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| LOS ANGELES, Calif. - The preseason is concluded. Is your team ready for the regular season?Based on Friday, the Portland Trail Blazers would say yes; the Los Angeles Clippers, not so much.Damian Lillard scored 18 of his 21 points in the first half, and the bench held off a fourth-quarter rally as the Trail Blazers finished their exhibition schedule with a 99-89 victory Friday against the Los Angeles Clippers.Lillard scored seven points in Portlands 17-4 first-period run to take a 25-16 lead with 3:08 left. He also scored his teams final seven points for a 54-46 halftime lead for the Trail Blazers (4-3).In the fourth quarter, the Clippers bench, led by Jared Cunninghams 10 points and Hedo Turkoglus eight points, cut an 89-76 deficit to 89-86 with 2:36 to play. A C.J. Wilcox basket made it 93-89 with 1:08 to play, but Portlands Will Barton answered with 43.8 seconds to play. CJ McCollum made two free throws with 28.1 seconds to play, then stole the ball and dunked for a 10-point lead.This is the kind of play Portland coach Terry Stotts expects.I liked our defence the most, Stotts said. Particularly in the first half, but throughout the game, to limit their transition points, to limit their attempts at the rim, their points in the paint. . Defensively, I thought (we were) as solid as weve been all preseason.Meyers Leonard scored nine of Portlands first 12 points in the second quarter to get out to a 40-30 lead with 6:29 left in the first half. He finished with 14 points. Wesley Matthews scored eight of his 10 in the third quarter, and Joel Freeland scored 10 points off the bench.Clippers coach Doc Rivers said Portland should not be overlooked in the Western Conference.Portland is a team where we want to go, they want to go, he said. Weve got to go through them, and theyve got to go through us.Blake Griffin scored 21 points in three quarters, including 17 in the first half, for Los Angeles (2-6). The Clippers held an opponent to less than 100 points for the first time this preseason.We need to play better, Rivers said. It wasnt about the way we played in the preseason. It is just about where we are going. We talked about the 82 games and how hard it will be playing in the Western Conference. Every night will be a hard night.J.J. Redick added 14 points, Chris Paul had eight points and 11 assists, and DeAndre Jordan had nine rebounds for the Clippers.TIP-INSTrail Blazers: LaMarcus Aldridge didnt play (coachs decision) to rest his groin . Portland swept the two-game exhibition series for the first time since 1997. . Victor Claver was called for a defensive-three-seconds technical in the fourth quarter.Clippers: Rivers held out Jamal Crawford to rest his hamstring. Glen Davis also didnt play (groin). Redick and Jordan received first-half technical fouls. The bench received one in the second half. . Matt Barnes made 3 of 8 field-goal attempts to finish the preseason 6 of 44 (13.6 per cent).UP NEXTPortland opens the regular season at Oklahoma City on Wednesday.Clippers open the regular season at home against Oklahoma City on Thursday. Vincent Rey Womens Jersey .com) - The Philadelphia Union will face a must-win situation on Saturday when the club hosts the Columbus Crew at PPL Park. Jeremy Hill Youth Jersey .com) - Robin Lehner made 35 saves, and the Ottawa Senators scored four goals in a 5 1/2 minute span in their 7-2 win over the Arizona Coyotes on Saturday afternoon. http://www.thebengalsgearshop.com/youth-bengals/mike-nugent-authentic-jersey/. Pettine also retained special teams co-ordinator Chris Tabor from Rob Chudzinskis staff. 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The Canadians needed an extra end to squeak out a 7-6 win over Scotlands Gina Aitken in their first game on Sunday. Riding a four-game winning streak into the final game of the round robin, Rocque scored a huge seven points in the eighth end to nail down a 12-7 victory over Denmarks Christine Svensen (0-9). "They had an unfortunate break in that end and we were fortunate enough to capitalize," said Rocque about the unusual score of seven. "It was the wrong side of the inch for Denmark with a lot of their stones in that end." The Canadian women enter the playoffs in second place with a 7-2 record behind South Koreas Kyeong-Ae Kim, also aat 7-2, who defeated Canada in the round robin.dddddddddddd Calvert and his junior mens team of Kyle Kurz, Lucas Van Den Bosch, Brendan Wilson, alternate Matt Dunstone and coach Tom Clasper are also off to the playoffs after wrapping up the round robin with two lopsided victories. The Canadians needed only six ends to dispatch American Jake Vukich 8-1 in a game that Canada controlled from the start. They scored three in the first end and had built a 7-1 lead by the fifth-end break. A steal in six put the game away. "We got off to another good start and had all the momentum the whole game, I think, and we were in control," said Calvert. In their final game of the round robin, Calvert and crew cruised to a 9-1 win over Sebastian Wunderer of Austria who came into the game with a 3-5 record. Canada scored four in the fifth and stole another two in the sixth to put the game out of reach. Norway will play Scotland in the mens Page 1-2 . Calvert finishes the round robin in third place with a 6-3 record and will play the winner of the tiebreaker between Italys Amos Mosaner and Switzerlands Yannick Schwaller in the Page 3-4 playoff on Tuesday. wholesale stitched jerseys wholesale jerseys wholesale nfl jerseys cheap nfl jerseys cheap nfl jerseys china ' ' ' |
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