Chock and Bates of US win ice dance gold at Skate America
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By DAVE SKRETTA
AP Sports Writer
Madison Chock and Evan Bates scored 202.80 points on Sunday to hold off Kaitlin Hawayak and Jean-Luc Baker and win the ice dance event at Skate America. Hawayak and Baker finished with 202.07 points, while the Canadian duo of Marie-Jade Lauriault and Romain le Gac were a distant third with 178.30 points in the opening event of the Grand Prix season. In the women’s event, world champion Kaori Sakamoto of Japan performed brilliantly to hold off 15-year-old American star Isabeau Levito, who made a sublime Grand Prix debut to finish second. Amber Glenn of the U.S. was third.