BASKETBALL
Red Claws pick up road win at Greensboro
Abdel Nader had 32 points, nine rebounds and nine assists, and Marcus Georges-Hunt scored 15 of his 28 points in the fourth quarter as the Maine Red Claws held on for a 120-109 win Friday night over the Greensboro Swarm at Greensboro, North Carolina.
Georges-Hunt was 6 for 6 from the free-throw line in the fourth quarter and finished with 11 rebounds and six assists. Jalen Jones added 28 points for the Claws (23-14).
Cat Barber scored 31 points for the Swarm (12-25).
BOXING
GOLDEN GLOVES: Katherine Zehr of South Portland won a 3-2 decision over Kendra Prather of Massachusetts in the featherweight class of the novice division at the New England Tournament of Champions at Lowell, Massachusetts.
The open division semifinals and finals are scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday.
SKIING
WORLD CUP: Lindsey Vonn, Mikaela Shiffrin and their American teammates pulled out of the Alpine combined race at Crans Montana, Switzerland, because of dangerous conditions on the course.
After Ilka Stuhec, Tessa Worley and Denise Feierabend all fell at nearly the same point in the opening super-G, the event was postponed and the start was lowered.
Feierabend was taken away on a stretcher because of a knee injury.
Federica Brignone, who was second after the super-G, overtok first-run leader Stuhec in slalom to win the event. Michaela Kirchgasser was third.
TENNIS
DUBAI CHAMPIONSHIPS: Top-seeded Angelique Kerber struggled with a knee injury during a 6-3, 7-6 (3) loss to seventh seed Elina Svitolina in the semifinals at Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Kerber would have reclaimed the No. 1 ranking if she had won the Dubai title.
Svitolina will play 10th-seeded Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark, who reached her second consecutive final with a 6-3, 6-4 win over Latvian Anastasija Sevastova.
RIO OPEN: Second-seeded Dominic Thiem beat Diego Schwartzman of Argentina 6-2, 6-3 to reach the semifinals at Rio de Janeiro, where he is the favorite following No. 1 Kei Nishikori’s defeat in the first round.
DELRAY BEACH OPEN: Jack Sock moved into the semifinals in Florida by beating Steve Johnson 6-4, 7-6 (4).
Top-seeded Milos Raonic beat Kyle Edmund 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 and Donald Young and Juan Martin del Potro also advanced.
AUTO RACING
TRUCK SERIES: Kaz Grala, 18, won the season opener at Daytona International Speedway, getting through a massive wreck on the final lap to become the youngest winner in a NASCAR national series.
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