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golF
2 p.m. pga tour: Mayakoba classic, third round » golf Channel
2 a.m. (sun.) pga european tour: nedbank golf challenge, final round » golf Channel
auto racing
10 a.m. Formula one: brazilian grand prix, practice » esPnU
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soccer
2 p.m. africa cup of nations, qualifying: niger at ivory coast » bein sports
tennis
7 a.m. atp Finals, doubles semifinal » tennis Channel
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tennis
Nadal wins, then later
is eliminated in London
Defending champion
Alexander Zverev secured the
last semifinal spot at t he ATP
Finals on Friday, eliminating
Rafael Nadal in the process.
Zverev b eat already eliminated
Daniil Medvedev, 6 -4, 7-6 (7-4),
at O 2 Arena in London to finish
second behind Stefanos Tsitsipas
in the group a nd s et u p a
semifinal against Dominic
Thiem.
Earlier, Nadal stayed in
contention by rallying to beat
Ts itsipas, 6-7 (7-4), 6-4, 7-5, for his
second win of the round-robin
stage. But Zverev’s win left h im,
Nadal and Ts itsipas with
identical 2-1 records — with the
top-ranked Spaniard eliminated
based on t iebreaker rules.
T sitsipas w ill face s ix-time
champion Roger Federer in the
first semifinal S aturday.
Zverev converted his first
match point against Medvedev
(0-3) with an ace. The seventh-
ranked G erman won l ast year’s
tournament by b eating Federer in
the s emifinals and Novak
Djokovic i n the final.
Ts itsipas a lready h ad secured a
semifinal spot by w inning his
opening two matches but still
pushed Nadal to the w ire in a
match that lasted n early three
hours.
After the match, Nadal was
presented with a trophy on court
for h aving secured the year-end
No. 1 ranking. D jokovic’s c hances
of overtaking him ended w hen he
was e liminated with Thursday’s
loss to Federer.
It’s t he fifth time that the 1 9-
time Grand Slam winner ends the
year atop the rankings, tied for
second on the all-time list with
Djokovic, Federer a nd Jimmy
Connors. Pete Sampras did it six
times.
At 33, Nadal i s the o ldest man
to finish the y ear as No. 1.
However, he has n ever won t he
ATP Finals despite q ualifying f or
a 15th y ear in a row.
golF
Danny Lee c arded a 9-under-
par 6 2 for a one-shot lead after
the o pening round of t he
Mayakoba C lassic in Playa d el
Carmen, Mexico.
Lee had a one-shot lead over
Adam Long and Brendon Todd.
Chris Baker, Zach Johnson,
Vaughn Taylor a nd Mark
Hubbard w ere two shots off the
pace after r ounds of 64.
The first round started a day
late b ecause of heavy rains —
more than nine i nches since
Monday — that left E l Camaleon
flooded and f orced a washout
Thursday. T he second r ound w as
scheduled f or Saturday, a nd
because of l imited d aylight in
November, the t ournament will
not e nd u ntil Monday.
Defending champion Matt
Kuchar had a pair of double
bogeys in h is round o f 69 t hat left
him s even shots behind. Jason
Day, p laying at Mayakoba for the
first time in 1 0 years, shot a 70.
Lee’s only PGA Tour v ictory
was f our y ears ago at t he
Greenbrier. He w as runner-up t o
Kuchar a year ago....
Zander Lombard shot a 7-
under 6 5 to overtake f ellow South
African Louis Oosthuizen a nd
take a two-shot lead a fter two
rounds at t he Nedbank Golf
Challenge i n Sun City, S outh
Africa.
Lombard, who has j ust one
professional title and none on the
European Tour, bogeyed t he first,
but t hat was h is o nly dropped
shot of the d ay.
Oosthuizen led by three after a
first-round 6 3 but s hot an even
par 7 2 to slip two shots behind.
Ernie Els, w ho has won the
Nedbank title three times, started
with a 6 8 but s truggled with an 8 1
in the second round.college soccer
Jack Maher scored on a
penalty kick in double overtime
as the No. 9 Indiana m en ( 14-2-3)
beat No. 23 Maryland, 1-0, in the
Big Ten tournament s emifinals i n
College Park. The T errapins f ell to
10-7-2....
The Virginia Te ch women’s
season came to an end with a 1-0
loss to Xavier i n the first r ound o f
the N CAA t ournament in
Blacksburg, Va. Molly
McLaughlin s cored in t he s econd
minute of p lay for t he No. 24
Musketeers (17-3-2). The Hokies
finished 1 2-5-2....
