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Honduras’ goalkeeper Alex Barrios, (), catches the ball during a Concacaf Men’s Olympic qualifying champion- ship semifi nal soccer match against United States in Guadalajara, Mexico, March 28. (AP) Sports Latest sports scores at — http://sports.arabtimesonline.com Mexico, Honduras qualify US miss 3rd straight Olympic soccer GUADALAJARA, March 29, (AP): American players fell to tional teams. The U.S. has won three of the last four soccer the fi eld at the fi nal whistle. Another missed Olympics soccer gold medals and is favored to win again this summer. tournament for the U.S. men. Still, there were chances. Jonathan Lewis’ 63rd-minute Juan Carlos Obregón scored in the fourth minute of fi rst- header was headed off the goal line by Wesley Degas, and half stoppage time, goalkeeper David Ochoa committed a Yueill’s free kick in the 69th was batted away by goalkeeper blunder that gifted Luis Palma a goal two minutes into the sec- Alex Barrios. Lewis had an open 4-yard shot off Tanner ond half and Honduras beat the United States 2-1 on Sunday in Tessman’s pass in the 83rd minute but allowed the ball to an Olympic qualifi cation game at Guadalajara, Mexico. bounce off a boot. Johnny Cardoso mis-hit an open header in U.S. captain Jackson Yueill pulled a goal back with a curl- second-half stoppage time. ing 23-yard shot in the 52nd minute, but the Americans mis- Kreis had seen similar from his team during the group fi red on several good chances to equalize. stage. “Obviously, we’re devastated, absolutely devastated,” U.S. coach Jason Kreis said. “In our locker room, the guys are like it’s a tragedy - a tragedy.” U.S. men had trouble cre- SOCCER ating chances in the fi rst half, and the Americans missed their third straight Olympics. Honduras advanced to its fourth straight Olympics this “They were very well man-oriented to stop players, which summer in Japan after fi nishing fourth in 2016. Mexico, the didn’t give us a lot of time to kind of break them down,” 2012 gold medal winner, earned the other berth from North Yeuill said. and Central America and the Caribbean by defeating Canada The American Olympic skid is part of a trend that includes 2-0 in the second game of the doubleheader. the senior national team missing the 2018 World Cup. CONCACAF qualifi ers join Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Olympic men’s soccer is limited to players both Jan. 1, Egypt, France, Germany, Ivory Coast, Japan, New Zealand, 1997, and later, and clubs don’t have to release players. Romania, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea and forward Will Barton (5) lays up the ball against center Clint Capela (15) during the In contrast, the women’s tournament is open to senior na- Spain in the draw, which will be held in Zurich on April 21. fi rst quarter of an NBA game in Denver, March 28. (AP) Lakers win ‘again’ without James, AD LOS ANGELES, March 29, (AP): France, Spain bounce back Dennis Schroder scored 24 points, added 21 and Los Ange- les Lakers rallied to beat Orlando on Sunday. had 18 points to help Los Angeles win two in a row with- out LeBron James and . Orlando’s Otto Porter Jr had a clean look at a 3-pointer to send it to over- time, but the shot hit the rim. Dwayne Bacon led the Magic with 26 points. They have dropped 13 of 15. Hornets 101, 97 OT In Charlotte, N.C., scored 35 points, had 16 and the outlasted the 101-97 in overtime . added 14 points, and Mikal Bridges had 13 points, eight rebounds and a career-high six steals. The Suns, second in the Western Con- ference at 31-14, have won three of four on their Southeast swing. Devonte Graham led the Hornets BASKETBALL

with 30 points, and had 22 points and 10 rebounds. added 18 points, 12 rebounds, and scored 15 points. A crowd of 3,850 saw the Hornets force overtime, with Rozier’s 3-pointer tying it at 90 with 33.5 seconds left. Nuggets 126, Hawks 102 In Denver, Aaron Gordon scored 13 points in his Denver debut to help the Nuggets beat Atlanta. Acquired from Orlando at the trade deadline, Gordon started and played 21 minutes. Nikola Jokic added with 16 points, 10 rebounds and eight assists, and Michael Porter Jr. had 15 points and 10 rebounds. scored 21 points for At- lanta. The Hawks lost for the third time in 12 games. Trail Blazers 122, Raptors 1117 In Tampa, Fla, CJ McCollum scored Faroe Islands’s Gilli Rolantsson (left), fi ghts for the ball with Austria’s Christoph Baumgartlinger, during the World Cup 2022 group F qualifying soccer match between Austria and Faroe Islands seven of his 23 points in the fi nal two at the Ernst-Happel-Stadium in Vienna, Austria, March 28. (AP) minutes, had 22 points and 11 assists, and Portland beat To- ronto. Europe top teams win WCup qualifiers as Swiss move goalposts had 26 points and eight rebounds, and Fred VanVleet added 20 points and eight assists for LONDON, March 29, (AP): Sweden look like being Spain’s big- with Greece. ting his studs caught in the synthetic The Germans are rebuilding after a Toronto, The Raptors lost for the 11th gest challengers in Group B for the one A missed penalty by Kylian Mbappe turf at Astana Stadium, and the Paris 6-0 Nations League loss to Spain in time in 12 games. World Cup qualifying in automatic qualifying place after seal- had little effect for France in their com- Saint-Germain star won the penalty November. The game was played three days af- Europe took a quirky turn ing a second straight win by