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DCIAA TRACK AND FIELD
Bonham has golden farewell
Senior leads Dunbar
to city girls’ title; Coolidge boys also win
by Carl Little
Angela Bonham won four gold medals at the D.C. Interscholas- tic Athletic Association champi- onships on Thursday to cap a sparkling high school career during which she ran without ri- val in her league. The senior owns 17 individual city titles in cross-country, indoor and out- door track. On Thursday, she led the girls from Dunbar to the team championship in 90-plus degree heat at Spingarn. “It’s been real sad every time I think about it being over,” said Bonham, who has received a full academic scholarship to George Washington. “But it’s been worth it. It’s done so much for me.” Dunbar won its third straight team title over Coolidge and Anacostia by more than 100 points. The Crimson Tide went 1-2 in all three jumping events, both distance races and the 300- meter hurdles. Coolidge won the boys’ cham- pionship over Dunbar and H.D. Woodson.
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Veteran Ray Allen and his Celtics teammates have been beaten physically in Games 4 and 5 by Orlando.
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Celtics desperate to ward off a historic low
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might be an understatement. Big Baby Davis suffered a concussion in Game 5 from a Dwight Howard elbow that left him on the hardwood looking like a boxer crawling around the ring searching for his mouthpiece. Davis is questionable for Game 6. The Celtics say Rajon Rondo (muscle spasms) and Rasheed Wallace (back spasms) are fine and will play. Marquis Daniels also suffered a concussion. Kevin Garnett looks hurt again, like he’s running in quicksand. The best news the Celtics have heard since Saturday is that the second of the two bogus technical fouls called against Kendrick Perkins was rescinded by the league on Thursday, meaning he has six technical fouls and not seven this postseason and therefore will be eligible for Game 6. Perkins is both the most
effective defender the Celtics have to combat Dwight Howard and one of those players who drives officials nuts because he’s never been whistled for a legitimate foul in his life, to see him react. Still, the double technical foul is a particularly lazy device the NBA needs to dump. You’d think the Celtics would shut up and play, because it’s rather easy to make the case that the two technical fouls charged to the Celtics in Game 4 (one against Garnett, one against — surprise! — Wallace) were the difference in a game that went to overtime. Anyway, Perkins’s presence in the second half wasn’t going to enable the Celtics to win Game 5; Orlando outplayed Boston in too many areas. In fact, getting Perkins off the floor in the second quarter might have saved him and the team, given the injuries that ensued. As Ray Allen said emphatically before the Celtics headed home, Game 6 is really Game 7 for Boston. Game 7, if the series comes to that, is going to be historic. And the panic here in Boston is palpable. How unlikely that one city can be involved in the historic comeback/collapses in all three major team sports, and two all-time downers in one month’s time. So much for the
Mystics at Sparks
Records: Washington 3-2, Los Angeles 0-3. Where: Staples Center, Los Angeles. When: 10:30 p.m. Hungry: Not many would have predicted the star-studded Sparks to start the season with a winless streak. The Mystics won’t be fooled though. Candace Parker (15.3 points per game), DeLisha Milton-Jones (14.3 ppg), Tina Thompson (13 ppg) and Noelle Quinn (11.7 ppg) are as lethal as ever. “They’re probably tired of losing, and I think we’ll have to be extremely well-prepared,” small forward Monique Currie said. “I doubt
Bonham was expected to win each of her races, and she left very little room for drama. She cruised to victory in Tuesday’s 3,200 in 12 minutes 53.49 sec- onds, winning by 43 seconds over teammate Leah Carr. She won the 1,600 comfortably in 5:48.14 and took the 800 in 2:23.85.
