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Baseball

MLB results on Thursday (home team in CAPS):

DETROIT 3 Minnesota 0

ST. LOUIS 10 Atlanta 4

Chicago White Sox 7 TEXAS 5

Arizona 13 CHICAGO CUBS 5

NY Yankees 4 BALTIMORE 0

TORONTO 6 Oakland 3

TAMPA BAY 11 Kansas City 1

Cincinnati 4 HOUSTON 2

SAN DIEGO 9 Milwaukee 0

Pittsburgh 2 LA DODGERS 0

American League

East Division

W L Pct GB

Tampa Bay 17 5 .773 11

New York 14 7 .667 2 1/2

Boston 11 11 .500 6

Toronto 11 12 .478 6 1/2

Baltimore 4 18 .182 13

Central Division

Minnesota 14 8 .636 _

Detroit 13 10 .565 1 1/2

Cleveland 9 12 .429 4 1/2

Chicago 9 13 .409 5

Kansas City 8 14 .364 6

West Division

Los Angeles 12 11 .522 --

Oakland 12 11 .522 --

Seattle 11 11 .500 1/2

Texas 10 12 .455 1 1/2

National League

East Division

New York 13 9 .591 --

Philadelphia 12 9 .571 1/2

Washington 12 10 .545 1

Florida 11 11 .500 2

Atlanta 8 14 .364 5

Central Division

St. Louis 15 7 .682 --

Cincinnati 11 11 .500 4

Pittsburgh 10 12 .455 5

Chicago 10 13 .435 5 1/2

Milwaukee 9 13 .409 6

Houston 8 13 .381 6 1/2

West Division

San Diego 14 8 .636 --

San Francisco 12 9 .571 1 1/2

Arizona 11 11 .500 3

Colorado 11 11 .500 3

Los Angeles 8 14 .364 6

Cycling

Tour de Romandie

Thursday's results:

1. Mark Cavendish (GBR/THR) 4hrs 29min 59sec

2. Danilo Hondo (GER/LAM) st

3. Robbie Hunter (RSA/GRM) st

4. Lucas Haedo (ARG/SAX) st

5. Peter Sagan (SVK/LIQ) st

6. Koldo Fernandez (ESP/EUS) st

7. Danilo Wyss (SUI/BMC) st

8. Ben Swift (GBR/SKY) st

9. Nicolas Roche (IRL/ALM) st

10. David Loosli (SUI/LAM) st

Overall standings:

1. Peter Sagan (SVK/LIQ) 9hrs 24min 28sec

2. Marco Pinotti (ITA/THR) at 09sec.

3. Jrmy Roy (FRA/FDJ) 09

4. Danilo Hondo (GER/LAM) 11

5. Michael Rogers (AUS/THR) 12

6. Christophe Moreau (FRA/GCE) 14

7. Francesco Gavazzi (ITA/LAM) 15

8. Roman Kreuziger (CZE/LIQ) 15

9. Ruben Plaza (ESP/GCE) 15

10. Haimar Zubeldia (ESP/RSH) 15

Golf

PGA Quail Hollow Championship

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina - Leading scores on Thursday after the first round of the $6.5 million Quail Hollow Championship (USA unless noted; par-72):

65 - Bo Van Pelt

66 - Kenny Perry

67 - Camilo Villegas (COL)

68 - Brad Faxon, Paul Goydos, JJ Henry, Billy Mayfair, Geoff Ogilvy (AUS), Andres Romero (ARG)

69 - Ricky Barnes, Garth Mulroy (RSA), Cameron Percy (AUS), Heath Slocum, Brian Stuard

...

70 - Angel Cabrera (ARG), Alex Cejka (GER), Greg Chalmers (AUS), Rod Pampling (AUS), Brendon de Jonge (ZIM)

71 - Robert Allenby (AUS), Jarrod Lyle (AUS)

72 - Henrik Bjornstad (NOR), Ross Fisher (GBR), Carlos Franco (PAR), Padraig Harrington (IRL), Martin Laird (GBR), Rory McIlroy (GBR), James Nitties (AUS), Tim Wilkinson (NZL), Rory Sabbatini (RSA)

73 - Aaron Baddeley (AUS), Jason Day (AUS), Mathew Goggin (AUS), Nick O'Hern (AUS), Lee Westwood (GBR)

74 - Ryuji Imada (JPN), Trevor Immelman (RSA), Matt Jones (AUS), Greg Owen (GBR), Carl Pettersson (SWE), John Senden (AUS), Tiger Woods

75 - Stuart Appleby (AUS), Aron Price (AUS)

76 - Daniel Chopra (SWE), Brian Davis (GBR), David Lutterus (AUS)

77 - Nathan Green (AUS), Fredrik Jacobson (SWE), Vijay Singh (FIJ)

78 - Richard S. Johnson (SWE), Adam Scott (AUS)

Spanish Open

SEVILLA, Spain - Leading and selected first round scores in the EPGA Spanish Open on Thursday (par 72; GBR and IRL unless stated):

65 - Ricardo Gonzalez (ARG)

66 - Paul Waring

68 - Martin Erlandsson (SWE), Danny Willett, Rafael Echenique (ARG), Simon Dyson, Alvaro Quiros (ESP), Mikael Lundberg (SWE), Damien McGrane, Carlos Del Morral (ESP)

69 - Richie Ramsay, Joost Luiten (NED), Anthony Kang (USA), Stephen Dodd, Raul Quiros (ESP), Richard Finch, Mark Foster, Francesco Molinari (ITA), Jose Manuel Lara (ESP), Raphael Jacquelin (FRA), Anthony Kang (USA), Gregory Bourdy (FRA), Pedro Oriol (ESP), Mark Foster

