ARAB TIMES, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, 2021 SPORTS 15 Flyers hand Sabres 18th straight loss Pens edge Isles 2-1

BUFFALO, New York, March 30, (AP): scored 42 seconds into , and the overcame a three- defi cit to pull out a 4-3 win and hand the their 18th consecutive loss. The Flyers scored three times in the third period to overcome a 3-0 defi cit, with forcing overtime by tip- ping in Provorov’s with 1:29 left, and Philadelphia’s net empty for an extra attacker. started the Flyers’ come- back by scoring 1:50 into the third, when his shot deflected in off Dahlin’s stick. scored 10 minutes later, by converting Couturier’s no-look pass in front of the net. Henri Jokiharju, Cody Eakin and Brandon Montour scored to put the Sabres up 3-0 through two periods. Buffalo felll to 0-15-3 to match the NHL’s 14th-worst skid and longest since the went 0-17-1 during the 2003-04 season. Penguins 2, Islanders 1 In Pittsburgh, Casey DeSmith made 19 saves after starter ’s mysterious exit and Pittsburgh held on to beat New York for the sixth time in eight meetings this season.

Jarry left after the first period and DeSmith filled in by holding the Islanders at bay as Pittsburgh pulled even with New York for second place in the East Division. Jared McCann scored his eighth goal of the season - and fifth in his last 10 games - and Anthony Angello got the first power- play goal of his career. John Marino had two assists as Pittsburgh finished off a scorching March with an NHL-best 25 points (12-3-1). Matt Martin scored his seventh of the season for the Islanders and made 20 saves. Philadelphia Flyers left wing Michael Raffl (12) shields the puck from Buffalo Sabres defenseman Matt Irwin (44) during the fi rst period of an NHL hockey game in Buffalo, NY, Oilers 3, Maple Leafs 2, OT on March 29. (AP) In , Darnell Nurse scored 17 sec- onds into overtime and Edmonton beat Toronto. NHL Results/Standings McDonald powers Arizona past Indiana After Oilers goalie Mike Smith stopped Auston Matthews on a 2-on-1 break right off the faceoff of the extra period, the Oilers WASHINGTON March 30 (AP): Results and standings from the NHL games on Monday. Top-seeded UConn tops Baylor, broke the other way, with Connor McDavid Edmonton 3 Toronto OT 2 Vegas 4 Los Angeles 1 passing to Nurse for his 12th goal of the Pittsburgh 2 NY Islanders 1 Winnipeg 5 Calgary 1 Philadelphia 4 Buffalo OT 3 San Jose 4 Minnesota SO 3 season, and second in two games. Colorado 5 Anaheim 2 reaches 13th straight Final Four Josh Archibald and scored in East Division West Division regulation for Edmonton, while Smith GP W L OT Pts GF GA GP W L OT Pts GF GA SAN ANTONIO, March 30, (AP): Paige Bueckers. But Baylor was just getting going. stopped 29 shots. Washington 34 23 7 4 50 119 99 Vegas 33 24 8 1 49 108 75 NY Islanders 36 22 10 4 48 106 84 Colorado 34 22 8 4 48 118 77 Bueckers scored 28 points and top seed The Lady Bears closed the action-packed Matthews, with his NHL-leading 23rd Pittsburgh 36 23 11 2 48 117 94 Minnesota 33 21 10 2 44 97 82 UConn used a huge run spanning the fi nal fi rst quarter with a 20-10 run and trailed 26- goal, and Mitch Marner, with a goal and an Boston 31 17 9 5 39 83 73 St Louis 35 16 13 6 38 100 113 two quarters to beat No. 2 Baylor 69-67 and 24 after one. assist, scored for Toronto, which got 20 Philadelphia 34 17 13 4 38 106 123 Arizona 35 16 14 5 37 92 103 NY Rangers 34 15 15 4 34 107 92 Los Angeles 33 13 14 6 32 92 94 reach a 13th consecutive Final Four in the The offense slowed down in the second saves from Michael Hutchinson. Justin Holl New Jersey 33 13 16 4 30 79 101 San Jose 34 14 16 4 32 95 118 women’s NCAA Tournament. quarter. There were 11 blocks combined added two assists as the North Division Buffalo 34 6 23 5 17 71 122 Anaheim 37 11 20 6 28 83 123 UConn has made the national semifi nals in the fi rst half, including seven by Baylor, leaders fell to 6-1-2 against the Oilers this Central Division North Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA GP W L OT Pts GF GA every season since 2008 and won six titles which led 39-37 at the break. season. Tampa Bay 34 24 8 2 50 123 82 Toronto 35 22 10 3 47 116 91 during that span. The Huskies await the win- Carrington provided a huge spark off the McDavid, who tops the league with 63 Carolina 33 23 7 3 49 112 84 Winnipeg 36 22 12 2 46 119 99 Florida 35 22 9 4 48 115 98 Edmonton 36 22 13 1 45 122 103 ner of Arizona and Indiana on Friday night. bench, scoring 14 points to go along with points, extended his point streak to 11 Nashville 36 18 