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AWC men beat Mesa

The Arizona Western men’s basketball team bounced back from its first conference defeat of the season with a 92-80 win over Mesa at home on Saturday.

Five players finished in double figures for the Matadors (9-3 overall, 4-1 ACCAC): Cash Williams (17 points), Bryson Langdon (17), Alfonso Plummer (13), Abderrahmane Hailouf (13) and Pharoh Allen (13).

Lady Mats rally for win

The Arizona Western women’s basketball team staged a fourthquarter comeback Saturday against Mesa to come away with a 51-47 home victory.

The Matadors (3-7 overall, 2-3 ACCAC) trailed 39-31 through three quarters before outscoring Mesa 20-8 in the fourth.

Raven Roberts led AWC with 16 points and nine rebounds, while Mone Izumi chipped in eight points.

Lomachenko wins unanimous decision for 2nd lightweight belt

NEW YORK — Vasiliy Lomachenko picked up his second lightweight title Saturday night, wearing down Jose Pedraza and winning a unanimous decision.

Lomachenko (12-1) knocked down Pedraza twice in the 11th round and though he couldn’t finish him, won easily to add the WBO title to the WBA belt he picked up in May during his first fight at 135 pounds.

The three-division champion unified titles within a division for the first time, after moving up to lightweight in May when he knocked out Jorge Linares in the 10th round.

Lomachenko won one card by a 119-107 rout, while two judges scored it 117-109, as did The Associated Press.

It ended his streak of eight straight victories by stoppage but he came close in the 11th, when Pedraza went to a knee to stop an onslaught of punches with about a half-minute left in the round and then went down again after Lomachenko caught him with a body shot.

In his first fight since right shoulder surgery, Lomachenko started cautiously before finding the range with a flurry of combinations in the latter half of the fight to pull away.