Hometown Broadcasting Sports Monday 6/29/20
29 June 2020 Sports
With a final-round 67, Dustin Johnson made it more interesting than he needed to but nonetheless added the Travelers Championship to his list of PGA Tour titles, winning by one over Kevin Streelman. Johnson finished at 19 under and Streelman was 18 under. Will Gordon and Mac Hughes finished two strokes back while Kevin Na was three behind.
The horn blew late in the final round delaying play for 58 minutes. The win was Johnson’s 21st on the PGA Tour and his first in 16 months, since the WGC-Mexico last February. Following a runner-up finish to Brooks Koepka last May at the PGA Championship, DJ fell into what was by his standards a lengthy slump, recording just two top-10 finishes in 14 starts wrapped around arthroscopic knee surgery last September. This slump-busting victory in Connecticut gives Johnson his 13th consecutive season with a victory, extending the longest streak on Tour, one that dates back to his rookie campaign and very first win at the 2008 Turning Stone Resort Championship. Jack Nicklaus (1962-1978) and Arnold Palmer (1955-1971) share the record for the most consecutive seasons with a win to start a career on the PGA Tour, with 17.
Meanwhile, South African golfer Dylan Frittelli has tested positive for the coronavirus and has withdrawn from next week’s Rocket Mortgage Classic, the PGA Tour announced Sunday. Frittelli, currently ranked No. 105 in the world, competed at this week’s Travelers Championship, where golfers Cameron Champ and Denny McCarthy and caddies for Brooks Koepka and Graeme McDowell all tested positive for COVID-19. Frittelli will now self-isolate, with the PGA Tour’s support.
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The NBA G League announced Friday that Wisconsin Herd guards Frank Mason III and Jaylen Adams have been named to the 2019-20 All-NBA G League First Team, while Wisconsin Herd forward Jemerrio Jones has been named to the 2019-20 All-NBA G League Third Team.
Mason, who was named the 2019-20 NBA G League Most Valuable Player on June 25,
appeared in 23 games (all starts) and collected averages of 26.4 points, 3.4
rebounds, 5.0 assists and 1.1 steals, while shooting 50.4% from the field, 42.5%
from beyond the arc and 81.5% at the free throw line. His 26.4 points ranked first
among all players who appeared in 10 or more games, and he joined Amile Jefferson as the only players to average 25 points while shooting 50% or higher from the field. In addition to leading the league in scoring average, Mason was one of three players to shoot at least 50% overall, 40% from three and 80% at the line.
Mason led the Wisconsin Herd in scoring on 15 occasions and totaled 20 20-point
performances, seven 30-point efforts and one 40-point outing. In his final six games played, he tallied 206 points (34.3 avg.) and scored 30 points or more in five of the contests. After posting averages of 29.8 points, 2.8 rebounds, 4.7 assists and 1.2 steals on 56.1% shooting, Mason was named the NBA G League Player of the Month for February. In franchise history, Mason ranks fifth in three-pointers (77), sixth in points (608) and field goals (212) and eighth in free throws (75).
Joining Mason on the All-NBA G League First Team is Jaylen Adams, who appeared in 33 games (32 starts) with the Wisconsin Herd during the 2019-20 season. Adams garnered averages of 21.5 points, 5.1 rebounds, 5.7 assists and 1.8 steals, while shooting 48.6% overall, 40.7% from three and 78.8% at the line. He scored in double figures in 31 of the 33 games played, had eight games with double-digit field goals and collected 19 20-point games and four 30-point efforts. Among qualifiers, Adams was one of six players who ranked in the top 20 in both scoring average (21.5 – 3rd) and assists per game (5.7 – T-18th).
In January, Adams collected weekly and monthly accolades, winning the Player of the
Week award on Jan. 27 and Player of the Month honors for January. For the month, he
averaged 22.6 points, 4.4 rebounds, 5.9 assists and 1.6 steals, while shooting 50.6% from the floor. In total, Adams posted the third-highest total plus/minus (+233), and in team history, he ranks third in steals (61), fourth in assists (189), field goals (250), three-point field goals (87) and points (710) and sixth in free throws (89).
Mason and Adams join Jarrell Brantley (Salt Lake City Stars), Devontae Cacok (South
Bay Lakers) and Jared Uthoff (Memphis Hustle) on the All-NBA G League First Team.
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The NBA released the league’s truncated season schedule Friday. The Milwaukee Bucks announced their season will resume on Friday, July 31, against the Boston Celtics. Milaukee will play eight games before moving to the post-season, roughly every other night from July 31 to August 13.
– July 31 – Boston Celtics, 5:30 P.M.
– August 2 – Houston Rockets, 7:30 P.M.
– August 4 – Brooklyn Nets, 12:30 P.M.
– August 6 – Miami Heat, 3:00 P.M.
gust 8 – Dallas Mavericks, 7:30 P.M.
– August 10 – Toronto Raptors, 5:30 P.M.
– August 11 – Washington Wizards, 8:00 P.M.
– August 13 – Memphis Grizzlies TBD
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The state Department of Natural Resources plans to restart in-person hunter safety courses after a hunter advocacy group sued last week alleging the department has no authority to cancel them during the coronavirus pandemic. The DNR canceled all in-person instruction in March as the pandemic was seizing the country. Kansas-based Hunter Nation filed a lawsuit in state court on June 17 alleging the department is denying people the right to hunt. The DNR announced on Friday that classes will resume on July 13 with a maxium of 50 people per class and social distancing. The announcement didn’t mention the lawsuit.
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Denny Hamlin turned the tables on Kevin Harvick on Sunday at Pocono Raceway. Staying out on old tires and building a lead while Harvick battled traffic late in the Pocono 350, Hamlin won the second race of the historic NASCAR Cup Series doubleheader by 3.068 seconds over Harvick, reversing the finishing order of the two drivers from a day earlier. For the first time in its history, NASCAR ran two Cup Series events on the same weekend at the same track. Hamlin achieved several milestones with the win. He picked up his sixth victory at the 2.5-mile triangular track, tying NASCAR Hall of Famer Jeff Gordon for most all-time. The triumph was the 41st of Hamlin’s career, 19th most in NASCAR history, breaking a tie with another NASCAR Hall of Famer, Mark Martin. And a day after Harvick tied Hamlin for a series-best three wins this season, Hamlin broke the deadlock with his fourth victory of the year.
Erik Jones finished thired, followed by Chase Elliott and Arik Almirola in the top five. Wisconsin’s Matt Kenseth finished 12th.
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