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Celtics Take Crown From Kings

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After coming off a glorious win against the Lakers, Boston Celtics defeated the Sacramento Kings with a 95-90 win. Celtics increased their wins against the Sacramento Kings to seven straight in a row.

In the first half, Sacramento’s Evans, who had suffered from a sprained ankle last season, was able to prove his ability to maneuver the basket by knocking down a jump shot. However, Celtics were able to answer back with Ray Allen driving to the basket with a lay up. In the second quarter, Rondo gets hit with a technical foul for pushing DeMarcus Cousins. Cousins, confused and frustrated, was benched due to the altercation between he and Rondo.

Later in the second half, Sacramento’s, Donte Green was able to knock down the jump shot, increasing the King’s lead by eight right before half time. At the break, Allen proved that he truly a leader by motivating his team to get back on track. Ray Allen proved that his main focus was to come in and take the King’s thrown with his dominating three, decreasing Sacramento’s lead in the third quarter.

Though Demarcus Cousins demonstrated his versatility by hitting an outside shot, it still wasn’t enough. Down by one, Celtics forced a Sacramento turnover, allowing Pierce to drive to the hoop. Big “Baby” Davis was also able to add to Celtics lead in the fourth quarter with an all time “IN YOUR FACE” dunk. He had fourteen points off the bench. Rondo finished with seventeen points and eighteen assists.

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Richie Evans Biography

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The undisputed “King” of the NASCAR Modified racing Richard Ernest Evans, known as “Richie”, was born on 23rd July 1941 in Westernville, New York where he lived with his family on his father’s farm.

Always having a keen interest in cars Richie left the family home at the age of sixteen to begin training as a motor mechanic at a gas station in Rome, New York and it was here that he had his first experience as a racer, beginning with some success as a street racer he progressed to drag racing.

After winning in drag racing a colleague suggested that he build his own car and have a try at stock car racing at the Utica-Rome Speedway. His first race was in the Utica-Rome Hobby Division in 1964 after building his car, a 1954 Ford Hobby Stock, numbered PT-109.

He progressed to the Modified in the premier division in 1965 and had his first victory on the final night of the season. In 1973, his first serious attempt at point chasing he won his first NASCAR National Modified Championship but he did not win another Modified Championship until 1978 and from there on it would seem there was no stopping him. He won the NASCAR Featherlite Modified Championship a further eight times, from 1978 to 1985, reluctant to relinquish his crown and setting a record for any NACSAR racing division even to this day.

Over a period of thirteen years Richie finished first nine times, second twice and only finishing out of the top ten one in all those years. His driving career was an awesome success taking a total of twenty six championships on eleven different tracks in four states, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts. He won countless track championships across the North East and had a thirty seven victories season during 1979 whilst competing in stretch of sixty races.

In 1980 he entered for eighty four races and won fifty two of them. He won the Modified Race of Champions three times, taking the 1.5 mile at Trenton Speedway in 1973, was the last driver to win the 2.5 mile at Pocono in 1979 and the first to win the 3/4 mile at Pocono. The list of victories is seemingly endless. It is no wonder that his nickname was “The Rapid Roman”.

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