17 1 37 92 107 Montreal 31 14 8 9 37 100 87 Neither of those teams has played in a Final two steals and a block in the opening 20 games. Chicago 36 16 15 5 37 104 114 Calgary 37 16 18 3 35 96 112 Four. Sharks 4, Wild 3, SO Columbus 36 13 15 8 34 91 117 37 16 18 3 35 100 120 minutes. Dallas 32 11 12 9 31 89 88 Ottawa 36 12 20 4 28 94 135 It took a last-second stop to keep that In San Jose, California, Erik Karlsson Baylor went on a 10-2 run in the third Detroit 36 12 20 4 28 79 115 streak going. quarter to push ahead 55-45. Then UConn scored twice in regulation and then added Note: Two points for a win one point for overtime loss. The top four teams in each division will qualify for playoffs under this season’s temporary realignment. The Huskies (28-1) trailed 55-45 late in took over, scoring the fi nal eight points of the deciding goal in the eighth round of the the third quarter before scoring 19 consecu- shootout to lead San Jose. the period. Williams and Bueckers high- tive points, including 10 by the freshman lighted an 8-0 spurt that made it a two-point Karlsson capped a stellar night by ending phenom Bueckers, who became the third a streak of nine combined misses by both made 36 saves. Nichushkin also scored, Cale Makar had game heading into the fourth quarter. Avalanche 5, Ducks 2 three assists and Nathan MacKinnon added fi rst-year player to make fi rst-team All- UConn starting guard Nika Muhl missed teams when he beat Cam Talbot with a slap America. shot. In Denver, Philipp Grubauer got his two. her third straight game with a sprained right 100th career win with a 13-save night to Danton Heinen and Troy Terry scored for Baylor (28-3) wouldn’t go away as Bueck- ankle she suffered in the team’s opening- Karlsson had his first two-goal game in ers went cold in the fi nal minutes. Trailing the regular season in more than three years lead Colorado past Anaheim. the Ducks. made several high- round win over High Point. and Radim Simek also scored as the Sharks Grubauer has 57 wins since joining light saves but was overwhelmed by 48 64-55, NaLyssa Smith, an All-American her- Arizona 66, Indiana 53 rebounded from back-to-back losses in Colorado before the 2018-19 season and shots. He finished with 43 saves for self, ended the Lady Bears’ drought with 6:47 Aari McDonald scored 33 points and No. Arizona. Martin Jones made 22 saves and notched his 21st this season. Anaheim, which had its two-game win left and sparked a 12-4 burst that got Baylor 3 seed Arizona beat No. 4 Indiana 66-53 allowed only two goals in the shootout. Gabriel Landeskog and Tyson Jost scored streak snapped. within one after Dijonai Carrington convert- to earn its fi rst trip to the Final Four of the Marcus Johansen, Nick Bonino and in the second period to help Colorado Golden Knights 4, Kings 1 ed two free throws with 19.3 seconds left. women’s NCAA Tournament. Kevin Fiala scored for the Wild, who lost extend its points streak to 11 games (9-0-2). In Las Vegas, Tomas Nosek scored in the After a timeout, Baylor fouled Christyn McDonald, the Pac-12 player of the for just the third time in 11 games. Talbot Mikko Rantanen, J.T. Compher and Valeri second period and Vegas beat Los Angeles. Williams, who missed both free throws to year, did everything for the Wildcats, from , Reilly Smith and Nicolas give the Lady Bears one last chance. slashing drives to a banked-in 3-pointer. Hague also scored for Vegas, which has Carrington, who fi nished with 22 points, She briefl y left the game with a twisted an- won 14 of 18 and improved to 14-2-1 at drove the lane to the left and missed a con- kle with 2:35 left, but limped back on and home. had two tested jumper from the baseline. Williams scored six more points. Her three-point play assists. Robin Lehner stopped 24 shots. corralled the rebound and was fouled with with 34 seconds left put the exclamation The Golden Knights have won six in a 0.8 seconds left. She hit one of the free point on the victory. row, their longest win home winning streak throws before Bueckers stole the inbounds in two years. pass at the buzzer. BASKETBALL Matt Roy scored for Los Angeles and No one has played UConn tougher over Jonathan Quick had 20 saves. Quick came the last decade than Baylor, with each team Arizona (20-5) advanced to Friday’s na- into the game with a 6.05 goals-against winning four of the matchups. The Lady tional semifi nal against top-seeded UConn, average and .814 save percentage in two Bears (28-3) had won the previous two, in- which reached its 13th straight Final Four appearances