Baseball

Results of MLB games on Saturday (home team in CAPS):

CLEVELAND 5 Tampa Bay 0

MINNESOTA 5 Seattle 4

ST. LOUIS 8 San Francisco 0

Detroit 10 BALTIMORE 3

Kansas City 4 TEXAS 1 (10 innings)

Milwaukee 4 PHILADELPHIA 3

OAKLAND 4 Chicago White Sox 3 (10 innings)

COLORADO 7 LA Dodgers 6 (10 innings)

MIAMI 8 NY Mets 1

Boston 11 NY YANKEES 1

ATLANTA 2 Washington 1 (10 innings)

Arizona 12 CHICAGO CUBS 4

Cincinnati 2 PITTSBURGH 0

ST. LOUIS 7 San Francisco 1

Houston 2 LA ANGELS 0

SAN DIEGO 4 Toronto 3

Basketball

Result from the NBA playoffs semifinal on Saturday (home team in CAPS):

1 2 3 4 T

INDIANA 21 18 29 23 91

Miami 23 17 15 22 77

(The best-of-seven series is even at 3-3)

Golf

Memorial Tournament

DUBLIN, Ohio - Leading scores on Saturday after the third round of the weather-disrupted US PGA Memorial tournament (USA unless noted, par-72):

208 - Matt Kuchar 68-70-70

210 - Kevin Chappell 71-71-68, Kyle Stanley 67-70-73

211 - Matt Jones (AUS) 69-72-70, Justin Rose (ENG) 70-70-71, Bill Haas 68-67-76

212 - J.J. Henry 72-72-68, Adam Scott (AUS) 73-70-69, Scott Piercy 66-75-71, Charl Schwartzel (RSA) 65-71-76

213 - Gary Woodland 70-73-70, Pat Perez 72-69-72, Bubba Watson 71-67-75

214 - Russell Henley 67-77-70, Jim Furyk 75-70-69, Brian Davis (ENG) 75-70-69, Davis Love 73-69-72, Charley Hoffman 73-69-72, Bo Van Pelt 73-69-72

215 - Fred Couples 70-75-70, Michael Thompson 69-76-70, Carl Pettersson (SWE) 71-71-73, Charles Howell 72-70-73, Ryan Moore 70-72-73, Chris Stroud 69-77-69, Scott Stallings 70-70-75

Swedish Masters

Third round leading scores from the Swedish Masters on Saturday:

198 - Mikko Ilonen (FIN) 70-63-65

200 - Alexander Noren (SWE) 67-69-64

202 - Jonas Blixt (SWE) Swe 70-66-66; Matteo Manassero 66-65-71

204 - Rikard Karlberg (SWE) 69-68-67

205 - Thomas Bjorn (DEN) 70-67-78; Joost Luiten (NED) 68-67-70; Bernd Wiesberger (AUT) 69-72-64

206 - Pablo Larrazabal (ESP) 66-70-70; Julien Quesne (FRA) 73-67-66

ShopRite LPGA Classic

GALLOWAY, New Jersey - Leading second-round scores on Saturday in the ShopRite LPGA Classic (USA unless noted, par 71):

136 - Feng Shanshan (CHN) 69-67

139 - Kang Hae-Ji (KOR) 70-69, Moriya Jutanugarn (THA) 66-73

140 - Chie Arimura (JPN) 73-67, Anna Nordqvist (SWE) 72-68

141 - Karine Icher (FRA) 74-67, Karrie Webb (AUS) 72-69, Park Hee-Young (KOR) 69-72, Michelle Wie 68-73, Amanda Blumenherst 66-75

142 - Jennie Lee 73-69, I.K. Kim (KOR) 72-70, Mika Miyazato (JPN) 72-70, Beatriz Recari (ESP) 69-73

143 - Ryu So-Yeon (KOR) 74-69, Tseng Ya-ni (TPE) 74-69, Jill McGill 73-70, Jenny Shin (KOR) 70-73

144 - Ayako Uehara (JPN) 75-69, Christel Boeljon (NED) 73-71, Jang Jeong (KOR) 73-71, Alena Sharp (CAN) 72-72, Julieta Granada (PAR) 71-73, Ai Miyazato (JPN) 70-74, Pornanong Phatlum (THA) 69-75

Ice hockey

NHL playoffs

Results from the NHL playoff games on Saturday (home team in CAPS):

1 2 3 T

Boston 1 0 2 3

PITTSBURGH 0 0 0 0

(Boston lead best-of-seven series 1-0)

1 2 3 T

CHICAGO 0 2 0 2

Los Angeles 1 0 0 1

(Chicago lead best-of-seven series 1-0)

Soccer

German Cup

Final match on Saturday:

Bayern Munich 3 (Mueller 37pen, Gomez 48, 61) VfB Stuttgart 2 ( Harnik 71, 80)

Spanish La Liga

Results on Saturday:

