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holes to give up a three-shot lead and finish third. “It might be one of my favorite wins. ... It’s been almost three years and so much has happened,” Creamer said. “Holding that trophy, gosh, it was so nice.” For much of the day, it appeared as if Webb, not Creamer, would take the trophy home. But after avoiding trouble on a tricky Serapong course at Sentosa Golf Club for much of the week, the veteran Australian stumbled late. First, Webb’s three-foot par putt on the 13th caught the edge of the hole and curled away. Then she hooked her tee shot left on the 15th, grimacing as it dropped into the water. She settled for bogey on both. She came undone on the 18th when
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11 To’hajiilee in the state quarterfinals at Bernalillo High School on March 12. The rest of the 1A field is as follows: Defending state champion Cliff is the No. 1 seed and hosts No. 16 Tse’ Yi’ Gai; No. 2 Magdalena hosts No. 15 Shiprock Northwest; No. 4 Dora hosts No. 13 Capitan; No. 5 Escalante hosts No. 12 Floyd; No. 7 Springer hosts No. 10 Fort Sumner; No. 8 Melrose hosts No. 9 McCurdy. In the 4A girls bracket, Roswell is the No. 7 seed. The Coyotes host No. 10
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sports. If somehow it was a miracle that it could work out, I’d consider it. At the same time, my focus is winning the championship with the Seattle Seahawks and hope to be playing for a long time. “For me, it only being my second year, yeah I won a Super Bowl and all that, but that’s not enough for me. It really isn’t. My goal is to be one of the best quarterbacks to ever play the game, if not the best. I’ve got a long ways to go. I make sure I get up earlier than Tom Brady and Drew Brees and they’re on the East Coast.” The Rangers picked Wilson for $12,000 in the Rule 5 minor league draft in December. He was in the Rangers’ camp Monday, took ground balls in morning drills and brought the Rangers’ lineup to the
another errant tee shot ended up in a bunker. She took a big swing at the ball and it hit the lip of the bunker, plopping back down into the sand to lead to another bogey. “I’m a bit in my head right now,” Webb said after the round. “Just not a lot of good decisions.” Creamer and Munoz, meanwhile, were steady in the closing holes. Webb wasn’t the only one who had a disappointing day. Defending champion Stacy Lewis saw her streak of 13 consecutive top10 finishes broken with her joint-40th place. She had been closing in on Webb’s LPGA record of 16 straight top-10 finishes, set in 1998-99. World No. 1 Inbee Park shot a 68 to finish in joint fourth place at 7-under 281 with No. 2 Suzann Pettersen, So Yeon Ryu, Angela Stanford and Morgan Pressel. Michelle Wie and Teresa Lu were two strokes back in a tie for ninth.
Centennial on Friday at 7 p.m., with the winner meeting No. 2 Santa Fe or No. 15 Grants in the state quarterfinals on March 11 at The Pit. Artesia is the No. 13 seed and travels to play No. 4 Gallup, with the winner meeting No. 5 Espanola Valley or No. 12 Belen on March 11. Goddard, despite finishing ahead of Artesia in the regular -season District 4-4A standings, was not selected. The rest of the 4A field is as follows: Defending state champion Los Lunas is the No. 1 seed and hosts No. 16 Kirtland Central; No. 3 St. Pius X hosts No. 14 Los Alamos; No. 6 Valencia hosts No. umpires before the game, but did not play in the 6-5 loss to Cleveland. “How much did I want to play an inning?” Wilson said. “How much did I want to play the whole game is the question.” He spoke at a Rangers’ dinner on Sunday night for sponsors, suite holders and players and addressed the minor leaguers Monday night. He said he would leave Tuesday for Seattle and “tur n my focus back to football.” So what is most difficult, hitting a curveball or being hit by a 300-pound defensive end? “Hitting a curveball,” Wilson said. “The ball is so small. It looks like a pea.” Wilson worked on throws and pivots at second base in a group with young infielders Jurickson Profar, Luis Sardinas and Rougned Odor. “He surprised me for not being out on the baseball field for a while,” Rangers
11 Del Norte; No. 8 Piedra Vista hosts No. 9 Miyamura. In the 1A girls bracket, Hagerman is the No. 11 seed. The Bobcats travel to meet No. 6 Floyd on Friday at 6 p.m., with the winner meeting No. 3 Melrose or No. 14 Cimarron in the state quarterfinals on March 11 at Bernalillo High School. The rest of the 2A field is as follows: No. 1 Tatum hosts No. 16 Tse’ Yi’ Gai; No. 2 Cliff hosts No. 15 Capitan; No. 4 Magdalena hosts No. 13 Fort Sumner; No. 5 Logan hosts No. 12 Mountainair; No. 7 Springer hosts No. 10 McCurdy; No. 8 Jemez Valley hosts No. 9 Dora. manager Ron Washington said. “I might have burned his legs up a little bit, but he made it through all the drills and did a fantastic job. He’s got tremendous aptitude. That’s why he is who he is. You give him something and he knows how to apply it.” Rangers shortstop Elvis Andrus said Wilson is athletic enough to make it in baseball. “He’s got pretty good hands,” Andrus said. “I’ve got to see him hit so I can answer that, but so far what I saw today it was pretty impressive.” The Surprise Stadium shops selling official Major League gear, predominantly displayed Wilson’s Rangers No. 3 jersey. The one on Wilson’s back, however, will not be sold. “The uniform, man, I’m definitely hanging this up,” Wilson said. “I’m gonna get a few of these and put them up around the house.”
