since 2006-07. “We stuck with it.”

Led by Tony Parker’s 23 points and his defense on an ailing Chris Paul, the Spurs kept running their plays even as Blake Griffi n’s ear-ly offensive assault buried them in a huge hole. Griffi n missed three shots in the fi rst half, when he scored 20 points and carried his

team to a 24-point lead de-spite a left hip injury and a sprained right knee.

“They came out like we expected, very strong. Blake was making crazy shots,” Parker said. “We just took our time. It’s a long game, a very long game. At halftime, we were very calm.”

Griffi n had 28 points and 16 rebounds, and re-serve Mo Williams added 19 points for the Clippers, who face some daunting NBA history heading into Game 4 on Sunday at Staples Center. No team has rallied from a 3-0 defi cit to win a series.

“If we don’t play with that sense of urgency, it’s not going to be pretty,” Griffi n said.

The Clippers played a must-win Game 7 in the opening round on the road at Memphis and succeeded.

“We have to keep fi ght-ing,” Paul said.

Rookie Kawhi Leonard added 14 points and Manu Ginobili 13 to help the top-

seeded Spurs win their 17th in a row and improve to 7-0 in the playoffs.

“We all struggled in the fi rst quarter. We didn’t feel right out there,” said Duncan, who like his team-mates, looked to Parker to pick the team up.

“We follow his lead. He stuck with it, made some big shots down the stretch and continued to attack,” Dun-can said. “He was playing defense really hard and got up into Chris.”

Besides Parker, the Spurs threw two other defenders at Paul. He fi nished with 12 points and 11 assists after two previous sub-par efforts in the series.

“Tony really ran the show well,” Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said. “I’d say, ‘Let’s do this’ and he said, ‘No, let’s do this,’ and we’d do it.”

After a quiet fi rst half in which he scored eight points, Duncan helped the Spurs control the third quarter when they out-

scored Los Angeles 26-8.The Spurs took their fi rst

lead during the 24-0 run on a fadeaway jumper by Duncan, who scored nine points in the outburst that put them ahead for good. Danny Green added seven and Leonard fi ve.

“We kept telling Kawhi and Danny to stay calm,” Parker said.

The Clippers’ defense completely faltered and they piled up miss after miss on the offensive end.

“When they spread the fl oor and Tim Duncan runs a high pick-and-roll, it’s trouble for a lot of teams,” Griffi n said. “That’s basi-cally what killed us in the third. This is what they do best.”

The Clippers scored the fi nal four points of the third, which ended with a turn-over by Williams, to trail 69-61 heading into the fourth.

“You knew they were go-ing to make a run. It was just a matter of trying to withstand it,” Griffi n said.

Spurs seize 3-0 lead on Clippers BY BETH HARRIS

Associated Press

Associated Press

San Antonio Spurs’ Tim Duncan (right) blocks the shot of Los Angeles Clippers’ Blake Griffin during the second half in Game 3 of the NBA playoffs Western Conference semifinal on Saturday in Los Angeles. The Spurs won 96-86 for a 3-0 lead in the series.

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