HIGH SCHOOLS

McAuley’s Clement is named Gatorade girls’ basketball player of the year for Maine

McAuley senior point guard Allie Clement, who has signed a national letter of intent to play next season at Marist, has been named the 2014 Gatorade Maine girls’ basketball player of the year.

Clement also won the award as a junior.

Clement led McAuley to a 21-1 season and its fourth straight Class A state title this season. She averaged 18.0 ppg, 3.0 assists and 3.2 steals, scoring 17 points with four 3-pointers in McAuley’s 67-41 win championship game win against Oxford Hills.

Earlier this month Clement was named Miss Maine Basketball.

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Clement is Maine’s fifth multiple winner of the Gatorade honor, joining Cindy Blodgett of Lawrence (1992-94), Sarah Marshall of McAuley (2002-03), Ashley Cimino of McAuley (2006-07), and Niki Taylor of York (2010-11).

TENNIS

SONY OPEN: Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan defeated 2010 French Open champion Francesca Schiavone of Italy 6-4, 6-2 to advance to a second-round match against top-seeded Serena Williams at Key Biscayne, Fla.

American Varvara Lepchenko defeated Yanina Wickmayer of Belgium, but fellow American Bethanie Mattek-Sands fell to Elina Svitolina of Ukraine 6-3, 3-6, 6-3.

GOLF

ARNOLD PALMER INVITATIONAL: Tiger Woods has pulled out of the Orlando, Fla., event because of persistent back pains.

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Woods, the defending champion at Bay Hill, is an eight-time winner. He says it was too early to say how he’ll feel for the Masters next month.

Woods withdrew from the Honda Classic in the final round three weeks ago. He played the following week at Doral and felt back spasms during the final round on his way to a 78, the highest score he has shot in a final round.

SOCCER

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE: Chelsea ended England’s one-year absence from the Champions League quarterfinals, beating Galatasaray 2-0 to complete a 3-1 aggregate win.

In the night’s other match, Cristiano Ronaldo scored twice in Real Madrid’s 3-1 victory at home over Schalke, finishing a 9-2 rout in the home-and-home, total-goals series.

England failed to have a quarterfinalist last year in Europe’s top club competition for the first time since 1996, and Arsenal and Manchester City were eliminated last week.


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