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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Egor Demin set an NBA rookie record by making a 3-pointer in his 34th straight game and finished with 25 points and 10 rebounds to help the Brooklyn Nets snap a seven-game losing streak with a 109-99 victory over the Utah Jazz on Friday night. Demin, who was 6 of 12 from 3-point range, set the mark on the first basket for Brooklyn. Cam Thomas added 21 points for the Nets, Day’ron Sharpe had 16 points and nine rebounds, and Danny Wolf added 14 points. Brooklyn outscored the Jazz 20-2 in second-chance points. Keyonte George led Utah with 26 points and seven assists. Brice Sensabaugh had 18 points off the bench for the Jazz, who have lost five straight games and nine of their last 10. Kyle Filipowski had 14 points and 12 rebounds, while Ace Bailey added in 12 points. Brooklyn used an 8-0 run that was capped by Jalen Wilson’s 3-pointer to go up 91-83 early in the fourth quarter. Utah pulled within a basket again on a dunk from Cody Williams. But Demin and Wolf combined to make three 3-pointers to extend the Nets’ lead back to 100-90 with 4:45 remaining. Thomas
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LOGAN, Utah — Utah State track & field claimed nine individual and relay titles, 23 podium finishes and six performances ranking in the top 10 all-time at the USU-hosted Roman Ruiz Speed and Power Invitational at the George Nelson Fieldhouse and the UW Invitational in Seattle, Washington, on Saturday. Aggie athletes put together a string of outstanding performances across all events along the 60-meter straightaway, winning two titles and setting five top-10 times. In the women’s 60-meter hurdles, senior Krysthina Vlahovic and junior Claire Petersen bested the field with respective times of 8.44 and 8.51. Vlahovic shaved a hundredth of a second off her previous personal best, which ranks third in school history. Petersen ran her fifth personal-best time of the season to move from seventh to fourth in USU history in the event. On the men’s side, senior Javin Richards finished third in the 60-meter hurdles final and moved into ninth in school history with his final time of 8.09. Richards, who earlier clocked in at 8.11 in the semis to initially break into the top-10, earned his fifth career entry into the Aggie record book. Sophomore Mathew Hall won his first career 60-meter title, crossing the line in 6.73 to
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LOGAN — Utah State rallied and pulled away from San Diego State late in the second half to earn one of its most tough-minded victories of the Jerrod Calhoun era. The Aggies trailed by 11 in the first half and by seven in the middle of the second, but pulled off a 71-66 victory over the first-place team in the Mountain West. There were a lot of things that didn’t go well for the Aggies, but they overcame them all — 18 turnovers, just 20 points combined from MJ Collins (12 points, on 3-of-14 shooting) and Mason Falslev (eight points on 3-for-7 shooting), a 3-point percentage of 23.1 and free throw perentage of 56.5. “Really want to shout out our players,” Calhoun said. “To win this game, as ugly as we played offensively, I don’t know if I’ve ever been a part of that. Where your two best players went 6 of 21. You had 18 turnovers, but the difference was we were the tougher team the last seven minutes of the game.” The ugliness of the game began from the tip. Each side knew the stakes and knew the job they had to do, especially on defense. The result was both teams
