Sports ❘ 07 CONTACT US AT: 8351-9441, [email protected] Tuesday April 10, 2018 Warriors guard Klay Thompson (11) shoots the basketball. SD-Agencies Bayern Munich’s Juan Bernat, Rafinha, Thiago Alcantara and Javi Martinez celebrate winning the league with a replica trophy at the end of the match. SD-Agencies Patrick Reed of the U.S. holds the Masters Tournament Trophy and wears his green jacket after winning the 2018 Masters tourna- ment at the Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia, the U.S. on Sunday. SD-Agencies DANNY WELBECK’S second goal of the game gave Arsenal a 3-2 win Sunday and cost South- ampton a draw it would have deserved in its struggle against relegation from the English Pre- mier League. Southampton’s defeat kept it in the bottom three, three points behind Crystal Palace but with a game in hand. Shane Long gave the Saints the lead after 17 minutes, nipping in ahead of defender Shkodran Mustafi. Arsenal equalized 11 minutes later through Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, playing a one-two with Welbeck. Welbeck then cut inside onto Alex Iwobi’s pass to give Arsene Wenger’s side a barely deserved halftime lead in London. Substitute Charlie Austin equalized barely a minute after coming on but with nine minutes left Welbeck headed another Iwobi cross. In a wild last few minutes Mohamed Elneny and South- ampton’s Jack Stephens were sent off in separate incidents. Elsewhere, Manchester City must wait to annex the EPL title after an amazing Paul Pogba-inspired fightback from two goals down saw its biggest rival Manchester United earn a famous 3-2 win to ruin the Etihad Stadium’s dream party Saturday. City, needing to win to wrap up the English top-flight title with more games to spare than any other side in history, seemed to be coasting to the landmark, leading its neighbor 2-0 at the break with goals from Vincent Kompany and Ilkay Gundogan. Yet just when it seemed United was being outplayed to the point of embarrassment, it launched an astonishing comeback soon after the break with Pogba, previously anonymous despite a new flashy blue hair-do, striking twice in two minutes. Now instead of a morale-boost- ing celebration, Pep Guardiola’s side has been forced to wait to clinch its third title in seven sea- sons and cannot be guaranteed the title even if it wins at Totten- ham Hotspur next Saturday. Its lead over United has been cut to 13 points with Jose Mourinho’s team in pole to earn the runner-up spot as it has 71 points from 32 games, four points clear of Liverpool (67 from 33), which earlier drew 0-0 at Everton, and Spurs (67 from 32), which won 2-1 at Stoke City. If City beats the in-form Spurs at Wembley, it will still not be able to celebrate the title unless United fails to beat bottom club West Bromwich Albion the fol- lowing day. City’s defeat completed its wretched week after the 0-3 mauling by Liverpool on Wednesday. (SD-Agencies) PATRICK REED, a resident of Spring, Texas, became famous playing for his country. He won for himself Sunday at the Masters. It was never easy, just the way Reed likes it. Rory McIlroy came after him early. Jordan Spieth roared to life with a final-round charge and briefly caught Reed with a 35-foot birdie putt. The last chal- lenge came from Rickie Fowler, who birdied the last hole to leave Reed no room for error. Reed never flinched through- out a raucous afternoon at Augusta National. Clinging to a one-shot lead, his 25-foot putt down the slip- pery slope on the 18th green ran 3 feet by the hole as Reed pressed down both hands, begging it to stop. From there, the 27-year- old Texan calmly rolled in the par putt for a 1-under 71 and a one-shot victory. “To have to par the last hole to win my first major, it definitely felt right,” Reed said from Butler cabin, right before Sergio Garcia helped him into a green jacket. The loudest cheers were for everyone else. Reed earned their respect with two big birdie putts on the back nine, one crucial par putt and plenty of grit. He also had a little luck when his 80-foot putt across the 17th green hit the hole, keeping it only 6 feet away. He made that for par to stay in control. Reed won for the sixth time in his PGA Tour career, though he was best known for the trophies he shared at the Ryder Cup and Presidents Cup. He is ferocious in match play, especially the team variety, and his singles victory over McIlroy at Hazeltine in the 2016 Ryder Cup led to the nickname of