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Jerseys From China Cheap . -- Michelle Wie and Lexi Thompson know exactly whats at stake Sunday at Mission Hills -- for
themselves and the attention-starved LPGA Tour. "I think its great for the tour
and its going to be a lot of fun," Wie said Saturday after tying Thompson for
the third-round lead in the Kraft Nabisco Championship. "I think Lexi is a
really entertaining golfer. I like to think Im somewhat entertaining as well.
So, I think the both of us paired together is great." Theyre each trying to win
their first major title, a victory that would be a big boost to the tour that
felt slighted and upstaged this week when Golf Digest put model Paulina Gretzky
on its cover after long ignoring the top female players. "I know people will be
really excited about tomorrows pairing, but Im not really going to worry about
it," Thompson said. "Im just going to go out and have fun." The 24-year-old Wie
shot a bogey-free 4-under 68 to match the 19-year-old Thompson at 10-under 206.
The popular Americans were teammates last year in the Solheim Cup. "I really
like Lexi," Wie said. "I think shes a really good girl." The two 6-footers are
power players, though Wie has sacrificed some distance for control and has been
hitting low-flying 3-wood stingers off a lot of tees. "Thats kind of always been
in my bag," Wie said. "Kind of reintroduced it back into my game the last couple
of months. Its just something that Ive always felt comfortable doing and Ive
played well on this golf course." Brooke Henderson of Smith Falls, Ont., topped
the amateur leaderboard with a 2-under 70. The 16-year-old is in 19th spot at
1-under for the tournament. Thompson, already a three-time winner on the tour,
settled for a 69 after missing a 3-foot par putt on the par-5 18th. She also
missed two short birdie putts on the front nine. "Im getting looks at birdies
and just waiting for a few more to drop," Thompson said. Charley Hull, the
Englishwoman who turned 18 last month, was two strokes back along with five-time
major champion Se Ri Pak. Hull birdied the 18th for a 66, the best round of the
day. Pak shot 71. Both leaders said they were nervous. "I probably wont sleep
that well," Wie said. "Its just the chance. You want something so badly. I
dreamed about this all my life, so Im just trying to not think about it so much.
Im just trying to think its a normal Sunday. ... But I think thats a good thing.
Its a sign that Im really excited and I really want this." Thompson agreed. "But
its a good nervous," Thompson said. "This is what Ive been waiting for and what
Ive worked my whole life for." Wie is making her 12th start in the tournament.
She was ninth in 2003 at age 13, fourth the following year and tied for third at
16 in 2006. She also was sixth in 2011. "I just go out there and I think I just
really know what I need to do," Wie said. "I think that came with experience of
playing so many rounds in my life." Wie has two victories, winning the 2009
Lorena Ochoa Invitational in Mexico and the 2010 Canadian Womens Open. She has
been in the top 16 in all five of her starts this year, finishing a season-best
fourth in Thailand. On Saturday, she birdied four of the first 11 holes and
parred the last seven, leaving an 8-foot birdie putt short on 18. "Im really
happy that with my placement," Wie said. Thompson struggled with her putting
after a great day on the greens Friday in a bogey-free 64. She missed a 2
1/2-foot try on No. 4 and a 4-footer on No. 7. "I would say I had a few
mis-reads," Thompson said. On 18, she drove close to the face of a right-side
bunker and blasted out, leaving her 145 yards on the water-guarded hole that she
would normally reach in two. Her approach went long and right, and her 80-foot
birdie putt broke about 15 feet right to left, setting up the short par miss
that cost her the outright lead and ended her bogey-free streak at 36 holes.
"Not the ending I wanted," Thompson said. Hull birdied six of the last holes.
She played in the Solheim Cup last year and won her first pro title last month
in Morocco in a Ladies European Tour event. "I hit it quite well," Hull said.
"My irons were pretty good and I hit some good drives. When I got myself in
trouble, I was able to get out of it. Im pretty happy." Hull turned 18 on March
20 and could become the youngest major champion in LPGA Tour history. Morgan
Pressel set the record at Mission Hills in 2007, winning at 18 years, 10 months,
9 days. "It would be the best feeling ever," Hull said. Pak birdied the par-4
16th after bogeying three of the first six holes on the back nine. The
36-year-old South Korean player won the last of her five major titles in 2006
and the last of her 25 LPGA Tour victories in 2010. "Theres nothing to complain
about it," Pak said. "Of course, I mis-hit it there a little bit, but that will
happen on this golf course."
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diluted Twins lineup to reach second base. Mike Moustakas and Jarrod Dyson hit
RBI singles in the second inning against Kevin Correia (4-10), and that was all
Vargas needed.
Cheap Jerseys USA . -- With the season on the line once more in Oakland, Justin Verlander pitched another Game 5 gem. TOKYO --
Canada was 1-1 after Fridays opening day of play in a Davis Cup tie against
Japan. In the opener of the World Group first-round series, world No. 18 Kei
Nishikori defeated Peter Polansky of Thornhill, Ont., in straight sets 6-4, 6-4,
6-4. Polansky, who is ranked 135th in the world in mens singles, had replaced
Milos Raonic on Canadas Davis Cup team after Raonic pulled out a left foot
injury on Thursday. But Canada pulled even in the second match when Frank
Dancevic of Niagara Falls, Ont., a 29-year-old veteran of 19 Davis Cup ties,
defeated Go Soeda 6-4, 7-6 (2), 6-1. "Its 1-1 and both No.1 players did their
job," said Canadian captain Martin Laurendeau. "Its a big point for us
especially after we lost Milos so we are happy with today. We always like to
savour the win a little bit but then we will regroup and focus on doubles
tomorrow which is always a critical point in the tie." Next up is a doubles
match Saturday featuring Toronto veteran Daniel Nestor and Vancouvers Vasek
Pospisil, followed by two more singles matches Sunday. Fridays first set of the
day was one of shifting momentum as Nishikori jumped out to a 2-0 lead but
Polansky came back to win four straight games and go up a break. Nishikori then
took the control back, claiming the next four games and the set. Nishikori
increased his level even further in the second and third sets, running Polansky
all over the court with his defensive play. &quuot;I think we both played
really well today and there werent too many lapses of focus," said Polansky.
Cheap Jerseys . "The difference was he played a bit better on some of the bigger points. He converted more break points than I did and we had a lot of
long rallies which he did better on as well." In the second match, Soeda went up
a quick break but Dancevic won the final five games of the first set to take the
early lead. The second set was evenly matched as both players held serve through
to a tiebreak where Dancevic fed off the small but noisy Canadian crowd to up
his game. Dancevic carried that dominance into the third to close it out and
give Canada a much needed point. "I was really happy with my performance today,"
said Dancevic. "He started off really well and it made me focus more to get back
into it. As the match went on I got more and more confidence and was able to
finish really strong. The Canadian crowd was great and they really motivated me
and kept me in the zone today. The team and bench also got behind me and that
little bit of extra emotion to get going again makes a difference." The winner
of the best-of-five tie will move on to the quarter-finals in April versus the
winner of the first-round tie between Czech Republic and the Netherlands. The
losing team will have to play a World Group playoff tie in September to retain
their spot in the top level of the competition.
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