Sun, 02 Sep 2001

From: Reuters

Baseball

Major League (home team in bold)

American League Baltimore 3 Seattle 0 NY Yankees 3 Boston 1 Detroit 4 Toronto 3 Oakland 9 Tampa BaY 5 Chi White Sox 11 Cleveland 8 Texas 7 Kansas City 2 Minnesota 4 Anaheim 1 National League Cincinnati 11 Pittsburgh 3 Montreal 5 Philadelphia 1 NY Mets 6 Florida 1 Chi Cubs 8 Atlanta 2 Houston 3 Milwaukee 2 Arizona 4 San Diego 1 (first game) San Diego 6 Arizona 5 (second game) St Louis 5 Los Angeles 1 Colorado 5 San Francisco 2

Soccer World Cup Asian qualifier Saudi Arabia 1 Iraq 0 Oman 0 China 2 United Arab Emirates 0 Qatar 2

Standings (tabulated under played, won, drawn, lost, goals for, goals against and points):

Group A 1. Bahrain 2 1 1 0 3 1 4 2. Saudi Arabia 3 1 1 1 2 3 4 3. Iran 1 1 0 0 2 0 3 4. Iraq 3 1 0 2 4 3 3 5. Thailand 1 0 0 1 0 4 0 Group B 1. China 2 2 0 0 5 0 6 2. Qatar 3 1 1 1 3 2 4 3. UAE 3 1 0 2 4 6 3 4. Uzbekistan 2 1 0 1 3 5 3 5. Oman 2 0 1 1 0 2 1

Golf Air Canada Selected second-round scores (U.S. unless noted): 132 - Joel Edwards 65-67 134 - Per-Ulrik Johansson (Swe) 68-66, Matt Kuchar 68-66 135 - David Gossett 67-68 136 - Brent Schwarzrock 68-68, Shigeki Maruyama (Jpn) 68-68,

Brent Geiberger 66-70, Greg Kraft 65-71,Tommy Armour 67-69 137 - Brandt Jobe 67-70, Tom Pernice 68-69, Chris Riley 66-71,

Lee Porter 69-68, Chris Tidland 67-70, Fred Funk 70-67,

Rory Sabbatini (Rsa) 67-70, Michael Combs 68-69 138 - Esteban Toledo (Mex) 69-69, Grant Waite (Nzl) 70-68, Jesper

Parnevik (Swe) 67-71, Kaname Yokoo (Jpn) 69-69 139 - Edward Fryatt (Gbr) 72-67

State Farm Classic Selected second-round scores (U.S. unless noted): 131 - Annika Sorenstam (Swe) 65-66 134 - Kate Golden 69-65, Emilee Klein 68-66 135 - Tina Fischer (Ger) 65-70 136 - Jean Bartholomew 71-65, Gloria Park (Kor) 70-66, Marianne

Morris 66-70 137 - Michelle McGann 70-67, Moira Dunn 69-68, Helen Alfredsson

(Swe) 69-68, Alicia Dibos (Per) 68-69, Jenny Park-Choi

(Kor) 68-69, Jill McGill 68-69 138 - Carri Wood 70-68, Patricia Meunier-Lebouc (Fra) 70-68,

Sherri Steinhauer 69-69, Lorie Kane (Can) 69-69, Becky

Morgan 68-70, Pearl Sinn 67-71 139 - Nancy Harvey (Can) 70-69, Shani Waugh (Aus) 70-69

BMW International Open Selected second round scores (Gbr and Irl unless stated): 127 - John Daly (U.S.) 63-64 131 - Adam Scott (Aus) 67-64 132 - Richard Green (Aus) 63-69, Thomas Bjorn (Den) 65-67,

Padraig Harrington 69-63, Jose Maria Olazabal (Spa) 70-62 133 - Dean Robertson 64-69 134 - Raymond Russell 68-66, Fredrik Jacobson (Swe) 68-66, Marc

Farry (Fra) 67-67, Sergio Garcia (Spa) 67-67 135 - John Senden (Aus) 68-67, John Bickerton 67-68, Soren

Kjeldsen (Den) 65-70, Carl Pettersson (Swe) 66-69, Alex

Cejka (Ger) 69-66, Ricardo Gonzalez (Arg) 67-68, David

Carter 69-66, Raphael Jacquelin (Fra) 68-67 136 - M Mouland 68-68, B Rumford (Aus) 68-68, B Davis 68-68, P

McGinley 70 66, B Langer (Ger) 67-69, P Casey 69-67, G Owen

69-67, J Berendt (Arg) 69-67, R Wessels (Rsa) 66-70, I

Woosnam 69-67, A Oldcorn 67-69, T Levet (Fra) 70-66, J Rose

67-69, A Forsyth 68-66, C Hanell (Swe) 71-65

Tennis

US Open

Women third round (x denotes seed): Martina Hingis (Swi x1) bt Iva Majoli (Cro) 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (7/5); Lindsay Davenport (U.S. x3) bt Angeles Montolio (Spa x27) 6-3, 6- 2; Justine Henin (Bel x6) bt Miroslava Vavrinec (Swi) 6-3, 6-2; Monica Seles (U.S. x7) bt Eleni Daniilidou (Gre) 6-2, 6-3; Serena Williams (U.S. x10) bt Martina Sucha (Svk) 6-1, 6-0; Daja Bedanova (Cze) bt Meghann Shaughnessy (U.S. x12) 6-4, 6-1; Jelena Dokic (Yug x14) bt Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario (Spa x20) 6-4, 7-5; Elena Likhovtseva (Rus x21) bt Barbara Schwartz (Aut) 6-7 (6/8), 7-5, 6-4;