Bonham also was on Dunbar’s winning 4x400 relay team. Bon- ham, Diamond McCoy, Shelby Lambert and Dominique Ander- son brought the baton around in 4:14.89. Her fiercest opponent on
Thursday was the sun. Bonham doubled over near the finish line after winning the 1,600 and rest- ed her hands on her knees. Sweat dripped off her forehead. “It’s hot out here! My feet are burning,” Bonham said. “It’s still not going to stop me from run- ning.” It didn’t stop Imani Kelly ei-
ther. The Theodore Roosevelt senior took home four gold med- als for the second year in a row. He won the 3,200 (10:30.43) and the 1,500 steeplechase (4:39.27) on Tuesday. On Thursday, he captured the 800 (1:59.57) and 1,600 (4:42.48). “I’m proud of the wins and
getting the points for the team,” said Kelly, who is signed with Morgan State. In the field, Wilson senior
Ibrahima Kebe dominated the throws and set meet records in both events. He took the shot put with 49 feet 10 inches, breaking the old mark of 48-1.5 that had stood since 1985, and the discus with 166-4.75. The previous rec- ord of 146-3 had been around since 1987. Coolidge got a spark from sen- ior Eyong Oma. He took second
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Angela Bonham is on her way to winning the 800-meter run final. She took gold in three individual events and with one relay team.
Flight Frazier: Dunbar’s Dennisha
Frazier won the girls’ long jump (15-4.5) and the triple jump (35-3.25) and was runner-up in the high jump (5-0) behind teammate Diamond McCoy.
On the rise: Timothy Lowery won
the boys’ high jump with 6-6, tying the meet record set in 1992.
in the 100 behind senior team- mate Josh Ford, but rebounded to win the 400 in a personal-best 48.74.
Oma and Ford locked up again in the 200. They came off the turn about even, but Oma found another gear and pulled away to win in 22.15. Ford was second in 22.38.
“Once I passed him,” Oma said, “I knew it was just a race against the clock.”
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“We’re an older team,” cites Boston Coach Doc Rivers, whose team is on the run against the Magic. “Whenever we get comfortable we lose.
euphoria that gripped the city when it appeared the Celtics would get another shot at the nemesis Lakers in the Finals. Perhaps the only person who
wasn’t particularly cocky about the Celtics’ 3-0 lead was Coach Doc Rivers, who in a conversation before Game 4 talked about the weird nature of his veteran team, one that behaved in some ways more like a team of neophytes. “It’s been challenging in that way,” Rivers said. “This is not a typical veteran team. It’s a strange veteran team. The Lakers can win some games in cruise control. We didn’t win a single game in cruise control all year. Whenever we get comfortable we lose it. We’re an older team and usually older teams can play well at a comfort level. [But] We’re not that team. We have to have an unbelievable focus to play well. . . . In that way, it’s as challenging a group as I’ve every coached.” And that’s what Rivers said
before Game 4. It wasn’t that he could sense a collapse coming, but that he didn’t trust his players to put their foot on Orlando’s neck, figuratively. And because they didn’t, because the Celtics couldn’t score on that one measly possession at the end of the regulation of Game 4, the series lives. The Magic figured out how to get the ball to Howard on the move so he could use his
many would have thought that L.A. wouldn’t have won a game. . . . We’ll have to be ready to fight and battle for this one.”
Searching for a complete game:
After allowing 36 points in the fourth quarter of Tuesday’s 82-76 loss to Seattle, the Mystics hope to sharpen their attention to detail. “The little things are the momentum changers, and we weren’t able to find a way to come back from them,” Currie said. “We’re in the same position a lot of teams are, trying to find chemistry with each other and we don’t have a lot of time to get over that learning curve.”
— Katie Carrera
quickness against the stronger Perkins. Van Gundy figured out he wanted to get J.J. Redick and seldom used Brandon Bass more minutes, really meaningful minutes in Redick’s case now that he’s shooting as if he’s back at Cameron Indoor Stadium. Rashard Lewis is feeling better now that he’s shaken a virus. Jameer Nelson figured out that it was up to him to aggressively drive into the lane to draw defenders away from his shooters. This is why I always go back to a 1985 conversation with Magic Johnson during which he hammered into me the notion that a team that goofs around when up 3-0 in a series is taking on risk . . . risk of a sprained ankle or a suspension for too many technical fouls or risk of one of your best players slumping (Garnett). As quickly has the Celtics lost
what appeared to be their playoff basketball superiority, the Orlando Magic got their groove back. The Celtics are still one win from advancing to the NBA Finals but suddenly it feels like the two teams are moving to a pair of Game 7s, and the team with all the championship banners hanging from the ceiling, 17 of them, is somehow up 3-2 but nonetheless seems behind. The pressure now is on everybody, which is exactly what playoff basketball ought to be.
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