Captain America. Captain America is now the Masters champion. “He’s not scared. I think you guys have seen that previous from the Ryder Cups and the way he plays,” said Fowler, who closed with a 67. “He won’t back down. I don’t necessarily see him as someone that backs up and will let you come back into the tournament. You have to go catch him.” Fowler did his best with three birdies in a four-hole stretch, and an 8-foot birdie on the final hole. It still wasn’t enough. Fowler was runner-up for the third time in a major. He left the scoring cabin when Reed tapped in for par. He became the fourth straight Masters champion to capture his first major. Reed once claimed after win- ning a World Golf Champion- ship at Doral that he was a top 5 player in the world, which subjected him to ridicule. This victory moves him to No. 11. It also comes with a green jacket, which earns far more respect and notoriety. (SD-Agencies) JUPP HEYNCKES said Bayern Munich will keep the cham- pagne on ice — despite winning the German league title — as it focuses on the UEFA Champions League. A 4-1 comeback win at Augs- burg on Saturday handed it a sixth straight Bundesliga title and crowned Bayern German champion for the 28th time in the club’s history. Bayern now has the UCL in its sights as it looks to finish off Sevilla in Wednesday’s return leg at the Allianz Arena holding a 2-1 lead in their quarterfinal. While the players partied on the pitch in Augsburg, Heynckes said the serious celebrations must wait until after the season finishes. “No — we don’t want to really celebrate, but everyone is wel- come to enjoy the title,” said Heynckes, who allowed a small celebration in Bayern’s dressing room. “For example, Frank Ribery celebrates his eighth champi- onship, while for many others, like Niklas Suele and Sebastian Rudy, it is their first champion- ship — that’s something very important.” Augsburg took a shock lead through an own goal by Niklas Suele, but Bayern roared back as Corentin Tolisso, James Rodri- guez, Arjen Robben and Sandro Wagner all scored. The result leaves Bayern 20 points clear with five league games left. (SD-Agencies) KLAY THOMPSON’S shooting touch seems playoff-ready. The Golden State guard scored 22 of his 34 points in the first quarter and the Warriors beat Phoenix for the 15th consecu- tive time, 117-100 Sunday night in the final home game of the Suns’ awful season. “It was good to get into a good rhythm, especially with a game left in the season,” Thompson said. “You want to have some great momentum going into this playoff stretch.” Kevin Durant added 17 points and nine assists for the Warriors, whose winning streak against Phoenix is a franchise record for a single opponent. With the loss, and Memphis’ win over Detroit, Phoenix — at 20-61 — is assured the worst record in the NBA and, conse- quently, the most pingpong balls in the May 15 draft lottery. Danuel House scored a career- high 22 points for Phoenix. Alex Len added 16 points and 10 rebounds, Dragan Bender 14 points and 14 boards, and Tyler Ulis 15 points and 10 assists. The Warriors, who had lost two in a row and five of their previous eight, were already locked in to the No. 2 playoff spot in the Western Conference and working to get healthy for the playoffs, but still had Durant, Thompson and Draymond Green in the lineup against the severely depleted Suns. Phoenix was without Devin Booker (right hand sprain), T.J. Warren (left knee inflammation), Josh Jackson (right quad contu- sion), Marquese Chriss (hip sore- ness), Elfrid Payton (left knee) and Alan Williams (right knee soreness). Troy Daniels tried to play despite a sprained ankle but sat out the second half. Golden State didn’t have Ste- phen Curry, still recovering from left MCL sprain, Andre Iguodola (left knee soreness) and Patrick McCaw (lumbar spine contu- sion). The goal of these last couple of games is to avoid any further health issues, Warriors coach Steve Kerr said. “But that is more luck of the draw than anything,” he said. “I am glad we got through this game in a good way health-wise and did some good things and one more to go.” (SD-Agencies) Patrick Reed wins 2018 Masters Thompson, Warriors beat Suns for 15th straight time No Bayern celebration amid focus on UEFA Champions Welbeck double-strike sinks Saints
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Sports x 07CONTACT US AT: 8351-9441, [email protected]
Tuesday April 10, 2018
28-year victory at Chelsea.
