CLEVELAND -- Dellin Betances' rehab from a spring training shoulder injury appears to have hit a snag, as the New York Yankees reliever will be undergoing testing Monday to determine the extent of the soreness he felt following a recent workout session.
Originally, the soreness had been believed to be "normal," according to manager Aaron Boone.
It was after facing hitters Wednesday in the first live pitching outing of his rehab from a right shoulder impingement injury that Betances felt some discomfort. He reported that feeling Thursday but believed it would dissipate.
By Friday, when Betances was scheduled to throw a side session off a mound at the Yankees' facility in Tampa, Florida, it had not.
"He got out and started long toss and got on the mound and felt like it was still there," Boone told reporters Saturday in Cleveland. "He backed off, and I thought that was wise."
Boone said Betances was tested Friday and that he saw an orthopedist at the team's spring-training complex. Although the testing went well, according to Boone, the Yankees are having Betances fly back to New York this weekend so he can be evaluated further Monday by team physician Dr. Chris Ahmad.
"Hoping it's not serious, but we'll know a little more in a couple days," Boone said.
The manager described the pain as being in Betances' back, around his lat muscle. Starter Luis Severino, who also has been out since spring training, is currently rehabbing from a right lat strain himself.
Betances first felt some slight discomfort in his shoulder during spring training. At that time, his velocity was noticeably down. Normally operating in the upper 90s, his fastball was hovering closer to 90 mph. Delayed arriving to spring training by a week due to the birth of his first child, Betances thought he was just easing into form a little more slowly than normal. But an MRI ultimately revealed an injury.
He's been shut down and subsequently rehabbing since then, being administered a cortisone shot as part of his recovery. Betances had reported feeling stronger in throwing sessions he had at Yankee Stadium last week as he anticipated the next stage of his return: facing live hitters.
Without Betances, Yankees relievers entered Saturday's game in Cleveland with a 3.76 ERA, the fifth-lowest in the majors. Their 10.21 strikeouts per nine innings are also the third-best mark in the league.
"He's Dellin Betances. It just lengthens your bullpen [having him]," Boone said. "He's a great pitcher, and hopefully this is just something that slows him a little bit. He's obviously a very important player to what we do.
"No denying how important he is to our club."
There's also little denying the impact All-Stars Giancarlo Stanton and Aaron Judge have on the Yankees. Both injured sluggers are still on the mend from respective calf strain and oblique strain injuries. Stanton could be a little more than a week away from coming off the injured list, while Judge remains slightly further away from returning.
Both players are going through rehab at the Yankees' facility in Tampa.
Boone said Saturday that Stanton will be starting a rehab assignment with the High-A Tampa Tarpons on Monday or Tuesday. It'll be his second rehab stint with them, after he was sent back to the IL due to complications after a pitch hit him on his left leg in an extended spring training game a few days prior.
After a few games with the Tarpons, Stanton will be moved to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre to finish his rehab stint. The assignment spread across the two teams is expected to last "at least a week," Boone said.
Judge could begin his own rehab assignment in the next two weeks, Boone said. Earlier this week, he said Judge could possibly return by the time the Yankees travel to London later this month to face the Boston Red Sox.
One Yankees infielder who might miss out on that trip is Troy Tulowitzki. The 34-year-old shortstop who has been rehabbing from his own left calf strain since the beginning of April has paused his rehab for a few days to travel home to Southern California from the Yankees' Florida facility.
"He's kind of just trying to weigh everything that's going on with our organization, where he's at," Boone said Saturday, speaking extensively about Tulowitzki's absence for the first time. "Obviously it's been a tough time for him battling back and getting back and having a setback and everything. So he's just taking some time to go through things with him and his family and his agent. So we'll respect that time."
Tulowitzki, who hadn't played a game since 2017 entering this season due to ankle and heel injuries, is hitting .182 with a double and a home run in five games this season. As the Yankees have become deeper organizationally with Didi Gregorius' return from the IL this weekend, there may not be a place for Tulowitzki on the Yankees' roster.
Adam Hickey and Nicole Taylor became English 10,000m champions at the FASTFriday meeting on June 7, winning in 29:08.19 and 33:31.35 respectively at a wet and blustery Walthamstow.
The Orion Harriers-organised event aims to embrace the spirit of modern-day distance track racing with street food, trackside bars, live race commentary and a lively crowd and for the first time it incorporated the England Athletics 10,000m Championships.
