Baseball

NEW YORK: MLB playoffs result on Saturday (home team in CAPS)

American League Championship Series

Cleveland 13 BOSTON 6

(Best-of-seven series tied at 1-1)

GOLF

Frys.com Open

LAS VEGAS, Nevada: Leading third-round scores on Saturday from the $4 million Frys.com Open (USA unless noted):

197 - George McNeill 66-64-67

202 - Robert Garrigus 71-63-68, D.J. Trahan 65-65-72

203 - John Huston 66-65-72, Kent Jones 68-67-68, Bo Van Pelt 66-69-68, Garrett Willis 68-62-73

204 - Cameron Beckman 65-71-68, Jason Gore 63-68-73, Jeff Gove 67-67-70, Mathias Gronberg (SWE) 69-64-71, Stephen Leaney (AUS) 67-68-69, Bob May 63-70-71, Mark Wilson 66-67-71...

205 - Phil Tataurangi (NZL) 67-70-68, Mike Weir (CAN) 69-67-69

207 - Jesper Parnevik (SWE) 68-69-70

208 - Carlos Franco (PAR) 68-71-69

209 - Arjun Atwal (IND) 68-69-72, Daniel Chopra (SWE) 66-70-73

210 - Daisuke Maruyama (JPN) 67-67-76, Greg Owen (GBR) 72-66-72, Grant Waite (NZL) 66-69-75

211 - Brian Davis (GBR) 70-68-73, Mathew Goggin (AUS) 68-67-76

Madrid Open

MADRID: Leading third round scores in the EPGA Madrid Open golf tournament here on Saturday (Gbr and Irl unless stated, par 72):

203 - Daniel Vancsik (ARG) 65 70 68

205 - Mads Vibe-Hastrup (DEN) 69 69 67

207 - Rory McIlroy 73 68 66, Alejandro Canizares (ESP) 69 66 72

208 - Marcus Fraser (AUS) 75 68 65, Santiago Luna (ESP) 75 67 66, Gregory Bourdy (FRA) 71 69 68, Manuel Quiros (ESP) 72 67 69, Jean Van de Velde (FRA) 71 66 71

209 - Christopher Hanell (SWE) 70 73 66, Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano (ESP) 71 69 69, Emanuele Canonica (ITA) 68 70 71, Gary Lockerbie 68 68 73

Samsung LPGA

PALM DESERT, California: Third-round scores here on Saturday from the $1 million Samsung LPGA World Championship (South Korea unless noted):

204 - Lorena Ochoa (MEX) 68-67-69, Suzann Pettersen (NOR) 71-69-64

205 - Jeong Jang 69-68-68, Mi Hyun Kim 68-70-67, Angela Park (BRA) 67-69-69

207 - Paula Creamer (USA) 67-69-71

210 - Jee Young Lee 70-70-70, Se Ri Pak 69-71-70, Angela Stanford (USA) 70-66-74

211 - Cristie Kerr (USA) 75-66-70

212 - Seon Hwa Lee 73-73-66, Stacy Prammanasudh (USA) 72-70-70, Morgan Pressel (USA) 68-72-72

213 - Maria Hjorth (SWE) 72-70-71, Sarah Lee 72-72-69

216 - Brittany Lincicome (USA) 74-70-72

218 - Nicole Castrale (USA) 73-70-75

219 - Ai Miyazato (JPN) 75-68-76

231 - Bettina Hauert (GER) 76-81-74

235 - Michelle Wie (USA) 79-79-77

World Matchplay

WENTWORTH, England: Results from the World Match Play Championship at Wentworth on Saturday:

Semifinals, 36 holes.

Angel Cabrera (Argentina) beat Hunter Mahan (USA) 2 and 1

Ernie Els (South Africa) beat Henrik Stenson (Sweden) 3 and 2

NHL

NEW YORK: NHL results on Saturday (home team in CAPS)

BUFFALO 7 Washington 3

PHILADELPHIA 3 NY Islanders 1

FLORIDA 6 Tampa Bay 4

Ottawa 3 NY RANGERS 1

New Jersey 6 ATLANTA 5

Carolina 3 MONTREAL 1

Pittsburgh 6 TORONTO 4

Calgary 7 NASHVILLE 4

CHICAGO 2 Dallas 1 (OT)

COLORADO 5 Columbus 1

Minnesota 3 PHOENIX 2

VANCOUVER 4 Edmonton 1

Boston 2 SAN JOSE 1

SOCCER

Euro 2008 qualifying

PARIS: Euro 2008 qualifying results on Saturday:

Group A

At Baku : Azerbaijan 0 Portugal 2 (Alves 12, Almeida 45+1)

At Yereven: Armenia 0 Serbia 0

At Brussels: Belgium 0 Finland 0

At Warsaw: Poland 3 (Smolarek 56, 64, 65) Kazakhstan 1 (Byakov 20)

Group B

At Glasgow: Scotland 3 (Miller 4, McCulloch 10, McFadden 68) Ukraine 1 (Shevchenko 24)

At Torshavn : Faroe Islands 0 France 6 (Anelka 7, Henry 8, Benzema 49, 79, Rothen 64, Ben Arfa 90+2)

At Genoa: Italy 2 (Pirlo 43, Grosso 84) Georgia 0

Group C

At Budapest: Hungary 2 (Feczesin 34, Tozser 77) Malta 0

At Chisinau: Moldova 1 (Frunza 12) Turkey 1 (Umit Karan 62)

