6B MONDAY JULY292019 Sports KENTUCKY.COM ton, is going that route and 100 freestyles, the this season, and Green SPORTS IN BRIEF first American woman to will surely be following achieve the feat. Hampton’s preps-to-pros experiment. Dressel wins Tennis Green will (and record eighth Basilashvili beats Ru- should) be one of the blev to win Hamburg: targets that UK pays the swimming medal Defending champion most attention to over at worlds Nikoloz Basilashvili beat the next few months, but Andrey Rublev to win the there are still plenty of This time, Caeleb Hamburg European moving parts to his Dressel stands alone in Open for the second recruitment, and it’s not world championships straight year on Sunday. expected to come to an history. The fourth-seeded end anytime soon. The American won his Georgian won 7-5, 4-6, The point guard pic- eighth medal Sunday, 6-3, serving out the final ture for the 2020 class is helping the U.S. to silver game to love. also murky. The only two in the 4x100-meter me- A Albert Ramos-Vino- point guards in that dley relay after anchor las ended 455th-ranked group with UK scholar- Nathan Adrian got over- Cedrik-Marcel Stebe’s DEAN LEGGE ship offers — Sharife taken in the closing me- charmed run to the Swiss Cam’Ron Fletcher is scheduled to take an official visit to Kentucky later this week. Cooper and Cade ters. One night after Open final, winning the Cunningham — are ex- becoming the first swim- title match 6-3, 6-2 on pected to commit to mer to win three golds in Sunday. FROM PAGE 1B this recruiting cycle is Auburn and Oklahoma one night at worlds for A Jil Teichmann of finished. State, respectively, but the second time, Dressel Switzerland beat top- That would be a tre- there are other options. set a record with eight seeded Kiki Bertens in WILDCATS mendous trio to get on The Wildcats extended medals, including six straight sets to win the board before the early a scholarship offer to golds, at the biggest Palermo Ladies Open on picking up steam with various reasons. His signing period in Novem- class of 2021 point guard meet after the Olympics. Sunday. The eighth- five-star shooting guard cousin is the strength ber, and it’s possible — Devin Askew over the The U.S. team finished seeded Swiss triumphed Josh Christopher, who coach at Missouri, and maybe even probable — weekend, and the five- atop the medals table 7-6 (3), 6-2 to clinch her narrowed his recruiting his brother will be a that Kentucky will have star playmaker from with 27, including a lead- second WTA Tour title list to UK, Arizona State, freshman at Arizona commitments from all California has acknowl- ing 14 golds. after winning the Prague Michigan, Missouri and State this season. three players by then. edged that he’s thinking Simone Manuel com- Open in May. UCLA last week. In the “So those two pro- And other high-profile about a move to the pleted a sweep of the 50 —WIRE SERVICES spring, Christopher — a grams have to be possibilities remain for 2020 class. 6-4 prospect from the watched,” Evans said. the Wildcats’ future Five-star point guard Los Angeles area — told UCLA represents a backcourt. Daishen Nix told Rivals Rivals.com that Ken- major West Coast brand Shooting guard Jalen .com at USA Basketball FROM PAGE 1B tucky was his dream and the hometown op- Green — the No. 3 over- training camp this past school growing up, and tion, and Evans said not all player in the Rivals weekend that he remains the Cats extended an to discount Michigan’s rankings — has been one in close contact with HOWARD offer earlier this month. new coaching staff. of UK’s top targets in the Kentucky and listed that There’s a growing “No one has really 2020 class for months, school first when asked the half, 40-39, and had Team USA in scoring and sense of optimism on recruited him harder since and there’s been plenty which campuses he wants a shot to win in reg- hit 44.7 percent of her UK’s end that Christoph- being hired than Juwan of chatter this summer to visit later this summer ulation, but Jazmin Shel- three-pointers, knocking er will also eventually Howard at Michigan. But that the Wildcats might and fall. ley’s three-point attempt down 17 of 38 shots from join its 2020 class, and Ido think Kentucky has a even be the team to beat UK hasn’t extended a was off the mark. With long range. Colombia’s the fishbowl nature of good shot there.” at this stage in his scholarship offer yet, but just over two minutes to Maria Camila Alvarez the Wildcats’ program In a roundtable post recruitment. that could change in the play in overtime, Howard was the only player to hit seems to be the perfect over the weekend, Evans A few hangups: Green near future, and the Cats grabbed her seventh more three-pointers (21) fit for the affable West and fellow Rivals analyst has said multiple times would likely vault up rebound of the game than Howard. Coast star. Dan McDonald both that he’ll likely wait until Nix’s list if they decide to then knocked down a Howard was one of “The kid’s always de- predicted that Christoph- the spring to make his jump all in on that step-back jumper to give five players named to the manded the spotlight,” er would end up at UK. college decision, Mem- recruitment. the U.S. a four-point tournament All-Star Rivals.com national ana- Rivals.com ranks Bos- phis is among those in The point guard sit- lead. She also had three Team. Paige Bueckers lyst Corey Evans told the ton as the No. 10 overall the mix and appears to uation should work itself assists, two steals and a who will be a freshman Herald-Leader over the recruit in the 2020 class, be UK’s top competition, out between now and block in 38 minutes of at UConn this upcoming weekend. “He wants the with Christopher right and the California native next spring, but, for the playing time. Belgium season, also made the biggest platform possible, behind him in the No. 11 has also not shut the time being, Kentucky led with less than three All-Star Team and was and, as we all know, Ken- spot and Fletcher sitting door on the possibility of appears to be in terrific minutes to play in the named tournament MVP tucky is the best at doing at No. 37, though Rivals playing one year of pro shape elsewhere in the semifinals before How- after scoring 17 points in it.” national analyst Eric ball between his final backcourt. ard hit a three-pointer to the finals. Evans noted that the Bossi recently wrote that season of high school give the U.S. the lead for other finalists on Chris- the latter prospect has and his expected entry in Ben Roberts: good. 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