In the men’s race, Inter-Counties cross country champion Hickey saw off the challenge of Jack Gray to take the title in a personal best and track record time, improving on his previous best of 29:32.92 run at the Highgate Night of the 10,000m PBs in 2015.
Gray secured silver in 29:12.36, while defending champion Ollie Lockley claimed bronze in 29:26.94 after running a solo second half. Owen Hind was fourth in 29:50.53.
“I always have confidence in my kick but you never know for sure,” Hickey told England Athletics.
“Credit to Jack. We worked together throughout.”
Taylor beat marathoner Tracy Barlow to the women’s title, surprising herself with her victory and time as she had been aiming for around 34 minutes.
Barlow clocked 34:15.20 to secure silver, while Naomi Taschimowitz gained bronze thanks to her 34:17.99, with both athletes making their 10,000m track debuts.
Phoebe Law was fourth in 34:35.26.
Results for the 10,000m races can be found here, while 5000m results are here.
Divine Oduduru stormed to a sprint double at the NCAA Championships in Austin, Texas, on Friday, clocking an equal world lead of 9.86 (+0.8m/sec) for the 100m and 19.73 (+0.8m/sec) for 200m.
The top three all ran sub-10 seconds in the 100m as behind Nigeria’s Oduduru was American Cravon Gillespie with 9.93 and Japan’s Hakim Sani Brown with a national record 9.97.
Those positions were matched in the 200m final just 45 minutes later, with Gillespie second in 19.93 and Sani Brown third in 20.08.
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USA’s Grant Holloway broke the collegiate record to win an exciting 110m hurdles and behind his 12.98, fast finishing Daniel Roberts ran 13.00 to match the previous record mark in second.
Holloway also formed part of the Florida 4x100m team which ran a world-leading 37.97 and he clocked a 43.75 anchor in the 4x400m.
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On the first day of the championships, GB’s Jacob Fincham-Dukes had finished fifth with 8.00m in the long jump won by JuVaughn Harrison with 8.20m, while Chris Nilsen cleared 5.95m to win the pole vault ahead of European champion Mondo Duplantis with 5.80m.
Harrison went on to complete a jumps double as he won the high jump with a PB clearance of 2.27m.
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Anderson Peters of Grenada broke his own championship record with 86.62m in the javelin, while France’s Yanis David leapt 6.84m to win the long jump ahead of Jasmyn Steels with a 6.71m PB.
Results can be found here.
More to follow…
Britain's Gordon Reid was beaten in straight sets by second seed Gustavo Fernandez in the wheelchair singles final at the French Open.
The former Australian Open and Wimbledon champion, 27, lost 6-1 6-3 to the Argentine at Roland Garros.
Scot Reid, who had beaten top seed Shingo Kunieda in the semi-finals, was appearing in his first Grand Slam final for three years.
Victory gave 27-year-old Fernandez his fourth Grand Slam singles title.
World number one Novak Djokovic's bid to hold all four Grand Slam titles at the same time was ended by Dominic Thiem in the French Open semi-final.
Thiem beat the 32-year-old 6-2 3-6 7-5 5-7 7-5 in the semi-final, which began on Friday but was interrupted by bad weather three times.
The fourth seed will face 11-time champion Rafael Nadal on Sunday, a repeat of last year's final.
Thiem, 25, is the first Austrian player to reach a second Grand Slam final.
"It was an unbelievable day for me," said Thiem, who had never beaten a world number one at a major before.
Friday's play was suspended once, then cancelled because of wind and rain in a move criticised by former players and journalists., who pointed out that the skies later cleared with daylight still left.
Nadal's semi-final win over Roger Federer took place earlier on Friday so was not affected by the suspension, while Thiem wrapped up victory on Saturday afternoon after the third break in play because of rain.
For 2016 champion Djokovic, who had won 26 Grand Slam matches in a row, defeat ended his hopes of becoming the first man in the Open era to hold all four major titles at once on two separate occasions.
Thiem lost in straight sets to Nadal in last year's final, but has long been heralded as a future Grand Slam champion - with the French Open seemingly his best chance on his favoured surface.
The final may go differently this year as Thiem has a new coach havinge started working with Chilean Olympic gold medallist Nicolas Massu three months ago.
