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PORTLAND, Ore. - Damian Lillard scored 24 points, including a tiebreaking 3-pointer with 1:14 left, and the Portland Trail Blazers rallied for a 102-93 victory over the New Orleans Pelicans on Monday night.LaMarcus Aldridge, back after missing one game with an illness, had 22 points and nine rebounds to help the Blazers win their fifth straight.Anthony Davis had 31 points and 11 rebounds for the Pelicans, who couldnt hold a 16-point, third-quarter lead.Wesley Matthews hit a 3 to tie it at 91, and Robin Lopezs layup gave Portland its first lead of the second half with 2:23 left. Lillards 3-pointer put the Blazers in front 96-93, and they made free throws the rest of the way for the final margin.Aldridge returned after sitting out a game because of an upper respiratory illness. Portland starting forward Nicolas Batum missed his fourth straight game because of a bruised right knee.Batum had said he hoped to return in time for this game.The Pelicans were without centre Omer Asik, who is nursing a sore back. The 7-footer was averaging nine points and 10 rebounds. Alexis Ajinca started in his place.The Blazers jumped out to an 8-0 lead but the Pelicans came back to tie it at 11 on Davis basket, and the teams wrestled back and forth from there.Ryan Andersons 3-pointer for New Orleans tied the game at 35 — and touched off a 10-2 Pelicans run capped by another basket from Anderson.The Pelicans stayed in front for a 49-42 lead at the break, then came out of the locker room with a 9-2 run to go ahead 58-44.Tyreke Evans hit a 3-pointer that put New Orleans up 77-62 before the start of the fourth quarter.CJ McCollum made a 3 and Aldridge hit a long jumper that closed Portland to 85-80 with 7:24 left.Davis answered with a tip shot, but Aldridges layup on the other end kept it close and Lopezs layup narrowed the lead to 87-84 with 6:03 to go.___TIP-INSPelicans: It was the first of a four-game Western swing. ... F Luke Babbitt began his NBA career with the Blazers from 2010-2013. 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I kept it in play nice off the tee, didnt get in much trouble, and only made the one bogey." The highest ranked player in the field in the FedEx Cup standings at No. 13, Stuard finished second in November in the OHL Classic in Mexico. He also had a strong run in January, fishing sixth in the Sony Open in Hawaii and sixth the next week in the Humana Challenge in California. "Ive just been playing prettty solid, but been putting well," Stuard said.dddddddddddd. "I putted really good to start off the year and then kind of last few weeks not quite as good and then good today." Jason Gore and Danny Lee shot 67, and Y.E. Yang was another stroke back along with Ricky Barnes, William McGirt, Tim Petrovic, Chesson Hadley, Eric Axley and Ben Martin. "It wasnt easy out there," Lee said. "It was very windy, and theres some tough pin placements out there, but I played very smart today and I hit it where I wanted to hit it, and I rolled it really nicely with the putter. It was a really good day for me." Defending champion Scott Brown opened with a 70. Brooks Koepka, a field-high 70th in the world ranking, shot 72. John Daly had a triple-bogey 7 on the par-4 12th hole in a round of 74. ' ' '