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WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 2017

Bahamas lands 2 bronze

By BRENT STUBBS Senior Sports Reporter bstubbs@tribunemedia.net

COMMONWEALTH YOUTH GAMES DAILY SCHEDULE

JUDO ATHLETES SHINE AT 6TH COMMONWEALTH YOUTH GAMES

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eam Bahamas picked up its first set of medals - both bronze from Mya Beneby in the women’s -57 kilogram and and an injured Karra Hanna in the women’s +70 kg - as judo completed the first sporting discipline on day one of the sixth Commonwealth Games.

Contested just before the start of the opening ceremonies at the Thomas A Robinson National Stadium last night, the Bahamas ended up ninth out of 17 countries on the medal chart.

England emerged as the overall champions with four gold medals and a bronze, while Australia got second with one gold and three bronze and Scotland came in third with one gold, two silver and a bronze.

Head coach D’Arcy Rahming Jr said for a sport that is relatively new to the country, the performances by Team Bahamas were fantastic.

“For us to walk away from the Commonwealth Youth Games just shows the level of talent and ability that we have in the country,” said Rahming of the mini-Olympic style games that is being held in the Caribbean for the first time.

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THE schedule of events for the 6th Commonwealth Youth Games: TODAY Aquatics at Betty Kelly Aquatics Centre 10am - Women’s 50m butterfly (W) 10:13am - Men’s 50m butterfly (M) 10:22am - Women’s 200m freestyle (W) 10:30am - 200m free (M) 10:40am - 100m back (W) 10am - 100m back (M) 10:45am - 200 breast (W) 11am - 200m breast (M) 11:15am - Men’s 1,500m freestyle (M) 5:30pm - 50m fly (W) 5:44pm - 50m fly (M) 5:58pm - 200m free (W) 6:07pm - 200m free (M) 6:26pm - 100m back (W) 6:41pm - 100m back (M) 7:06pm - 200 breast (W) 7:15pm - 200 breast (M) 7:25pm - 1,500m free (M) Beach volleyball at Malcolm Park Beach Soccer Facility

MYA BENEBY, of the Bahamas, in action yesterday against Hafsa Rifaz from Sri Lanka during the judo segment of the 6th Commonwealth Youth Games at the Kendal Isaacs Gymnasium. Beneby won the bronze in the -57 kilogram division.

Photo: Eric Rose/BIS

Let the Games begin

Court One 9am - Trinidad & Tobago vs Rwanda (W) 9:50am - Vanatu vs Scotland (W) 10:40am - St Lucia vs Nigeria (W) Court Two 9am - New Zealand vs England (M) 9:50am - Trinidad & Tobago vs Ghana (M) 10:40am - St Lucia vs Nigeria (M) Beach soccer at Malcolm Park Beach Soccer Facility 4:15pm - T&T vs Turks & Caicos (W) 5:30pm - T&T vs Antigua & Barbuda (M) 6:45pm - Jamaica vs Bahamas (W) 8pm - St Lucia vs Bahamas (M) Boxing at Kendal GL Isaacs Gymnasium 1pm - Men’s 52kg, 60kg, 69kg, 81kg and women’s 60kg 6pm – Men’s 49kg, 64kg and 75kg Cycling at Clifton Heritage Park site 9am – women’s time trials 10:30am – men’s time trials Rugby 7s at the Queen Elizabeth Sports Centre 9am - 5:50 pm – men and women matches Tennis at National Tennis Centre

PROUD TO BE BAHAMIAN: Team Bahamas members march around the track yesterday after being introduced during the official opening ceremony of the 6th Commonwealth Youth Games in the new Thomas A Robinson Track and Field stadium. Competition in judo and beach volleyball began earlier in the day.

Photo: Terrel W Carey/Tribune Staff

8am – boys and girls singles 1st-round matches 4pm – mixed doubles 1st-round matches

Beach volleyball teams suffer lopsided defeats in prelims

By RENALDO DORSETT Tribune Sports Reporter rdorsett@tribunemedia.net

CONSIDER day one a learning experience for Team Bahamas as beach volleyball play began yesterday on the opening day of the VI Commonwealth Youth Games.

Both the girls’ and boys’ teams suffered lopsided defeats at the National Beach Soccer Stadium in their first game of the preliminary rounds.

The girls’ team of Mechelle Moss and La’Tavia Braynen lost 21-5, 21-7 to England while the boys’ team of Nathan Wert and Kyle Wilson fell to Cyprus 21-9, 21-13.

Despite the loss to a more experienced English side, national team head coach Renaldo Knowles said the team has pro-

gressed exponentially since training first began.

“To see where they came from, from the beginning to now I think it was a great start. We had a lack of practice, lack of proper facilities and I think they did a good job compared with what we were doing in practice,” he said.

“Experience plays a lot and the teams we are facing have probably played a lot together so their chemistry is a lot better, that makes it a lot easier for them to do things that they need to do to win.”

The English team of Yasmin Kaashoek and Ellena Austin rebounded from an early morning loss to top the Bahamas in their second match.

“We don’t feel too good about it because we could have played more balls if we were ready but we weren’t so that cost us the game,”

Braynen said. “We feel confident now that we played our first game.