70 - Chris Gane, Chris Wood, David Drysdale, Jorge Campillo (ESP), Fabrizio Zanotti (PAR), Ariel Canete (ARG), Pablo Martin (ESP), Johan Edfors (SWE)

71 - Soren Kjeldsen (DEN), Peter Hedblom (SWE), Anthony Wall, Marc Warren, Shane Lowry, Oskar Henningsson (SWE), Gregory Havret (FRA), Edoardo Molinari (ITA), Manuel Quiros (ESP), Richard Bland, Jean-Baptiste Gonnet (FRA), Colin Montgomerie, Daniel Vancsik (ARG), Gabriel Canizares (ESP), Sam Hutsby, Carl Suneson (ESP), Richard Green (AUS), Jamie Donaldson, Alfredo Garcia-Heredia (ESP), Alejandro Canizares (ESP), Phillip Price, Nicolas Colsaerts (BEL), Scott Drummond, Maarten Lafeber (NED), Sam Hutsby

NBA

NBA playoff results on Thursday (home team in CAPS):

SAN ANTONIO 97 Dallas 87

(San Antonio win best-of-seven series 4-2)

Phoenix 99 PORTLAND 90

(Phoenix win the best-of-seven series 4-2)

NHL

Thursday's NHL playoff quarterfinal results:

Western Conference

At San Jose: San Jose 4 Detroit 3

(San Jose leads series 1-0)

Snooker

World Championship

SHEFFIELD, England - Snooker World Championship results on Thursday:

Semifinals (best of 33 frames)

Neil Robertson (AUS) leads Ali Carter (ENG) 6-2

Frame scores (Robertson first; breaks in brackets): 60-7, 124-8 (124), 70-60, 92-11 (91), 124-0 (76), 49-64, 85-27 (52), 0-107 (69)

Graeme Dott (SCO) leads Mark Selby (ENG) 5-3

Frame scores (Dott first; breaks in brackets): 105-27 (79), 53-68 (Dott, 53), 71-19 (71), 77-6, 26-55, 68-10, 105-4 (93), 0-142 (142)

Soccer

Europa League

Europa League semifinal, second leg results on Thursday:

At Craven Cottage, London

Fulham (ENG) 2 (Davies 69, Gera 76) Hamburg (GER) 1 (Petric 22)

Fulham win 2-1 on aggregate

At Anfield

Liverpool (ENG) 2 (Aquilani 44, Benayoun 95) Atletico Madrid (ESP) 1 (Forlan 102)

after extra-time; 2-2 on aggregate

Atletico win on away goals

Final

Fulham v Atletico Madrid (Hamburg, May 12)

Libertadores Cup

Last 16 first-leg results on Thursday:

Alianza Lima (Peru) 0 Universidad de Chile (Chile) 1

Cruzeiro (Brazil) 3 Nacional M. (Uruguay) 1

Once Caldas (Colombia) 0 Libertad (Paraguay) 0

Played on Wednesday

Banfield (Argentina) 3 Internacional (Brazil) 1

Flamengo (Brazil) 1 Corinthians (Brazil) 0

Universitario (Peru) 0 Sao Paulo (Brazil) 0

Played on Tuesday

Guadalajara (Mexico) 3 Velez Sarsfield (Argentina) 0

San Luis (Mexico) 0 Estudiantes (Argentina) 1

Tennis

Rome Masters

ROME - Results from the fifth day of the ATP Rome Masters 1000 at the Foro Italico here on Thursday (x denotes seeding):

3rd rd

Novak Djokovic (SRB x2) bt Thomaz Bellucci (BRA) 6-4, 6-4; Fernando Verdasco (ESP x6) bt Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (ESP) 6-4, 7-6 (7/2); Joe-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA x7) bt Santiago Giraldo (COL) 6-3, 6-4; Feliciano Lopez (ESP) bt Ivan Ljubicic (CRO x11) 0-0 retired; Ernests Gulbis (LAT) bt Filippo Volandri (ITA) 6-2, 3-6, 7-6 (7/4); David Ferrer (ESP x13) bt Andy Murray (GBR x4) 6-4, 6-4; Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI) bt Robin Soderling (SWE x5) 6-3, 6-2; Rafael Nadal (ESP x3) bt Victor Hanescu (ROM) 6-3, 6-2.

Fes WTA

FES, Morocco - Quarterfinals results of the WTA tournament on Thursday:

Iveta Benesova (CZE x7) bt Laura Pous (ESP) 2-6, 6-1, 6-0; Renata Voracova (CZE) bt Angelique Kerber (GER x5) 7-5, 6-2; Alize Cornet (FRA) bt Anne Keothavong (GBR) 7-5, 6-2; Simona Halep (ROM) bt Patty Schnyder (SUI x2) 6-2, 7-6 (7/3).

Stuttgart Grand Prix

Thursday's second-round results:

Dinara Safina (RUS x2) bt Agnes Szavay (HUN) 7-6 (7/5), 3-6, 6-0; Justine Henin (BEL) bt Yanina Wickmayer (BEL x8) 6-3, 7-5; Samantha Stosur (AUS x7) bt Alexandra Dulgheru (ROM) 3-6, 6-0, 6-2; Lucie Safarova (CZE) bt Caroline Wozniacki (DEN x1) 6-4, 6-4; Jelena Jankovic (SRB x4) bt Tsvetana Pironkova (BUL) 6-2, 6-2; Anna Lapushchenkova (RUS) bt Victoria Azarenka (BLR x6) 6-3, 6-3.

(China Daily 05/01/2010 page22)