College Basketball
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Isaac Hamilton scored 19 points, T.J. Leaf had 17 with 13 rebounds and No. 11 UCLA shot 53 percent to beat No. 1 Kentucky 97-92 on Saturday, its second upset of the top-ranked Wildcats in as many years.
The Bruins (9-0) matched their season scoring average to win this showdown of college basketball’s winningest schools in their first-ever visit to Rupp Arena, and end the Wildcats’ 42-game home winning streak.
NBA
SALT LAKE CITY – Gordon Hayward matched his season high with 32 points and the Utah Jazz beat the Denver Nuggets 105-98 on Saturday night.
The Jazz used a 31-8 stretch in the third quarter to blow open the game. Hayward took over, scoring both inside and on the perimeter, with 21 points in the quarter. It was the third consecutive 30-point game for the seven-year veteran.
Rodney Hood chipped in 15 for the Jazz.
Wilson Chandler led the Nuggets with 20 off the bench while Will Barton also scored 20.
Denver knocked down seven 3-pointers trying to rally in the fourth quarter, but couldn’t complete the comeback.
NHL
DENVER – Kari Lehtonen had 23 saves for his first shutout of the season, and the Dallas Stars beat the Colorado Avalanche 3-0 on Saturday night.
Patrick Eaves and Tyler Seguin each had a goal and an assist, and Curtis McKenzie also scored.
Semyon Varlamov made 30 saves for the Avalanche, who were shut out for the fifth time this season.
Colorado played most of the game with five defensemen after Erik Johnson got hurt blocking a shot in the second period.
Skiing
VAL D’ISERE, France – Kjetil Jansrud of Norway won the season’s first World Cup downhill on Saturday, a day after his victory in super-G.
Jansrud was 0.26 seconds faster than Peter Fill of Italy, the defending World Cup downhill champion, down the 2-mile Oreiller-Killy course.
Aksel Lund Svindal was third, trailing 0.33 behind teammate Jansrud. Svindal was runner-up on Friday on his comeback from a 10-month injury absence.
For the second consecutive day, Norway and Italy filled the podium and Austria struggled.
No Austrian placed in the top 15, with lower-ranked starters still racing.
The French resort took over a three-race weekend meeting which was cancelled at Beaver Creek because of lack of snow.
LAKE LOUIS, Alberta – Slovenia’s Ilka Stuhec completed a Lake Louise downhill sweep Saturday.
Coming off her first World Cup victory Friday, Stuhec finished in 1 minute, 24.95 seconds.
With snow flurries in the forecast, the start was lowered to the men’s super-G start hut. An early start number was an advantage, however. Falling snow softened the course and hampered visibility as the race progressed. and Miklos were among the first five down the mountain. Gut went off ninth.
Defending overall World Cup champion Laura Gut of Switerland was second in 1:25.06, followed by Edit Miklos of Hungary in 1:25.38.
A super-G is set for Sunday, with Stuhec trying to join American star Lindsey Vonn as the only women to sweep all three races at Lake Louise. Vonn, an 18-time winner at Lake Louise, is sidelined after breaking an arm in training last month.
Associated Press
