6 November 11, 2018 ’s Beat Persepolis Jazz Beat Celtics 123-115 in Hayward’s to Win Asian Champions League Return to Utah TEHRAN (Dispatches) - Japan’s Kashima 3-pointer from Marcus Smart that Antlers won the Asian Champions League to lift made it 111-107 with 2:19 left. championship cup for the first time in their history Rudy Gobert quickly answered with a 2-0 aggregate victory after their return leg with a layup that pushed against Iranian giants Persepolis ended in a goalless the lead back to six. Jayson draw Saturday. Tatum followed by missing back- The Japanese side had won the first leg 2-0 in to-back layups that could have Kashima last week with Brazilian duo Leo Silva cut the deficit again, and Boston and Serginho on target. never got closer. That left Persepolis, also chasing their first Jae Crowder finally slammed continental title, with plenty to do and although the door on the comeback with a they created several chances in front of a capacity corner 3 that gave Utah a 117-109 crowd, Kashima held on to their two-goal lead with 47.7 seconds left. advantage. Utah coach Quin Snyder thought FIFA President Gianni Infantino, AFC President his team turned a corner by Shaikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa and other hanging tough down the stretch Iranian high ranking officials attended the final against the Celtics. match of the AFC Champions. Donovan Mitchell scored 21 A new attendance record, also, was set at the points for Utah. Crowder had Azadi Stadium in Tehran on Saturday. Gordon Hayward #20 of the 20, and Gobert finished with 17 With tickets for the 78,116 capacity Azadi Boston Celtics handles the points and 15 rebounds. The Jazz Stadium nearly sold out, the 2018 finale poised ball against the Utah Jazz on won their second straight home to eclipse the highest single match attendance set November 9, 2018 at Vivint game and second in a row overall. during the 2014 finals, when 63,763 attended the Smart Home Arena in Salt Terry Rozier scored a season- deciding leg between Saudi Arabia’s Al Hilal and Lake City, Utah. high 22 points, making his first Western Sydney Wanderers from Australia at the start in place of Irving, and Jayson Persepolis player Godwin Mensha (left) vies for the ball against Japasese side. King Fahd International Stadium in Riyadh. SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Tatum added 21 for the Celtics. -- Gordon Hayward got a cold Boston lost for the third time in reception in Utah. He was booed four games after allowing Utah every time he touched the ball, and to shoot a season-high 56 percent his Boston Celtics left town with a from the field. Federer, Djokovic Top Bill for London Finale loss. The Jazz started to pull away Joe Ingles matched his career when they hit 3-pointers on each LONDON (AFP) - Roger which also includes Alexander high with 27 points and added a of their final four possessions of Federer is aiming to complete a Zverev, Marin Cilic and John season-best seven assists to help the second quarter to take a 58-51 century of titles at the ATP Finals Isner. the Jazz beat the Celtics 123-115 halftime lead. Ingles accounted but will likely have to find a way After a stunning 2017 season on in Hayward’s return to Salt for the first three long-distance past the irrepressible Novak which saw the Swiss capture Lake City. baskets, highlighting a 20-point Djokovic, who is looking to round seven titles, including Grand Hayward had 13 points and first half for him. off his astonishing season in style. Slam crowns at the Australian seven assists in 25 minutes during Utah opened the third quarter The two men, with 34 Grand Open and Wimbledon, Federer his first game back in Utah since on a 17-6 run. Mitchell ignited Slams between them, are the twin was clear that his 2018 season has leaving the Jazz as a free agent the spurt by draining three free titans at the season-ending event been a success despite a mixed to sign with the Celtics after the throws and driving for a layup on at London’s O2 arena. run of results in recent months. 