The North Carolina State
women (11-6-4) s cored three
times i n the second half to defeat
Navy, 3-0, in t he first round of the
NCAA tournament in Raleigh,
N.C. The Midshipmen finished 1 6-
3-3.college Field HockeY
Anzel Viljoen, Greer Gill a nd
Colleen Norair scored in the
fourth quarter for Virginia,
snapping a tie and sending t he
Cavaliers to a 4-1 victory over
Delaware in a first-round NCAA
tournament game in
Charlottesville.
Erin Shanahan also s cored for
the C avaliers (17-4), who gave
Coach Michele Madison her
200th v ictory at V irginia. Bo van
Hunnik scored for the B lue Hens
(16-4).
Virginia next p lays Maryland
on Sunday....
Bodil Keus scored a pair of
goals f or Maryland, w hich b roke
through a fter a scoreless first half
to post a 4-0 victory over St.
Joseph’s i n the s econd game in
Charlottesville.
Brooke DeBerdine and Mayv
Clune also scored for t he
Te rrapins (17-3), a nd Noelle Frost
made five saves i n goal to earn the
shutout. The Hawks finished 17-4.Misc.
Brent Rooker hit a go-ahead,
two-run homer in t he seventh
inning, and the United States
beat Ta iwan, 3-2, in To kyo to keep
alive the Americans’ chance of
earning an O lympic baseball
berth at t he Premier12
tournament.
The U.S. squad finished t he
super r ound 2 -3 and could earn a
berth if Ta iwan beats Australia
(both 1-3) on S aturday. If Ta iwan
wins, the A mericans w ould play
Mexico (3-2) on Sunday in the
Premier12 b ronze medal game
for a chance t o reach t he
Olympics.
The top finisher qualifies for
the Tokyo Olympics next year.
The second-place finisher goes to
a final q ualifying t ournament i n
March or April....
I saiah Green a nd Brenden
Knox a ccounted f or two
touchdowns apiece and Marshall
handed Louisiana Te ch i ts first
Conference USA loss, 31-10, i n
Huntington, W.Va....
Matt Crafton won the
NASCAR Truck S eries
championship w ithout w inning a
race, an unprecedented feat
under t he n ew t itle-deciding
playoff systems.
Crafton finished second in the
finale at Homestead-Miami
Speedway — good enough for his
third series title in the winner-
take-all format.
— From news services
and staff reportsdigestBY EMILY GIAMBALVOAfter Maryland’s season ended
eight months ago and most of the
roster left Jacksonville, Fla., with
a bitter first taste of March Mad-
ness, Coach Mark Turgeon met
individually with players. Tur-
geon said just before this season
began that one piece of his con-
versation with guard Aaron Wig-
gins went like this: “If you play
like you did as a freshman as a
sophomore, then we’re not going
to get any better.”
Wiggins’s sophomore cam-
paign — which some analysts be-
lieve, and Maryland fans hope,
will be a breakout one — techni-
cally started this month. But
whatever success this season
brings will have roots in that
conversation back in March.
“He told me a lot of things that
he felt like I needed to work on,
and he told me every single thing
that he expected of me in the
offseason,” Wiggins recalled.
“A nd I took it really personally.”
Though the Te rrapins are just
two games into the schedule, Wig-
gins has played like a sophomore,
someone who should be a solidi-
fied starter and one of the most
important members of this team.
The Te rps (2-0) have yet to face
difficult opposition, and now they
approach what should be a win-
nable three-game stretch that be-
gins Saturday against Oakland
(3-1), followed next week by Fair-
field and George Mason.
But even in those easy wins,
Wiggins has shown his progress.
He’s already a proficient shooter,
but with added strength, Wiggins
has expanded his skill set. He has
improved defensively and can
drive the lane with more physical-
ity.
“Wiggs is such a better player
than he was last year,” Turgeon
said after the season opener
against Holy Cross. “It’s not even
close.”
W iggins feels like he can move
quicker in any direction after
spending significant time this off-
season on the slide board, which
is used by skiers and speedskaters
because it features the motion
integral to their sports. For Wig-
gins, he said that work has “made
a huge difference in terms of
being able to get stops and de-
fend.”
With depth working to Tur-
geon’s advantage this season,
leaving space for early-season ex-
perimentation, only three players
started in both of Maryland’s firsttwo games: Wiggins, senior g uard
Anthony Cowan Jr. and sopho-
more forward Jalen Smith. But
Cowan and Smith were both sta-
ples in the starting group last
season, while Wiggins played off
the bench, only starting four
times. Turgeon rarely adjusted
the lineup — the same five players
started all 20 conference games —
so Wiggins’s role remained un-
changed.
Wiggins performed well last
year, averaging 8. 3 points in
23.5 minutes per game, both sixth
on the team. But he led the team
by shooting 41.3 percent from
three-point range, with a knack
for hitting shots in big-time
games. Wiggins scored a season-
high 15 points twice — on the road
against Michigan and Michigan
State. He notched 13 points
against eventual national cham-
pion Virginia, the seventh game
of his college career.