Men second round (x denotes seed): Gustavo Kuerten (Bra x1) bt Kristian Pless (Den) 6-3, 6-4, 6-4; Lleyton Hewitt (Aus x4) bt James Blake (U.S.) 6-4, 3-6, 2-6, 6-3, 6-0; Juan Carlos Ferrero (Spa x5) bt Vladimir Votchkov (Blr) 7-6 (7/2), 6-1, 6-4; Yevgeny Kafelnikov (Rus x7) bt George Bastl (Swi) 2-6, 5-7, 6-1, 6-4, 6-3; Alex Corretja (Spa x11) bt Jerome Golmard (Fra) 7-5, 7-6 (7/4), 7-5; Arnaud Clement (Fra x12) bt Jan Siemerink (Ned) 6-7 (4/7), 6-4, 7-6 (7/1), 6-1; Goran Ivanisevic (Cro x15) bt Justin Gimelstob (U.S.) 6-3, 6-3, 6- 3; Tommy Haas (Ger x16) bt Felix Mantilla (Spa) 6-1, 6-0, 6-7 (5/7), 6-3; Carlos Moya (Spa x17) bt Fernando Vicente (Spa) 3-6, 7-5, 6-1, 6- 3; Andy Roddick (U.S. x18) bt Jack Brasington (U.S.) 6-2, 6-1, 5-7, 7- 6 (7/4); Albert Costa (Spa) bt Dominik Hrbaty (Svk x23) 6-4, 6-4, 7-6 (7/5); Albert Portas (Spa x25) bt Andrei Stoliarov (Rus) 6-2, 7-6 (8/6), 6-3; Max Mirnyi (Blr) bt Guillermo Canas (Arg x27) 6-3, 3-6, 7-5, 6-3; David Nalbandian (Arg) bt Nicolas Escude (Fra x31) 4-6, 6-3, 4-6, 6-3, 7-5; Tommy Rebredo (Spa) bt Todd Martin (U.S. x32) 6-3, 7-5, 3-6, 6-3; Jiri Novak (Cze) bt Bjorn Phau (Ger) 6-1, 6-1, 6-2;

Athletics

Berlin Golden League

Men 100m 1. Francis Obikwelu (Ngr) 9.98sec, 2. Abdul Aziz Zakari (Gha) 10.05, 3. Uchenna Emedolu (Ngr) 10.11

800m 1. Andre Bucher (Swi) 1:43.82, 2. Wilfred Bungei (Ken) 1:44.01, 3. William Yiampoy (Ken) 1:44.06

2000m 1. Hicham El Guerrouj (Mor) 4:51.17, 2. Driss Maazouzi (Fra) 4:55.55, 3. Enock Koech (Ken) 4:55.92

3000m 1. Paul Bitok (Ken) 7:44.33, 2. Mark Bett (Ken) 7:44.62, 3. Hailu Mekonnen (Eth)

110m hurdles 1. Allen Johnson (U.S.) 13.04, 2. Anier Garcia (Cub) 13.15, 3. Dominique Arnold (U.S.) 13.21

3,000m steeplchase 1. Stephen Cherono (Ken) 8:09.59, 2. Luis Miguel Martin (Spa) 8:12.32, 3. Julius Nyamu (Ken) 8:12.43

Long jump 1. Frank Busemann (Ger) 8.04m, 2. Kevin Dilworth (U.S.) 7.96, 3. Ivan Pedroso (Cub) 7.95

Discus 1. Lars Riedel (Ger) 65.86m, 2. Vasiliy Kaptyukh (Blr) 64.53, 3. Michael Mollenbeck (Ger) 64.14

Javelin 1. Jan Zelezny (Cze) 88.29m, 2. Boris Henry (Ger) 85.46, 3. Bjorn Lange (Ger) 81.58

Women 100m 1. Myriam Mani (Cmr) 11.13, 2. Mercy Nku (Ngr) 11.16, 3. Kelli White (U.S.) 11.25

400m 1. Grit Breuer (Ger) 50.78, 2. Suziann Reid (U.S.) 51.66, 3. Claudia Marx (Ger) 52.26

800m 1. Maria Mutola (Moz) 1:59.19, 2. Diane Cummins (Can) 1:59.40, 3. Stephanie Graf (Aut)

1500m 1. Violeta Szekely (Rom) 4min 00.80sec, 2. Carla Sacramento (Por) 4:01.31, 3. Natalya Gorelova (Rus) 4:01.55

5000m 1. Olga Yegorova (Rus) 14:29.32 secs, 2. Gete Wami (Eth) 14:31.69, 3. Paula Radcliffe (Gbr) 14:32.44

400m hurdles 1. Yuliya Nosova (Rus) 54.62, 2. Tetyana Tereshchuk-Antipova (Ukr) 54.64, 3. Daimi Pernia (Cub) 54.98

High jump 1. Kajsa Bergqvist (Swe) 1.96m, 2. Amy Acuff (U.S.) 1.93, 3. Monica Iagar-dinescu (Rom) 1.90

Pole vault 1. Svetlana Feofanova (Rus) 4.56m, 2. Yelena Isinbayeva (Rus) 4.46, 3. Yvonne Buschbaum (Ger) 4.46

Athletes qualified for the Golden League jackpot

7 wins Violeta Szekely (Rom) - women's 1,500m 5 wins Marion Jones (U.S.) - women's 100m Allen Johnson (U.S.) - men's 110m hurdles Hicham El Guerrouj (Mar) - men's 1,500m/mile Andre Bucher (Swi) - men's 800m Olga Yegorova (Rus) women's 3,000m/5,000m)