BASEBALL

NEW YORK: Results from the MLB matches on Saturday (home team in CAPS)

NY METS 7 LA Dodgers 5

PHILADELPHIA 2 San Diego 0

CLEVELAND 4 Seattle 3

Chicago Cubs 6 ST. LOUIS 5

DETROIT 2 Minnesota 1

Minnesota 5 DETROIT 2

TAMPA BAY 3 Baltimore 2

Boston 3 CHICAGO WHITE SOX 0

WASHINGTON 4 Houston 2

Toronto 9 KANSAS CITY 4

PITTSBURGH 5 Colorado 3

Oakland 5 TEXAS 4

Milwaukee 11 CINCINNATI 7

Atlanta 3 ARIZONA 2

LA ANGELS 8 NY Yankees 6

Florida 16 SAN FRANCISCO 4

CYCLING

Tour de France

SAINT ETIENNE, France: Standings after the 20th stage of the Tour de France, a 55.500km ride around Saint Etienne on Saturday:

1. Lance Armstrong (USA/DIS) 1h11min 46sec

2. Jan Ullrich (GER/MOB) at 0:23

3. Alexander Vinokourov (KAZ/MOB) 1:16

4. Bobby Julich (USA/CSC) 1:33

5. Ivan Basso (ITA/CSC) 1:54

6. Floyd Landis (USA/PHO) 2:02

7. Cadel Evans (AUS/DAV) 2:06

8. George Hincapie (USA/DIS) 2:25

9. Francisco Mancebo (SPA/BAL) 2:51

10. Vladimir Karpets (RUS/BAL) 3:05

11. Yaroslav Popovych (UKR/DIS) 3:09

12. Carlos Sastre (SPA/CSC) 3:10

13. Christophe Moreau (FRA/C.A) 3:11

14. Levi Leipheimer (USA/GRL) 3:13

15. Oscar Pereiro (SPA/PHO) 3:25

16. Sebastian Lang (GER/GRL) 3:26

17. Luke Roberts (AUS/CSC) 3:47

18. Dario Cioni (ITA/LIQ) 3:51

19. Jorg Jaksche (GER/LTY) 3:51

20. Fabian Cancellara (SWI/FAS) 4:03

Overall standings:

1. Lance Armstrong (USA/DIS) 82h34min 05sec

2. Ivan Basso (ITA/CSC) at 4:40

3. Jan Ullrich (GER/MOB) 6:21

4. Francisco Mancebo (SPA/BAL) 9:59

5. Levi Leipheimer (USA/GRL) 11:25

6. Alexander Vinokourov (KAZ/MOB) 11:27

7. Michael Rasmussen (DEN/RAB) 11:33

8. Cadel Evans (AUS/DAV) 11:55

9. Floyd Landis (USA/PHO) 12:44

10. Oscar Pereiro (SPA/PHO) 16:04

11. Christophe Moreau (FRA/C.A) 16:26

12. Yaroslav Popovych (UKR/DIS) 19:02

13. Eddy Mazzoleni (ITA/LAM) 21:06

14. George Hincapie (USA/DIS) 23:40

15. Haimar Zubeldia (SPA/EUS) 23:43

16. Jorg Jaksche (GER/LTY) 24:07

17. Bobby Julich (USA/CSC) 24:08

18. Oscar Sevilla (SPA/MOB) 27:45

19. Andre?Kashechkin (KAZ/C.A) 28:04

20. Giuseppe Guerini (ITA/MOB) 33:02

Class standings:

Points:

1. Thor Hushovd (NOR/C.A) 175 pts; 2. Stuart O'Grady (AUS/COF) 160; 3. Robbie McEwen (AUS/DAV) 154

King of Mountains:

1. Michael Rasmussen (DEN/RAB) 185 pts; 2. Oscar Pereiro (SPA/PHO) 155; 3. Lance Armstrong (USA/DIS) 96

Team stage:

1. Discovery Channel 3h40min 52sec; 2. T-Mobile at 0:50

Team overall:

1. T-Mobile 245h07min 38sec

2. Discovery Channel at 14:57

3. CSC 25:15

Best young riders (stage):