beating fortable win in Kazakhstan. himself - only to see his shot tipped Armenia are also on six points af- ter the trade deadline move in which when the goalposts were Kosovo 3-0. The world champions were already around the post. ter beating Iceland 2-0, while North the Raptors sent to the removed before a match Zlatan Ibrahimovic, freshly out of two goals ahead by then, through Ous- Ukraine and Finland drew 1-1 and Macedonia cruised to a 5-0 win over Blazers for Gary Trent Jr. and Rodney international retirement, had a hand in mane Dembele - one of a raft of chang- have two points each to sit behind Liechtenstein for their fi rst points of Hood. between Switzerland and two of the goals having also claimed es by Didier Deschamps - and an own- France in Group D. qualifying. ❑ ❑ ❑ Lithuania because they an on his fi rst game back, the 1-0 goal by Sergey Malyy in the fi rst half. England play Poland in a key Group Denmark earned their biggest win in I qualifi er at Wembley Stadium on is joining the were deemed the incorrect win over Georgia on Thursday. Mbappe came on after Anthony a World Cup or European Champion- for the playoff Spain started out by drawing 1-1 Martial appeared to hurt his knee get- Wednesday and both of their world- ship qualifi er. size. class strikers look in good shape for it. push. Kasper Dolberg and Mikkel The Lakers announced the signing of It was one of the few things that Bayern Munich striker Robert Le- Damsgaard both scored twice in Hern- wandowski scored for a 10th straight the two-time All-Star center less than didn’t go to script . ing for the Danes, who were 5-0 up an hour before Sunday night’s game All of the continent’s heavy- game for club and country, netting a after 39 minutes. double in Poland’s 3-0 win over An- against the . Drum- weight countries secured victories, Denmark are the only team in Group mond announced his decision with a dorra. The Poles opened by drawing F with six points. Austria are two back though Spain left it late - the sec- with Hungary. post on his Instagram account earlier after coming from behind to beat the ond minute of stoppage time, to be Harry Kane scored one goal and set in the day, writing “Back to work” un- precise - to see off Georgia 2-1 af- up another for Mason Mount in Eng- Faroe Islands 3-1, while Israel and derneath an illustration of himself in a ter falling behind. land’s 2-0 win in Albania, which built Scotland drew 1-1. Lakers uniform. Like Spain, France started their qual- on the 5-0 thrashing of San Marino on ifi cation campaign with an unexpected Thursday. draw at home but also got back on track England lead the group with six NBA Results/Standings in their second game, easing to a 2-0 points. Hungary are level with Poland win at Kazakhstan. on four points after beating San Marino 3-0. WASHINGTON, March 29, (AP): NBA results and standings on Sunday. SOCCER Italy’s back-to-back wins to open Phoenix 101 Charlotte OT 97 Denver 126 Atlanta 102 World Cup qualifying come after a Portland 122 Toronto 117 LA Lakers 96 Orlando 93 perfect 10 wins in qualifying for Euro Eastern Conference Western Conference Italy stretched their unbeaten streak Atlantic Division Southwest Division 2020. W L Pct GB W L Pct GB to 24 games with a 2-0 win in Bulgaria, Goals from Andrea Belotti, from the Philadelphia 32 14 .696 - San Antonio 23 20 .535 - and England also moved onto a maxi- penalty spot, and Manuel Locatelli, the Brooklyn 31 15 .674 1 Dallas 23 21 .523 -1/2 mum six points in group play with a fi rst for his country, followed up a vic- New York 24 22 .522 8 Memphis 21 22 .488 2 Boston 23 23 .500 9 New Orleans 20 25 .444 4 2-0 victory at Albania. Germany made tory over Northern Ireland on Thursday. Toronto 18 28 .391 14 Houston 13 32 .289 11 it two straight wins to open qualifying, Switzerland are only behind Italy on Southeast Division Northwest Division too, by beating Romania 1-0 away. goal difference after their1-0 win over W L Pct GB W L Pct GB Charlotte 23 22 .511 - Utah 34 11 .756 - Dani Olmo came off the bench to Lithuania, secured by an early goal from Atlanta 23 23 .500 -1/2 Denver 28 18 .609 6-1/2 snatch a come-from-behind win for Liverpool winger Xherdan Shaqiri. The Miami 22 24 .478 1-1/2 Portland 28 18 .609 6-1/2 Spain, his long-range shot getting start of the game was delayed by 10 min- Washington 16 28 .364 6-1/2 Oklahoma City 19 26 .422 15 palmed into the top corner of the net utes because one of the goals was not Orlando 15 31 .326 8-1/2 Minnesota 11 35 .239 23-1/2 Central Division Pacifi c Division by fl ailing Georgia goalkeeper Giorgi regulation size and had to be changed. W L Pct GB W L Pct GB Loria. Germany top Group J on goal dif- Milwaukee 29 16 .644 - Phoenix 31 14 .689 - Ferran Torres’ fi fth goal in six starts ference after Serge Gnabry fi nished off Indiana 21 23 .477 7-1/2 LA Clippers 31 16 .660 1 Bulgaria’s Vasil Bozhikov (right), challenges Italy’s Federico Chiesa (left), Chicago 19 25 .432 9-1/2 LA Lakers 30 17 .638 2 gave Spain, the 2010 world champion, a team move in the 16th minute that Cleveland 17 29 .370 12-1/2 Golden State 22 24 .478 9-1/2 the equalizer in the 55th after Georgia during the World Cup 2022 Group C qualifying soccer match at Vassil Lev- involved Chelsea players Antonio Rü- Detroit 12 33 .267 17 Sacramento 21 25 .457 10-1/2 went ahead a minute before halftime. ski stadium, in Sofi a on March 28. (AP) diger and Kai Havertz.

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