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SPORTSMonday 21 March 2016
DeRozan, Scola lead Raptors over Magic 105-100
Toronto Raptors DeMar DeRozan, right, goes to the basket TORONTO (AP) — DeMar Terrence Ross then tacked rying a 55-53 advantage
DeRozan had 25 points, Luis on a pair of successful free into the second half.
against Orlando Magic Evan Fournier during the first half of an Scola added 20 more and throws, and while Brandon Orlando made it hold up
the Toronto Raptors beat Jennings’ jump shot with through the third quarter,
NBA basketball game in Toronto, Sunday March 20, 2016. the Orlando Magic 105-100 33.8 seconds to play made shooting 11 for 22 from the
on Sunday. things uncomfortable for floor in that period and
The Raptors moved just Toronto, he missed the re- withstanding a nine-point
one game back of the sulting free throw and the run from Scola to take an
Cleveland Cavaliers for Raptors held on for the vic- 82-80 edge into the final 12
the top spot in the East- tory, their fourth in a row. minutes. TIP-INS
ern Conference. Evan For once, Toronto struggled Magic: Nikola Vucevic
Fournier and Victor Ola- at the free-throw line, leav- (groin) missed Sunday’s
dipo each had 21 points ing 16 points on the board contest. ... While the back-
for Orlando, which lost its by converting 64.4 percent court pairing of DeRozan
seventh straight game in of its attempts. The Raptors and Kyle Lowry capture
Toronto and has now lost exploded out of the gate many of the Toronto head-
13 of the last 14 meetings with a 10-2 run, anchored lines, for Orlando coach
with the Raptors. Having by a nine-point contribu- Scott Skiles, a reserve play-
trailed since the 8:22 mark tion from DeRozan, but er has held most of his at-
of the second quarter, the Fournier responded with tention. “The guy that’s re-
Raptors got back in front nine of his own as the Mag- ally hurt us has been Cory
on a jump shot from Jason ic cut a 10-point Toronto Joseph, especially in Lon-
Thompson with 5:58 to play. lead to five after the first don, he kept penetrating
A 3-pointer from Fournier quarter, 30-25. but not only penetrating
with 1:11 remaining cut the The Magic came all the but getting all the way to
lead to 97-96, but DeRozan way back in the second the rim,” he said. Joseph
responded with a floating quarter, benefiting from has scored a season-high
jumper with 53.9 left on the nine points from Oladipo 19 points in both previous
clock and added the free and 18 points from their games against Orlando this
throw after being fouled by bench as they took their season but was rested on
Ersan Ilyasova to open up a first lead of the game with Sunday.
four-point edge. 3:38 remaining before car-
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