1. Vladimir Karpets (RUS/BAL) 1h14min 51sec; 2. Yaroslav Popovych (UKR/DIS) at 0:04

Best young riders (overall):

1. Yaroslav Popovych (UKR/DIS) 82h53min 07sec; 2. Andre Kashechkin (KAZ/C.A) at 9:02; 3. Albert Contador (SPA/LTY) 44:23

GOLF

USPGA

MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin: Scores here Saturday after the third round of the storm-interrupted 3.5 million-dollar US Bank Championship (USA unless noted):

191 - Ben Crane 62-65-64

193 - Scott Verplank 64-65-64

196 - Chris Smith 64-67-65, Kenny Perry 63-69-64

198 - Jeff Sluman 64-64-70

199 - Steve Elkington (AUS) 65-70-64, Matt Davidson 67-68-64, Bo Van Pelt 70-65-64, Daniel Chopra (SWE) 66-68-65, Mark Calcavecchia 69-65-65, Roland Thatcher 65-69-65, Tommy Armour 66-65-68

200 - Fred Funk 69-67-64, John Huston 69-67-65, Briny Baird 66-69-65, Chad Campbell 66-68-66

...

201 - Arjun Atwal (IND) 69-67-65

202 - Steve Allan (AUS) 70-67-65, Stephen Leaney (AUS) 65-69-68

203 - Michael Long (NZL) 66-69-68, Glen Hnatiuk (CAN) 70-66-67, Carl Pettersson (SWE) 68-68-67, Richard S Johnson (SWE) 68-70-65

204 - Mathias Gronberg (SWE) 67-70-67, Bradley Hughes (AUS) 69-67-68

205 - Alex Cejka (GER) 68-68

206 - Hideto Tanihara (JPN) 66-68-72, Carlos Franco (PAR) 70-67-69

208 - Phillip Price (GBR) 66-72-70

209 - David Hearn (CAN) 66-72-71

SWIMMING

World Swimming Championships

MONTREAL: Results here on Saturday at the 11th World Swimming Championships:

Diving

Men's 10m platform Final

1. Hu Jia (CHN) 698.01pts - gold medal

2. Jose Antonio Guerra (CUB) 691.14 - silver medal

3. Gleb Galperin (RUS) 656.19 - bronze medal

4. Rommel Pacheco (MEX) 655.20, 5. Dmitry Dobroskok (RUS) 649.62, 6. Leon Taylor (GBR) 642.81, 7. Yang Jinghui (CHN) 619.77, 8. Robert Newbery (AUS) 618.06, 9. Bryan Nickson (MAS) 603.87, 10. Heiko Meyer (GER) 596.07, 11. Anton Zakharov (UKR) 587.13, 12. Matthew Mitcham (AUS) 560.73

Open water swimming

Men's 25km

1. David Meca (ESP) 5:00:21.4 - gold medal

2. Brendan Capell (AUS) 5:00:23.6 - silver medal

3. Petar Stoychev (BUL) 5:00:28.4 - bronze medal

4. Stephane Gomez (FRA) 5:00:32.3, 5. Josh Santacaterina (AUS) 5:00:33.1, 6. Maarten van der Weijden (NED) 5:00:33.9, 7. Gilles Rondy (FRA) 5:00:35.4, 8. Mohamed Elzanaty (EGY) 5:01:37.1, 9. Yury Kudinov (RUS) 5:03:56.4, 10. Alan Bircher (GBR) 5:04:16.9, 11. Anton Sanachev (RUS) 5:06:40.5, 12. Marco Formentini (ITA) 5:07:15.3, 13. Mohamed Serour (EGY) 5:07:37.6, 14. Igor Jajcen (SLO) 5:09:26.6, 15. Claudio Gargaro (ITA) 5:09:47.5, 16. Rostislav Vitek (CZE) 5:10:44.1, 17. Alexander Studzinski (GER) 5:10:45.9, 18. Jakub Fichtl (CZE) 5:14:06.5, 19. John Kenny 5:17:33.2, 20. Malcolm Lavoie (CAN) 5:17:43.5, 21. Andre Couturier (CAN) 5:19:35.5, 22. Stejepan Piticar (CRO) 5:27:57.7, 23. Roberto Quiroga (ARG) 5:29:08.5, 24. Sean Seaver (USA) 5:30:10.9, 25. Christian Hansmann (GER) 5:30:15.5, 26. Gregory Fuentes Cali (ECU) 5:47:23.5, 27. Jane Karajovanov (MKE) 6:00:51.9

