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. The PGA Tour lets studying the effects of previ- duress. Denver was seconds to focus on for Game 3. Not make-or-miss league. fessing their sins at a Con- you know if someone is ously unattainable velocity from subduing the Lakers, surprisingly, both pointed to For the Lakers to avoid gressional hearing. It sanctioned, that’s it. on ball flight, spin and direc- the No. 1 seed in the West, a improvements on the defen- repeating that kind of last- started long before anyone DeChambeau has been tion. team that welcomes pres- sive end as the key to suc- minute drama they’ll have to was implicated, when the open about his rapid weight There are detractors, sure and thrives on it. “We cess. clean up their turnovers — mere perception that they gain, discussing it like any of doubters. The 2020 U.S. were this close from getting The Nuggets trailed by 10 they committed 24 in Game were doing something to the other facets of his un- Open champion who gained the win,” forward Michael at the half but put the 2that Denver turned into 19 compel baseballs to fly out orthodox approach to the 25 pounds in three months Porter Jr. said, holding his squeeze on the Lakers in the points — and they must of parks at a record rate was game that earned him the last spring was asked Sun- fingers a hair’s breadth second half, holding them to establish and maintain a paired with a weak anti- nickname, Mad Scientist. day about his loyal cadre of apart. 22 points in the third quarter good flow throughout Game doping program. He has irons of the same supporters and how much That tiny opening was and 23 in the fourth quarter. 3. “Every time we have to The same atmospheric length, a single-plane swing, they mean to him. enough for the Lakers to It was one small positive stop the game for free conditions suddenly exist in ultra-stiff shafts, extra-large “You’ve kept me pushing bust through, taking advan- Malone found on Sunday throws or take the ball out of golf. The need to increase grips, a putter with more the needle, moving the nee- tage of a miscommunication after his team had allowed bounds because they anabolic capacity paired loft than his driver. dle,” DeChambeau said in among Denver’s defenders the Lakers to score 126 scored, it hurts our offense,” with a boiler-plate drug After failing to win in another inconvenient choice to earn a 105-103 victory on points in Game 1. Alex Caruso said. “It’s program that gives lip serv- 2019, he added daily weight- of words, “and you’re going to Anthony Davis’ buzzer- “We did a much better job about, firstly, playing de- ice to powerful deterrents lifting and protein shakes — keep inspiring me to.” beating 3-point shot. And of taking away their transi- fense and getting out, but like rigorous unannounced, seven, some days — to his while losing by a small mar- tion. That was a huge point even on makes, just playing out-of-competition testing regimen. His driver club- [email protected] gin on the game’s final pos- of emphasis going in, so to with pace. And making sure session can be considered clean that up allowed us to late in games we’re spaced progress for the Nuggets be in the game,” Malone the right way so we can get after they were blown out in said. “Our defense will keep good shots.” the opener, coming close us in games. We’re 8-8 in the The Lakers have the was no consolation to Ma- postseason, and in our eight depth and playoff experi- lone. wins our defense has been ence the Nuggets’ previous “No, no silver linings. great. And we gave ourselves playoff opponents lacked. Clear out This is the Western Confer- achance tonight, but unfor- They also have two bigs, ence finals,” he said during a tunately Anthony Davis hits JaVale McGee and Dwight videoconference on Sunday, an incredible shot to kind of Howard, who are capable of the loss still fresh in his take that win away from us. battling Jokic every second mind. “So, no moral victo- But the defensive transition he’s on the floor. They’re ries, no silver linings.” was tremendous. If we can motivated and smart and your mailbox. That philosophy will continue that, we’ll continue adaptable. The Nuggets prevail again when the series to give ourselves a chance.” know that all too well, but resumes today. No NBA Asmall chance might be Jokic said they’re not con- team has ever overcome a all they’ll have, given the ceding anything. 3-0 deficit in a best-of-seven effectiveness of Davis (31 “We are here underdogs. Cut the clutterbyswitching to EZpay, series, and as resourceful points) and LeBron James Is that how you say it, under- and plucky as the Nuggets (26) in Game 2. “They have dogs?” the Serbian-born the safe,automatic and convenient have been, they can’t put two really good, really good, center said “We need to themselves in that deep a really good players. They fight. That’s our only hole against the Lakers and have LeBron, who is prob- chance. They were up 15 isn’t waytopay your subscription. expect to climb out. ably the best player in the it, or 16? I don’t know how “We’re 0-2 in the series league, and they have AD, much they were up (16 in the right now so we’ve got to find who is probably the best third quarter). We could just away to muster up some scorer in the league. It’s not call it a game and quit but I strength and come back in easy to figure them out,” think we just want to give EZpay Game 3 and play even better Jokic said. the fight. Maybe it was going than we played tonight. Just “They’re really talented. to be 30 points but fight make the necessary adjust- We can just make it tough needs to be there, and ef- ments,” Porter Jr. said. “We and make them feel uncom- fort.” played better (on Sunday) fortable maybe, but they’re They had the fight. They than we played in Game 1. really talented and they’re had the effort. But they Just take another step for- going to find solutions. We didn’t get the silver lining or Call (619) 299-4141 or visit ward. We’re a resilient team need to stay on top and the victory, and that’s all and we’re not going to let make them uncomfortable.” that matters. SanDiegoUnionTribune.com/EZpay this get us.” Lakers coach Frank Neither team was sched- Vogel called the Nuggets “a Elliott writes for the L.A. Times.