We don’t feel shaky anymore so we are ready to go.”

The Cyprus team of Constantinos Skordis and Sotiris Siapanis also defeated South Africa in their opening match of the day.

“It was pretty rough, our first match ever in a big tournament like this. I know personally I was pretty nervous but I think overall

it came out good and even though it was hard I think we just tried to stay positive and do our best to the very end,” Went said. “I think the major takeaway is where to be when the ball is hit and Kyle is at the net blocking, I think I have to be in ace to pick you the ball pretty quickly.”

The second set was tied at five before Cyprus pulled away after a series of long rallies saw them take control. “We just need to learn to stay calm, not get frustrated and play the game we practiced and calm down. Our chemistry was a little shaky but going into next game it will be better,” Wilson said. “We were really tired, we don’t really do much conditioning so going into these long rallies it just places stress on our bodies.”

Knowles said he expects both teams to adjust when play continues today.

“I’m confident we will do our best because them doing their best is all that we can ask of them.

This is almost something new to them and for them to come out here on this stage, play in front of people and this magnitude of the tournament, I think it’s great.

They had a few long rallies and the players got a little fatigued.

The conditions are harsh for them because they are new to it, that with the pressure of the game,” he said. “I think they will have a better showing because they know what it takes, how to control their breathing, how to slow down the game so we expect a better showing.”

The boys will return to the sand for a busy schedule when they will face St Lucia at noon and South Africa at 1:40pm. The girls will

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Judo athletes shine at the 6th Commonwealth Youth Games FROM PAGE 1 “Judo is played between another human being and the only way to get experience is to travel. To move to the next level, we need to put some more resources in the system, then we can take our promising athletes here so that they can get the experience to jump to the next level.”

Beneby, competing in her first major international meet, said she was quite pleased with her performance, considering that she faced some competitors who are black belts, while she’s just a brown belt. She lost to Scotland’s Emma Forrest in her semi-final match.

“My first match was really good. I beat a black belt,” she said. “My second match, I didn’t do very well, but I won my last match to win a bronze medal.

“It was really quick. I fought her a few times and all of the times I fought her, I beat her. So I knew how she fights. When I went on the mat, I just bowed and I tried to take her out early when I got my grip. I followed my coaches’ instructions.”

Beneby, a 14-year-old student of Bahamas Elite Sports Academy, admitted she would have preferred to fight for the gold, but she can’t be disappointed as a

first year competitor who came out with the bronze.

“I thank God,” Beneby said.

Another disappointment came in the women’s +70kg where Karra Hanna had the potential to go to the final after she was leading, but she suffered a shoulder injury and could not get up off the mat before the decision was awarded to Aoife McCallion from Northern Ireland.

“I really wanted to continue, but it was just too painful,” Hanna said. “I had suffered a slight (right) knee injury in my first match (against Imogen Jo Ranner of England that she won).

“I’m painful right now, but I’m glad that I was still able to win a medal. I really wanted to win the gold for my country. I guess I just have to get better prepared for the next time I get to compete.”

Simon Zulu, the 17-yearold gold medallist in the men’s -60kg for Zambia, said there’s no greater feeling than earning the gold medal for his country. He out-lasted Georgios Balarjishvili from Cyprus in their final match.

“I feel so good. I never knew that I would have been so successful,” Zulu said. “My coaches here have been working very hard with me to get me ready for the competition.

KARRA HANNA, of the Bahamas, in action yesterday during the 6th Commonwealth Youth Games at the Kendal Isaacs Gymnasium.

Hanna won the bronze in the women’s +70 kilogram division.

Photos: Eric Rose/BIS “The competition was really tough, but I did my best. The guy was tough.

That’s all I could say. This competition was good and it’s Paradise here. It’s a nice place.”

The one day of competition also had an effect on 17-year-old Mosa Thetsane from South Africa. He injured his right knee in his first match in the men’s -60kg, but he never gave way, limping his way to the

bronze medal.

“After the injury in the first match, I lost the second match, but I am glad that I could still fight for a medal,” Thetsane said. “I never thought that I could get this type of injury and I never knew that I could make it this far.

“It’s been a long journey to get here, but it’s been a lot of fun. The Bahamas is so beautiful, the buildings, people and everything. I’m

really enjoying it.”

Although she gave it her best shot, Jasmine Russell fell short of getting on the podium to receive a medal in the women’s -48kg. She lost to Antim Yadav of India in the Repachage and had to settle for seventh place.

“The competition was hard,” said the 14-year-old St Augustine’s College student, who is just in her first year in the sport. “The girl had more experience than me. I just need to practice harder. I feel good about the opportunity to compete here. But I have to train harder.”

The gold medal in the division went to Sian Bobrowska of England, who had a sensational victory over Fiona Ulann Todman from Scotland in the final.

“It was really good. I fought really hard today,” Bobrowska said. “This was my best performance for the year. I felt really good, really strong in all of my matches, especially the final.

“It was tough because of the heat here, but I think I did very well to adapt to win the gold in these conditions here. It was a really good experience. I really like it.”

England’s head coach Nicole Nunn sung the

praises of her seven-member team for their overall triumph.

