Chock and Bates top Hubbell and Donohue for US title

By DAVE SKRETTA
AP Sports Writer

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Madison Chock and Evan Bates answered a passionate, near-flawless performance by Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue with a mesmerizing, out-of-this-world show of their own Saturday night to win their third ice dance title at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships. Chock and Bates danced their way through a medley by French electronic duo Daft Punk to earn a career-best 227.37 points and a standing ovation. It was enough to hold off Hubbell and Donohue, the defending champions, who had a career-best 225.59 of their own. Katilin Hawayak and Jean-Luc Baker leaped over Caroline Green and Michael Parsons into third place and likely giving them the third slot on the U.S. team for Beijing.