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BIRMINGHAM: Will Power of Australia, drives the No. 12 Team Penske Dallara Chevrolet ahead of the pack on the first lap during the Honda Indy Car Grand Prix of Alabama. (Inset) Ryan Hunter-Reay celebrates winning the Honda Indy Car Grand Prix. — AFP Hunter-Reay coasts to IndyCar win

BIRMINGHAM: Ryan Hunter-Reay deftly guid- what I needed. I knew it was going to be close He passed Power on lap 16 when the until Andretti pulled even at the finish line to of a bummer for the fans. In the future, hope- ed his car around the rain-soaked track, stayed to make it all work out because it was so easy Australian left the track and skirted by the tire savor the moment with his teammate. He led fully we can find a way around that.” out of trouble and wound up with a much to make a mistake today. Just thrilled. This barrier before pulling back on. “I kept creeping three times for a total of 40 laps. “They’ve giv- Drivers were focused on handling the track happier ending. victory feels real good.” my braking point a little bit further and fur- en us great cars here, and a second win in a conditions, not payback from any lingering Hunter-Reay coasted to his second straight A full-course caution came out for the final ther, and I went too far,” Power said. “It’s tough row for Ryan is awesome,” said Andretti, whose anger over Long Beach clashes. It ended badly victory at Barber Motorsports Park on Sunday seven minutes of the timed race after rookie to not push past the limits with wet patches radio worked only sporadically down the for Aleshin, who walked back to pit road while when the rain-shortened IndyCar race finished Mikhail Aleshin lost control and went off the everywhere. We really didn’t have the pace in stretch. the rest of the field finished. Earlier Sebastien under caution, with Andretti Autosport team- track. That left Hunter-Reay unchallenged. the dry anyway, but that sure didn’t help our Dixon said running a time race was “kind of Bourdais had spun the Russian from behind, mate Marco Andretti behind him. The win Scott Dixon was third, followed by Simon cause when I went off course.” annoying” and Andretti said it removed some leaving him stalled. Bourdais received a drive- came two weeks after Hunter-Reay touched Pagenaud and pole-sitter Will Power, a two- The turn is called “Charlotte’s Web” because strategy from the formula. They wound up through penalty for avoidable contact. off what turned into a seven-car pileup with time winner at Barber who had a slight but of a huge spider sculpture stationed there. “I going 69 laps, and Hunter-Reay was up front The race was a change-up for Dixon, who an ill-timed attempt to pass Josef Newgarden costly misjudgment on a slippery track in the almost threw it away three or four times there for the final time starting on No. 52. “The race finished second in each of the first four races at Long Beach to end what had been a domi- tight Turn 5. myself,” Hunter-Reay said. “It was just tiptoeing should be the full distance,” Dixon said. “To at Barber. “We went the wrong way, but it was nating performance. “He was out there cutting the grass,” around. It was a very fine line between getting have to shorten these races for TV, you know, I an interesting day,” Dixon said. “Whenever you “The week after Long Beach was a pretty Hunter-Reay said. “I had to take advantage of it all right or getting it all wrong. understand the difficult predicament that have a rain delay it sort of puts a strain on long one,” Hunter-Reay said. “It was one where that. It was so easy to do that today. I almost “Any guy that’s been in an IndyCar on the everybody is in, but these are championship everybody trying to figure out what we need I just wanted to get back in a racecar as soon lost this race three times.” Web will tell you that’s how it is. You’ve got to races. They all pay the same amount of points. to do. “The cars were pretty good. The track as I could. There was some slipping and sliding, espe- go up the risk side to the get the reward out of “You decide to take 30 laps off them ... I suits wet conditions. There were a few trouble- “We knew it would be tough here. When it cially in the minutes after the field switched it, but it’s really easy to throw it all away.” think it changes strategy a lot and you’re con- some areas with standing water and a few of came to race time, I had the car in the wet, I from the wet tires with several drivers leaving It’s the 12th career win for Hunter-Reay, stantly chasing that window. Then ultimately the guys found those spots. But generally the had the car in the dry. They gave me exactly the track. who was alone up front during the caution you finish on a caution, too, which is also a bit race went fairly smoothly.” — AP Warriors down Clippers Robertson in OAKLAND: Stephen Curry made a career play- The Blazers haven’t advanced out of the first off-high seven 3-pointers and scored 33 points, round since the postseason in 2000. James world quarter-finals leading the Golden State Warriors past the Los Harden had 28 points and Dwight Howard Angeles 118-97 on Sunday to even a first-round added 25 points and 14 rebounds for the SHEFFIELD: Australia’s 7 I was delighted because I won quite a series that has been pulled into a race-related Rockets. booked his place in the quarter-finals of lucky frame. I had quite an unbelievable scandal involving the Clippers’ owner. Portland