2016-17 season. He broke his back-to-back possessions. Derrick But the tournament, which Djokovic has made an left ankle in Boston’s opener last Favors kept it going with back-to- starts on Sunday, lacks an incredible comeback following season. back baskets that gave the Jazz a element of star power without the elbow surgery early in the year, The star forward spent his first double-digit lead and finished the injured Rafael Nadal and Juan overcoming indifferent form to Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer seven NBA seasons with the run off with a pair of free throws Martin del Potro, both of whom win Wimbledon and the U.S. Jazz after they drafted him ninth that put Utah ahead 75-57 just were forced to pull out of the The title is contested by the eight Federer is expected to Open and haul himself back to overall in 2010. He averaged four minutes into the quarter. season finale. players who have accumulated emerge from Group Lleyton the number one spot. 15.7 points, 4.2 rebounds and The Jazz built their lead to 83- Former champion Andy the most ranking points over the Hewitt, also featuring Kevin The 31-year-old, who slipped 3.4 assists for Utah, but took the 63 on a layup by Crowder before Murray, still making his way season and is in a round-robin Anderson, Dominic Thiem to 22nd in the world in May, hostile reaction from Jazz fans in Boston rallied in the fourth back from injury, and defending format, with the best four players and Kei Nishikori, while admitted that after his surgery it stride. quarter. champion Grigor Dimitrov are reaching the knockout semi- Djokovic is highly fancied looked improbable that he would Boston trimmed a 20-point The Celtics scored on four other star names missing. finals stage. to top Group Guga Kuerten, finish the year as number one. deficit to four by the fourth quarter. straight possessions, culminating Playing without injured Kyrie in Tatum’s layup, to ignite a 15-4 Irving, the Celtics closed within run. Rozier nailed a 3 to cap off four on multiple occasions late the run and cut Utah’s lead to 100- Verstappen Tops Close Battle in FP1 in Brazilian in the period, the final time on a 96. GP F1 Practice Real Sociedad Beat Levante practice at Interlagos. Raikkonen and then Valtteri Hamilton and Verstappen Bottas. set their fastest laps moments Mercedes briefly interrupted 3-1 in Spanish League apart from one another, with Bottas’s running to investigate the Briton initially going an oil leak, and though he quickest on a 1m09.107s before returned to the track before the Verstappen snuck ahead on a session’s end he only made a 1m09.011s. Vettel then split the minor improvement. pair by posting a 1m09.060s. That dropped him to the tail of The close fight between the the top six as Verstappen, Vettel three leading teams took place and Hamilton all moved ahead through the first hour of the of their team-mates on their 90-minute session, as all six of second sets of supersoft tyres. their drivers took turns at the Ricciardo wound up fourth- top. quickest, 0.384s slower than his Daniel Ricciardo was first out team-mate, while Raikkonen as he looked to immediately was half a second off the pace Verstappen tops tight battle in Brazil FP1 activate a five-place grid in fifth having switched to (and penalty for a turbocharger improved on) soft tyres for the Levante’s Spanish defender Chema Rodriguez (center) jumps for the ball during the Spanish league football match between Real Betis and BRASILIA (Dispatcghes) - Brazilian Grand Prix. change. second part of the session. Levante at the Benito Villamarin stadium in Sevilla on Aug 17, 2018. Max Verstappen edged a tight Verstappen, Sebastian Vettel He also became the first big Bottas trimmed three tenths off battle between Red Bull, Ferrari and 2018 champion Lewis gun to set a representative time, his earlier benchmark but was a and Mercedes to top the opening Hamilton were covered by less a 1m10.139s, that was initially further tenth adrift of his fellow MADRID (AP) — With three goals Oyarzabal in the 83rd. practice session for Formula 1’s than a tenth of a second in first bettered by Ferrari’s Kimi Finn. 10 minutes apart late in the second The win, Sociedad’s first since half, Real Sociedad have defeated the eighth round, moved the Levante 3-1 in the Spanish league to Basque Country club to ninth in the Kawasaki Retain J.League Title Despite Loss end a four-match winless streak. standings ahead of the weekend’s Chema Rodriguez put the hosts matches. TOKYO (Reuters) - Kawasaki nearest rivals Sanfrecce Hiroshima of injury time, but with Hiroshima hold an unassailable seven-point lead ahead less than five minutes into The win, Sociedad’s first since Frontale retained the J.League title completed a stunning collapse with falling to a 1-0 home defeat to Vegalta at the top of the 18-team standings the match in Valencia, but Sociedad the eighth round, moved the despite losing 2-1 to another defeat. Sendai, Toru Oniki’s team secured the following 32 rounds, ensuring they rallied with goals by Theo Basque Country club to ninth in the on Saturday, the visitors clinching a Osaka striker Kazuya Yamamura title with two games to spare. became the first club since Hiroshima Hernandez in the 73rd minute, standings ahead of the weekend’s second top-flight championship when scored the winner in the fourth minute After Saturday’s fixtures, Kawasaki in 2013 to win consecutive titles. Juanmi in the 77th and Mikel matches.