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Saturday March 7, 2009

Results Worldwide

News in brief on basketbal, golf, tennis, rugby, cycling and swimming

BASKETBALL

NBA Championship

New Orleans 104 Dallas 88; Denver 106 Portland 90.

CYCLING

Tour of Murcia

Second stage (100km): 1. Greg Henderson (Nzl) Team Columbia 2’07:27, 2. Ruben Perez Euskaltel (Spa), 3. Julian Dean (Nzl), 4. David Calatayud (Spa), 5. Tom Leezer (Ned) all same time.

Leading standings: 1. Greg Henderson (Nzl) Team Columbia 7’14:04, 2. Ruben Perez Euskaltel (Spa), 3. Graeme Brown (Aus), 4. Tom Leezer (Ned), 5. Matthew Goss (Aus) all same time.

GOLF

Honda Classic

Leading first round (US unless stated, nine players yet to compete round due to darkness): 66: Robert Allenby (Aus); 67: Angel Cabrera (Arg), Stewart Cink, Sergio Garcia (Spa), Will MacKenzie, Jeff Overton, Charlie Wi (Kor); 68: Kent Jones, David Mathis, Chris Riley, Yong-Eun yang (Kor); 69: Michael Allen, Brian Bateman, Nathan Green (Aus), Jeff Klauk, John Mallinger, Stephen Marino, Billy Mayfair, John Merrick, DA Points, John Rollins, John Senden (Aus), Heath Slocum, Chris Stroud, Nicholas Thompson; 70: Darren Clarke (NIrl), Miguel Angel Jimenez (Spa), Rory McIlroy (NIrl), James Nitties (Aus);

71: Alex Cejka (Ger), Shingo Katayama (Jpn), Tim Wilkinson (Nzl); 72: Brendon De Jonge (Zim), Fredrik Jacobson (Swe), Greg Owen (Bri), Carl Pettersson (Swe); 73: Greg Chalmers (Aus), Ernie Els (Rsa), Richard S. Johnson (Swe), Martin Laird (Bri), Marc Leishman (Aus), Nick O’Hern (Aus), Aron Price (Aus), Andres Romero (Arg), Justin Rose (Bri), Camilo Villegas (Col); 74: Stuart Appleby (Aus), Brian Davis (Bri), Peter Lonard (Aus); 75: Jose Coceres (Arg), Jay Williamson; 89: Mathias Gronberg (Swe).

HSBC Women’s Champions

Leading second round scores: 138: Jane Park (US) 67-71, Paula Creamer (US) 67-71; 139: Kim Mi-hyun (Kor) 71-68, Katherine Hull (Aus) 70-69; 140: Yoo Sun-young (Kor) 71-69, Ai Miyazato (Jpn) 68-72; 141: Lindsay Wright (Aus) 72-69, Feng Shanshan (Chn) 70-71, Pak Si-re (Kor) 69-72, Angela Stanford (US) 69-72; 142: Kim Song-hee (Kor) 72-70, Suzann Pettersen (Nor) 72-70, Juli Inkster (US) 72-70, Amy Yang (Kor) 73-69, Meena Lee (Kor) 72-70, Michele Redman (US) 70-72, Lorena Ochoa (Mex) 69-73, Ji Eun-hee (Kor) 69-73, Seon Hwa-lee (Kor) 68-72;

143: Tseng Yani (Tpe) 72-71, Kirsty McPherson (US) 72-71, Anja Monke (Ger) 73-70, Karrie Webb (Eng) 74-69, Natalie Gulbis (US) 70-73, Gwladys Nocera (Fra) 69-74, Angela Park (Bra) 67-76; 144: Park Hee-young (Kor) 72-72, Russy Gulyanamitta (Tha) 72-72, Alena Sharp (Can) 72-72, Cristie Kerr (US) 73-71, Momoko Ueda (Jpn) 71-73.

New Zealand PGA

Leading second round scores: 135: Gareth Paddison (Nzl) 67-68, Josh Teater (US) 67-68, Kurt Barnes (Aus) 64-71; 136: Steve Friesen (US) 69-67, Peter O’Malley (Aus) 69-67; 137: David Branshaw (US) 66-71, Michael Sim (Aus) 71-66, Craig Bowden (US) 69-68, Kevin Johnson (US) 70-67, Matthew Griffin (Aus), 69-68, Josh Geary (Nzl) 72-65, Michael Wright, Australia 71-66; 138: Gavin Coles (Aus) 70-68, Scott Dunlap (US) 67-71, Ryan Hietala (US) 71-67, Jason Norris (Aus) 73-65, Scott Hend (Aus) 68-70, Brad Kennedy (Aus) 71-67, Ryan Hammond (Aus) 65-73, Danny Lee (Nzl) 71-67, Richard Lee (Nzl) 69-69, Justin Hicks (US) 69-69, Nick Flanagan (Aus) 71-67, Brian Stuard (US) 70-68;

