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Clear out Your Mailbox D6 THE SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE TUESDAY • SEPTEMBER 22,2020 SAN YSIDRO’S WILLIAMS TRANSFERRING NHL REPORT LIGHTNING BEAT DALLAS Freshman phenom assured of starting IN GAME 2, GET EVEN season early in N.C. ASSOCIATED PRESS Lightning 3, Stars 2 BY JOHN MAFFEI EDMONTON, Alberta Nikita Kucherov and the dobin slid over to stop Mikey Williams, the Max- Tampa Bay Lightning got Kucherov’s one-timer, Palat Preps national Freshman themselves up off the ice to finished a nice passing se- Boys Basketball Player of the get even in the Stanley Cup quence, taking advantage of Year last season at San Final. ahalf-open net. Victor Hed- Ysidro High, has left the Kucherov had the pri- man had the secondary as- school and is transferring to mary assists on power-play sist on both of those goals. Lake Norman Christian goals by Brayden Point and Shattenkirk scored less School in suburban Char- Ondrej Palat in the first pe- than a minute later. lotte, N.C. riod before Kevin Shat- It was the first time in Williams made the an- tenkirk scored and the seven games Tampa Bay nouncement Monday on Lightning held on for a 3-2 scored the opening goal. Twitter. victory over the Dallas Stars Andrei Vasilevskiy “Leaving Southern Cali- to win Game 2 on Monday stopped 27 shots for Tampa fornia was hard!! Especially night. Bay. Khudobin had 28 saves. growingupthere..Sometimes Those three goals came Tampa Bay had failed to you have to do things for the in a span of four shots in less score on its previous 14 better..understanding the than four minutes against power-play chances, since bigger picture is huge. 619 is Anton Khudobin, who made Game 3 of the Eastern Con- ME it’s in my DNA. I appreci- aStanley Cup Final-record ference finale, until the ate everyone who has been a 22 saves in the third period Kucherov-assisted goals. part of this marathon!! And I for the Stars in their 4-1 win Dallas finally got on the appreciate every single per- in Game 1 two nights earlier. board on a power play with son in my city who’s sup- Game 3 is Wednesday night. 5:17 left in the second. ported me. 619 I GOT Joe Pavelski and Mattias YALL!!” Janmark scored for Dallas Notable The 6-foot-4 Williams av- on passes from John Kling- The Stanley Cup Final is eraged 29.9 points, 6.7 re- berg, with Alexander in Edmonton, and Oilers bounds, 4.9 assists and 1.6 Radulov also assisting on star Leon Draisaitl made steals in 32 games last season. both. history. Only it had more to He made 98 3-pointers and Kucherov left the bench do with his home country set a San Diego Section momentarily early in the than his home arena. record by scoring 77 points in game after slamming hard Draisaitl became the agame against Kearny in the into the boards on a collision first German player to win Imperial Valley Tournament. with defenseman Jamie the Hart Trophy as MVP af- He also scored 50 in a game HAYNE PALMOUR IV U-T Oleksiak after trying to ter leading the league in against Mission Bay and 41 Mikey Williams averaged 29.9 points, 6.7 rebounds, 4.9 assists and 1.6 steals in 32 block a shot. Kucherov had scoring with 110 points in 71 against El Cajon Valley. games last season for San Ysidro and was MaxPreps’ national freshman of year. already ended up on the ice games. He also won the Ted He’s listed among the top twice before, when he was Lindsay Award for most recruits in the nation for the “Mikey is family and we April, May, June. And there is among those states are Ala- popped by Dallas captain outstanding player as voted Class of 2023. love and support him, and aseason in April, May, June: bama and Mississippi, which Jamie Benn and when he by peers. San Ysidro won the San anyone else who wants to It’s club ball. start Nov. 5 and Arkansas, drew a high-sticking penalty Winnipeg’s Connor Hel- Diego Section Division III play,” Cougars coach Terry “We’re in a pandemic, and which starts Nov. 9. against Janmark. lebuyck won the Vezina Tro- championship, beat L.A. Tuckersaid.