Thiem, who was playing his fourth semi-final at Roland Garros, can also take confidence from his win against Nadal on clay at the Barcelona Open in April.
The world number four went on to win his 13th tour title at the tournament and reached the semi-finals in Madrid in May before losing to Djokovic.
The French Open is Thiem's most successful Grand Slam. He reached the US Open quarter-final in 2018 but has never made it past the fourth round at Wimbledon or the Australian Open.
Thiem and Djokovic had already been affected by the weather at Roland Garros. Both players had to play quarter-finals on Thursday after rain also stopped play on Wednesday.
After being broken twice in the first set, Djokovic asked the umpire whose responsibility it was to decide whether it was too windy to continue, but play carried on and he dropped a set for the first time this tournament.
The world number one looked increasingly frustrated on Saturday, getting a warning for exceeding the 25 seconds allowed to take a serve and then speaking angrily with the umpire after losing the third set.
"Well done, you made yourself a name. You made yourself recognisable now," said Djokovic, who questioned several line calls during the match.
Rain interrupted play for a third time, with the match stopped for over an hour meaning the women's final did not start at 14:00 BST as scheduled.
And as soon as the players returned to the court, a close line call gave Thiem break point and prompted another discussion between Djokovic and the umpire.
The Serb saved the break point and went on to break back in the next game only for Thiem to then immediately break once more. He then had two match points on his serve, but Djokovic won the game to make the score 5-4 to the Austrian.
Three games later, Thiem got another match-winning opportunity and this time he took the chance to reach a second successive French Open final.
Australian Ashleigh Barty has beaten Czech teenager Marketa Vondrousova in the French Open final to win her first Grand Slam title and complete a fairytale return to the sport.
The eighth seed won 6-1 6-3 against 19-year-old Vondrousova on the Paris clay.
Barty, 23, quit tennis to play professional cricket in 2014, but returned to the sport 17 months later.
Now she is the first Australian to win a singles titles at Roland Garros since Margaret Court in 1973.
After thumping away an overhead on her first match point, Barty turned to her team and raised her hands in the air, placing them on her head in disbelief before dropping to her haunches on the red dirt.
More to follow.
by Ian Marshall, Editor
Very much Wang Yidi was the surprise name, having been required to qualify; equally colleague Zhou Yu, likewise a qualifier, upset the ranked order.
…………Lin Gaoyuan, the top seed, beat colleagues Wang Chuqin (10-12, 6-11, 11-9, 11-7, 12-10, 11-7) and Liang Jingkun, the no.3 seed (8-11, 11-9, 11-5, 11-8, 11-6).
…………Commencing with the Grand Finals in December 2018, taking into account the ITTF World Tour and ITTF Challenge Series, it is the sixth consecutive men’s singles final for Lin Gaoyuan. He was the winner in Hungary, the runner up at the Grand Finals, also in Portugal, Qatar and China.
…………Zhou Yu caused the upset of the day, at the quarter-final stage he beat Germany’s Timo Boll, the no.4 seed (11-9, 11-9, 9-11, 9-11, 5-11, 11-9, 11-6) but adventures were cut short. In the penultimate round, he lost to Japan’s Tomokazu Harimoto, the no.2 seed (11-8, 5-11, 11-9, 11-5, 11-8).
…………At the quarter-final stage, Tomokazu Harimoto beat colleague, Jun Mizutani, the no.9 seed (13-11, 10-12, 11-4, 11-7, 11-9).
…………Wang Yidi emerged the surprise name to reach the women’s singles final; at the quarter-final stage she beat Japan’s Saki Shibata, the no.8 seed (11-6, 15-13, 5-11, 10-12, 11-4, 11-7), prior to overcoming Chinese Taipei’s Cheng I-Ching, the no.3 seed (11-7, 12-10, 11-7, 11-8).
…………It is the second time Wang Yidi has appeared in an ITTF World Tour women’s singles final; last year in Bulgaria she was beaten by colleague Ding Ning in the title decider.
…………Mima Ito, the no.2 seed, progressed to the final as status predicted. She beat Austria’s Sofia Polcanova, the no.14 seed (11-8, 9-11, 12-10, 14-12, 13-11), prior to ousting colleague Miu Hirano, the no.4 seed (18-16, 12-10, 11-6, 9-11, 6-11, 11-7).
