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STEAM CORNERS, Ohio -- You could look at the Honda Indy 200 as a microcosm of the 2016 Verizon IndyCar Series season as a whole.?Simon Pagenaud and Will Power, the two main (Chevrolet equipped, sorry Honda) championship contenders, waged an intense duel over 90 laps at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course that ended in favor of the Frenchman.?The Team Penske teammates started alongside each other on the front row, and along with their respective crews, fought a clean and compelling battle that demonstrated why they have distanced themselves from the field this year.?In typical IndyCar fashion, the race could have thrown a surprise result, as Mikhail Aleshin and Conor Daly used alternate pit stop strategies to combine to lead more than half the laps.?But ultimately the eighth win of Pagenauds IndyCar career came down to hard, wheel-to-wheel racing -- with one of his teammates.?If anybody doubts how hard the man from Poitiers is willing to push in the quest for his first series championship, they should watch a replay of Lap 66 of Sundays race.?Lining up third behind an off-sequence Daly and Power for the restart, Pagenaud banged wheels as he tried to pass Power on the outside of Turn 4 on the entry to Mid-Ohios esses.?With Power suffering from rubber pickup on his tires, Pagenaud stayed glued to his teammates gearbox through the next four corners and got a run through Thunder Valley to try an audacious move into Turn 10 that got properly chopped. But Pagenaud stayed with it, ducking to the inside on entry to the Carousel.?The two Penske cars made contact again, but the No. 22 emerged ahead of the No. 12 through the sequence of corners and pulled away in the run to the finish. Pagenaud won by 4.16 seconds and stretched his championship advantage to 58 points over Power.?Compounding the joy from his fourth win of the season (and first since early May on the road course at Indianapolis), most of the other drivers in championship contention had bad days Sunday at Mid-Ohio.?Helio Castroneves and Scott Dixon came into the weekend third and fourth in the title sweepstakes but crashed out together in an incident that, again, was pretty much symbolic of the season as a whole.?While Pagenaud and Power separate themselves from the IndyCar field, everyone else self-destructs.?Pagenaud started the season with three wins and three second-place finishes, and he withstood challenges from Dixon and several others before Power emerged as his main contender.?An under-the weather Power missed the season opener, but he has bounced back with a championship-caliber season in any other year against any other teammate. As well as the Australian performed on Sunday, it wasnt enough to topple his teammate from scoring a very timely victory.?I just made a dogs breath of the bloody restart, which allowed him to get into the position to have a shot, Power said. And if you have a shot, of course you cant pass it up. Youve got to go for it, and he did.?I really put myself in a bad position, and I should have done a better job of just getting a jump on the restart. ?No question. Mid-Ohio is a notoriously difficult place to pass, so Pagenaud knew his only chance to pass Power would come on a restart or soon after.?When the opportunity came, Pagenaud struck with ruthless precision. When Power lagged, Pagenaud raced him hard and clean and was rewarded with a satisfying victory on a day when he wondered whether he could even make the start after tweaking his back in the Saturday morning practice session.?It looked like an excellent opportunity for Power -- or Castroneves, Dixon, or even Josef Newgarden -- to capitalize.?But serial blocker Castroneves took care of Dixon and himself, while Aleshin -- who had the race in the bag based on his midrace pace -- crashed out Newgarden in the pits.?That set up the Lap 66 restart showdown between Pagenaud and Power. And we know how that came out.?I knew that was my chance, Pagenaud said. On that restart, it was time to go. And it was a pretty interesting lap. That was fun driving like that.?Thats racing, he added. It was fair, it was clean. It was hard racing, and Im just glad I won.?Team Penske drivers arrived at Mid-Ohio ranked 1-2-3 in the IndyCar Series, and the order remained the same when they left.?But Castroneves is now 111 points behind Pagenaud with four races remaining, as Pagenaud and Power have turned the title chase into a two-man show.?Power started the season in a 40-point hole thanks to the concussion-like symptoms that held him out of the opener at St. Petersburg. And hard as he has tried -- matching Pagenaud win for win up through Sunday -- he just cant seem to make up that disadvantage.?It was a good clean battle and it was tough, but it sucks finishing second, Power said. Simon did a bloody good job. He saw an opportunity and he went for it, which he should.?Its turning into a pretty good battle, though the points have opened up, obviously, he added. We need to keep pushing.?With no team orders at Team Penske, Pagenaud and Power duked it out fair and square, and the fastest man won.?Thats the way it played out at Mid-Ohio -- and on the season as a whole.?Sundays race was the kind of clean, fair competition that Roger Penske relishes. In terms of intrateam championship battles, this one is far more authentic and realistic than the one being contested