Bouldin makes key shot in USA win
Gonzaga’s Matt Bouldin scored eight points, including a crucial late jumper, to help the USA Basketball U19 World Championship Team (3-0) defeat host Serbia 82-78 on Saturday in Novi Sad, Serbia.
The Americans carried a 64-50 lead into the final quarter, but Serbia rallied with a 9-0 run to tie the game at 70-all with 4:48 left. The squads exchanged buckets, and with just less than 2 minutes left, USA’s Stephen Curry drained a 3-pointer to put his team up 78-75.
After free throws on the other end, Curry drove the lane, but this time couldn’t get his shot to fall. Bouldin grabbed the offensive rebound and connected on a short jumper with less than a minute to play to put his team up for good. Curry led the USA team with 19 points and six rebounds. Bouldin also grabbed five boards in the game.
The Americans advance to the second round at the top of Group B and will meet Lithuania on Monday, Brazil on Tuesday and France on Wednesday.
“Former Eastern Washington University standout Rodney Stuckey scored a team-high 19 points, grabbed six rebounds and dished out two assists to help the Detroit Pistons beat the Los Angeles Lakers 84-81 in NBA Summer League action.
Stuckey, the 15th overall pick in this year’s NBA draft, shot 7 for 16 from the field and scored the final three points for Detroit, including a driving layin with 18 seconds remaining.
Sammy Mejia scored 18 points, and Amir Johnson added 17 for the Pistons who are 4-1 in Summer League play.
Rodeo
Dustin Mulrony of Pomeroy, Wash., rode to a score of 85 in the bareback riding competition during the second night of the three-day Cheney Rodeo.
Other results from the rodeo can be found in Scoreboard on page C4.
The rodeo continues tonight at 5.
Poker
Dag Martin Mikkelsen, a 21-year-old online poker player from Norway, was battling for the chip lead during the official Day 5 of the main event at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas with 5.7 million, but he was followed closely by pro Lee Watkinson, 40, of Long Branch, Wash., with 5.1 million.
Watkinson is a former Eastern Washington University wrestler.
Poker play continued after press time.
Baseball
A day after losing in extra innings, the Spokane RiverHawks came back with a vengeance. Four pitchers combined for the shutout and Chris Bozo sparked a three-run second inning with an RBI double to lead Spokane (9-17 West Coast Collegiate Baseball League) to the 6-0 win over host Bellingham (10-16).
Third baseman Jackson Evans had the hot bat for the RiverHawks, going 4 for 5 with one run. Pinch-hitter Phil Boscarino went 1 for 2 with two RBIs for Spokane, which had lost nine of its last 10 outings.