“The kids have been fantastic,” she said. “Our competitors all performed brilliantly and I think we all had a fantastic time. They thoroughly enjoyed themselves so far.

“It’s so great to be here.

It’s a long flight. They have never done a long flight like that before, but everyone has been fantastic and hospitable and the food has been great, so I think that’s why they performed so well today.”

Nunn said now that their competition is over, they will have some fun playing in the beach as they wait and watch the rest of Team England perform this week.

Note: The Bahamas was also represented by Davante Sweeting in the men’s -60kg; Taliano Ferguson in the men’s -73kg; Kyon Cumberbatch in the men’s -90kg; Daleon Sweeting in the men’s +90kg and Breanna Major in the women’s -70kg. None of them advanced to the medal round.

Ferguson, by the way, also had to get medical attention for an apparent right shoulder injury that he sustained during his repechage match against Luke Walker from Trinidad & Tobago.

JUDO FINAL STANDINGS • HERE is a look at the final standings for the judo competition on day one of the Commonwealth Youth Games yesterday at the Kendal Isaacs Gymnasium: MEDAL TABLE Position 1.

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Country England Australia Scotland India Zambia Cyprus Northern Ireland Mozambique Bahamas South Africa Barbados Wales Samoa Sri Lanka Guyana Malawi Trinidad & Tobago

1st 4 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

2nd 0 3 2 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

3rd 1 0 1 3 0 1 1 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

5th 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0

7th 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0

Medal winners and individual finishers Women’s 48kg - 1. Sian Bobrowska, England; 2. Fiona Ulaan Todman, Scotland; 3.

Sofia Asvesta, Cyprus; 3. Antim Yadav, India; 5. Sophie Eleanor Robins, Australia; 5.

Jasmine Russell, Bahamas; 7. Fion Mair Robinson, Wales.

Women’s 57kg - 1. Leah Kaye Grosvenor, England; 2. Emma Catherine Forrest, Scotland; 3. Mya Beneby, Bahamas; 3. Rabina Devi Chanam, India; 5. Saskia Jolande Brothers, Australia; 5. Aniah Clarke, Barbados; 7. Hafsa Yameena Rifaz, Sri Lanka.

Women’s 70kg - 1. Holly Olivia Bentham; 2. Francis Lavina Oive Newman, Australia.

Women’s +70kg - 1. Emily Elizabrth Ritchie; 2. Aolfe Kirstie McCallion, Northern Ireland; 3. Karra Hanna, Bahamas.

Men’s -60kg - 1.Simon Zulu, Zambabwi; 2. Gorgios Balarjishvilli, Cyprus; 3. Ashiah, India; 3. Mosa Thetsane, South Africa; 5. Callum William John Bennett; 5. Harry ZainProsser, England; 7. Davante Sweeting, Bahamas; 7. Connor Thomas Wilson, Scotland.

Men’s -73kg - Soni, India; 2. Uros Nikolic, Australia; 3. Matthew Elliott, Northern Ireland; 3. Lachian James Moorehead; 5. Ryan Quigley, Scotland; 5. Tristan Vaal, Samoa; 7. Taliano Ferguson, Bahamas; 7. Khalil Jessamy, Barbados.

Men’s -90kg - 1. Thomas Matthew Lish; 2. Connor Anthony Smith; 3. Louis Thomas George Saez, Scotland.

Men’s +90kg - 1. Timothy Mark Hollingbery, Australia; 2. Helder Martins, Mozambique.

MYA BENEBY, of the Bahamas, in action yesterday during the 6th Commonwealth Youth Games at the Kendal Isaacs Gymnasium. Beneby won the bronze in the -57 kilogram division.

Beach volleyball teams suffer lopsided defeats in prelims FROM PAGE 1 face Australia at 12:50pm.

The edition of the Commonwealth Games features beach volleyball for the first time ever in the competition programme.

A total of 24 teams comprise the field, which is due to make its debut on the Commonwealth Games programme at Gold Coast 2018.

The boys’ bracket includes Australia, Bahamas,

Cyprus, England, Ghana, Jamaica, New Zealand, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, St Lucia, South Africa and Trinidad and Tobago.

The girls’ field includes Australia, Bahamas, Cameroon, England, Jamaica, Kenya, New Zealand, Nigeria, St Lucia, Scotland, Trinidad and Tobago and Vanuatu.

“Some of the Commonwealth’s finest beachside settings will be the sporting stage for beach volleyball when our exciting and

engaging sport is presented for the first time ever at the Bahamas 2017 Commonwealth Youth Games, and then on the Commonwealth Games programme in Gold Coast, Australia a year later in 2018,” said Ary Graça, president of the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB). “It’s such an exciting time globally for this fast-paced and fastgrowing sport and I have every confidence that fans will welcome its addition to the programme.”

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Florin Lascau: ‘Two bronze medals is a very good start’

By BRENT STUBBS Senior Sports Reporter bstubbs@tribunemedia.net FLORIN Daniel Lascau, the former world judo champion from Germany, likes what he saw from the competitors in the judo competition at the sixth Commonwealth Youth Games.

Lascau, who captured the title in 1991 in Barcelona, Spain, is in town working the one-day sport at the Kendal Isaacs Gymnasium as a member of the International Judo Federation.