…………It is the ninth time that Mima Ito has reached an ITTF World Tour women’s singles final
…………Chinese Taipei’s Lin Yu-Ju and Cheng I-Ching, the no.5 seeds, beat Korea’ Republic’s Lee Sangsu and Choi Hyojoo, the no.6 seeds, to win the mixed doubles title (11-8, 11-3, 11-7).
…………Success for Lin Yu-Ju and Cheng I-Ching means they collect their third such title of the year; in February they succeeded at the Seamaster 2019 ITTF World Tour Platinum Plus Oman Open, seven days ago at the Seamaster 2019 ITTF World Tour Platinum China Open
The Canterbury Crusaders are to lose their knight and sword logo following a review into the club's branding after the Christchurch mosque attacks in March, in which 51 people were killed.
Concerns were raised after the attacks about the association of the Crusaders' name with the medieval religious wars between Christians and Muslims.
The team will keep their name for at least next year's Super Rugby season.
The club said in March they were "open" to discussing a potential name change.
New Zealand Rugby (NZR) boss Steve Tew said the removal of medieval theming was an appropriate step for now.
But he added: "Any change must not be seen as a knee-jerk reaction to a single event."
The Crusaders, who have won a record nine Super Rugby titles, adopted their name 23 years ago, when rugby went professional.
Chief executive Colin Mansbridge said they were "committing to undertaking a thorough brand review" before making any more changes.
"What is clear from the research is that there are divided views on the name itself, but that people on both sides of the divide are incredibly passionate about this club and what it represents to them," he added.
Tew said: "Even prior to 15 March, the Crusaders had signalled their intention to complete a brand review. While the events of 15 March have accelerated and escalated that brand review, we do not want this to be solely a response to that tragic event."
Any recommended changes are set to be announced by the end of the year, and will come into effect for the 2021 season.
Mansbridge added: "We will go into the brand review with open minds, but no matter what the outcome of that exercise is, one thing we will never seek to change or erase is our history."
ROSSBURG, Ohio — Redemption seemed to be the theme of the Friday night portion of Eldora Speedway’s Dirt Late Model Dream.
Jonathan Davenport grabbed a feature win just one night after giving it away on the last lap, and Shane Clanton dominated the competition in his feature event and went to victory lane for the first time in Dream action since his $100,000 win in the 2012 finale.
On Thursday night, Davenport set himself up for a tremendous run to a preliminary checkered flag, winning his heat race and redrawing the outside pole. He led every lap in his feature… except the one that mattered most. Darrell Lanigan made a spectacular move on the final lap to get by Davenport and steal the win.
Davenport wasn’t exactly crushed by the outcome, as those runner-up points are very good, but said afterwards that he shouldn’t have been so hesitant to change lanes on the track to keep the momentum up. Friday night’s race, however, was a different story.
Redrawing the outside pole from a runner-up heat race finish, Davenport took the lead from 2017 Eldora Speedway champion Kent Robinson on lap two and never looked back, leading the next 24 laps to claim his fifth career Dirt Late Model Dream preliminary feature event.
The race started with smooth sailing for Davenport, until he ran into troublesome lapped traffic with 10 laps remaining. Mason Zeigler and Ashton Winger were battling it out at the rear when Davenport arrived at their bumpers, holding him up and allowing Robinson to close the gap.
Davenport said he could feel the pressure coming from behind, before doing what he failed to on the previous night – move up the track to get by slower traffic.
“I could watch the video board and I saw Kent Robinson getting a little closer to me,” Davenport said. “So, I went to the top one lap just to try it, I caught just a little bit of the cushion and that got me just enough of a run down the back-straightaway where I could clear Ashton.”
That decision proved to be the move of the night for the 2015 Dream winner, as it opened the gap between he and Robinson up just enough for the laps to run out.
Davenport is now the high-point man headed into Saturday’s big show and should find himself in the front of a heat race, ripening his chances to become a two-time Dream winner.
“Can’t thank the guys back at the Longhorn [chassis] shop enough, and my own crew guys that work on this thing,” Davenport added. “We’ve got a really good program right now, everything’s going good and I think we’ll be fine for 100 laps.”
Before Friday night, it had been seven years since the last time Shane Clanton visited Eldora Speedway Victory Lane in a Dirt Late Model Dream. Now, “The Georgia Bulldog” is back, and prouder than ever to get another win this season for Capital Race Cars, on one of the grandest stages in the sport.