between Mercedes-Benz teammates Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg in Formula One.? ?Well look, those guys both want it, and I think thats the reason theyre both driving for us, Penske said of Power and Pagenaud. Fortunately it didnt cause a problem, but overall it was a little dicey.?A little dicey but nobody crashed. That next Penske team meeting will be a lot less awkward than it could have been.?Mid-Ohio, with big crowds lining the hillsides surrounding the old-fashioned road course, was a great showcase for the IndyCar Series. It summed up the whole season, in fact.?It was close racing but it was clean, to the limits, Pagenaud said. At the end of the day, we didnt crash. We did what we were supposed to do as top drivers. I thought it was a great battle, and it was fantastic for the fans, what happened.?I just saw a chance and I went for it, really. Didnt think much more of it. David Montgomery Jersey . The Vancouver coach and an announced sellout crowd of 18,910 watched in dismay as the Canucks lost 7-4 to the New York Islanders on Monday night by squandering a 3-0 lead in the third period. Kevin Pierre-Louis Jersey . Now tied for second in the league in shootout goals, the 24-year-old likes to see what the opposing goaltender has in store before he ultimately lands on a move. http://www.custombearsjersey.com/custom-dennis-mckinnon-jersey-large-576t.html . 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Guyana Amazon Warriors 161 for 4 (Mohammed 57*, Lynn 57, Reifer 2-22) beat Barbados Tridents 158 for 6 (Pollard 47, Taylor 37, Tanvir 2-24) by six wicketsScorecard and ball-by-ball detailsBarbados Tridents will not be going back to the CPL finals for a third consecutive year after a six-wicket loss to Guyana Amazon Warriors in Florida. Tridents were eliminated from playoff contention as they lost their final league match of the 2016 season. Warriors, meanwhile, leaped past Jamaica Tallawahs into first place and guaranteed themselves at least two chances of making the CPL final for the third time, having moved four points clear of the third place St Lucia Zouks.Chris Lynn and Jason Mohammed were the batting saviours for Warriors in a tricky chase of 159. Tridents got off to a great start when Dwayne Smith was bowled through the gate on the first ball of the chase by Raymon Reifer. Lynn took the wind out of Tridents sails almost immediately, hitting his third and fourth balls for four and six respectively over the off side. Lynn again found the off-side boundary on three consecutive balls to end the second over from Ravi Rampaul, putting a charge into a crowd that was heavily behind Warriors.Captain Kieron Pollard went to spin starting with the third over and left-arm spinner Akeal Hosein and legspinner Imran Khan bowled brilliantly throughout the rest of the Powerplay to rein in Lynn and Nic Maddinson. Imran claimed Maddison to a mistimed slog well caught by a tumbling Ahmed Shehzad coming in from deep midwicket. After bolting to 27 for 1 in two overs, Warriors stood at 62 for 2 by the halfway stage, having failed to hit a boundary since the fifth over.Lynn rectified that by targetting David Wiese in the 11th over, hitting a six over midwicket on the first ball and then once more over the sight screen later in the over. Mohammed, who was subdued at the opposite end on 9 off 16 balls till the 12th over, finally found his range against Marchant de Lange in the 13th, clubbing him for the first two of his five sixes.Tridents began to roar back in the 15th over when Pollard took a good catch near the long-off boundary to claim Lynn for 57 off Reifer.ddddddddddddIn the following over, Pollard struck Anthony Brambles toe with a slower-ball yorker as the umpire sided with Pollards appeal to silence the crowd and the required rate inflated to 10 for the final four overs.The pendulum swung back, however, as Mohammed slammed a ball on his legs deep over midwicket for six in the 18th over. Later in the over, Christopher Barnwell flicked a delivery just past short fine leg for a four and Warriors needed 16 from two overs. Mohammeds fourth sixth came in the 19th over off Rampaul, over extra cover to bring up his half-century in 37 balls and he ended the match in style by smashing his fifth and final one over the leg side before charging down the pitch for a victory leap.Despite fighting until the final over, the Tridents total always looked under par after Zouks had posted 206 for 3 earlier in the day. American Steven Taylor, who grew up in Miramar just 20 minutes away from the Central Broward Regional Park, looked at home playing inside his local stomping ground. Coming off a crisp 35 a day earlier playing for a CPL Invitational XI against a USA XI, Taylor was back in the Tridents line-up for the first time since July 16 and stroked 37 off 21 balls with seven fours.Adam Zampa ended Taylors knock, inducing the left-hander to scoop a drive to long-off. Despite a good platform laid with a score of 50 for 1 in the eighth over, no other Tridents batsman could match Taylors scoring rate until Wiese appeared with three overs to go to make 13 off six balls. Pollard top-scored with 47 off 36 balls but he and Shoaib Malik fell on consecutive balls just when a late surge was required. In addition to Pollard, Sohail Tanvir claimed Nicholas Pooran in a clever spell at the end, ensuring the Warriors target would not be insurmountable. ' ' '