Warriors guard Klay Thompson (11) shoots the basketball. SD-Agencies
Bayern Munich’s Juan Bernat, Rafi nha, Thiago Alcantara and Javi Martinez celebrate winning the league with a replica trophy at the end of the match. SD-Agencies
Patrick Reed of the U.S. holds the Masters Tournament Trophy and wears his green jacket after winning the 2018 Masters tourna-ment at the Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia, the U.S. on Sunday. SD-Agencies
DANNY WELBECK’S second goal of the game gave Arsenal a 3-2 win Sunday and cost South-ampton a draw it would have deserved in its struggle against relegation from the English Pre-mier League.
Southampton’s defeat kept it in the bottom three, three points behind Crystal Palace but with a game in hand.
Shane Long gave the Saints the lead after 17 minutes, nipping in ahead of defender Shkodran Mustafi .
Arsenal equalized 11 minutes later through Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, playing a one-two with Welbeck.
Welbeck then cut inside onto Alex Iwobi’s pass to give Arsene Wenger’s side a barely deserved halftime lead in London.
Substitute Charlie Austin equalized barely a minute after coming on but with nine minutes left Welbeck headed another Iwobi cross.
In a wild last few minutes Mohamed Elneny and South-ampton’s Jack Stephens were sent off in separate incidents.
Elsewhere, Manchester City must wait to annex the EPL title after an amazing Paul Pogba-inspired fi ghtback from two goals down saw its biggest rival Manchester United earn a famous 3-2 win to ruin the Etihad Stadium’s dream party Saturday.
City, needing to win to wrap
up the English top-fl ight title with more games to spare than any other side in history, seemed to be coasting to the landmark, leading its neighbor 2-0 at the break with goals from Vincent Kompany and Ilkay Gundogan.
Yet just when it seemed United was being outplayed to the point of embarrassment, it launched an astonishing comeback soon after the break with Pogba, previously anonymous despite a new fl ashy blue hair-do, striking twice in two minutes.
Now instead of a morale-boost-ing celebration, Pep Guardiola’s side has been forced to wait to clinch its third title in seven sea-sons and cannot be guaranteed the title even if it wins at Totten-ham Hotspur next Saturday.
Its lead over United has been cut to 13 points with Jose Mourinho’s team in pole to earn the runner-up spot as it has 71 points from 32 games, four points clear of Liverpool (67 from 33), which earlier drew 0-0 at Everton, and Spurs (67 from 32), which won 2-1 at Stoke City.
If City beats the in-form Spurs at Wembley, it will still not be able to celebrate the title unless United fails to beat bottom club West Bromwich Albion the fol-lowing day.
City’s defeat completed its wretched week after the 0-3 mauling by Liverpool on Wednesday. (SD-Agencies)
PATRICK REED, a resident of Spring, Texas, became famous playing for his country. He won for himself Sunday at the Masters.
It was never easy, just the way Reed likes it.
Rory McIlroy came after him early. Jordan Spieth roared to life with a fi nal-round charge and briefl y caught Reed with a 35-foot birdie putt. The last chal-lenge came from Rickie Fowler, who birdied the last hole to leave Reed no room for error.
Reed never fl inched through-out a raucous afternoon at Augusta National.
Clinging to a one-shot lead, his 25-foot putt down the slip-pery slope on the 18th green ran 3 feet by the hole as Reed pressed down both hands, begging it to stop. From there, the 27-year-old Texan calmly rolled in the par putt for a 1-under 71 and a one-shot victory.
“To have to par the last hole to win my fi rst major, it defi nitely felt right,” Reed said from Butler cabin, right before Sergio Garcia helped him into a green jacket.
The loudest cheers were for everyone else. Reed earned their respect with two big birdie putts on the back nine, one crucial par putt and plenty of grit. He also had a little luck when his 80-foot putt across the 17th green hit the hole, keeping it only 6 feet away. He made that for par to stay in control.
Reed won for the sixth time in his PGA Tour career, though he was best known for the trophies he shared at the Ryder Cup and Presidents Cup. He is ferocious in match play, especially the team variety, and his singles victory over McIlroy at Hazeltine in the 2016 Ryder Cup led to the nickname of Captain America.
