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INSIDE SPORTS
Denton Record-Chronicle
SECTION B
Okie Bell takes TMS
truck race in thriller
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Larry McBride.
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Rahal rolls into TMS with two consecutive wins
“It’s hard to hold back when you had
the year that we had. We expect our-
selves to be championship contenders
and to win races,” he said. “But when it
takes you to that far in the season to get
a race win, you feel pressure, and it was
hard to hold back on that.”
Only after the race did Rahal find
out that his grandmother had died.
“Perhaps a little divine intervention
played a role there,” Rahal said.
The 28-year-old Rahal qualified 11th
for Saturday night’s race at the 11/2-mile
oval that has been repaved, with Turns 1
and 2 reconfigured with reduced banking
creating a wider racing surface.
Charlie Kimball is the polesitter, and
points leader Scott Dixon is on the front
row with his Chip Ganassi Racing
teammate.
By Stephen Hawkins
Associated Press
FORT WORTH - Graham Rahal
thrust his arm out of the cockpit and in-
to the air even before crossing the finish
line at Texas Motor Speedway, unable to
contain the emotions that came with fi-
nally winning a race in 2016.
Rahal didn’t have to wait that long
this year to celebrate a victory — or two.
With the Verizon IndyCar Series
reaching the midpoint of its 17-race sea-
son Saturday night in Denton County,
Rahal is coming off a sweep of both rac-
es at Detroit last weekend that moved
him from 15th to sixth in the standings.
“I’m definitely happy with where
were at. It gives you a lot more peace
and comfort knowing we’ve got a cou-
ple of wins already,” Rahal said. “Were
climbing back into that championship
hunt, and we can just focus on going
Motor sports
Verizon IndyCar Series
Rainguard Water Sealers 600K, 7 p.m„ NBCSN
and winning more races and running
up front a lot.”
At TMS in August, when the rain-
interrupted race was finished 2 1/2
months after it began, the last lap was
the only one Rahal led and was capped
by the closest Indy car finish in Fort
Worth history. He won by eight-thou-
sandths of a second, crossing the line
only inches ahead of and side by side
with James Hinchcliffe, with Tony Ka-
naan right behind them.
After lifting his arm over his head,
Rahal quickly glanced to his right to
make sure he had won after slicing to
the bottom of the track coming off the
backstretch on that final lap. He has
watched the replay many times.
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Graham Rahal leaves his pit stall during practice at Texas Motor Speedway
on Friday in Fort Worth. Tonight’s Rainguard Water Sealers 600K is on
Rahal bobblehead night, and children’s tickets cost $10.
See TMS on 4B
Argyle
piles up
baseball
honors
Perfection foiled
James, Cavs end
Warriors' undefeated
postseason run
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By Tom Withers
Associated Press
CLEVELAND — The Cavaliers
stopped Golden State from celebrat-
ing and maybe started another come-
back.
Eagles’ stars
dominate 9-4A
all-district team
Just like last year, the NBA Finals
are at 3-1 after four games.
Pro basketball
NBA Finals: Game 4
Cleveland 137, Golden State 116
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By Steve Gamel
Staff Writer
sgamel@dentonrc.com
Argyle was well represented on the
All-District 9-4A team, this after a
dominating season in which the Eagles
won 25 games and strung together an-
other deep playoff run.
High school baseball
All-district teams
Senior pitcher Connor Mushinski
was named most valuable player and
was one of four Argyle players to win a
superlative award, Dillon Carter, a
sophomore, took home offensive player
of the year while fellow sophomores
Sean Bolin and Chad Ricker were
named co-newcomer and co-utility
player of the year, respectively.
Sanger junior Katz Higa shared
newcomer honors with Bolin. Higa was
the only superlative recipient for the In-
dians, who along with Argyle bowed
out in the third round of the Class 4A
playoffs.
Ar gyle coaches were named the dis-
trict’s coaching staff of the year.