Heading into this season,
Maryland expected its freshman-
turned-sophomore core to take a
leap, so Wiggins seemed poised to
embrace an enhanced role. He
already had shown bursts of abili-
ty, but now he has grown comfort-
able and confident, too.“It’s been a mind-set since the
first time we met when the season
ended and he was going to be a big
part of our offense this year,”
Turgeon said. “He’s really gotten
better defensively. He’s gotten
better rebounding. His communi-
cation is great. He’s improved as
much as anybody on our team.”
Against Holy Cross, Wiggins
scored nine points but missed all
six of his three-point attempts.
After the game, Turgeon said, “I
do not worry about Aaron Wig-
gins making shots.”
Four days later against Rhode
Island, Wiggins hit two of five
shots from deep while recording
his first career double-double —
13 points and 13 rebounds, with
the latter perhaps the most stark
piece of evidence that supports
Wiggins’s development. Last y ear,
he averaged 3.3 rebounds per
game.
Maryland’s 2018-19 squad re-
lied heavily on playing through
Bruno Fernando, who departed
for the NBA and is now with the
Atlanta Hawks. This season, Tur-
geon said, he can count on Smith,
Cowan, Wiggins and sophomore
guard Eric Ayala to handle that
responsibility.Last season, Turgeon men-
tioned multiple times that he
wanted to see more assertiveness
out of the 6-foot-6 Wiggins, who
describes it as “playing to create,
not just being out on the court
taking up space.” Sometimes
that’s aiming to score, but it can
also mean making the right pass-
es, playing with physicality and
leading his teammates. That’s s till
the spot where Turgeon hopes to
see growth.
“This week [in practice], he
passed up a lot of shots, and it
kind of pissed me off, t o be honest
with you,” Turgeon said Friday. “I
want him to be more aggressive
offensively.... He’s just a gifted
scorer. And that’s the key for me,
like, I don’t like him passing up
open shots.”
There’s still an abundance of
time left in this season. Wiggins
knows as well as anyone how
much improvement can be made
in a few months. Eventually, this
team will play in critical games
down the stretch. That’s when
Wiggins’s growth will be most
prominently on display, and
that’s when Maryland will need it
most.
[email protected]Wiggins rises to Turgeon’s challenge
toni L. sandys/the Washington Post
Maryland Coach Mark Turgeon said Aaron Wiggins is better than last season but can still improve.ASSOCIATED PRESSSergiño Dest set up a goal in
the second minute of his Ameri-
can competitive debut, Gyasi
Zardes scored twice, and the Unit-
ed States overwhelmed Canada
early in a 4-1 Concacaf Nations
League match Friday night in
Orlando.
A month after Canada embar-
rassed the Americans with a 2-0
victory at Toronto for its first win
over the Americans since 1985,
Jordan Morris, Zardes and Aaron
Long scored as the United States
built a 3-0 halftime lead.
Steven Vitória cut Canada’s
deficit in the 72nd minute, andZardes got his 12th international
goal in the 89th, capping a victory
that may lessen some of the criti-
cism of U.S. Coach Gregg Berhal-
ter and his play-from-the-back
system.
The United States (2-1) will
finish ahead of Canada (3-1) to
win the group and advance to the
semifinals of the first Concacaf
Nations League if it beats Cuba
(0-3) on Tuesday in George To wn,
Cayman Islands.
The Americans overtook the
Canadians in goal differential,
plus-eight to plus-six, and Canada
has completed group play.
l EUROPE: After more than
80 years of trying, Finland finally
has made it to a major soccer
tournament.
Its Nordic neighbor, Sweden,
will be at next year’s European
Championship, too.F inland ended a run of 32 failed
qualifying campaigns for either
the World Cup o r European Cham-
pionship stretching back to 1938
by beating beat Liechtenstein, 3-0,
in Helsinki to guarantee second
place behind Italy in Group J with
a game to spare.
S weden booked its place at
Euro 2020 a few hours later by
winning at Romania, 2-0, in Bu-
charest to ensure qualification
from Group F along with
Spain....
Denmark, another Nordic
country, will have to wait to seal
qualification, however, despite
beating Gibraltar, 6-0, in Copen-
hagen to go to the top of Group D.
With host Switzerland winning,
1-0, in St. Gallen over Georgia to
move into second place, the group
will go down to the final round
next week....Italy beat host Bosnia-Herze-
govina, 3-0, in Zenica....
Host Spain sealed first place
with a 7-0 win over Malta in Cadiz.
l AFRICA: Host Tunisia beat
Libya, 4-1, to start Africa Cup of
Nations qualifying with a re-
sounding win in Rades.
