Photo Gallery | Box Score Highlights | Raps Sign Jackson | Quotes Chris Bosh Points: 28 Rebounds: 10 Assists:2 "I know that we have come a long way. I am just proud how far the team has come along," Chris Bosh The Raptors shot 32-39 from the line. Team RB ST BLK TOT TOR 27 13 3 43 ORL 41 9 3 53

April 4, 2007

ORLANDO (AP) -- Chris Bosh and the Toronto Raptors received a big reward Wednesday night for being able to weather the storm.

Orlando scored 37 first-quarter points on sparkling 83 per cent shooting for an early 15-point lead, but Bosh's 28 points rallied the Raptors to a 111-108 victory over the Magic and a 4-0 sweep of the season series.

``I know that we have come a long way,'' Bosh said. ``I can count on several occasions in my mind that we were down 15 points on the road and we did not capitalize on our situation.''

Orlando squandered its best start of the season and lost its second straight in a four-game homestand. The Magic have lost 40 other times this season, but this one was theirs.

``I'm tired of saying we're still in it, because at some point if you keep saying it and you keep losing you won't be in it,'' Grant Hill said.

Bosh made five big free throws down the stretch as Toronto hit 9-of-19 from three-point range. Anthony Parker added 20 points for the Raptors while Joey Graham scored 19 points and T.J. Ford had 16 points and eight assists.

Toronto has already clinched a playoff berth, but is still playing for a high seed.

``We are very aware that we are in the race for third place right now,'' Bosh said. ``Every game means something.

``You can't take a day off.''

Hedo Turkoglu shook a recent shooting slump for a career-high 37 points, but missed a potential game-tying three-pointer. Turkoglu had gone a combined 6-for-25 the previous two games.

``I was feeling good the whole game,'' he said. ``I don't know what happened; it came out.

``But we should have taken care of business before that and not (try to) win it on last-second shots.''

Turkoglu tied the game 106-106 on a three-pointer with 3:18 left, but the Magic didn't score for the next two minutes. Bosh hit three free throws, but was called for goaltending on Turkoglu's layup with 47 seconds left.

Trailing 109-108, Turkoglu missed a jumper. Dwight Howard got the rebound, but Bosh drew an offensive foul on Hill.

With 9.4 seconds let, Bosh drained two foul shots to seal the win.

Both Howard and Bosh scored career highs (32 and 41 points, respectively) when these teams met in February, and both were on track for even better nights after 11-point first quarters.

But Howard didn't score in the second or third, finishing with 18 points and 15 rebounds, and Bosh slowed down in the third and fourth.

``They started double-teaming me, and I have to find open passes,'' Howard said. ``But I need to learn how to play with the double team.''

After its sparkling first quarter, the Magic couldn't do much right until the fourth.

``We hoped _ knew _ they wouldn't shoot like that all night, and we picked it up defensively,'' Parker said.

Orlando, which had an early 15-point lead, trailed by eight points in the third and nine in the fourth.

Toronto outscored Orlando 8-2 in the last minute of the first half, drawing to 57-52 at the break. Graham scored five of them, including a three-pointer with 1.5 seconds left.

The Raptors were playing the second of a three-game road trip, coming off a three-point loss to Miami on Tuesday.

Notes: Darko Milicic was thrown out after arguing a holding call on Bosh with 3:39 left in the third. Gesturing adamantly, he had to be held back by teammates. The forward had two rebounds and no points in seven minutes . . . Magic F Trevor Ariza fouled out with three minutes left in the fourth . . . Toronto was without Andrea Bargnani, who continues to rest after a March 21 appendectomy, and Jorge Garbajosa, out for the season after left ankle surgery.