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Charlotte, NC (SportsNetwork.com) - Kemba Walkers layup with 0.3 seconds to play helped the Charlotte Hornets hold off a late New York Knicks surge and end their 10-game losing streak with a thrilling 103-102 victory on Friday. Carmelo Anthony gave the Knicks a 102-101 lead off a wide-open 3 from the left side with 40.7 seconds to play. After each team missed a jump shot, the Hornets took a timeout with four seconds to play after Marvin Williams rebounded Anthonys miss. Coming out of the timeout, Walker raced up to the top of the arc to receive the inbound pass and darted through the key, laying the ball off the glass and into the net for the deciding basket as the buzzer sounded. Gerald Henderson finished with a season-high 22 points on 8-of-10 shooting, Al Jefferson had 16 points and 13 rebounds, and Lance Stephenson also scored 16 points for Charlotte, which won its first game since Nov. 14 at Phoenix. Anthony had a game-high 32 points, while J.R. Smith and Tim Hardaway Jr. supplied 14 and 13 points, respectively, off the bench in the Knicks seventh straight loss. The Hornets led by as much as 21 points after Hendersons layup with 2:31 to play in the third quarter, but the Knicks mounted a furious comeback, A pair of Hardaway triples book-ended a 18-8 spurt that whittled Charlottes lead down to 97-89 with 6:02 remaining in the game. Anthony netted four points before Smiths triple from the right wing cut the lead to five points with two minutes to play. After Pablo Prigioni stole the ball from Jefferson, Anthony made it a one-possession game for a 101-99 score with 1:22 left. Charlotte pulled away from the Knicks with a 10-3 run in the final minutes of the first quarter. After a PJ Hairston 3-pointer, Bismack Biyombo followed with an alley oop and another slam and the Hornets took a 31-21 lead into the second. Smith netted the Knicks first nine points of the second quarter to cut the deficit to 35-30 just over four minutes into the frame, but Williams responded with a jumper and a trey to quickly restore Charlottes 10-point advantage. The Hornets led 57-45 at halftime. The two teams traded baskets early in the third stanza, but Hendersons fadeaway jumper capped a 6-0 burst and his shot from beyond the arc three minutes later extended Charlottes lead to 80-60 with 3:04 to go in the frame. Game Notes Charlotte won its first home game since a 122-119 overtime victory against the Atlanta Hawks on Nov. 7 ... The Knicks have dropped their last nine games on the road ... The Hornets outscored the Knicks by a 52-30 margin in the paint and shot 47.7 percent from the floor ... The season series continues in New York on Jan. 10. Tigers Jerseys 2019 . The Philadelphia Eagles acquired running back Darren Sproles from the New Orleans Saints for a fifth-round draft pick on Tuesday. 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"We got off to a bad start. I threw a really bad rock in five and we had to come back from that. Luckily, we did and we pulled through." After giving up consecutive steals and trailing 3-0 at the break, Calvert and his team of Kyle Kurz, Lucas Van Den Bosch, Brendan Wilson, alternate Matt Dunstone and coach Tom Clasper fought back in the sixth. Calvert made a tricky angle raise double to score two and followed that up with a steal of two in the seventh to go ahead. "That was huge in terms of the momentum we got from that shot," Calvert said about the double in the sixth end. "We gained a lot of confidence and basically got back at them." Against Switzerland, the Canadians "came prepared to play," according to Canadian Team Leader Andrea Ronnebeck. "The Swiss fans, as always, were enthusiastic but so were the Canadian fans," said Ronnebeck. "The arena was rocking (pun intended) with a full house of Norwegians, Swiss, Scots, Italians, Americans and Canadians. It was awesome. Cow bells and all!"& And the Canadian supporters had a lot to cheer for as Calvert led the team to a 7-2 win over Switzerlands Yannick Schwaller, improving Canadas record to 4-3 and moving them into a three-way tie for third place (with Scotlands Kyle Smith and Schwaller).dddddddddddd "Were starting to get on a bit of a roll," said Calvert after the game. "Were starting to gain some momentum and confidence. We were really sharp out of the gate tonight and grabbed an early deuce. That was definitely the turning point in the game and we kept fighting and were able to pull it off. All the teams here are tough and each game is going to be a battle." On Sunday, the Canadian men will take on USAs Jake Vukich (2-5) and Austrias Sebastian Wunderer (3-4) to finish up the round robin. On the womens side, Kelsey Rocque defeated USAs Cory Christensen 8-4 to move into first place in the standings, tied with Korea, Switzerland and Russia, all with 5-2 records. Rocque and her Edmonton team of Keely Brown, Taylor McDonald, Claire Tully, alternate Alison Kotylak and coach Amanda-Dawn Coderre led the USA 6-4 after eight ends and scored a deuce in the ninth to put the game away. The Canadian women have now won three in a row and will try to keep the momentum going in their final games of the round robin on Sunday against Scotlands Gina Aitken (2-5) and Denmarks Christine Svensen (0-7). ' ' '