Ta nzania beat Equatorial
Guinea, 2-1, in one of the other
three qualifiers. Morocco-Mauri-
tania and Zimbabwe-Botswana
both ended 0-0.Chivas’s owner dies
Jorge Vergara, the longtime
owner of Mexico’s storied Chivas
soccer team, died. He was 64.
Vergara’s son Amaury Vergara
said his father died of a heart
attack in New York.
Vergara also co-produced sev-
eral films, including the 2001 hit
“Y tú Mamá Ta mbién.”soccer roundupRedemptive win gives U.S. control in Nations League
uNited states 4,
CaNada 1FROM NEWS SERVICES
AND STAFF REPORTSNo. 2 Duke hadn’t shot this
poorly all season. The Blue Devils
made up for it with one of their
most impressive rebounding per-
formances in four decades under
Hall of Fame Coach Mike Krzyze-
wski.
Tre Jones scored a career-high
31 points, and Duke pulled a way to
beat pesky Georgia State, 74-63, o n
Friday night i n Durham, N.C.
Duke (4-0) overcame its season-
worst 34.2 percent shooting by
outrebounding the Panthers, 58-
32, a nd the school said its 3 0 offen-
sive rebounds were the most in
Krzyzewski’s 40 seasons.
l KANSAS 112, MONMOUTH
57: Isaiah Moss poured in
21 points to lead six Jayhawks in
double-figures scoring, and No. 5
Kansas (2-1) romped to victory
over the undersized and out-classed Hawks (1-3) in Lawrence,
Kan.
Moss was 5 for 6 from beyond
the arc as the Jayhawks ran their
home winning s treak to 23 games.
l NORTH CAROLINA 77 ,
GARDNER-WEBB 61: Fresh-
man star Cole Anthony had
28 points to help the sixth-ranked
Ta r Heels (3-0) handle the Runnin’
Bulldogs (0-3) in C hapel Hill, N.C.
l GONZAGA 79, TEXAS A&M
49: Admon G ilder and Ryan Wool-
ridge each scored 16 points, and
the eighth-ranked Bulldogs (4-0)
routed the Aggies (2-1) in College
Station, Te x.
l UTAH STATE 81, NORTH
CAROLINA A&T 54: Alphonso
Anderson h ad 21 points and J ustin
Bean added 18 points and 10 re-
bounds as the No. 17 Aggies (4-0)
cruised to victory in L ogan, Utah.
l XAVIER 59, MISSOURI
STATE 56: Paul Scruggs scored
14 points and made a layup with
11.6 seconds left to help the 21st-
ranked Musketeers (4-0) hold off
the B ears (2-2) in C incinnati.
l AUBURN 116, CAL STATE
NORTHRIDGE 70: SamirDoughty scored a career-high
33 points, J ’Von McCormick h ad a
school-record 16 assists, and the
22nd-ranked Tigers (4-0) routed
the M atadors (0-4) in A uburn, Ala.
l BAYLOR 72, TEXAS STATE
63: Jared Butler scored 15 points,
Freddie Gillespie had 11 points
and 11 rebounds, and the 24 th-
ranked Bears (2-1) beat the Bob-
cats in Waco, Tex.
l ROBERT MORRIS 85 ,
HOWARD 65: Yannis Mendy a nd
Josh Williams scored 14 points
apiece as the C olonials ( 1-3) routed
the Bison in the Men Against
Breast Cancer I nvitational in To le-
do.
Charles Williams had 26 points
for Howard (0-4).Va. Tech women move to 3-0
Aisha Sheppard scored
20 points and backcourt mate
Dara Mabrey added 19 as Virginia
Te ch (3-0) held off Liberty, 73-69,
in Blacksburg, Va.
Keyen Green led the Flames
(1-3) with 20 points.
l MISSISSIPPI STATE 124,
MURRAY STATE 43: JessikaCarter had career highs with
25 points and 18 r ebounds, and the
10th-ranked Bulldogs (3-0) set a
school record for points in a game
as they coasted past the Racers
(1-2) in Starkville, Miss.Seton Hall put on probation
The NCAA placed the men’s
basketball program at Seton Hall
on probation for three years, took
away a scholarship for the 2020-21
academic y ear and limited recruit-
ing in each of t he n ext two seasons
as part of a negotiated resolution
of a transfer tampering case start-
ed in 2 016.
Under terms of the agreement
announced Friday, Seton Hall
Coach Kevin Willard was given a
two-game suspension he has al-
ready s erved, and his former assis-
tant and c urrent St. P eter’s U niver-
sity head coach S haheen Holloway
received a four-game suspension
that has two games r emaining.
Seton Hall, which is ranked
12th and dropped a 76-73 decision
to No. 3 Michigan State on Thurs-
day night, remains eligible for the
NCAA tournament.college basketball roundupNo. 2 Blue Devils control boards, hold o≠ Panthers
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