139: Brad Shilton (Nzl) 70-69, Tripp Isenhour (US) 72-67, Steve Alker (Nzl) 69-70, David Smail (Nzl) 68-71, Stephen Dartnall (Aus) 72-67, Geoffrey Sisk (US) 72-67, Craig Parry (Aus) 71-68, Adam Bland (Aus) 69-70; 140: Bradley Hughes (Aus) 73-67, Peter Senior (Aus) 69-71, Roger Tambellini (US) 69-71, Joe Daley (US) 70-70, Paul Marantz (Aus) 71-69, Chad Ginn (US) 71-69, Ryan Haller (Aus) 73-67, Alex Prugh (US) 73-67, Rich Barcelo (US) 70-70, Dustin Risdon (Can) 71-69, Aaron Townsend (Aus) 73-67.

Thailand Open

Leading second round scores: 128: S.S.P. Chowrasia (Ind) 66-62; 129: Rhys Davies (Wal) 65-64; 130: Gaganjeet Bhullar (Ind) 64-66; 131: David Bransdon (Aus) 66-65; 132: Udorn Duangdecha (Tha) 66-66, Tim Stewart (Aus) 65-67; 133: Lu Wei-chih (Tpe) 65-68, Chapchai Nirat (Tha) 64-69, Mardan Mamat (Sin) 66-67; 134: Darren Beck (Aus) 67-67, Angelo Que (Phi) 67-67, Bryan Saltus (US) 68-66, Kodai Ichihara (Jpn) 68-66, Kim Dae-Hyun (Kor) 70-64, Wu Ashun (Chn) 67-67, Keith Horne (Rsa) 65-69, Kiradech Aphibarnrat (Tha) 68-66, Mitchell Brown (Aus) 63-71.

Selected: 136: Daniel Chopra (Swe) 67-69; 139: Thongchai Jaidee (Tha) 69-70.

MOTOR RACING

Formula One testing (Jerez)

1. Nick Heidfeld (Ger) BMW 1:20.052, 2. Kimi Raikkonen (Fin) Ferrari 1:20.414, 3. Lewis Hamilton (Bri) McLaren 1:21.272, 4. Mark Webber (Aus) Red Bull 1:22.219, 5. Kazuki Nakajima (Jpn) Williams 1:22.226, 6. Jarno Trulli (Ita) Toyota 1:23.119.

RUGBY

World Cup Sevens

New Zealand 42 Italy 0; Tonga 19 Arabian Gulf 0; France 26 United States 17; Fiji 26 Georgia 10; South Africa 26 Japan 5; Scotland 14 Canada 33; Samoa 35 Ireland 5; Australia 24 Portugal 12; England 42 Hong Kong 5; Kenya 29 Tunisia 7; Wales 31 Zimbabwe 5; Argentina 19 Uruguay 7.

SWIMMING

Austin Grand Prix

Men (US unless stated)

50m freestyle: 1. Fred Bousquet (Fra) 21.44, 2. George Bovell (Tri) 22.01, 3. Cesar Cielo (Bra) 22.08.

100m butterfly: 1. Masayuki Kishida (Jpn) 52.44, 2. Albert Subirats (Ven) 53.10, 3. 3. Davis Tarwater 53.43. 200m individual medley: 1. Yannick Lebherz (Ger) 2:00.09, 2. Alex Vanderkaay 2:01.99, 3. Adam Ritter 2:03.03.

400m freestyle: 1. Peter Vanderkaay 3:45.21, 2. Christian Kuhbusch (Ger) 3:49.80, 3. Ryan Harrison 3:55.97.

Women (US unless stated)

50m freestyle: 1. Dara Torres 24.91, 2. Jackie Vavrek 25.46, 3. Kara Lynn Joyce 25.48.

100m butterfly: 1. Mary Descenza 58.91, 2. Whitney Myers 1:00.14, 3. Alex Forrester 1:00.37.

200m individual medley: 1. Witney Myers 2:14.05, 2. Elizabeth Beisel 2:15.07, 3. Mary Descenza 2:15.12. 400m freestyle: 1. Katie Hoff 4:07.28, 2. Dagny Knutson 4:12.95, 3. Samantha Shellem 4:13.84.

TENNIS

Monterrey Open

Second round: Barbora Zahlavova Strycova (Cze) bt Flavia Pennetta (Ita) 7-6 (7-4), 2-6, 6-4; Marion Bartoli (Fra) bt Magdalena Rybarikova (Svk) 6-4, 6-0; Iveta Benesova (Cze) bt Roberta Vinci (Ita) 7-6 (7-4), 6-2; Vania King (US) bt Agnes Szavay (Hun) 3-6, 6-4, 6-3.


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