“Ourseasonisn’t parents are trying to figure North Carolina is slated to On their second power phy as top goaltender, View Park in the first round of for seven months. And there out how their child can be the start the basketball season play in Game 2, the Light- Nashville’s Roman Josi got the Division IV Southern Cal- is no guarantee we’ll have a most successful while still be- Jan. 4. ning cycled the puck to set the Norris Trophy as the ifornia playoffs before losing season in California. ing safe.” Calls to Williams were not up Kucherov’s pass to Point best defenseman, and Col- to Palisades in the quarter- “So parents have to do Several states will start immediately returned. to open the scoring 11 :23 orado’s Cale Makar won the finals. what’s best for the family. We high school basketball as usu- into the game. Three min- Calder Trophy as rookie of The Cougars finished 26-9. aren’t going to play until al in November. Included [email protected] utes later, soon after Khu- the year. head speed went from 118 HELENE ELLIOTT On the NBA ZEIGLER mph to the upper 130s, ball speed from the mid-170s to FROM D1 approaching 200. (Tour ‘No silver linings’ for Nuggets instead of 7-iron. averages are 114 and 169.7 They built a new tee on mph.) the 18th hole at Winged At the Travelers Cham- Denver Nuggets coach Foot, moving it back to 472 pionship in June, he cut the Michael Malone stared at yards with towering trees dogleg on a 389-yard par 4 the box score he clutched in guarding the left side of the and drove onto the putting his right hand, studying the dogleg. Didn’t matter. apron as the group on the tangible confirmation of DeChambeau blasted a green watched incredu- how the Lakers had ripped driver over them and cut the JOHN MINCHILLO AP lously. out a piece of his team’s corner at 365 yards. Bryson DeChambeau On the first hole at the heart. “It’s a different game, won his first major. Memorial Tournament in The Nuggets, who had Gary,” Azinger said to fellow July, he blew his drive over a erased 3-1 series deficits NBC commentator Gary and biological passports to fairway bunker that re- against the Utah Jazz and Hoch, like him a multiple detect longitudinal changes quired a 330-yard carry. the Clippers in the first two winner on the PGA Tour in key metabolic levels. Final distance: 423 yards. rounds of the NBA playoffs, back when long drives were The U.S. Anti-Doping Rory McIlroy, himself were adding to their reputa- 265 yards. “It’s a different Agency requires Olympic one of the tour’s bombers, tion for resilience on Sunday game.” athletes to provide detailed, was paired with DeCham- as they tried to pull even The problem is percep- daily whereabouts informa- beau at the Charles Schwab with the Lakers two games tion more than implication. tion so they can’t go on Challenge. “(We) just looked into the Western Conference Sports are inherently a “vacation” and do a steroid at each other,” McIlroy said finals. They were down by MARK J. TERRILL AP copycat enterprise, and the, cycle that clears their sys- of his caddie, “and we’re like, eight points with 3 minutes The Nuggets’ chance of winning a game are slim if uh, expansion of DeCham- tem before returning. A ‘Holy (bleep), that was and 3 seconds left in the Anthony Davis and LeBron James are effective. beau’s game will not go PGA Tour spokesperson unbelievable.’ ” fourth quarter but a spree of unnoticed. Players will seek said Olympic golfers must The scariest part: I don’t 12 straight points from complete basketball team” extra power and length, participate in a where- think it’s going to stop. Nikola Jokic had put them in Lakers vs. Nuggets and “a nightmare to guard.” whether through protein abouts program before the DeChambeau has said the lead with 2.1 seconds to He added, “Leads mean shakes or, if those don’t Summer Games, but the he wants to get to 270 go, carrying them to the Today: Game 3, Lakers noting. You’ve got to play 48 seem to work (and the lurid PGA Tour “does not imple- pounds. He plans to experi- brink of something big. lead best-of-seven 2-0 minutes, and luckily we were history of doping says they ment a whereabouts pro- ment this week in practice They weren’t facing the able to prevail down the don’t), less scrupulous gram.” with a 48-inch driver shaft, Clippers, who hadn’t been On the air: 6 p.m., TNT stretch.” They were good, means. USADA publishes ath- 2½ inches longer than his able to handle the multiple more than lucky, with Davis The steroid era in base- letes’ names and how often current one, to generate dimensions of Jokic’s game uled to practice on Monday, making a clutch shot in a ball wasn’t fueled by slug- they have been tested on its even more speed. He’s and had wilted under but they knew what they had make-or-miss moment in a gers in suits and ties con- website.
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