At Athens: Greece 3 (Charisteas 10, Gekas 57, Liberopoulos 72) Bosnia 2 (Hrgovic 55, Ibisevic 90)

Group D

At Dubnica: Slovakia 7 (Amsic 25, Sestak 32, 57, Sapara 37, Skrtel 51, Holosko 54, Durica 76-pen) San Marino 0

At Nicosia: Cyprus 3 (Okkas 59, 68, Charalambides 79) Wales 1 (Collins 21)

Group D

At Dublin: Republic Of Ireland 0 Germany 0

Group E

At London: England 3 (Wright Phillips 11, Rooney 32, Rahn 33-og) Estonia 0

At Zagreb: Croatia 1 (Da Silva 52) Israel 0

Group F

At Reykjavic: Iceland 2 (Gudjohnsen 4, 52) Latvia 4 (Klava 27, Laizans 31, Verpakovskis 37, 46)

At Copenhagen: Denmark 1 (Tomasson 88) Spain 3 (Tamudo 14, Ramos 40, Riera 89)

At Vaduz:

Liechtenstein 0 Sweden 3 (Ljungberg 19, Wilhelmsson 29, A. Svensson 56)

Group G

At Minsk: Belarus 0 Luxemburg 1 (Leweck 90+5)

At Bucharest: Romania 1 (Goian 71) Holland 0

At Ljubljana: Slovenia 0 Albania 0

Standings

Group A

W D L Gf Ga Pts

Poland 7 3 2 20 10 24

Portugal 5 5 1 21 9 20

Finland 5 5 2 11 6 20

Serbia 4 5 2 13 8 17

Belgium 3 3 5 10 14 12

Armenia 2 3 4 4 8 9

Kazakhstan 1 4 6 9 18 7

Azerbaijan 1 2 6 4 19 5

Group B

Scotland 8 0 2 20 8 24

Italy 7 2 1 17 7 23

France 7 1 2 21 3 22

Ukraine 4 1 4 11 12 13

Lithuania 3 1 5 7 11 10

Georgia 2 1 7 14 17 7

Faroe Islands 0 0 10 3 35 0

Group C

Greece 7 1 1 17 9 22

Turkey 5 3 1 22 9 18

Norway 5 2 2 20 8 17

Bosnia 4 1 5 16 19 13

Hungary 4 0 6 10 17 12

Moldova 1 3 6 6 17 6

Malta 1 2 6 7 19 5

Group D

Germany 7 2 0 31 4 23

Czech Rep 6 2 1 19 4 20

Rep of Ireland 4 3 3 14 11 15

Slovakia 4 1 5 27 20 13

Cyprus 4 1 4 16 17 13

Wales 3 1 5 14 16 10

San Marino 0 0 10 1 50 0

Group E

Croatia 8 2 0 25 4 26

England 7 2 1 21 2 23

Russia 5 3 1 14 4 18

Israel 5 2 3 17 11 17

Macedonia 2 2 5 7 11 8

Estonia 1 1 9 3 21 4

Andorra 0 0 9 2 36 0

Group F

Sweden 7 1 1 20 4 22

Spain 7 1 2 19 8 22

N Ireland 5 1 3 14 11 16

Denmark 4 2 3 14 8 14

Latvia 3 0 6 9 11 9

Iceland 2 2 6 10 21 8

Liechtenstein 1 1 8 5 28 4

Group G

Romania 7 2 0 18 5 23

Netherlands 6 2 1 11 3 20

Bulgaria 5 3 1 14 6 18

Slovenia 3 2 5 9 12 11

Albania 2 4 3 8 7 10

Belarus 2 1 7 11 20 7

Luxemburg 1 0 9 2 20 3

Tennis

Kremlin Cup

MOSCOW: Results from the $2,34-million joint ATP and WTA Kremlin Cup tournament on Sunday (x denotes seeding):

Women's final: Elena Dementieva (Rus) bt Serena Williams (USA x4) 5-7, 6-1, 6-1.

Men's semifinals

Men: Paul-Henri Mathieu (FRA x4) bt Michael Berrer (GER) 7-5, 6-3; Nikolay Davydenko (RUS x1) bt Janko Tipsarevic (SRB) 7-6 (8/6), 6-1

Vienna ATP

VIENNA: Vienna Open men's singles final result on Sunday:

Novak Djokovic (Ser x1) bt Stanislas Wawrinka (Swi) 6-4, 6-0

Saturday's semifinals: Novak Djokovic (SRB x1) bt Andreas Seppi (ITA) 6-4, 6-3; Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI) bt Juan Carlos Ferrero (ESP) 7-5, 6-1.

Stockholm Open

STOCKHOLM: Result of the final of the Stockholm Open on Sunday:

Ivo Karlovic (Cro x7) bt Thomas Johansson (Swe) 6-3 3-6 6-1.

Saturday's semifinals: Ivo Karlovic (CRO x7) bt Tommy Haas (GER x4) 6-4, 6-3 ; Thomas Johansson (SWE) bt James Blake (USA x1) 3-6, 6-1, 7-6 (7/3).

Bangkok Open

BANGKOK: Result from the $200,000 WTA Bangkok Open final on Sunday:

Flavia Pennetta (Ita x7) bt Chan Yung-jan (Tpe) 6-1 6-3.

Saturday's semifinals: Flavia Pennetta (ITA x7) bt Venus Williams (USA x2) 6-4, 7-6 (10/8); Chan Yung-Jan (TPE) bt Yan Zi (CHN) 7-5, 3-6, 7-5.

(China Daily 10/15/2007 page11)