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CALEB’S IMPACT
According to NBA tracking stats, Heat two-way contract wing Caleb Martin spent 33 possessions as the primary defender on Hawks star guard Trae Young over the previous two games.
Young totaled just four points on four made free throws during those possessions. He shot 0 of 4 from the field, including 0 of 3 from three-point range against Martin.
“Caleb is special, he’s very special,” Heat wing Max Strus said. “He’s so gritty on defense. He just wants to make an impact on the game and he does every single time. He constantly is a pest on guys and pressures 94 feet. We love having him out there and he just changes the game for us.”
Heat star Jimmy Butler praised Martin’s defense following Friday’s win: “I told Caleb he should start in my place if he’s going to guard like that, seriously. Because they had me chasing that little dude [Young] around. It’s not an easy job to do. So I think if you talk to Spo, I think Spo might start him over me.”
INJURY REPORT
The Heat was without Bam Adebayo (thumb surgery), Marcus Garrett (wrist sprain), Kyle Guy (ineligible to play), Markieff Morris (return to competition reconditioning, whiplash), KZ Okpala (wrist sprain), Victor Oladipo (knee injury recovery) and Chris Silva (ineligible to play) for Saturday’s game.
The 76ers ruled out Danny Green (right hip pain), Shake Milton (back contusion), Ben Simmons (personal reasons), Jaden Springer (G League assignment) and Matisse Thybulle (right shoulder soreness) against Miami. The 76ers were also playing on the second night of a backto-back after defeating the Boston Celtics 111-99 on Friday in Philadelphia.
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Brooke Oberparleiter and Kim Keyer-Scott saved their best golf for last, as they both captured their respective division titles in the 89th Ione D. Jones/ Doherty Women’s Amateur Championship on a cool, breezy Friday morning at Coral Ridge Country Club in Fort Lauderdale.
Oberparleiter defeated Amateur division defending champion Alexa Pano 2 up. It was the first time the 16-year-old, who spends winters in Jupiter and the rest of the year in Blackwood, N.J., played in the event, whose past winners include current LPGA Tour pros Charley Hull and Lexi Thompson, as well as former professionals JoAnne Carner, Michelle McGann, Natalie Gulbis and Vicki Goetze.
“That was definitely one of the best rounds I’ve ever played in my life, and that’s what I needed today, so it came at the right time, that’s for sure,” said Oberparleiter, who started playing tournament golf when she was “11 or 12” and whose only previous victory was this past summer in an American Junior Golf Association tournament.
Keyer-Scott, 54, of Estero, won the Senior championship, defeating Susan Curtin of Westwood,
Mass., 4 and 3. Corey Weworski of Carlsbad, Calif., beat Amy Kennedy of Naples to win the Senior first flight title.
After halving the first hole with Pano, who was seeking her third consecutive Doherty title and fourth overall, Oberparleiter lost the second hole with a bogey, and halved the third. She then birdied the fourth, halved the fifth with a birdie, and went 1 up with a birdie at the sixth.
“Going into 17, I was definitely feeling it,” Oberparleiter said of her nerves. “I just tried to relax and take a couple of deep breaths and hit the driver like I’d been hitting it all day.”
Both she and Pano had two-putt pars on 17. On 18, after Pano hit her approach from 90 yards onto the front of the green, Oberparleiter put a 58-degree wedge from 75 yards nine feet from the pin.
Facing a tricky uphilldownhill putt from more than 20 feet away, as soon as Pano stroked her birdie attempt she knew it wasn’t going in and walked over to Oberparleiter and conceded the hole.