Durant becomes Americans’ most prolific Olympic scorer

KevinDurant had been just ordinary so far in these Olympics.

That’s probably not good enoughfor gold.

Not on this U.S. men’s basketball team, an unproven and for now still unspectacular group.

Durant is the top scorer to ever wear the red, white and blue, a player who has been unstoppable on the international stage from the moment hearrived.

He finally showed that off again Saturday night with 23 points in the Americans’ 11984 victory over the Czech Republic in their final game of groupplay.

He now has 354 points in his19 Olympic games (18.6 per game), surpassing the 336 that Carmelo Anthony scored in hisfour Olympics.

Unbeaten in baseball

Nick Martínez struck out nine over five innings

Saturday and pitched the United States over South Korea 4-2 for a 2-0 record at the Olympics.

“Felt comfortable the wholegame,” he said.

A right-hander who turns 31 on Thursday, Martínez (1-0) allowed one run and four hits. Plum native Scott McGough, Edwin Jackson, Anthony Goseand David Robertson finished a five-hitter for the Americans,who struck out 14.

Swiss surprise

A Swiss tennis player won goldin singles at the Olympics and it’s not Roger Federer or StanWawrinka.

Belinda Bencic accomplished something Saturday that her better-known fellow Swissplayers never managed. Andshe’s not done yet. The 12th-ranked Bencic beat Marketa Vondrousova of the Czech Republic 7-5, 2-6, 6-3 for the first major title of her career and she’ll also contest the women’s doubles gold medalmatch on Sunday.