trailed by as many as 11 points, but this year’s World Championships with a fluke on the green, so to come out today Clippers players made a silent protest against rallied in the fourth quarter. Mo Williams’ 3- 13-7 win over Mark Allen yesterday only (Monday), I knew I had to come out and Donald Sterling by shedding their warm-up jer- pointer put the Blazers in front 105-104 with to barely miss out on a notable land- play really well. seys and going through pregame routine with 18.9 seconds left. Dorell Wright missed the first their red shirts on inside out. They also wore mark. “Those last two frames I was like a of two free throws making it 106-104 with 8.3 The world number one was left cricketer on 190 or something like that. black bands on their wrists or arms and black seconds to go. stranded on 99 competitive century It was unfortunate. I missed the black socks in a show of solidarity. Howard dunked off a feed from Harden with breaks for the season, with Robertson with one red left and I thought I hit the Curry and the Warriors made another kind of 3.6 seconds left to tie it again and Williams statement. The All-Star guard made his first five missed a 3 at the buzzer to send the game into still one shy of becoming the first man to black perfectly and I was about to cele- 3s to give Golden State a 20-point lead in the overtime at 106-106. compile 100 hundreds in a single tour brate but it rattled in the jaws. first quarter that held up most of the way. Curry WIZARDS 98, BULLS 89 campaign. “That frame there, I missed a really shot 10 for 20 from the floor, including 7 of 14 Trevor Ariza had a career playoff-high 30 Melbourne-born Robertson, the 2010 tough red down the cushion and I from beyond the arc, and had seven assists and points as Washington scored the first 14 points world champion, resumed with an thought I hit it pretty good again but it seven rebounds to help the Warriors snap a two- of the game and barely looked back in taking a overnight 9-7 lead and then made wasn’t to be. The snooker gods are going game skid. 3-1 lead in the Eastern Conference series. breaks of 59 and 69 to pull further in to keep you guys waiting a little bit Golden State outshot Los Angeles 55.4 to John Wall added 15 points and 10 assists for front against his Northern Irish oppo- longer.” Seven-time world champion 42.9 percent. The Clippers had 19 turnovers, the Wizards, who forced 16 turnovers and com- nent. Stephen Hendry was in the commentary while the Warriors had a series-low 15 turnovers. mitted only six. Washington played without for- Remarkably, Robertson succumbed box and Robertson, who long ago sur- Game 5 is today in Los Angeles. ward Nene, who was suspended for grabbing to something akin to cricket’s ‘nervous passed ’s record of 63 hun- Andre Iguodala added 22 points and nine nineties’ in the next two frames when he dreds in a tour season, was disappointed assists, and David Lee, Klay Thompson and Jimmy Butler by the head in Game 3. The Harrison Barnes each scored 15 as the Warriors Wizards are looking to win a playoff series for missed pots after recording breaks of 94 not to have reached his 100th century in regained their shooting touch in front of a roar- only the third time since the 1970s. They can fin- and 92 respectively, although both front of the Scottish snooker great. ing, gold-shirt wearing sellout crowd of 19,596 ish off the Bulls in Game 5 today in Chicago. those efforts were more than enough to “I was gutted because Hendry was in that stood after every swish. Taj Gibson scored a career-high 32 points on be frame-winners. the commentary box as well and I would Jamal Crawford scored 26 points, and Blake 13 for 16 shooting for Chicago, but his team- “Throughout the whole match Mark have loved to do it with him in there,” Griffin had 21 points and six rebounds for a mates combined to go 22 for 62 from the field. kept sticking with me and I thought he Robertson said. Clippers team wrapped up in the most talked- RAPTORS 87, NETS 79 played really well,” Robertson told the “Hopefully for the next couple of ses- about topic in sports. DeMar DeRozan scored 24 points and Kyle BBC after his latest victory at Sheffield’s sions he can be in the box as it would be TRAIL BLAZERS 123, ROCKETS 120 Lowry added 22 as Toronto evened the first- Crucible Theatre in northern . good to do it in front of him.” In LaMarcus Aldridge had 29 points and 10 round series at two games apiece. Amir Johnson “He’s always going to score really Monday’s other afternoon match ’s rebounds as Portland took a 3-1 advantage in had 17 points for the Raptors, who started fast, OAKLAND: Klay Thompson No. 11 of the Golden State heavily but his safety was really good Dominic Dale took the frame he needed the series. Nicolas Batum added 25 points in the gave up all of a 17-point lead, then shut the Nets Warriors is called for an offensive foul against DeAndre and I didn’t have many opportunities at to secure a 13-4 win over Michael first win for the home team in the series, which down over the final 5 minutes to snap a 13- Jordan No. 6 of the Los Angeles Clipplers in Game Four long balls. Wasley, the shock first-round conqueror moves to Houston for Game 5 on Wednesday. It game road losing streak in the playoffs that of the Western Conference Quarterfinals during the “I was really happy to be 4-4 and at 9- of China’s . — AFP was the third overtime game of the series. went back 13 years. — AP 2014 NBA Playoffs. —AFP