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Monday 18 noveMber 2019

Harris, Embiid lead 76ers

to 114-95 rout of Cavaliers

being flattened by Furkan streak with a 100-99 victory
Korkmaz while shooting in Sunday.
the lane in the first quar- Marcus Smart had a
ter. Love got up after be- chance to win it for Boston,
ing on the floor for a cou- but his runner in the lane
ple of moments and gave hung on the rim before
the thumbs-up sign to the trickling off as the buzzer
crowd, remaining in the sounded.
game. Harrison Barnes added 13
Love scored 12 points in 25 points and Bogdan Bog-
minutes. Collin Sexton had danovic had 12 points and
17 points for Cleveland, 10 assists for the Kings (5-7),
which has lost three straight who lost a similarly close
and opened a stretch of game two nights earlier to
five games in seven days. the Lakers in Los Angeles.
The Cavaliers were ahead The Celtics (10-2) lost for
of the 76ers by five points the first time since their Oct.
late in Tuesday's game, but 23 opener at Philadelphia.
couldn't hold the lead. Love Jaylen Brown scored 18
missed an open 3-pointer points and Kemba Walker
on the final possession. had 15 for Boston. Jayson
Philadelphia shredded Tatum and Daniel Theis
Cleveland's defense this each added 14.
time with 33 assists on 46 Down four to start the sec-
baskets. The 76ers followed ond half, the Celtics out-
an 11-0 run with a 14-3 spurt scored the Kings 29-21 in
to take a 60-31 lead on Har- the third quarter to take a
ris' dunk with four minutes to 75-71 advantage entering
play in the second quarter. the fourth.
Philadelphia had dropped The Kings led 50-46 at the
five of seven going into the half, holding the Celtics
Philadelphia 76ers' Tobias Harris dunks the ball against the Cleveland Cavaliers in the first half of
an NBA basketball game, Sunday, Nov. 17, 2019, in Cleveland. game, including consecu- to 41% shooting (16 for 39)
Associated Press tive losses in Orlando and overall and 5 for 17 from
Oklahoma City, but finished beyond the arc.
its road trip on a high note. Hield had 16 points on
By STEVE HERRICK on Tuesday before falling ter. Kings 100, Celtics 99 7-for-11 shooting to lead
Associated Press 98-97, but the 76ers ended Harris was 12 of 14 from the SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) Sacramento over the first
CLEVELAND (AP) — Tobias quickly ended any hope of field, missing only one of 12 — Buddy Hield scored two quarters.
Harris scored 27 points, Joel a repeat. 2-point attempts. Ben Sim- a season-high 35 points, Boston didn’t have a play-
Embiid had 14 and the Phil- Philadelphia went ahead mons had 10 points and 11 Richaun Holmes hit two free er crack double figures in
adelphia 76ers routed the midway through the first assists, and the 76ers had throws with 13.3 seconds scoring in the first half and
Cleveland Cavaliers 114-95 quarter and steadily built six players score in double remaining to give Sacra- helped Sacramento by
on Sunday. the lead, shooting 67% in figures. mento the lead, and the committing 11 turnovers,
Cleveland nearly pulled the half. The lead reached Cavaliers forward Kevin Kings snapped the Boston which the Kings converted
off an upset in Philadelphia 75-44 early in the third quar- Love took a hard fall after Celtics’ 10-game winning into 13 points.q

Mexico rallies to beat U.S. 3-2, earn Olympic baseball berth

By The Associated Press medal in the Premier12 2014, tied it in the sixth with out Philadelphia's Alec ence was four games for
Matt Clark hit a tying home tournament, which served a bases-loaded, two-out Bohm, then retired Tampa the Chicago Cubs in 2018.
run off former St. Louis as qualifying. The United single off Kansas City pros- Bay's Jake Cronenworth on Navarro singled to center.
pitcher Brandon Dickson States will play next spring pect Daniel Tillo. Clark had a flyout. The Mexicans are man-
leading off the bottom of in the Americas tourna- missed part of the tourna- Jon Jones sacrificed on a aged by Juan Castro. He
the ninth inning, Efren Na- ment, which determines ment with an Achilles ten- 1-2 pitch leading off the will be an infield coach
varro had a broken-bat one of the two remaining don injury and limped at bottom half against Dick- next season for Philadel-
single against Caleb Thiel- Olympic berths. times. son, who pitched for the phia manager Joe Girardi,
bar to drive in the winning Jo Adell, the 10th overall Boston's Bobby Dalbec Cardinals in 2011 and ‘12. who was to manage the
run in the 10th and Mexico pick by the Los Angeles ended a 0-for-10 slide with Esteban Quiroz was inten- U.S. team but quit to take
beat the United States 3-2 Angels in the 2017 ama- an RBI single in the seventh tionally walked and U.S. the Phillies job.
Sunday at the Tokyo Dome teur draft, homered in the off Jesus Rios for a 2-1 lead. manager Scott Brosius Mexico had beaten the
to qualify for the Olympic first against Tampa Bay's Under tournament rules, brought in Thielbar, a left- U.S. 8-2 in the group stage
baseball tournament for Arturo Reyes. Milwaukee's extra innings start with run- hander who finished the on Nov. 3 at Guadalajara,
the first time. Cody Ponce, the U.S. start- ners on first and second. season in Atlanta’s minor Mexico. The U.S. got in po-
Mexico joined host Japan, er, allowed three hits in five Dalbec sacrificed leading league system and be- sition to play for a berth
South Korea and Israel in scoreless innings with six off the 10th and Atlanta’s came a free agent, to face only because South Korea
the six-nation field for next strikeouts and a walk. Drew Walters was inten- the left-handed-hitting Na- defeated Mexico 7-3 and
summer’s Tokyo Games Clark, who played 16 tionally walked. Winner varro, a 33-year-old whose Taiwan defeated Australia
and earned the bronze games for Milwaukee in Carlos Bustamante struck last major league experi- 5-1 in the super round.q