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Lamb's 1-handed TD catch gives Dallas 23-16 win over Giants

EAST RUTHERFORD, Giants 391-336 in an NFC
N.J. (AP) — CeeDee Lamb East rivalry game that saw
was angry with himself in the teams rush for almost as
the second quarter after much as they gained passing.
dropping a wide-open Dallas ran for 176 yards —
pass and costing the Dal- Tony Pollard had 105 — and
las Cowboys a possible the Cowboys threw for 215.
touchdown. It was just The Giants gained 167 on the
embarrassing. ground and 196 in the air.

The star receiver more than Dallas came into the game
made up for it with the game having allowed only one
on the line, making a one- touchdown in each of its first
handed TD catch with 8:30 two games, and the trend
to play to cap a go-ahead continued Monday night.
drive that gave the Cowboys a The defense hounded Daniel
23-16 win over the New York Jones, sacking him five times,
Giants on Monday night. with DeMarcus Lawrence ty-
ing his career high with three.
"He's CeeDee Lamb," Dal-
las quarterback Cooper Rush Jones finished 20 of 37 for
said after hitting Lamb four 196 yards and ran nine times
times on the 89-yard drive. for 79 yards. Barkley finished
"Guy's open a lot. Makes big- with 81 yards on 14 carries.
time catches. That fade catch an Daboll his first loss. mates walked over to encour- weaving 36-yard touchdown
was unbelievable. I'm sure he age him. run that gave the Giants Maher sandwiched field goals
wants that other one back, Rush threw for 210 yards, a brief 13-6 lead. Graham of 26 and 28 yards around a
but made tons of plays for us, including the 1-yard touch- Lamb actually made three Gano added three field goal, 42-yarder by Gano to give
like usual." down to Lamb, in winning plays at the end of the drive. including a 51-yarder with Dallas a 6-3 halftime lead.
his second straight game He caught a 4-yard pass on 3:37 to play to make it a one-
Ezekiel Elliott scored on a filling in for injured Dak fourth-and-4 from the Gi- score game. The Cowboys also got a big
1-yard run to ignite a come- Prescott (thumb). ants 41 with 10:27 to go. He play on special teams as de-
back from a seven-point defi- added a 26-yard grab to the The Giants got the ball back fensive lineman Dorance
cit and Brett Maher kicked Lamb finished with eight 1 and followed that with his with 1:45 left, but the series Armstrong blocked a 47-yard
three field goals as the Cow- catches for 87 yards, but also great catch on the fade pat- ended quickly with an inter- field goal attempt by Gano
boys (2-1) beat the Giants dropped a potential 52-yard tern for a 20-13 lead. ception by Trevon Diggs. on New York's opening pos-
(2-1) for the 10th time in 11 TD pass. He paced the side- session.
games and handed coach Bri- line after the play and team- Saquon Barkley scored on a The Cowboys outgained the

Puerto Rico reaches first World Cup quarterfinals

SYDNEY (AP) — Puerto Rico is other matchups, the U.S. plays Ser- "Making history now for us, with The team wasn't even supposed to
headed to the quarterfinals of the bia; China meets France and Austra- what our country is going through be in the tournament, but was given
women's World Cup for the first lia plays Belgium. right now with Hurricane Fiona. It's a spot when Russia wasn't allowed
time. monumental and I hope that it brings to compete following its invasion of
The Puerto Rican players and coach- some joy to the country and that's all Ukraine.
Mya Hollingshed scored 29 points es hope advancing to the quarters will we want to do, through basketball "It means a lot with everything go-
and Arella Guirantes added 18 to lead provide some joy to the island that's bring some joy," said Tayra Melendez. ing on on the island," Hollingshed
Puerto Rico to the 92-73 win over been ravaged by Hurricane Fiona. said. "With everything they are deal-
South Korea on Tuesday on the final They won for the first time in the The team was winless in its three ing with, we're playing for more than
day of pool play. country's history earlier in the tour- games at the 2018 World Cup, los- ourselves. I know everyone's excited
nament. ing by an average of nearly 28 points. and encouraging us."
Puerto Rico (2-3) scored the game's
first 18 points, including 10 by Hol-
lingshed, and never looked back. The
team secured the final spot in the
quarterfinals that begin Thursday.

"My shot was falling," Hollingshed
said. "I looked up and they hadn't
scored yet."

After the final buzzer sounded, the
Puerto Rican players were dancing
and celebrating their accomplish-
ment.

In other games Tuesday, the U.S.
routed Bosnia and Herzegovina 121-
59; China beat Belgium 81-55; Can-
ada topped Mali 88-65; Serbia edged
France 68-62. Australia defeated Ja-
pan 71-54.

FIBA held a draw for the quarterfi-
nals matchups Thursday, announc-
ing Puerto Rico will face Canada. In