Real Madrid 4 (Higuain 35, Essien 38, Benzema 69, Callejon 87) Osasuna 2 (Torres 52, Cejudo 63)

Barcelona 4 (Villa 4, Fabregas 14, Montoya 16, Iniesta 52) Malaga 1 (Morales 57)

Celta Vigo 1 (Insa 16) Espanyol 0

Granada 2 (Nolito 28, El-Arabi 63) Getafe 0

Sevilla 4 (Negredo 40, 44-pen, 57, 61) Valencia 3 (Banega 12, Soldado 56, 89)

Deportivo la Coruna 0 Real Sociedad 1 (Griezmann 22)

Mallorca 4 (Alfaro 17, Marti 42, Dos Santos 58, Marquez 68) Valladolid 2 (Bueno 30, Omar 72)

Real Zaragoza 1 (Postiga 88) Atletico Madrid 3 (Arda 83, Costa 89, 90+1)

Levante 1 (Rios 50) Real Betis 1 (Molina 67)

Rayo Vallecano 2 (Vazquez 19, Piti 55) Athletic Bilbao 2 (Susaeta 31, Aurtenetxe 48)

W D L Gf Ga Pts

Barcelona 32 4 2 115 40 100

Real Madrid 26 7 5 103 42 85

Atletico Madrid 23 7 8 65 31 76

Real Sociedad 18 12 8 70 49 66

Valencia 19 8 11 67 54 65

Malaga 16 9 13 53 50 57

Real Betis 16 8 14 57 56 56

Rayo Vallecano 16 5 17 50 66 53

Sevilla 14 8 16 58 54 50

Getafe 13 8 17 43 57 47

Levante 12 10 16 40 57 46

Athletic Bilbao 12 9 17 44 65 45

Espanyol 11 11 16 43 52 44

Valladolid 11 10 17 49 58 43

Granada 11 9 18 37 54 42

Osasuna 10 9 19 33 50 39

Celta Vigo 10 7 21 37 52 37

Real Mallorca 9 9 20 43 72 36

La Coruna 8 11 19 47 70 35

Real Zaragoza 9 7 22 37 62 34

Top scorers of the La Liga on Saturday:

46 Lionel Messi (Barcelona)

34 Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid)

28 Radamel Falcao (Atletico Madrid)

25 Alvaro Negredo (Sevilla)

24 Roberto Soldado (Valencia)

18 Piti (Rayo Vallecano), Ruben Castro (Real Betis)

16 Gonzalo Higuain (Real Madrid)

14 Aduriz (Athletic Bilbao), Imanol Agirretxe (Real Sociedad), Carlos Vela (Real Sociedad), Helder Postiga (Real Zaragoza)

13 Riki (Deportivo Coruna), Jorge Molina (Real Betis), Jonas (Valencia)

12 Iago Aspas (Celta Vigo), Oscar (Real Valladolid)

Tennis

French Open

Results on Saturday (x-denotes seedings):

Men's 3rd rd

Novak Djokovic (SRB x1) bt Grigor Dimitrov (BUL x26) 6-2, 6-2, 6-3; Philipp Kohlschreiber (GER x16) bt Victor Hanescu (ROM) 6-0, 7-6 (7/0), 6-1; Tommy Haas (GER x12) bt John Isner (USA x19) 7-5, 7-6 (7/4), 4-6, 6-7 (10/12), 10-8; Mikhail Youzhny (RUS x29) bt Janko Tipsarevic (SRB x8) 6-4, 6-4, 6-3; Rafael Nadal (ESP x3) bt Fabio Fognini (ITA x27) 7-6 (7/5), 6-4, 6-4; Kei Nishikori (JPN x13) bt Benot Paire (FRA x24) 6-3, 6-7 (3/7), 6-4, 6-1; Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI x9) bt Jerzy Janowicz (POL x21) 6-3, 6-7 (2/7), 6-3, 6-3; Richard Gasquet (FRA x7) bt Nikolay Davydenko (RUS) 6-4, 6-4, 6-3.

Women's 3rd rd

Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA) bt Paula Ormaechea (ARG) 4-6, 6-1, 6-3; Maria Kirilenko (RUS x12) bt Stefanie Voegele (SUI) 7-6 (7/3), 7-5; Francesca Schiavone (ITA) bt Marion Bartoli (FRA x13) 6-2, 6-1; Victoria Azarenka (BLR x3) bt Alize Cornet (FRA/N.31) 4-6, 6-3, 6-1; Jamie Hampton (USA) bt Petra Kvitova (CZE x7) 6-1, 7-6 (9/7); Jelena Jankovic (SRB x18) bt Samantha Stosur (AUS x9) 3-6, 6-3, 6-4; Sloane Stephens (USA x17) bt Marina Erakovic (NZL) 6-4, 6-7 (5/7), 6-3; Maria Sharapova (RUS x2) bt Zheng Jie (CHN) 6-1, 7-5.

(China Daily 06/03/2013 page23)