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SUNDAY, MAY 31, 2015 SPORTS

DETROIT: takes the first turn during qualifying for the first race of the Indy Car Detroit Grand Prix auto racing. Power secured pole position. —AP Power wins pole, sets track record

DETROIT: Will Power won his first pole at Belle in his No. 1 Chevrolet bested the previous IndyCar lineup to four full-time cars for the dedication to the city, promoting Detroit, it’s Chevrolet had seven of the top eight quali- Isle in emphatic fashion. The defending mark of 1:16.1371 by Takuma Sato last year. first time. good to be a part of it,” Pagenaud said. “We fiers, with only Sato representing Honda. But IndyCar champion set a track qualifying record Helio Castroneves also beat that record Friday, “Your first win in IndyCar, it’s always an represent his name, represent Penske. It’s Scott Dixon and Tony Kanaan, who drive at the Detroit street course, part of a dominant finishing second to Power at 1:16.12. important thing, so it’s always good to come great. When everything goes well like it’s Chevys for Chip Ganassi, failed to make the showing Friday by . Belle Isle Power, Castroneves and back here,” Pagenaud said. “Now driving for going. I’m pretty happy with all four of us in final round. Dixon qualified seventh and hosts IndyCar races Saturday and Sunday, and winner gave owner Roger Team Penske, it’s our home event. It’s a really the Fast Six. It’s the best way to thank him, Kanaan was 15th. this was qualifying for the opener. “It is actual- Penske a sweep of the top three qualifying cool event for us, and obviously it’s great to be really.” “I was actually surprised Kanaan didn’t ly satisfying,” Power said. “I struggled quite a spots for late yesterday’s race. Penske has showing this well with all four cars.” Power finished an encouraging second at make it because he’s been very quick this bit last year in qualifying, so really happy to be been a driving force behind this event, and his Penske Corporation has headquarters in the Indy 500, and this street course figured to weekend,” Power said. “Rest assured, they’ll be on the pole.” team has performed impressively of late in Michigan. When auto racing returned to the be very much in his comfort zone. In the final there in the race. This is usually a pretty mixed It was Power’s 39th pole and third this sea- Detroit, with Power and Castroneves winning Motor City in 2012 after a four-year absence, round of qualifying, he waited until the latter up race. I’m sure they’ll be there.” There was a son, but he’d never qualified first in six previ- at Belle Isle in 2014. the event was marred by pot holes and part of the 10-minute segment before posting good bit of rain at the track earlier Friday after- ous starts at Belle Isle. Last year, he started Sato was fourth in qualifying Friday. Simon grooves. Penske put together an improvement the pole-winning speed of 111.178 mph. noon, but the weather was clearer during 16th when he won the opening IndyCar race Pagenaud was next, giving Penske four of the plan, which resulted in a better racing environ- “We had new tires, so we felt like we’d only IndyCar qualifying. More rain is a possibility in Detroit. In the second race, he started top five. Pagenaud’s first victory in this series ment. get a couple laps out of them,” Power said. over the weekend. “I think track position is eighth and finished second. came at Belle Isle in 2013. Penske added Now his drivers are giving him another rea- “You may as well go out when the track’s good important,” Montoya said. “If it’s going to be Power’s time of 1 minute, 16.0941 seconds Pagenaud this season, expanding the team’s son to be enthused. “When you see Roger’s at the end. That’s the only shot.” wet, being up front is going to help.” —AP Lightning edge Rangers NEW YORK: The Tampa Bay Lightning right through it,” Cooper said. “It’s unreal booked a Stanley Cup Finals berth with a how they respond.” After two pressure- tense 2-0 victory over the New York packed, scoreless periods, Lightning center Rangers on Friday, the visitors breaking Killorn opened the scoring just two min- home goalie Henrik Lundqvist’s Game utes into the third. Seven dominance to claim the Eastern Spinning off the wall and skating toward Conference championship. the middle, Killorn flicked a backhand Lundqvist had won the last six series- through a crowd that trickled past a sprawl- deciding showdowns he had played for ing Lundqvist on the glove side. New York but third-period goals by Alex “The puck had eyes and went through a Killorn and Ondrej Palat ended that couple of bodies and went through Hank National Hockey League record run by the (Lundqvist), so that turned out to be the Swede and silenced the Madison Square winner,” a dejected Rangers coach Alain Garden crowd. Vigneault said. Lightning goaltender Ben Bishop Tampa Bay delivered the hammer blow stopped all 22 shots from the Rangers, nine minutes later when Tyler Johnson withstanding an all-out assault in the final raced up the right and delivered the puck minutes, while Lundqvist saved 23 in the perfectly to Palat, who buried it past defensive battle. Lundqvist. Tampa Bay will meet either the Anaheim “I think we all felt that the (first) goal was Ducks or the Chicago Blackhawks, who play going to be extremely important,” a Game Seven decider of their own on Lundqvist lamented. “Unfortunately, I never Saturday for the Western Conference title. saw it until it was too late.” “They just answer the challenge,” The Lightning will be playing in the Lightning coach Jon Cooper said about his Stanley Cup Finals for the second time in young team, beaten 7-3 with a chance to their 22-year existence, having beaten end the series in Game Six in Florida. Calgary to win the NHL title in 2004. It The Lightning, who led the NHL in goals was a gut-wrenching loss for the Rangers, during the season, played ferocious who had the best regular season record, defense to register their fifth victory in six after losing in the Finals last year to the games at the Garden this season. Los Angeles Kings. The best-of-seven “You shine the light bright on our guys, Stanley Cup Finals series begins on they’ll just put on sunglasses and walk Wednesday.—Reuters