LeBron pours in career-best 61
MIAMI (AP) — Best player. Best game of his career. LeBron James clearly isn’t ready to concede his MVP award to anyone yet. Dazzling from inside and out, James put on the best scoring show of his NBA life Monday night, pouring in 61 points — a career high and franchise record — as the Miami Heat beat the Charlotte Bobcats 124107. It was the eighth straight win for the two-time defending champions, who are starting to roll as the playoffs get near. James made 22 of 33 shots from the field, including his first eight 3-point attempts. “The man above has given me some unbelievable abilities to play the game of basketball,” James said. “I just try to take advantage of it every night. I got the trust of my teammates and my coaching staff to go in there and let it go.” His career best had been 56 points, on March 20, 2005, for Cleveland against Toronto. Glen Rice scored 56 to set the Heat record on April 15, 1995, against Orlando. James had 24 points at halftime, then
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20-point scorers, Lake Arthur again romped past Corona to reach the semifinals of the district tournament. Luis Velo and Cody Dalton scored 24 and 21, respectively, to pace the Panthers. Lake Arthur (11-13) won each of the four quarters, outscoring the visitors 25-6 in the first, 23-5 in the second, 23-3 in the third and 20-6 in the fourth. Miguel Rubio chipped in 13 and Dominic Pisana had 12. Every Panther scored at least one point on the night.
added 25 in the third quarter. The recordbreaker came with 5:46 left, when James spun through three defenders for a layup that fell as he tumbled to the court. “There was an efficiency to what he was doing,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. “The rim looked like an ocean for him.” Spoelstra walked into his postgame news conference with a confession: He nearly took James out after the third quarter. Good thing he thought better of that plan. “He was in a great groove, obviously,” Spoelstra said. Al Jefferson had 38 points and 19 rebounds for the Bobcats, his huge night merely an afterthought. This was all about LeBron. “You take away his 61 points,” Jefferson said, “and we still had a fighting chance there at the end.” Most points in a game. Most field goals in a game. Most points in any quarter in Heat history, with the 25 in the third. Most points in the second half, 37, by any Heat player ever. “Once he sniffed 60, we knew he was going for it,” Heat forward Shane Battier said. “And the amazing part is the efficiency. Good Lord. Sixty-one on 33 shots, that’s Wilt Chamberlain-esque. That’s pretty amazing. Incredible performance.” When James checked out with 1:24 left, the entire Heat roster met him near midcourt for high-fives and hugs, and the sellout crowd gave him a standing ovation. A second huge roar followed when he waved to the crowd, as “M-V-P” chants rained down. Charlotte has allowed the two biggest single-game scoring totals in the NBA this season. Carmelo Anthony had 62 points for the New York Knicks against the Bobcats on Jan. 24. Chris Bosh scored 15 for the Heat, and Toney Douglas added 10. Chris Douglas-Roberts and Anthony Tolliver each scored 12 for Charlotte.
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tions has drawn comparisons to the O.J. Simpson case two decades ago. Prosecutors allege that Pistorius, who has been free on bail, shot Steenkamp after an argument. He has said he killed her after mistaking her for a nighttime intruder in his home, shooting her through the closed door of the toilet cubicle in his bathroom. Steenkamp, 29, was hit three times — in the head, elbow and hip area; a fourth bullet did not hit her. Early testimony focused on whether the screams that Burger said she heard were those of a terrified woman about to be shot to death, as prosecutors allege, or were instead Pistorius’ desperate shrieks for help after a fatal mistake, as his defense lawyers contend. Burger, who lives about 180 meters (196 yards) from Pistorius’ house, gave her account of the sequence of events in the pre-dawn hours of Feb. 14 last year. “I was woken up by a woman’s petrified screams. I heard her screaming first,” Burger said. “Then I heard her call for help. Then I heard a man call for help three times. I then made a call. ... I gave the phone to my husband and he spoke to security. Afterward, I heard the woman’s petrified screams again.” Burger said she then heard four gunshots, with a gap between the first shot and the rest, and more screaming. “I heard her voice during the shots,” she said. “Shortly after the shots was the last time I heard that woman.” The chief defense lawyer, Barry Roux,
opened his cross-examination by asking Burger if she thought Pistorius was a liar. She didn’t directly answer that, but questioned Pistorius’ version. “I can only tell the court what I heard that evening,” Burger said. “I cannot understand how I could clearly hear a woman scream but Mr. Pistorius could not hear it.” Roux, in an attempt to discredit the idea that Pistorius and Steenkamp had an argument before the shooting, contended that Burger heard just Pistorius screaming for help. He also suggested that she had not heard gunshots, but instead had heard the sound of the athlete breaking down the toilet door with a cricket bat after realizing he had shot Steenkamp. “Could there have been shots fired when you were still asleep and you heard the screams afterward?” he asked. Roux’s constant challenges to Burger’s account of the sequence of events made for a contentious back-and-forth at times. “Shall I repeat my question? It can’t be that difficult,” Roux said at one point, implying that the witness was evasive. On another occasion, Burger said: “I didn’t sit there with a stopwatch and take down the timing of each shot.” Pistorius pleaded not guilty to charges of murder and three other counts relating to shooting guns in public in unrelated incidents and illegal possession of ammunition. Defense lawyer Kenny Oldwadge read a statement from Pistorius in which he said the killing was an accident and that there were inconsistencies in the state’s case.