“This means a lot,” Clanton said. “We’ve come close in a couple preliminaries and led a lot of laps in the Dream and the World [100]. Hopefully, tomorrow, we can lead all 100 of them.”
Clanton put together a great, all-around effort in Group B action on Friday, winning his heat race and redrawing the outside pole. He swiped the lead away from Ross Bailes at the drop of the green and floated through lapped traffic, leading all 25 laps to claim his first career preliminary Dream feature win.
Through all of the work that he, his crew, teammate Chris Madden and chassis builder Marshall Green have put into their program this season, Clanton said it was the little adjustments that made the biggest difference.
“We’ve changed a lot, not necessarily components on the car – just tweaking here and there,” he said. “It’s hard to make the right adjustments at the right time. That’s where we seem to struggle. We’ve got speed, we just need to make it at the right time.”
On Thursday night, Clanton said it was a mistake in his heat race that cost him a spot in the redraw and a subsequent top-five finish in his feature. But the veterans know how to leave the past in the past and keep searching for future improvements.
“We didn’t show up last night because we started further back and I messed up a little bit in the heat race,” he said. “If we would have gotten into the redraw, maybe started on the front row, maybe we could have won last night. We made better adjustments for the feature last night, we worked on that today and got it even better.”
What a weekend it has been so far for Chris Ferguson. After having such a rollercoaster start to his 2019 campaign (multiple mechanical failures, 2 wins), “Fergy Time” has found his stride at Eldora this weekend.
“We’ve been fast, but this year has just been up-and-down,” he said. “Any time you can put it together at one of the biggest races of the year, that just makes it even better.”
With an 11th-to-fourth effort in Thursday’s feature, Ferguson followed it up with a second-place effort to Clanton in both his heat race and feature on Friday. Starting third in the feature and making the pass for second around Bailes on an early restart, Ferguson made every effort to catch Clanton, but came up just one spot short of his first career victory at Eldora.
“I would have loved to have been a little bit better to keep up with Clanton, but we’re tickled to death with second,” he said. “It was fun. The car was good, we needed a few adjustments and I think we could have been a little bit better, but we had a good race with Ross for second on the restart. Any time you can get a car to hook-up on this track, you’ve got to be happy, and we are with second.”
The finishes:
Group A Feature: 1. 49D-Jonathan Davenport[2]; 2. 7R-Kent Robinson[1]; 3. 7W-Ricky Weiss[5]; 4. 29-Darrell Lanigan[6]; 5. 20-Jimmy Owens[9]; 6. 18X-Michael Page[3]; 7. 44-Chris Madden[4]; 8. 1-Brandon Sheppard[10]; 9. O-Scott Bloomquist[12]; 10. 23B-John Blankenship[8]; 11. 8S-Kyle Strickler[11]; 12. 28M-Jimmy Mars[13]; 13. 40B-Kyle Bronson[7]; 14. 16T-Tyler Bruening[14]; 15. 8H-Jacob Hawkins[17]; 16. 99JR-Frank Heckenast Jr.[18]; 17. 50-Shanon Buckingham[22]; 18. 17-Zack Dohm[23]; 19. 99RT-Ricky Thornton Jr[21]; 20. 88R-Andrew Reaume[15]; 21. 12W-Ashton Winger[24]; 22. 25Z-Mason Zeigler[19]; 23. 24-Dylan Yoder[16]; 24. 88-Trent Ivey[20]
Group B Feature: 1. 25C-Shane Clanton[2]; 2. 22-Chris Ferguson[4]; 3. 87-Ross Bailes[1]; 4. 18-Chase Junghans[5]; 5. 5-Don O’Neal[6]; 6. 17M-Dale McDowell[11]; 7. 14-Josh Richards[3]; 8. 39-Tim McCreadie[15]; 9. 0B-Shannon Babb[8]; 10. 3S-Brian Shirley[10]; 11. 1T-Tyler Erb[9]; 12. 157-Mike Marlar[12]; 13. 71-Hudson O’Neal[20]; 14. C9-Steve Casebolt[7]; 15. 1S-Chad Simpson[19]; 16. 83-Scott James[17]; 17. 28-Dennis Erb Jr.[23]; 18. 7M-Donald Mcintosh[18]; 19. 9-Devin Moran[22]; 20. 22S-Gregg Satterlee[16]; 21. 1ST-Johnny Scott[21]; 22. 111-Steven Roberts[14]; 23. 71R-Rod Conley[24]; 24. 1P-Earl Pearson Jr.[13]
GRAND FORKS, N.D. — With his grinning shark teeth painted helmet in one hand and the checkered flag in the other at River Cities Speedway Friday night, Logan Schuchart accomplished more than just another victory.