DOVER: , driver of the No.29 Cooper Standard Ford, and Tyler Reddick, driver of the No. 19 BBR Music Group Ford, lead a pack of trucks during the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series. —AFP Reddick wins Truck Series race

DOVER: Tyler Reddick took the lead with seven had a season to remember, making his first Matt Crafton was fifth. The 19-year-old Reddick laps left and held on to win the Camping World Sprint Cup start when he subbed in one race has won 2 of 6 races driving for Truck Series race Friday night at Dover with Busch sidelined with injuries. The Joe Gibbs Racing this season. “It’s a good way to get the International Speedway. Racing developmental driver is blocked with the season going for us,” Reddick said. Jennifer Jo Reddick passed Erik Jones to win for the sec- team at the Cup level with all four seats filled. Cobb was called to the NASCAR hauler after she ond time this season. Reddick also won the sea- Jones was talking racing with Busch over lunch left her truck and walked up the track with the son opener at Daytona International Speedway. this week and Busch was on the driver’s radio on race under a caution. Cobb waved her arms and “We were very patient,” Reddick said. “We played Friday. “To have him on the radio this weekend gestured toward Reddick. She believed he was it smart, kept it in one piece and we got it to vic- and coaching me along was pretty big,” Jones responsible for the accident that knocked her tory lane in Dover.” said. Jones’ team took two tires on a late pit stop out of the race. Daniel Saurez was second. Jones, who turns and Reddick had four fresh ones, the difference NASCAR barred its drivers last year from 19 on Saturday, finished third for his 11th career maker down the stretch to spoil another shot at approaching the track or moving cars after an NEW YORK: Tampa Bay Lightning left wing Ondrej Palat (18) shoots to score past top-five finish. Saurez and Jones helped make it victory for the KBM prospect. incident during the race. The change came after New York Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist (30) as right wing Kevin Hayes (13) helped a 2-3 finish for Kyle Busch . “It just really hurts being that close to a win 20-year-old driver Kevin Ward Jr. was struck and defend during the third period of Game 7 of the Eastern Conference final during the Jones could celebrate his birthday with a win three weeks in a row,” Jones said. Daniel Hemric killed by Tony Stewart’s car during a sprint car NHL hockey Stanley Cup playoffs. —AP in the Xfinity Series race Saturday. He already has finished fourth and defending series champion race in upstate New York on Aug. 9.—AP Highland Reel can have O’Brien dancing a jig

PARIS: Recordbreaking Irish trainer Aidan thus-far, winning the English and Irish 2000 going to get on Sunday. “We are hoping and wins at the unlikely venue of Pornichet more a good position from the break. “This should O’Brien has won numerous Epsom and Irish Guineas (1600m) with Gleaneagles, but his we believe that the extra distance in compari- renowned for its summer resort status than allow us to run on our merits.” Derbies and can finally put the French version hopes of a fourth consecutive Epsom Derby son to the Guineas will not be problem.” turning out potential classic winners. Two others who appeal are New Bay and in his trophy cabinet on Sunday with Highland have taken a battering with one after the oth- Nevertheless Highland Reel, who won the However, an impressive win in the Group Karaktar trained by stellar veterans in Andre Reel at Chantilly. er of his prospective runners failing in trials. influential juvenile Group Two the Vintage Three Prix la Force last time out has rightly Fabre and Alain de Royer Dupre respectively. The 45-year-old-who has won the blue But he says Highland Reel has come on well Stakes last year and did not reappear till the earned him a tilt at the great prize where the Fabre, who has surprisingly only won the riband of Derbies the Epsom one five times from his run in the French 2000 Guineas earlier French Guineas, faces some pretty tasty home winner picks up 857,000 euros ($935,000, race three times, saddles the lightly-raced New including the last three editions and a stagger- this month where he failed to justify opposition including unbeaten duo Silverware £610,000). Bay, who put up an eye-catching performance ing 11 Irish Derbies saddles three of the 14 favouritism and finished sixth. “He came back and Sumbal, trained by the relatively unknown Couetil arrives boosted by the draw of the last time out in finishing second in the French horse field for the 10th anniversary of the race in good shape after the Poule d’Essai des Alain Couetil and young up and coming han- two barrier. “One of the bigger problems in Guineas. since it was controversially shortened from the Poulains (French 2000 Guineas),” said O’Brien. dler Francis Graffard respectively. this race is working your way through traffic,” “The impression he gave us in the Guineas traditional Derby distance of 2400m (1 “Like Cape Clear Island (another of O’Brien’s Silverware is unbeaten in four races includ- said Couetil. is that he should get further easily,” said Saudi 1/2miles) to just over 2100m. runners and the choice of stable jockey Ryan ing two this term, and would be a rare victor “However, being drawn in 2 allows us to owner Prince Khaled Abdullah’s French racing O’Brien has had a curates egg of a season Moore)he will prefer the good ground we are of this race having begun his career with two avoid such a conundrum especially at getting manager Claude Beniada.—AFP