“We’ve been here for one week and we ran the programme of the International Judo Federation and the IGF Academy Level One for instructors,” he said.

“We’ve been happy to work with the technical aspect of the sports.”

Lascau, a native from Romania, said it was encouraging to see a total of 10 of the 17 nations who participated winning a medal, with England topping the charts with four gold and a bronze, while the Bahamas

was ninth with two bronze.

“We are very proud, not only of the Bahamas in hosting the games, but also in winning medals,” Lascau said. “We have a large number of coaches from the Bahamas, so to come out with two bronze medals is a very good start.

“We just hope that in the future, Bahamian judo will be top in the Caribbean and in the Pan American. So we are really proud that they performed as well as they did in judo here at home.”

In making his debut in the Bahamas, Lascau said it has been all that he anticipated and more and he’s even more thrilled by the level of enthusiasm that he has experienced from the

QUEEN’S BATON ARRIVES THE arrival of the Queen’s Baton at the Lynden Pindling International Airport yesterday for the 6th Commonwealth Youth Games, which officially opened later Tuesday.

Shown (l-r) are Wellington Miller, president of the Bahamas Olympic Committee, Commonwealth Games Federation regional vice-president for the Americas K.A. Juman-Yassin, and Commonwealth Games Federation honourary legal advisor Sharon Osborne, QC. Photo: Raymond A Bethel Sr/ BIS

FORMER world judo champion Florin Lascau (right) shares a special moment with D’Arcy Rahming Sr, president of the Bahamas Judo Federation.

Bahamian people towards the games.

The sport of judo, according to Lascau, is designed to educate people about the discipline of life and this is one way that they can to develop the society in general.

D’Arcy Rahming Sr, president of the Bahamas Judo Federation, said they certainly achieved all of their goals in hosting the sport during the games for the first time in the Bahamas.

“I think this was a very good coming out party for us and judo in the country,” he said. “It was a very high level of competition and the people who come here, for instance, India compete on the Asian circuit and Eng-

land compete on the European circuit.

“I think our guys competed very well against them. They held their own.

None of them got wiped out. Many of them were in some very difficult matches, but we came out with two bronze medals. The difference between the gold and bronze was experience.

“We just have to get out there and do more tournaments internationally. So we are going to take our two bronze medallists to the World Cadets Championships in Chile in August.

We are just delighted with their performances and the performances of the other competitors who competed.”

Rahming thanked the Bahamian public for coming out and supporting the team, although they had two minor injuries to bronze medallist Karra Hanna and Taliano Ferguson, but he noted that they were both only minor setbacks and will not hamper or damper their performances in the future.

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SPOTLIGHT ON ATHLETES FOR PAN AM UNDER-20 ATHLETIC CHAMPIONSHIPS

My Story, My 2017 Journey SERENA BROWN COMPETING in itself is hard: finding and maintaining the right mindset, executing the instructions drilled at you by coaches, and being fearless and doubtless as you step into the ring. But the glee of triumph arises when a standard is met, when rankings are climbed, and when obstacles are not just hurdled but kicked down.

Adjusting to a new environment, the training regimen and competition were initially difficult for me. The training was particularly arduous because although I got through the workouts my body would cry out in pain. Despite my efforts to improve my training habits by adequately hydrating, warming up and warming down, I still experienced some inconveniences. I’ve had a strained quad, tight hamstrings, latissimus dorsi, deltoids, ‘pecs’ and the list goes on.

I was so frustrated. I questioned myself. What could I possibly be doing wrong?

I was doing everything according to the book yet my muscles were still tight. My flexibility had spectacularly

improved. I was eating better. It just wasn’t adding up.

Nevertheless, I persevered.

I continued to do everything by the book and hope for the best.

Despite my condition, I still performed well. I bettered my personal best three times this year, thus improving my country’s record three times, finished third at conference, second on my school’s all-time performance list, and made it to the national championships as a freshman while maintaining rankings within the world junior top 5 for discus. Competing at such a high level made me so excited to represent my country this year because I know after enduring through this year prepared me to contribute to the Bahamas’ medal count.

Qualifying for the Junior PanAmerican U20 Athletics Championships gives me a chance to prove that I can contribute to the medal count as well as redeem myself from my performance at the D1 NCAA Outdoor Championships. Wearing the aquamarine, gold and black evokes this sense of indescribable pride and confidence and invincibil-

JYLES ETIENNE

“I AM BEYOND ECSTATIC TO BE A PART OF SUCH AN ELITE COMPETITION. I AM EVER SO CONFIDENT IN MY TEAMMATES, ALTHOUGH SMALL IN QUANTITY OUR QUALITY IS WORLD CLASS.” ity. I am beyond ecstatic to be a part of such an elite competition. I am ever so confident in my teammates, although small in quantity our quality is world class. I want my teammates to excel at this meet because I know that they have the capability to do so. All of us are hardworking, and hard work pays off. Jr PanAm is just the opportunity to reap our awards.

AFTER competing at CARIFTA I feel that it showed me what I needed to work on in order to perform at the best of my abilities. I realised that it would be the small things that had the biggest impact on my performance level going forward. Whether it be staying focused and hydrated or making sure I did my exercises and stretches that have helped me in the past.