He did what no World of Outlaws NOS Energy Drink Sprint Car Series driver has done since 2014 – win more races than 10-time series champion Donny Schatz a third of the way through the season.
By claiming his fourth win of the season, Schuchart is the winningest driver this year. Schatz and David Gravel are behind him with three wins each.
“To lead the Outlaws in Series wins this time of the year is a pretty cool accomplishment, for where you look at where this team was six years ago and how it started and where we’ve come,” Schuchart said.
Last year, the Shark Racing driver had two wins for the season. He won four races in 2017 but has yet to surpass that number in a single season.
He started the night winning his Drydene Heat race and then won the DIRTVision Fast Pass Dash.
In the 40-lap feature, Schuchart did not favor sharing the lead. The record book will show he led every lap. However, Gravel and Australian James McFadden have stories that say otherwise.
Schuchart pulled away from second-place Brad Sweet by almost a straightaway, leaving the top five to figure out their running order as they swapped positions lap after lap. Some cranked their car sideways to the bottom of the track, while others tempted disaster by riding the outside rim of the turns, hoping to not slide off track and down the steep embankment on the other side.
Hope was not enough to keep several drivers on track. Carson Macedo brought out the first of seven cautions by going off track in turn three. On the restart, Gravel went from fourth to second in the first turn, while Kasey Kahne Racing teammates McFadden and Brad Sweet battled for third.
Running the high side, Gravel found enough traction to eat into Schuchart’s lead, getting to his outside by lap 15. However, before he could attempt a pass, there was another caution for a car going off track.
On the following restart, Gravel launched ahead of Schuchart, taking the lead and pulling away to a two-car length lead. It was short lived, though. Exiting turn two, Gravel slid off the corner allowing Schuchart to dart back by him.
The lap went to Schuchart. There was no sharing the lead.
“It’s tough when you’re leading to be able to tell where to go, when the rubber or where the rubber’s coming in,” Schuchart said. “Actually, in the beginning, when Dave got around me, I knew he got a run from the top of three and four, but it actually wasn’t totally rubber, yet. I knew he had to get a run from the top, so I moved up in three and four and I wasn’t going to move my line in one and two until I saw somebody or heard somebody.”
While Schuchart put distance between himself and the top-five once again, the KKR teammates were now battling for second.
Riding the low line of the slick track, McFadden found enough traction to pull ahead of Sweet and begin his march toward Schuchart.
Round two of Schuchart versus McFadden, after the two raced for the win a couple of weeks ago at The Dirt Track at Charlotte. Schuchart won that battle.
McFadden ran Schuchart down. He could stay on his bumper, but couldn’t find a big enough run to get by the Hanover, Pa. driver.
Then, on a restart with 13 laps to go, McFadden found that run. He launched pass Schuchart on the outside and sailed away. This time, it looked like Schuchart would have to share the lead. But before McFadden could complete the lap, another caution.
McFadden showed his hand. Schuchart now knew what he had to do to win.
“I wasn’t squirting off the bottom as hard as I needed to in (turns) one and two and it was cleaned off a little bit above the bottom,” Schuchart said. “He (McFadden) showed me that, and lucky enough the caution did come out.”
When the race went back green, McFadden could keep Schuchart close enough in sight to read the sponsors on his car, but never garnered enough of a run again to get back by him.
“Once Logan’s out front on that kind of track, he’s probably one of the best guys at racing that,” McFadden said. “I think he was holding back, trying not to get to lap traffic, thinking if he didn’t make a mistake, he wasn’t going to get past. I was just sitting there waiting, and hoping, and it didn’t happen. Still happy with second.”
While Schuchart claimed his fourth win this season, Sweet, who ended up third, earned his fourth podium finish in-a-row.
“We’ll keep plugging away,” Sweet said. “As long as we’re standing on the front stretch each and every night, the wins will start coming.”
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