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Monday 18 SepteMber 2017
Sparks, Lynx to meet in WNBA Finals rematch

PHOENIX (AP) — Candace and the Lynx completed a
Parker’s driving layup with sweep of the Mystics in the
2.9 seconds to play gave best-of-three WNBA semifi-
the Los Angeles Sparks an nals.
89-87 win and three-game Seimone Augustus added
sweep of the Phoenix Mer- 18 points as Minnesota se-
cury in the WNBA semifinals cured its third consecutive
Sunday. finals appearance and
Parker finished with 21 sixth in seven seasons. The
points and 11 assists. Lynx will attempt to win
Brittney Griner missed a their fourth WNBA title in
shot as time expired and seven years.Elena Delle
the Sparks celebrated with Donne scored 15 points to
shouts and embraces in lead the Mystics, who exit
front of their bench. the playoffs after reaching
Odyssey Sims scored 22 the semifinals for the first
points on 9-of-12 shoot- time since 2002.Tierra Ruf-
ing. Chelsea Gray added fin-Pratt added 14 points
14 points for the defend- and Kristi Tolliver had 13 for
ing champion Sparks, who Washington, which forced
advanced to their second Los Angeles Sparks’ Candace Parker (3) is fouled by Phoenix Mercury’s Stephanie Talbot (8) dur- the Lynx into a series-high
straight WNBA Finals and ing the second half of Game 3 of a WNBA basketball playoff semifinal Sunday, Sept. 17, 2017, in 13 turnovers.
fifth overall. They will face Phoenix. But the Mystics scored only
Minnesota in a rematch of Associated Press 31 second-half points in
last year’s championship, their sixth loss in as many
after the Lynx completed a Diana Taurasi had tied the onds left. Maya Moore scored 21 games against Minnesota
sweep of Washington ear- game at 87 with a 3-pointer LYNX 81, MYSTICS 70 points, Sylvia Fowles added in 2017, including regular
lier Sunday. from the wing with 10.8 sec- WASHINGTON (AP) — 17 points and 14 rebounds, season and playoffs.q
Penny Chenery, owner of Triple Crown champ Secretariat, dies

By BETH HARRIS to Columbia Law graduate swept the juvenile stakes
AP Racing Writer John “Jack” Tweedy. Her and won 2-year-old of the
Penny Chenery, who bred father encouraged her to Year honors. In 1972, Riva
and raced 1973 Triple quit and focus on her wed- Ridge won the Kentucky
Crown winner Secretariat ding. The couple married Derby, fulfilling her father’s
as well as realizing her ail- in 1949.For nearly 20 years, dream in the last year of his
ing father’s dream to win Chenery was content to be life. That same year, Secre-
the Kentucky Derby in 1972 a housewife and mother to tariat burst onto the scene,
with Riva Ridge, has died. the couple’s four children so dominating the 2-year-
She was 95. in the Denver area. She old races that he won
Chenery died Saturday and her husband helped Horse of the Year honors.
in her Boulder, Colorado, found and raise the initial In 1973, Secretariat be-
home following complica- money for Vail ski resort in came a pop culture icon
tions from a stroke, accord- the early 1960s. with his Triple Crown vic-
ing to her children. They Her life changed in 1968 tory, landing on the cover
announced her death This June 9, 1973, file photo shows Penny Chenery, owner of when her father’s health of Time magazine. For the
Sunday through Leonard Secretariat, reacting after her horse won the Belmont Stakes, and mind began failing next four decades, Chen-
Lusky, her longtime friend and the Triple Crown, at Belmont Park in Elmont, N.Y. and her mother died. His ery served as a careful
and business partner. Meadow Stable, which steward of the colt’s lega-
In 1973, Secretariat cap- complishments, and her sistant for a company that had been profitable, be- cy.
tured the imagination of courage,” daughter Kate designed landing craft for gan losing money. She charmed as an en-
racing fans worldwide Tweedy said. the Normandy invasion. Be- Her two siblings had gaging and quick-witted
when he became the first “As we mourn her loss, the fore the invasion, she quit planned to sell it when their owner who represented
Triple Crown winner in 25 example of her strength, her job and at her father’s father could no longer run her equine champions with
years, sweeping the Ken- her intelligence and her urging, she volunteered for the operation. poise, dignity and a keen
tucky Derby, Preakness enduring spirit continue to the Red Cross. Chenery took over man- business sense.
and Belmont. He won the inspire us.” In 1945, Chenery traveled agement of the racing sta- “The horse can’t talk, but I
last leg by a whopping 31 Chenery developed a love to France as a Dough- ble, with the help of siblings can,” she said.
lengths in one of the great- of horses as a child and nut Girl to help war-weary Margaret Carmichael and Chenery was portrayed by
est performances in sports learned to ride at age 5. soldiers transition to ships Hollis Chenery, and her fa- actress Diane Lane in the
history. She attributed her affin- headed home at the end ther’s business secretary. 2010 movie “Secretariat.”
The previous year, Riva ity for horses to her father, of World War II. The operation was losing Chenery had a cameo
Ridge won the Derby and Christopher Chenery, who Chenery returned from Eu- money and few took her role as a spectator at the
Belmont Stakes. founded Meadow Stable, rope in 1946, and at her fa- seriously. Chenery com- Belmont Stakes.
Both colts were inducted a thoroughbred racing ther’s urging, she attended muted monthly from Colo- “We have always been
into the National Muse- and breeding operation, in Columbia University’s busi- rado to Virginia, but after overwhelmed and
um of Racing and Hall of Caroline County, Virginia. ness school, where she was two more years in the red, amazed by the love and
Fame. After graduating from one of 20 women in her selling the stable seemed support Mom received
“We are deeply proud Smith College in 1943, class. Six months from grad- almost inevitable. from her many fans,” son
of our mother, her ac- Chenery worked as an as- uation, she got engaged By 1971, her colt Riva Ridge John Tweedy said.q