This year was very tough mentally as I slightly injured my left heel while jumping my personal best 2.20m/7’2.5” on May 6 in New York. It was because of a very hard indoor track and the extreme pressure that is put on the heel when jumping that caused the bruised heel. Of course this was a major setback because I jump with my left foot and now every time I exerted pressure on it, the action would cause immense pain. This injury would stop me from defending my New York state title my senior year, and I would miss out on almost a third of my season. The realisation that I could not compete at the level that I knew I was

capable of, and miss out on meets that I knew I could win, would take a toll on me mentally. But my season did end on a positive note. My performance had caught the attention of Sports Illustrated and I was featured in the June 7, 2017 edition for my achievements in high school basketball and high jump.

With the help of my coach James Rolle, I would learn that my injury was caused mostly because of my takeoff position being too low.

I needed to be positioned in a more standing and upright position in order for the pressure to be distributed more equally across my foot. The recovery process would feature many things like icing daily, physical therapy, rest and foot reflexology treatment. Apart from treatment I worked daily with my coach, learning how to take off properly in order to prevent something like this from happening again. I would have to keep faith in God in order to recover and trust that God has a plan for me and that everything happens for a reason.

Now I feel ready to take on the challenge of more

competition on the world stage in Peru. This meet will prepare me for even bigger stages such as the IAAF World Junior Championships and the NCAA D1 Championships next year when I compete as an Indiana Hoosier. I see the PanAm U20 games as a necessary stepping stone to get me ready for where I want to go and what I want to accomplish.

My goal for PanAm U20 is to jump at least 2.22m/7’3.25” and win in the process. The reason I chose that height is to break the New York state record of 2.21m/7’3” and also put me in a good position to try to break the junior national record of 2.28m/7’5.75”, held by my teammate Ryan Ingraham, next year. Lastly, I would like to congratulate and extend my best wishes to the rest of the team as I perceive, God willing, all of us will be coming back with medals around our necks.

‘I was faced with several minor injuries’ HOLLAND MARTIN MY 2017 track and field season has been bittersweet, as I was faced with several minor injuries.

I first made the qualifying standard for the PanAm U-20 Athletics Championships at the Freeport, Grand Bahama Island Sports Meet when I leaped the distance of 7.68 metres. From that very moment, I realised that my season was going to very successful.

I then went on to further my leap of 7.71 metres at the Bahamas

High School Nationals, setting a new junior national record and becoming one of the best junior jumpers in the world. Later on, I set a season goal to leap 8.10 metres or better but unfortunately I have not reached that as yet.

With hard work and dedication I was able to be ranked as the No.1 jumper in the Caribbean heading into the 2017 CARIFTA Games but respectfully earned a silver medal. I also ranked No.1 heading into the 2017 Penn Relays but did not compete this year.

I feel great about making the PanAm U20 this year and have no doubt that I will do excellent in both the long jump and 200m.

This is my last junior meet competing for my country. I love doing this so I will put my whole heart into this. Every time I put my country’s name across my chest it reminds me of all the sacrifices I’ve made, from waking up 4:30am every morning to moving away from my family for years is beyond a sacrifice. I thank God for showing a way and blessing

me with the ability to run and run with the opportunity of making millions.

Huge shout out to my family who encourages me daily, especially my mother and to my coach, who’s like a father to me, always pushing me beyond my limits by training three, sometimes four times per day. After the Carifta Games and National Trials, I was prepared for anything, those meets prepared me both mentally and physically, helping me to know what needs to be improved

and what to expect heading into other meets.

It’s almost the beginning of my season and I am ending with a personal best in the long jump of 7.93m. This is great for a high school jumper but I am ready to improve that by breaking the 8.0 metres barrier. I want to respectfully extend best wishes to all of my teammates on the PanAm U20 team, letting them know that all things are possible once we continue to put God first no matter the circumstances.

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Top of the draft board shines in the NBA Summer League

By JON KRAWCZYNSKI Associated Press THE depth and quality of the 2017 NBA draft had teams tanking at the end of the regular season in hopes of vaulting into the top three picks.

With the huge caveat being that it was only summer league action, those at the top of the draft made quite a first impression.

Summer league play ended on Monday night after the Los Angeles Lakers beat Portland in the Las Vegas league championship game. Over leagues played in Orlando, Salt Lake City and Vegas, many of the top 10 picks gave their teams plenty to feel good about before heading into the league’s quiet period for the next two months.

No. 2 pick Lonzo Ball owned Vegas with a pair of triple-doubles and was named Vegas MVP. Top pick Markelle Fultz showed off his wide array of scoring tricks in Utah before sitting out much of Vegas with an ankle injury and No. 3 pick Jayson Tatum of Boston was drawing comparisons to Paul Pierce while dominating both in Utah and Nevada.

The competition these rookies will face will increase exponentially when training camps open in October. And there is a long list of summer league standouts — Nikoloz Tskitishvili, anyone? — who never amounted to anything in the NBA. But for struggling franchises like the Lakers, Sixers, Suns and Kings, seeing some real promise from their youngsters the first time they step on the court is encouraging.

