PREP SOFTBALL

AIA State Championships 1st Round

(15) Gila Ridge @ (2) Basha, 11 a.m.

Luka Doncic and defensiveminded Mavs take a chippy 101-90 win over Clippers

for 2-1 series lead DALLAS — Luka Doncic called out to his coaches during a urry of 3-pointers from James Harden.

The Mavericks superstar and NBA scoring champion wanted to defend the star guard of the Los Angeles Clippers.

It’s suddenly defense rst in Dallas.

Doncic had 22 points, 10 rebounds and nine assists, and the defensive-minded Mavericks had a chippy 101-90 victory over the Clippers on Friday night to take a 2-1 lead in the rst-round series.

The Mavs rode the same defense that gave them homecourt advantage with a Game 2 victory in LA, and won in Dallas three years after losing all three

rst-round games on their oor in a seven-game loss to the Clippers. Game 4 is Sunday in Dallas.

The long wait for the rst running back to be drafted ends with Jonathon Brooks going 46th

The long wait for the rst running back to be drafted nally came to an end.

The Carolina Panthers traded up six spots to take Texas running back Jonathon Brooks with the 46th pick in the NFL draft Friday night, the second-latest selection for the rst running back to go off the board.

Brooks might have gone earlier but he tore his ACL late in the season after rushing for 1,139 yards in 11 games.

The only draft that had a longer wait for a running back came in 2014. Bishop Sankey was the rst one taken when he went 54th to Tennessee that year.

Star driver Josef Newgarden ghts back tears, accepts blame for breaking rules in Indycar scandal

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Reigning Indianapolis 500 champion Josef Newgarden blinked back tears Friday as he accepted blame for manipulating the push-to-pass system in his season-opening Indycar win that has since been stripped, calling it an embarrassment and acknowledging that he may have a long road ahead in winning back the respect of his peers.

During an emotional 25-minute news conference at Barber Motorsports Park ahead of this weekend’s race, the two-time series champion insisted he is

“not a liar” and didn’t intentionally break the rules. It was his rst public comment since Indycar took away his March 10 victory at St. Petersburg, Florida — the rst disquali cation by the series in 29 years.

“I want to deeply apologize to our fans, our partners, my teammates, the competitors that I race against,” Newgarden said. “Anybody that’s in our community. I’ve worked my entire career to hold myself to a very high standard and clearly I’ve fallen very short of that in this respect. It’s a dif cult thing to wrestle with. It’s a very embarrassing thing to go through.” -Associated Press

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