against Vegas this season. cluding a 74-58 win at Connecticut in Janu- when it beat No. 2 seed Baylor earlier Mon- Jets 5, Flames 1 ary of 2020. day night.. In Calgary, Alberta, had They were supposed to meet this past Jan- Arizona made consecutive 3-pointers in two goals and an assist to lead Winnipeg. uary, but Baylor coach Kim Mulkey came the middle of the fourth quarter, the latter Nate Thompson, Andrew Copp and down with COVID-19 around Christmas from Helena Pueyo off a bullet pass from Pierre-Luc Dubois also scored for the Jets. and the game was canceled. McDonald, for a 57-50 lead in what had The game got off to a fast start for UConn, Nikolaj Ehlers had three assists and Kyle been a tight, basket-for-basket game. Pueyo which jumped out to a 16-4 lead behind Connor added two. made two 3-pointers in the fi nal quarter. made 29 saves for the win. The Hoosiers never led and went score- Winnipeg leads the nine-game season less for nearly four minutes after pulling series against Calgary 5-2-1. After three even at 48-48 in the fourth. meetings in four days, the teams don’t face Mackenzie Holmes scored 20 points for each other again until May 5. Indiana (21-6), which was playing its fi rst Elias Lindholm scored for Calgary. Jacob Elite Eight game. Pittsburgh Penguins Casey DeSmith (1) stops a shot by New York Island- Markstrom stopped 19 shots over two peri- The tension of the biggest night in pro- ers’ Casey Cizikas (53) during the third period of an NHL hockey game, on March 29, ods and David Rittich had five saves on six gram history for both teams showed early in in Pittsburgh. (AP) shots in the third. a timid, ragged start as the fi rst 10 shots of the game misfi red before McDonald fi nally got a short jumper to fall. Once McDonald Iowa’s Lee, Minnesota’s Steveson share wrestling’s top award started heating up, she scored 10 points in carrying the Wildcats to a 14-11 lead to start WASHINGTON, March 30, (AP): Iowa’s the committee overrode the vote and picked U.S. Olympic wrestling trials for a spot on the second quarter. Spencer Lee and Minnesota’s Gable Steve- co-winners because Lee and Steveson were the team that will go to Tokyo in July. Lee The Hoosiers methodically worked the son have been named winners of the Dan on nearly equal terms when it came to assess- withdrew from the trials because of torn ball to Holmes in the post to control the pace Hodge Trophy as the most dominant college ing criteria for the award. anterior cruciate ligaments in his knees. of play. But McDonald banked in a long wrestlers in 2020-21. Lee was a 12-0 with fi ve pins, three techni- He tore his left ACL a few days before the 3-pointer to beat the shot clock early in the The announcement Monday marked the fi rst cal falls and four major decisions. Lee earned NCAA Tournament but competed anyway. quarter and Arizona led 27-23 at halftime. time in the award’s 20-year history that two bonus points in 92% of his matches. The trophy is named for the late Dan Hodge, Two 3-pointers from McDonald and Trin- wrestlers shared the honor. Lee won the Hodge the undefeated three-time NCAA champion ity Baptiste pushed the lead to eight early in last year, and last week he became a three-time for Oklahoma in the 1950s who was known the third, before Holmes pulled Indiana back NCAA champion at 125 pounds. Steveson WRESTLING for his aggressiveness and pinning prowess. in it again with with 10 points in the quarter. McDonald ripped a rebound from the hands won his fi rst heavyweight national title. Hodge, who died in December, never lost and UConn forward Aubrey Griffi n (44) is blocked The winner of the award, presented by Steveson was 17-0 with four pins, seven never was taken down as a collegian. by Baylor forward NaLyssa Smith (1) during of an Indiana player and an easy layup sent WIN magazine, is determined by fan vote technical falls and three major decisions. He Also receiving fi rst-place votes were Iowa the fi rst half of a college basketball game in Arizona into the fourth leading 46-44. and a committee made up of past winners, earned bonus points in 88% of his matches State 157-pounder David Carr and Penn State the Elite Eight round of the women’s NCAA Indiana shot 36% and was 0 of 9 on retired coaches and select media. and gave up just one takedown. 133-pounder Roman Bravo-Young, both of tournament at the Alamodome in San Anto- 3-pointers. The Hoosiers got zero points off Lee overwhelmingly won the fan vote, but Steveson will compete this week in the whom won national titles. nio, on March 29. (AP) their bench.