Baseball

NEW YORK: American League Championship Series result in Game 6 between Boston and Cleveland on Saturday (home team in CAPS)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R

BOSTON 4 0 6 0 0 0 0 2 x 12

Cleveland 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2

soccer

English Premier League

LONDON: English Premier League results on Saturday:

Arsenal 2 (Toure 68, Rosicky 80) Bolton 0

Aston Villa 1 (Agbonlahor 13) Manchester United 4 (Rooney 36, 44, Ferdinand 45, Giggs 74)

Blackburn 4 (McCarthy 18, 82-pen, Santa Cruz 22, Tugay 32) Reading 2 (Doyle 80, 90)

Everton 1 (Hyypia 38-og) Liverpool 2 (Kuyt 54-pen, 90-pen)

Fulham 0 Derby 0

Manchester City 1 (Elano 37) Birmingham 0

Middlesbrough 0 Chelsea 2 (Drogba 8, Alex 57)

Wigan 0 Portsmouth 2 (Benjani Mwaruwari 81, Johnson 86)

French league

PARIS: French league results on Saturday:

Auxerre 5 (Niculae 54, 82, Jelen 73, 75, 90+1) Lorient 3 (Saifi 5, 58, Bourhani 90+3)

Rennes 3 (Pagis 11, Wiltord 53, Nouveau 90+2) Le Mans 0

Strasbourg 1 (Gameiro 15) Bordeaux 1 (Bellion 62)

Caen 1 (Tafforeau 60-og) Lille 0

Nice 3 (Kone 11, 59-pen, Kante 65) Metz 1 (Barbosa 68)

Toulouse 0 St Etienne 2 (Gomis 30, 36)

Valenciennes 0 Paris SG 0

Lyon 3 (Juninho 12-pen, Reveillere 18, Benzema 51) Monaco 1 (Monsoreau 42)

Italian league

ROME: Italian league results on Saturday:

Roma 4 (Totti 30, Perrotta 42, De Rossi 53, Pizarro 79) Napoli 4 (Lavezzi 2, Hamsik 46, Gargano 64, Zalayeta 85)

Reggina 0 Inter Milan 1 (Adriano 18)

Spanish league

MADRID: Spanish league collated results on Saturday:

Levante 0 Sevilla 2 (Luis Fabiano 6, 13)

Villarreal 3 (Cazorla 2, Senna 13-pen, 34-pen) Barcelona 1 (Bojan 24)

Deportivo La Coruna 2 (Xisco 28, Bodipo 87) Valencia 4 (Joaquin 9, Baraja 15, Morientes 37, 73)

Espanyol 2 (Riera 1, Tamudo 53) Real Madrid 1 (Ramos 90)

Tennis

Madrid Masters

MADRID: Results from the sixth day of the Madrid Masters on Saturday:

Semi-finals: David Nalbandian (ARG) bt Novak Djokovic (SRB x3) 6-4, 7-6 (7/4); Roger Federer (SUI x1) bt Nicolas Kiefer (GER) 6-4, 6-4

Zurich Open WTA

Zurich: Results from the WTA Zurich Open on Sunday (x denotes seeding):

Justine Henin (BEL x1) bt Tatiana Golovin (FRA) 6-4, 6-4.

(China Daily 10/22/2007 page12)