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Saturday March 28, 2009

Results Worldwide

BASKETBALL

NBA Championship

LA Lakers 92 Detroit 77, Chicago 106 Miami 87, Portland129 Phoenix 109.

CYCLING

Tour of Castilla and Leon

Fourth stage (145.4km): 1. Juan Jose Cobo (Spa) Fuji 3’42:03, 2. Denis Menchov (Rus) 8 seconds behind, 3. Javier Moreno (Spa) 9secs, 4. Alejandro Valverde (Spa) same time, 5. Philip Deignan (Spa) same time.

Overall

1. Levi Leipheimer (US) Astana 12’15:38, 2. Alberto Contador (Spa) 16s, 3. David Zabriskie (US) 22s, 4. Stef Clement (Ned) 49s, 5. Denis Menchov (Rus) 55s.

World Track Cycling Championships

Men

Scratch

1. Morgan Kneisky (Fra), 2. Angel Dario Colla (Arg), 3. Andreas Mueller (Aut), 4. Travis Meyer (Aus), 5. Kazuhiro Mori (Jpn), 6. Ivan Kovalev (Rus0, 7. Mark Cavendish (Bri), 8. Hayden Godfrey (Nzl), 9. Aliaksandr Lisouski (Bla), 10. Carlos Alberto Uran Arroyabe (Col).

Individual Pursuit

1. Taylor Phinney (US) 4:17.631, 2. Jack Bobridge (Aus) 4:20.091, 3. Dominique Cornu (Bel) 4:22.347, 4. Volodymyr Diudia (Ukr) 4:28.297.

Keirin

1. Maximilian Levy (Ger), 2. Francois Pervis (Fra) 3. Teun Mulder (Ned), 4. Ross Edgar (Bri), 5. Matthew Crampton (Bri), 6. Sergey Borisov (Rus), 7. Shane Perkins (Aus), 8. Carsten Bergemann (Ger), 9. Christos Volikakis (Gre), 10. Josiah Ng Onn Lam (Mal).

Women

Team Sprint

1. Australia, 2. Britain, 3. Lithuania, 4. France, 5. Netherlands, 6. Germany, 7. China, 8. Russia, 9. Poland, 10. Hong Kong.

Team Pursuit

1. Britain, 2. New Zealand, 3. Australia, 4. Netherlands, 5. Lithuania, 6. China, 7. Germany, 8. Russia, 9. Belgium, 10. Colombia.

GOLF

Arnold Palmer Invitational

First-round (US unless noted): 65: Jason Gore; 66: Tim Herron, Jeff Overton; 67: Sean O’Hair, Lee Janzen, Mark Wilson, Nick Watney, Stuart Appleby (AUS), Hunter Mahan; 68: Skip Kendall, Chad Campbell, Daniel Chopra (Swe), Rocco Mediate, Tiger Woods, Brian Gay, JJ Henry; 70: Mathew Goggin (Aus), Ryuji Imada (Jpn), Richard S. Johnson (Swe), John Senden (Aus), Padraig Harrington (Irl), James Nitties (Aus); 71: Brian Davis (Bri), Robert Allenby (Aus), Nick O’Hern (Aus), Jeev Milkha Singh (Ind), Graeme McDowell (Nir), Stephen Ames (Can), Trevor Immelman (Rsa), Mike Weir (Can); 72: Peter Lonard (Aus), Louis Oosthuizen (Rsa), Adam Scott (Aus), Oliver Wilson (Bri); 73: Angel Cabrera (Arg); 74: Vijay Singh (Fij), Retief Goosen (Rsa), Brendon de Jonge (Zim); 75: Justin Rose (Bri), Aaron Baddeley (Aus); 76: Ross Fisher (Bri), Fredrik Jacobson (Swe), Greg Owen (Bri), Ryo Ishikawa (Jpn); 77: Ian Poulter (Bri), Michael Campbell (Nzl); 78: Rod Pampling (Aus), Carl Pettersson (Swe), Richard Sterne (Rsa).

Andalucia Open

First round scores: 66: Christopher Doak (Sco); 67: Juan Parron (Spa), Colin Montgomerie (Sco), Jean-Francois Lucquin (Fra), Steven O’Hara (Sco); 68: Stephen Dodd (Wal), Thomas Bjorn (Den), Marcel Siem (Ger), Andrew Coltart (Sco), Gonzalo Fdez-Castano (Spa), Soren Kjeldsen (Swe); 69: Jesus Maria Arruti (Spa), Marco Ruiz (Par), Michael Jonzon (Swe), Jamie Donaldson (Wal), Birgir Hafthorsson (Icl), Jose Manuel Lara (Spa); 70: Carlos Del Moral (Spa), Thomas Aiken (Rsa), Ake Nilsson (Rsa), Jean Van de Velde (Fra), Graeme Storm (Eng), Simon Wakefield (Eng), John E Morgan (Eng), Raul Quiros (Spa), Matthew Millar (Aus), Markus Brier (Aut), Miles Tunnicliff (Eng), Gregory Havret (Fra), Bradley Dredge (Wal), Jan Are Larsen (Nor), Francois Delamontagne (Fra), Jarmo Sandelin (Swe), Scott Drummond (Sco), Seve Benson (Eng), Ricardo Gonzalez (Arg), Carl Suneson (Spa), David Drysdale (Sco), Thomas Levet (Fra);

Black Mountain Masters (Bangkok)

Second round scores: 132: Johan Edfors (Swe) 64-68; 135: Darren Beck (Aus) 69-66, Frankie Minoza (Phi) 67-68; 136: Jason King (Aus) 68-68; 137: Noh Seung-yul (Kor) 66-71, Chapchai Nirat (Tha) 69-68, Peter Cooke (Aus) 67-70, George Coetzee (Rsa) 67-70; 138: Wu Ashun (Chn) 69-69, Chris Rodgers (Eng) 70-68, Kiradech Aphibarnrat (Tha) 69-69; 139: Prom Meesawat (Tha) 70-69, Artemio Murakami (Phi) 68-71, Keith Horne (Rsa) 68-71, Anirban Lahiri (Ind) 69-70.

