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ORLANDO, Fla. - The Dallas Mavericks set out in the off-season to add depth in hopes of building a roster capable of competing with the upper tier of the Western Conference.They ended the preseason looking like a team that may be ready for that challenge.Chandler Parsons scored 24 points, and Dirk Nowitzki added 16 as the Mavericks ran away with a 117-92 win over the Magic on Friday.Everybody came in and did their job, Dallas coach Rick Carlisle said. Youre never going to be perfect, but weve got good depth and weve got guys that I think are going to be ready. Now its time to throw it up.Dallas (4-4) rested its starters Thursday and played refreshed, pushing its lead above 20 in the third quarter.Orlando (4-4) didnt help itself, posting a preseason-high 26 turnovers.Tobias Harris led the Magic with 14 points.The Magic played under slightly dampened spirits following news Friday that second-year guard Victor Oladipo would have surgery Saturday for a facial fracture he sustained after catching an inadvertent elbow in practice Thursday.Oladipo had already missed the entire preseason with a sprained right medial collateral ligament and remains out indefinitely. He joins Channing Frye, who also sat all eight preseason games and is out with a sprained left MCL.A night after resting the top seven players in his rotation at New Orleans, Dallas coach Rick Carlisle went with his projected opening night starting five of Parsons, Nowitzki, Tyson Chandler, Monta Ellis and Jameer Nelson on Friday.They all played 20-plus minutes, led by Ellis with 26.That is always the goal, Chandler said of Dallas championship prospects this season. You look at our team and look at the chemistry were having. We just have to continue to get better...and everything else will take care of itself.Vaughn said he has yet to settle on his starting five for the regular season opener, but acknowledged that preseason injuries have left things fluid in the interim.It means that Orlandos Friday starting lineup of Harris, Kyle OQuinn, Nik Vucevic, Maurice Harkless, and Luke Ridnour is certainly a possible combination to open the regular season next week.The Magic got another injury scare in the third quarter when Ridnour limped off after banging knees with Parsons.___TIP-INSThe Mavericks: G Raymond Felton missed his sixth straight preseason game with a sprained right ankle.The Magic: Along with Oladipo and Frye, the Magic also played without Ben Gordon (dental work) and Dewayne Dedmon (sore foot) on Friday.INJURY TALKVaughn said in the day since his injury Oladipo has remained in good spirits and that he is confident he will take his recent run of bad luck in stride. One of the things I told him was it could be worse, Vaughn said. Lifes about challenges, how you face them and how you overcome them. And right now hes got a couple of challenges. Hes working back from one challenge with the knee, so I joked with him that the knee will probably be completely healed by the time you come back from the facial fracture.HOMECOMINGOrlandos fans gave Nelson, who spent the first 10 years of his career in Orlando, a loud ovation when he was introduced pregame. Nelson was waived by the Magic after last season, freeing him up to become an unrestricted free agent and eventually sign in Dallas.STAT WATCHVucevic has been consistent throughout the preseason and ended it that way. The Magics big man appeared in seven games this preseason, reaching double figures in them all. 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Alberta third Joanne Courtney said the key is to keep Homans team from pulling out the three-or-four point ends they have used to roll over most opponents in the tournament. "You cant afford to miss too many against them,"said Courtney. "Theyve scored a lot of big ends this week, so we have to be careful when they have hammer with what we leave around. "Theyre really good at weight. Sometimes you think you put it in the right spot and they make a triple or something." Courtney put her second shot straight through the house in the extra end, but Carey was unable to make her pay for the error. "I knew shed want that one back, but the button was still open and, as a skip, thats all you want," said Sweeting. Sweeting, who finished fourth in the round-robin portion of the tournament, got to the semifinal with an 8-7 victory Saturday morning over Saskatchewans Stefanie Lawton. Carey, who will play in the bronze medal game against Lawton, was dismayed at a spotty performance. "Its terrible, it sucks," she said, lamenting too many missed shots. "There were a bunch throughout the game. "We fought the inch a bit. We played a great game (Friday against Homan) and didnt win, and played a not-great game today and didnt win. Its just not our week, I guess." Manitoba emerged from the first five ends with a 2-1 lead, but neither team looked sharp. After the break, Sweeting hit for two in the sixth to take the lead, then ggot another in the seventh when Careys draw to the button ran long.dddddddddddd The next end, it was Sweeting who went long on a draw and Carey was able to score two. Then Sweeting was a tad heavy on a hit in a bid for two and had to settle for one. She took a 5-4 lead, but gave Carey the hammer going into the 10th. Carey left a draw short on her first rock, then drew for one to send it to an extra end. In the third-versus fourth game, Lawton left draws well short in the seventh and eighth ends to allow Alberta to steal five points en route to an 8-7 victory. The missed shots left her squad down 8-3 with two ends to play. They closed the gap at the end but the outcome was not in doubt. The Saskatchewan skip looked devastated. "I had great draw weight at the beginning of the game and I just seemed to lose it after the sixth end," the Saskatoon resident said. "Just two tough draws and I couldnt make it for the girls and I feel not so good about that." Saskatchewan looked to have taken control with a steal of one in the fifth for a 3-1 lead, but things went south after the break. Lawton missed a double takeout that gave Sweeting an easy two to tie it in the sixth. Then Lawton left a draw short to give Alberta a steal of two in the seventh for its first lead of the game. A crisp Sweeting double takeout in the eight left a crowd of Alberta stones in the house. Lawton tried to draw into them but a groan went up from the grandstands as she left it short again for a steal of three. She rebounded with two in the ninth and Sweetings rink played with fire in the 10th by letting Saskatchewan put stones in the house. But a Sweeting takeout with the last stone sealed the victory despite Saskatchewans steal of two. "The ice was great," said Lawton. "It was a little keener and straighter but nothing we couldnt adjust to. "It was just a matter of making better shots." Now she hopes to salvage something by taking third place. "Were going to come out and play for that bronze medal because wed be very proud to win that one," she said. It is Lawtons third Scotties after appearances in 2005 and 2009, and all three times she lost in the 3-versus-4 game. She finished third in round-robin play at 8-3 but lost to Yukon (2-9) in her last game Friday. Fourth-place Sweeting had lost 8-6 to Lawton in the round robin. ' ' '