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Baseball

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

American League Championship Series

CLEVELAND 7 Boston 3

(Cleveland leads best-of-seven series 3-1)

Nhl

NEW YORK: Results from Tuesday's NHL games (home team in CAPS)

PHILADELPHIA 4 Atlanta 0

Florida 2 MONTREAL 1 (SO)

COLORADO 5 Calgary 4 (SO)

LOS ANGELES 4 Minnesota 3 (SO)

*SO denotes shootout win

Soccer

World Cup qualifier

MARACAIBO, Venezuela: Result of World Cup qualifier, South American zone, in Maracaibo on Tuesday.

Venezuela 0 Argentina 2

Scorers: Gabriel Milito 16, Lionel Messi 43

Halftime: 0-2

Venezuela: 1-Renny Vega; 2-Luis Vallenilla (16-Robert Rosales 46), 3-Jose Manuel Rey, 6-Alejandro Cichero, 4-Andres Rouga; 5-Miguel Mea Vitali, 17-Jorge Rojas (21-Daniel Arismendi 68), 11-Ricardo Paez, 10-Luis Manuel Seijas (14-Alejandro Guerra 54), 18-Juan Arango; 9-Giancarlo Maldonado

Argentina: 1-Roberto Abbondanzieri; 4-Hugo Ibarra (16-Fernando Gago 63), 2-Martin Demichelis, 15-Gabriel Milito, 6-Nicolas Burdisso (3-Daniel Diaz 74); 14-Javier Mascherano, 5-Esteban Cambiasso, 8-Javier Zanetti, 10-Juan Roman Riquelme; 11-Carlos Tevez (9-German Denis 81), 18-Lionel Messi

Referee: Carlos Eugenio Simon

Standings.

W D L F A Pts

Argentina 2 0 0 4 0 6

Uruguay 1 0 0 5 0 3

Venezuela 1 0 1 1 2 3

Brazil 0 1 0 0 0 1

Colombia 0 1 0 0 0 1

Paraguay 0 1 0 0 0 1

Peru 0 1 0 0 0 1

Ecuador 0 0 1 0 1 0

Chile 0 0 1 0 2 0

Bolivia 0 0 1 0 5 0

Oceania 2010 World Cup qualifyier

LAUTOKA, Fiji: Result of an Oceania qualifying match here Wednesday for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa:

Fiji 0 New Zealand 2

Tennis

Madrid Masters

MADRID: Collated results from the second day of the Madrid Masters Tuesday (x denotes seeding):

1st rd

Nicolas Almagro (ESP) bt Fabrice Santoro (FRA) 6-4, 6-4; Nicolas Kiefer (GER) bt Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI) 7-5, 6-3; Ivo Karlovic (CRO) bt Marat Safin (RUS) 6-3, 6-4; David Nalbandian (ARG) bt Arnaud Clement (FRA) 5-7, 6-2, 6-4; Juan Carlos Ferrero (ESP) bt Alejandro Falla (COL) 6-4, 7-5; Agustin Calleri (ARG) bt Dmitry Tursunov (RUS) 3-6, 7-6 (7/4), 6-4; Paul-Henri Mathieu (FRA) bt Mardy Fish (USA) 6-3, 2-6, 7-5;

2nd rd

Roger Federer (SUI x1) bt Robby Ginepri (USA) 7-6 (7/2), 6-4; Juan Monaco (ARG) bt Tommy Haas (GER x11) 6-4, 7-5; Andy Murray (GBR) bt Juan Chela (ARG x15) 6-1, 6-3

Zurich Open WTA

ZURICH: Results from the $1.34-million WTA Zurich Open on Tuesday:

1st rd

Marion Bartoli (FRA) bt Shuai Peng (CHN) 6-7 (4/7), 6-0, 6-1; Amelie Mauresmo (FRA x8) bt Eleni Daniilidou (GRE) 6-4, 4-6, 6-3; Patty Schnyder (SUI) bt Serena Williams (USA x6) 6-0, 3-0 ret; Vera Zvonareva (RUS) bt Karin Knapp (ITA) 5-7, 6-2, 6-2; Sybille Bammer (AUT) bt Kateryna Bondarenko (UKR) 6-2, 6-2; Agnieszka Radwanska (POL) bt Shahar Peer (ISR) 6-4, 6-3; Daniela Hantuchova (SVK x7) bt Dinara Safina (RUS) 7-6 (7/2), 7-6 (7/4).

(China Daily 10/18/2007 page22)