Synchronized swimming

Team final

1. Russia (Maria Gramova, Natalia Ischenko, Elvira Khasyanova, Olga Larkina, Elena Ovchinnikova, Svetlana Romashina, Anna Shorina, Anastasia Davydova, Anastasia Ermakova) 99.334pts - gold medal

2. Japan (Saho Harada, Naoko Kawashima, Kanako Kitao, Hiromi Kobayashi, Erika Komura, Ayako Matsumura, Emiko Suzuki, Masako Tachibana, Takako Konishi) 97.834 - silver medal

3. Spain (Raquel Corral, Andrea Fuentes, Tina Fuentes, Thais Henriquez, Gemma Mengual, Irina Rodriguez, Paola Tirados, Cristina Violan, Gisela Moron) 97.750 - bronze medal

4. USA 95.666, 5. Canada 94.917, 6. China 94.750, 7. Italy 93.500, 8. France 92.083 9. Greece 91.833, 10. Ukraine 91.001, 11. Brazil 89.000, 12. Switzerland 88.084

Water polo

Women

Preliminary 2nd round (for quarter-final berths)

Italy 9 Spain 6

Cuba 3 United States 14

Greece 7 Netherlands 4

New Zealand 1 Germany 2

Matches for places 13-16

Venezuela 8 China 7

Uzbekistan 1 Brazil 11

TENNIS

Amersfoort ATP

AMERSFOORT, The Netherlands: Results in the 302,000-euro ATP tournament here on Saturday (x denotes seeded player):

Semi-finals

Fernando Gonzalez (CHI x2) bt David Sanchez (ESP) 6-2, 6-1; Agustin Calleri (ARG) bt Ivo Minar (CZE) 6-4, 6-4

ATP Indianapolis

INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana: Results here Saturday from the sixth day of the 600,000-dollar ATP Indianapolis Championship (x denotes seed):

Semi-finals

Robby Ginepri (USA) bt Karol Beck (SVK x10) 5-7, 6-2, 6-3

Quarter-finals

Robby Ginepri (USA) bt Andy Roddick (USA x1) 4-6, 7-6 (7/2), 7-5; Greg Rusedski (GBR x7) bt Nicolas Kiefer (GER x2) 3-6, 7-6 (7/4), 6-4; Karol Beck (SVK x10) bt George Bastl (SUI) 6-4, 7-5; Taylor Dent (USA x4) bt Paul Goldstein (USA) 6-3, 6-2

Cincinnati WTA.

CINCINNATI, Ohio: Results here Saturday on the sixth day of the 170,000-dollar WTA tournament here (x denotes seeding):

Semi-finals

Patty Schnyder (SUI x1) bt Bethanie Mattek (USA) 6-4, 6-1; Akiko Morigami (JPN) bt Daniela Hantuchova (SVK x4) 6-4, 6-4

Stuttgart ATP

STUTTGART, Germany: Results from the fifth day of 600,000-euro Stuttgart ATP event here on Friday (x denotes seeding):

Semi-finals

Gaston Gaudio (Arg x3) bt Nikolay Davydenko (Rus x2) 6-3, 2-1 RET; Rafael Nadal (Spa x1) bt Jarkko Nieminen (Fin) 6-2, 7-5

WTA Palermo

PALERMO, Italy; Results from the US$140,000 WTA tournament here on Saturday (x denotes seeding):

Semi-finals

Anabel Medina Garrigues (ESP x3) bt Tsvetana Pironkova (BUL) 6-4, 6-2; Klara Koukalova (CZE x5) bt Flavia Pennetta (ITA x2) 6-4, 6-0.

(China Daily 07/25/2005 page6)