“Lonzo definitely gave the team a lot of confidence as this thing went along,”

OTHER STANDOUTS: Dennis Smith Jr, the No. 9 pick by Dallas, may have been the best player in Las Vegas, averaging 17.3 points and 4.2 assists per game for the Mavericks and Utah’s Donovan Mitchell averaged 28 points per game in just two games for the Jazz.

Sacramento’s De’Aaron Fox, the fifth overall pick out of Kentucky, displayed his athleticism and defensive instincts for the Kings.

Josh Jackson, the No. 4 overall pick by Phoenix, averaged 17.4 points and 9.2 rebounds in Vegas and played with a competitive fire that intrigued many scouts leading up to the draft.

Swanigan was consistent throughout and San Antonio’s Bryn Forbes had a pair of 35-point games to give the Spurs another promising young talent in the pipeline as they wait to hear from Manu Ginobili on his future.

Lakers coach Luke Walton said. “The way he plays, he’s always got his poise about him, just an incredible basketball player and with the unselfish nature he plays the game, it just becomes contagious and I think other guys started picking up and playing off of that.”

Winning a summer league title certainly doesn’t mean the suffering of the last four years is over for the Lakers. Far from it. The real test comes in a couple of months.

But for several franchises that are in the business of selling hope right now, business is good.

• Here are some other takeaways from summer league action: VEGAS TITLE GAME: Kyle Kuzma had 30 points and 10 rebounds to lead the Lakers to a 110-98 victory over the Trail Blazers.

Kuzma hit 6 of 10 3-pointers and Matt Thomas scored 23 points on 8-of-9 shooting and 5 for 5 on 3s to help the Lakers overcome the loss of Ball, who sat out with a calf injury.

Caleb Swanigan had 25 points, 12 rebounds and seven assists and Jake Layman had 21 points and seven boards for Portland.

PACKED HOUSE: Buoyed by Ball and the Lakers, nearly 128,000 fans attended the Vegas Summer League this year.

What started as a gathering of a few teams 13 years ago has turned into a fullfledged event under the guidance of coaching agent Warren LeGarie and Albert Hall. Sponsors are lining up to get in on the action, fans crowd the concourses looking for autographs of the next big things and es-

LOS Angeles Lakers’ Lonzo Ball holds up the trophy for the most valuable player in the NBA summer league before the team’s game against the Portland Trail Blazers Monday night in Las Vegas.

(AP Photo/John Locher) tablished stars like LeBron James, Isaiah Thomas and John Wall sit courtside to watch the games.

ESPN and NBATV televise the games and over 500 media credentials were given out for the Las Vegas

site alone.

“I told Mayor Goodman that we should get a commission for the NFL and the NHL following in our footsteps,” NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said last week. “We were here

when some leagues weren’t even taking advertising in Las Vegas, and we’re proud to be here. I feel our Summer League has become a fixture in Las Vegas, part of the permanent summer calendar.”

FLIP SIDE: Just as we shouldn’t read too much into the successes of summer league, so too should the struggles be taken with a grain of salt. But Lauri Markkanen, the Bulls’ No. 7 overall pick who came over in the draft-night trade that sent Jimmy Butler to Minnesota, shot just 24 per cent (6 for 25 on 3-pointers) in Las Vegas, not a great sign for a 7-footer billed as the best shooter in the draft. Sacramento’s Buddy Hield, the centrepiece of the trade that sent DeMarcus Cousins to New Orleans in February, shot just 35 per cent in three games in Las Vegas, a mark was aided by a binge of six 3s in his final game against the Lakers.

Not what you want to see from a second-year player who will turn 24 in December.

TOKYO 2020: BUDGET UNCERTAINTY WILL CONTINUE TO 2019 RODGERS,

By SHERRY ZHENG Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Uncertainty over the final budget for the 2020 Olympic Games will continue until 2019, the head of the Tokyo Organising Committee said yesterday.

“We will continue to explore more cost efficiencies,” Tokyo 2020 CEO Toshiro Muto told the foreign media amid concerns regarding the higher-than-projected costs.

The estimated cost of hosting the games has doubled to 1.4 trillion yen ($12.6 billion) from the 730 billion yen ($6.6 billion) that was proposed when Tokyo won the bid in 2013.

Tokyo has cut some costs by shifting to temporary facilities and pre-existing ones, including some outside Tokyo, instead of building new facilities.

Muto said 60 per cent of the venues are existing ones, and 40 per cent are outside Japan’s capital.

This includes plans to hold some baseball and softball games in Fukushima prefecture, the site of the nuclear plant meltdowns that followed the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Muto noted that a major theme for Tokyo 2020 will be recovery from the devastating disaster of nearly a decade earlier.

Muto said construction of the controversial main stadium is well underway.

BIRD, MOORE, THOMAS, QUIGLEY IN 3-POINT CONTEST

By DOUG FEINBERG Associated Press

TOKYO Organising Committee of Tokyo 2020 Olympics CEO Toshiro Muto speaks yesterday during a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan in Tokyo. (AP)

AFTER DONNING DARTH VADER OUTFIT, GONZALEZ BECOMES FORCE

By RONALD BLUM Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Omar Gonzalez had just left the LA Galaxy to join Mexico’s Pachuca when his new club’s chairman had a request: Would the 6-foot-5 defender walk into his introductory news conference dressed as Darth Vader?