Phoenix LPGA International

First round (Kor unless noted): 68: Kim In-kyung; 69: Jiyai Shin, Ji Eun-hee, Cristie Kerr (US), Inbee Park, Suzann Pettersen (Nor); 70: Karine Icher (Fra), Wendy Doolan (Aus), Irene Cho (US), Angela Park (Bra), Kim Song-hee, Karrie Webb (Aus), Oh Ji-young, Silvia Cavalleri (Ita), Giulia Sergas (Ita), Reilley Rankin (US); 71: Louise Stahle (Swe), Ai Miyazato (Jpn); 72: Russy Gulyanamitta (Tha), Amy Yang, Linda Wessberg (Swe), Laura Davies (Bri), Hee-Won Han, Candie Kung (Tpe), Lindsey Wright (Aus), Yani Tseng (Tpe), Lee Jee-young, Se Ri Pak, Lorena Ochoa (Mex); 73: Alena Sharp (Can), Karin Sjodin (Swe), Sophie Gustafson (Swe), Carin Koch (Swe), Yoo Sun-young, Michelle Wie, Chella Choi, Na On Min; 74: Jimin Kang, H.J. Choi, Birdie Kim, Young Kim, Choi Na-yeon, Lorie Kane (Can), Rachel Hetherington (Aus), Meena Lee, Jin Joo Hong, Teresa Lu (Tpe), Helen Alfredsson (Swe);

n Rugby

Hong Kong Sevens

Pool A: South Africa 29 South Korea 7; France 17 Uruguay 5.

Pool B: England 54 China 0; Wales 14 Japan 5

Pool C: New Zealand 59 Sri Lanka 0; Australia 33 Zimbabwe 5.

Pool D: Argentina 28 Hong Kong 0; Tonga 17 Portugal 5

Pool E: Fiji 33 Taiwan 0; Samoa 14 Canada 10

Pool F: Kenya 17 West Indies 10; Scotland 19 USA 17

n TENNIS

Miami Masters

Men

First round: Martin Vassallo Arguello (Arg) bt Potito Starace (ita) 7-6 (11-9), 6-4, Teimuraz Gabashvili (Rus) bt Simone Bolelli (Ita) 6-4, 4-6, 6-4, Nicolas Massu (Chi) bt Ryan Sweeting (US) 6-4, 7-6 (7-2), Amer Delic (US) bt Steve Darcis (Bel) 6-4, 7-6 (7-2), John Isner (US) bt Sergiy Stakhovsky (Ukr) 6-4, 6-4, Frederico Gil (Por) bt Mischa Zverev (Ger) 7-6 (9-7), 6-2, Andrea Seppi (Ita) bt Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (Spa) 7-6 (8-6), 6-1, Benjamin Becker (Ger) bt Jesse Levine (US) 6-4, 6-3, Sam Querrey (US) bt Gilles Muller (Lux) 6-4, 6-3, Lu Yen-hsun (Tpe) bt Eduardo Schwank (Arg) 6-2, 6-2, Bobby Reynolds (US) bt Juan Ignacio Chela (Arg) 0-6, 7-5, 6-4, Viktor Troicki (Srb) bt Nicolas Devilder (Fra) 6-2, 6-3, Albert Montanes (Spa) bt Stefan Koubek (Aut) 6-4, 7-6 (7-2), Janko Tipsarevic (Srb) bt Jose Acasuso (Arg) 6-4, 4-6, 6-3, Juan Monaco (Arg) bt Marc Gicquel (Fra) 6-0, 6-4, Igor Kunitsyn (Rus) bt Guillermo Canas (Arg) 7-6 (7-2), 5-7, 6-3

Women

First round: Alla Kudryavtseva (Rus) bt Mariana Duque Marino (Col) 6-4, 7-6 (8-6); Ekaterina Makarova (Rus) bt Chan Yung-Jan (Tpe) 3-6, 6-2, 6-3; Anna-Lena Groenefeld (Ger) bt Jill Craybas (US) 6-4, 6-1; Li Na (Chn) bt Urszula Radwanska (Pol) 6-4, 5-7, 6-1; Alexa Glatch (US) bt Timea Bacsinszky (Sui) 6-4, 6-1; Gisela Dulko (Arg) bt Lourdes Dominguez (Spa) 6-2, 6-4; Tathiana Garbin (Ita) bt Klara Zakopalova (Cze) 6-3, 6-4; Maria Jose Martinez (Spa) bt Yanina Wickmayer (Bel) 6-0, 6-4; Mara Santangelo (Ita) bt Pauline Parmentier (Fra) 6-1, 7-5; Barbora Zahlavova Strycova (Cze) bt Karin Knapp (Ita) 7-6 (7-2), 6-3; Tamarine Tanasugarn (Tha) bt Nathalie Dechy (Fra) 6-3, 7-5; Sabine Lisicki (Ger) bt Petra Kvitova (Cze) 6-2, 6-4; Karolina Sprem (Cro) bt Marina Erakovic (Nzl) 6-0, 6-2; Julia Goerges (Ger) bt Virginie Razzano (Fra) 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (7-4); Shahar Peer (Isr) bt Tamaryn Hendler (Bel) 6-1, 7-6 (7-5); Michaella Krajicek (Ned) bt Ayumi Morita (Jpn) 1-6, 6-4, 7-6 (7-3).


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