Captain America is now the Masters champion.
“He’s not scared. I think you guys have seen that previous
from the Ryder Cups and the way he plays,” said Fowler, who closed with a 67. “He won’t back down. I don’t necessarily see him as someone that backs up and will let you come back into the tournament. You have to go catch him.”
Fowler did his best with three birdies in a four-hole stretch, and an 8-foot birdie on the fi nal hole. It still wasn’t enough. Fowler was runner-up for the third time in a major. He left the scoring cabin
when Reed tapped in for par.He became the fourth straight
Masters champion to capture his fi rst major.
Reed once claimed after win-ning a World Golf Champion-ship at Doral that he was a top 5 player in the world, which subjected him to ridicule. This victory moves him to No. 11. It also comes with a green jacket, which earns far more respect and notoriety.
(SD-Agencies)
JUPP HEYNCKES said Bayern Munich will keep the cham-pagne on ice — despite winning the German league title — as it focuses on the UEFA Champions League.
A 4-1 comeback win at Augs-burg on Saturday handed it a sixth straight Bundesliga title and crowned Bayern German champion for the 28th time in the club’s history.
Bayern now has the UCL in its sights as it looks to fi nish off Sevilla in Wednesday’s return leg at the Allianz Arena holding a 2-1 lead in their quarterfi nal.
While the players partied on the pitch in Augsburg, Heynckes said the serious celebrations must wait until after the season fi nishes.
“No — we don’t want to really celebrate, but everyone is wel-come to enjoy the title,” said Heynckes, who allowed a small celebration in Bayern’s dressing room.
“For example, Frank Ribery celebrates his eighth champi-onship, while for many others, like Niklas Suele and Sebastian Rudy, it is their fi rst champion-ship — that’s something very important.”
Augsburg took a shock lead through an own goal by Niklas Suele, but Bayern roared back as Corentin Tolisso, James Rodri-guez, Arjen Robben and Sandro Wagner all scored.
The result leaves Bayern 20 points clear with fi ve league games left. (SD-Agencies)
KLAY THOMPSON’S shooting touch seems playoff-ready.
The Golden State guard scored 22 of his 34 points in the fi rst quarter and the Warriors beat Phoenix for the 15th consecu-tive time, 117-100 Sunday night in the fi nal home game of the Suns’ awful season.
“It was good to get into a good rhythm, especially with a game left in the season,” Thompson said. “You want to have some great momentum going into this playoff stretch.”
Kevin Durant added 17 points and nine assists for the Warriors, whose winning streak against Phoenix is a franchise record for a single opponent.
With the loss, and Memphis’ win over Detroit, Phoenix — at 20-61 — is assured the worst record in the NBA and, conse-quently, the most pingpong balls in the May 15 draft lottery.
Danuel House scored a career-high 22 points for Phoenix. Alex Len added 16 points and 10 rebounds, Dragan Bender 14 points and 14 boards, and Tyler Ulis 15 points and 10 assists.
The Warriors, who had lost two in a row and fi ve of their previous eight, were already locked in to the No. 2 playoff spot in the Western Conference and working to get healthy for the playoffs, but still had Durant, Thompson and Draymond Green in the lineup against the severely depleted Suns.
Phoenix was without Devin Booker (right hand sprain), T.J. Warren (left knee infl ammation), Josh Jackson (right quad contu-sion), Marquese Chriss (hip sore-ness), Elfrid Payton (left knee) and Alan Williams (right knee soreness). Troy Daniels tried to play despite a sprained ankle but sat out the second half.
Golden State didn’t have Ste-phen Curry, still recovering from left MCL sprain, Andre Iguodola (left knee soreness) and Patrick McCaw (lumbar spine contu-sion).
The goal of these last couple of games is to avoid any further health issues, Warriors coach Steve Kerr said.
“But that is more luck of the draw than anything,” he said. “I am glad we got through this game in a good way health-wise and did some good things and one more to go.” (SD-Agencies)
Patrick Reed wins 2018 MastersThompson, Warriors beat Suns for 15th straight time
No Bayern celebration amid focus on UEFA Champions
Welbeck double-strike sinks Saints
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