Players in each district are chosen by
district coaches, who consider only dis-
trict performances.
In other districts involving Denton-
area teams, Aubrey junior Taylor Swar-
brick shared the District 11-4A MVP
award with Melissa’s Tate Whittington.
Swarbrick was the only Chaparr al to
earn a superlative honor despite the
team making it to the second round of
the postseason.
In District 5-5A, Denton sophomore
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LeBron James recorded a triple-
double, Kyrie Irving scored 40 points
and Cleveland outperformed the
NBAs most electrifying offense in a
testy Game 4 filled with technical fouls
on Friday night, beating the Warriors
137-116 and ending their perfect post-
season.
A series that appeared to be headed
for a quick conclusion is California
bound for Game 5 on Monday night.
The Cavs set scoring records in the
first half and then held on during a
wild third and fourth quarter that in-
cluded technical fouls, James jawing
with fellow superstar Kevin Durant
and Cleveland’s crowd roaring like a
jet engine.
No team has ever come back from
a 3-0 deficit in the NBA playoffs.
But until the Cavs did it last year,
no team had ever rallied from a 3-1
deficit to win the Finals. Cleveland
took Game 3 at home, lost Game 4
and then won the final three games —
Game 7 in Oakland — to capture the
city’s first sports championship since
1964.
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The Warriors won their first 15
playoff games, the longest postseason
streak in North American sport histo-
ry, but a party they’ve been planning
for a year has been put on hold.
Durant, still one win from the cov-
eted championship he left Oklahoma
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Cleveland forward LeBron James dunks against the Golden State Warriors during the first half of Game 4 of
the NBA Finals in Cleveland on Friday.
See NBA on 3B
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Cashner, homers carry Rangers
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after first baseman Ryan Zimmerman’s
error on a hard-hit grounder by leadoff
batter Shin-Soo Choo.
Turner’s first error on Joey Gallo’s
grounder in the sixth eventually led to
another unearned run. Roark, acquired
via trade by Washington from Texas in
2010, walked Nomar Mazara with the
bases loaded, scoring Gallo.
Elvis Andrus extended his hitting
streak to 13 games with a single, the first
of three against Roark opening the
third, and scored on Lucroy’s hit.
With third baseman Adrian Beltre
(ankle) sidelined for the second game in
a row, Texas recalled infielder Jurickson
Profar from Triple-A Round Rock and
optioned LHP Dario Alvarez there.
Profar replaced Beltre and went 0-
for-5.
By Benjamin Standig
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Andrew Cashn-
er quieted the National League’s top-
hitting lineup, Jonathan Lucroy and
Rougned Odor homered, and the
Rangers beat the Washington Nation-
als 5-2 on Friday night.
Texas took advantage of three errors
and won for just the fourth time in 15
games.
Cashner (3-5) allowed one run and six
hits in seven innings. The Nationals be-
gan tlie day leading the National League
in runs, homers, batting and slugging.
Cashner, who gave up five earned
runs in two of his previous three starts,
struck out four and walked two.
Lucroy had three of the Rangers’ 13
hits, including a two-run homer and
Rangers
Texas 5, Washington 2
RBI single. Odor’s solo homer in the
seventh came on the final pitch from
Nationals starter Tanner Roark (6-3).
Matt Bush entered with two runners
on in the ninth and allowed Stephen
Drew’s pinch-hit RBI single, but re-
corded two outs for his seventh save.
Roark allowed five runs, only two of
them earned, and 11 hits.
Anthony Rendon hit an RBI single
in the sixth that pulled Washington
within 4-1. Odor homered leading off
the seventh.
Shortstop Trea Turner committed
two ofWashingtons errors.
Lucroy’s homer came with two outs
in the fifth. Both runs were unearned
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Rangers starter Andrew Cashner pitches Friday at Washington. Cashner
allowed one run and six hits in seven innings of a 5-2 win.
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