Of course, he obliged. Ever since, he has become a defensive force.

“I had signed a contract 15 minutes prior to that, so I was like, ‘Yeah, sure.’ It was a bit small,” Gonzalez recalled of the costume yesterday. “I don’t know if they met any other Mexican my size.”

Now 28 years old, Gonzalez is among the US players trying to impress returning coach Bruce Arena in the CONCACAF Gold Cup. The Americans play El Salvador tonight in a quarter-final match.

He made his national team debut in August 2010 during an exhibition against Brazil, which gave a teenage forward named Neymar his first international appearance that night in New Jersey.

Gonzalez went on to become among Major League Soccer’s highest-paid players, but his career stalled: first a torn knee ligament during his initial training session following a January 2012 loan to the German club Nuremberg, then a knee injury that kept him from starting the first two games of the

GONZALEZ (AP) 2014 World Cup. But worst of all was malaise during his final seasons with the Galaxy.

“I was just doing enough to get by and things were OK,” he said.

Gonzalez decided to change his attitude and alter his rest regimen.

He signed with Pachuca in December 2015, helped that team win last year’s Clausura title — and now he is flourishing on a team that will be in this year’s Club World Cup. “Everyone said this is the next so-and-so. And that’s all well and good, but until you get out there and prove it,” US goalkeeper Tim Howard explained.

“He’s matured. When you have ability and other people think you have ability, it’s great. When you actually realise your own ability and potential, I think the game slows down for you a little bit and you get very comfortable with your own movements and your own communication.”

Born in Dallas to MexicanAmerican parents, Gonzalez could have played for either country. An All-American at Maryland, he was

the third pick overall in the 2009 MLS draft and then that season was voted MLS Rookie of the Year with the Galaxy, all while being coached by Arena.

During the defender’s time in LA, Gonzalez met Erica, the woman he would marry, at the 30th birthday party of Kenny Arena, now as assistant coach for his dad.

Gonzalez lived in Manhattan Beach but decided to shake up his life with the move to Pachuca, a city of about 265,000, where he now lives with Erica and their two daughters, 2½-year-old Isla and one-year-old Colette.

“It’s just a totally different lifestyle,” he said. “In LA, you’re done with training and you sit around and you think, what should I do today? There’s always something, to do, and Pachuca there’s not really much to do.”

The family makes the hour-long drive to Costco outside Mexico City to fill the SUV with groceries and supplies. He is careful to check the calendar to avoid shopping on the middle and final days of each month.

“You don’t go to the mall when it’s pay day. When people get paid, it’s packed,” he said.

He is convinced he would not have revived his career had he not decided to leave Los Angeles.

“It’s definitely made me a better player and also made me a better person, living in a different culture, living in a different country,

living in an environment you’re not used to,” Gonzalez said.

“I spent my whole career in LA before I made this move, under the same coach, and so things were very comfortable for me, I would say. And what Mexico did was put me in an uncomfortable position, and I went to a place where I was unsure of myself playing every single game, and Mexico I believe is still ahead of MLS in terms of the quality and the players’ technical ability.”

Back with the national team, Gonzalez is competing for what likely will be four centre back spots on the US World Cup roster, assuming the Americans qualify.

John Brooks and Geoff Cameron top the depth chart at the moment, with Gonzalez, Matt Besler, Matt Miazga and Matt Hedges the four splitting time at the Gold Cup. Gonzalez put the US ahead in last week’s 2-0 win over Martinique with his second goal in 42 international appearances.

“Moving to Pachuca has allowed him to focus a little bit more on his craft. I don’t think he has the distractions he might have had in Los Angeles,” Arena said, Gonzalez’s teammates have noticed his strides.

“Your way of dealing with quick, skillful attacking players is put to the test every week,” captain Michael Bradley said. “It’s a guy who continues to show that he has to play a role for us moving forward.”

NEW YORK (AP) — Sugar Rodgers is heading to the WNBA All-Star Game to compete in the 3-point contest.

The Liberty shooting guard is happy for the chance to compete against Seattle’s Sue Bird, Connecticut’s Jasmine Thomas, Chicago’s Allie Quigley and Minnesota’s Maya Moore on Saturday in Seattle.

“If I win, I win, if I don’t, I’m still a good shooter,” Rodgers said. “We’ll go out there and have fun.”

There’s no doubt who the fans will be pulling for in the contest involving Bird, a 10-time All-Star playing in front of her home crowd.

“The fans associate a 3-point contest with a weekend like this. Players and fans have fun with it,” Bird said. “I’m excited to be a part of it.”

The league is bringing back the contest for the first time since 2009, and the winner will get $10,000 donated to a charity of her choice.

Rodgers already knows who she would give the money to.

“I’m donating my money to Hopey’s Heart Foundation,” she said of New York teammate Tina Charles’ charity. “It’s great, she’s like a big sister to me, so why not give it to her.”

Thomas is third in the league from behind the arc, hitting 45.8 per cent of her 3s this season. Quigley is fifth, Bird eighth and Moore 10th. Rodgers is 18th.

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Matthews wins Stage 16, Froome keeps yellow jersey POLICE ARREST SPANISH

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN and JOHN LEICESTER ROMANS-SUR-ISERE, France (AP) — Ahead of two gruelling Alpine stages likely to decide the outcome of the 104th Tour de France, Chris Froome and his teammates have sent a clear message to their rivals with another impressive display of collective strength.

Amid heavy crosswinds that played havoc in the finale of yesterday’s 165-kilometre (102.5mile) Stage 16 between Le Puyen-Velay to Romans-en-Isere, Team Sky riders tried to unsettle their opponents by setting a frenetic tempo that split the pack like a jigsaw puzzle.

After relentless work from Vasil Kiryienka and Michal Kwiatkowski, only 22 riders including Froome and teammate Mikel Landa managed to stay in the reduced bunch at the front.

Also among them were Fabio Aru, Romain Bardet and Rigoberto Uran, who avoided the trap. But Dan Martin lost 51 seconds after getting caught in a split in the finale. He dropped to seventh place overall, 2:03 off the pace. At some point, it looked like Bardet was going to be left behind but he was helped

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back in the leading group by Oliver Naesen. Australian Michael Matthews won the stage in a sprint to the line.

With the race now in money time, with stages set to decide the final podium, Froome went straight to the point with his aggressive racing. He appears in great shape and has the best team surrounding him in his bid to win a fourth Tour title.

Froome, the defending champion, has an 18-second overall lead over Aru, with Romain Bardet 23 seconds back in third place. Colombian Rigoberto Uran completes the leading quartet, 29 seconds off the pace.

Landa, who has been impressive since the start of the Tour despite dedicating himself to Froome, moved back to fifth overall, 1 minute, 17 seconds back.

The battle for the yellow jersey will resume today during the first of two Alpine stages in high altitude. It will lead riders to the ski station of Serre Chevalier through a gruelling 183-kilometre trek featuring four climbs, including the Col du Galibier — one of the Tour’s most fearsome and famed climbs at 18 kilometres (11 miles), with a 10-per cent gradient at the top.

By ARITZ PARRA and JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press

AUSTRALIA’S MICHAEL MATTHEWS, far left, sprints to win the 16th stage of the Tour de France yesterday. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena) Next will be the daunting Stage 18 to the Col d’Izoard , which features a final 14.1-kilometre ascent to the top of the mountain, at an altitude of 2,360 metres. “I’m looking forward to the Alps,” Froome said.

Three days after his victory in Rodez, Matthews reduced the gap with green jersey holder Marcel Kittel to 29 points in the best sprinter’s classification with his second stage win.

He made the most of a slightly uphill section 500 metres from the line and accelerated after Greg Van Avermaet launched

the sprint. Matthews then resisted Edvald Boasson Hagen’s late surge to prevail by a wheel’s length. John Degenkolb completed the podium.

Tempers frayed after the stage. Matthews claimed Degenkolb grabbed him by the neck out of frustration and accused him of going into his line during the sprint. “I did a clean sprint, I did not change my line,” Matthews said. “After the finish, I was waiting for the results, he came past and grabbed my neck. It was not very sportsmanlike.”

MADRID (AP) — Spanish Football Federation president Angel Maria Villar was arrested along with his son and two more federation executives in an anti-corruption investigation yesterday.

Villar, who is FIFA’s senior vice president and a UEFA vice president, was suspected of having arranged matches for Spain that led to business deals that benefited his son, said the office of the state prosecutor in charge of anti-corruption.

The state prosecutor and Spanish police said Villar, his son Gorka Villar, and two other soccer officials were detained while raids were carried out at the federation headquarters and other properties.

Two uniformed policemen guarded the entrance to the federation as staff went in and out of the offices near the training grounds for Spain’s national teams in Las Rozas, just outside Madrid.

The four men were arrested on charges of improper management, misappropriation of funds, corruption and falsifying documents as part of a probe into the finances of the federations.

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WAVES 3‑5 Feet 2‑4 Feet 1‑2 Feet 1‑2 Feet 3‑5 Feet 3‑5 Feet 4‑7 Feet 3‑6 Feet 3‑5 Feet 3‑5 Feet 1‑2 Feet 1‑2 Feet 1‑3 Feet 1‑3 Feet 3‑6 Feet 3‑6 Feet 2‑4 Feet 2‑4 Feet 4‑7 Feet 4‑7 Feet 1‑3 Feet 1‑2 Feet 3‑5 Feet 2‑4 Feet 1‑3 Feet 1‑3 Feet

VISIBILITY 5 Miles 5 Miles 8 Miles 5 Miles 8 Miles 10 Miles 10 Miles 10 Miles 8 Miles 8 Miles 5 Miles 5 Miles 8 Miles 8 Miles 10 Miles 10 Miles 8 Miles 10 Miles 10 Miles 10 Miles 8 Miles 5 Miles 8 Miles 10 Miles 8 Miles 10 Miles

WATER TEMPS. 84° F 84° F 83° F 83° F 83° F 83° F 83° F 83° F 83° F 83° F 83° F 83° F 85° F 85° F 84° F 84° F 85° F 85° F 84° F 84° F 84° F 84° F 84° F 84° F 84° F 84° F

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