Basketball

Results of NBA games on Saturday (home teams in CAPS):

CHARLOTTE 124 Portland 94

Houston 118 CLEVELAND 111

CHICAGO 91 Philadelphia 81

MEMPHIS 82 Indiana 71

NEW ORLEANS 105 Miami 95

UTAH 89 Orlando 88

San Antonio 99 GOLDEN STATE 90

LA CLIPPERS 112 Detroit 103

Golf

Arnold Palmer Invitational

Leading scores on Saturday after the third round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational (par 72, USA unless noted):

201 - Adam Scott (AUS) 62-68-71

204 - Keegan Bradley 71-67-66

205 - Matt Every 69-70-66, Jason Kokrak 67-71-67

206 - Chesson Hadley 69-68-69, Francesco Molinari (ITA) 67-70-69

208 - Ian Poulter (ENG) 68-71-69

209 - Ryo Ishikawa (JPN) 65-74-70, Morgan Hoffmann 67-71-71, Freddie Jacobson (SWE) 71-68-70, JB Holmes 68-69-72

210 - Pat Perez 70-70-70, Erik Compton 72-68-70, Aaron Baddeley (AUS) 70-70-70

211 - Matt Jones (AUS) 71-71-69, Henrik Stenson (SWE) 69-73-69, Sam Saunders 69-71-71, Charles Howell 68-71-72

212 - Graeme McDowell (NIR) 68-77-67, Davis Love 70-73-69, George McNeill 71-72-69, Patrick Reed 69-73-70, Brendan Steele 68-74-70, Kevin Na 70-71-71, Trevor Immelman (RSA) 69-72-71, Kevin Chappell 71-70-71, Brandt Snedeker 67-71-74, Jamie Donaldson (WAL) 67-71-74

LPGA Founders Cup

Leading scores on Saturday after the third round of the LPGA Founders Cup (par 72, USA unless noted):

200 - Lydia Ko (NZL) 67-66-67

201 - Jessica Korda 69-66-66, Mirim Lee (KOR) 64-67-70

202 - Yoo Sun-young (KOR) 69-65-68

203 - Azahara Munoz (ESP) 68-71-64, Amy Yang (KOR) 67-69-67, Michelle Wie 66-70-67, Chella Choi (KOR) 69-66-68, Ryu So-yeon (KOR) 68-67-68

204 - Paula Creamer 70-70-64, Stacy Lewis 66-71-67, Morgan Pressel 65-72-67

205 - Cristie Kerr 73-69-63, Laura Davies (ENG) 68-71-66, Jaye Marie Green 70-68-67, Lexi Thompson 69-69-67, Pornanong Phatlum (THA) 67-71, Lizette Salas 69-67-69, Park In-bee (KOR) 66-69-70

206 - Gerina Piller 66-73-67, Candie Kung (TPE) 70-68-68, Karrie Webb (AUS) 66-71-68

207 - Seo Hee-kyung (KOR) 71-71-65, Caroline Masson (GER) 70-71-66, Hannah Medlock 72-68-67, Mika Miyazato (JPN) 68-71-68, Park Hee-young (KOR) 73-65-69, Belen Mozo (ESP) 70-68-69, Jodi Ewart Shadoff (ENG) 67-69-71

Ice Hockey

Results of National Hockey League games on

Saturday (home teams in CAPS):

PHILADELPHIA 4 St. Louis 1

PITTSBURGH 4 Tampa Bay 3 (OT)

Detroit 3 MINNESOTA 2

DALLAS 3 Ottawa 1

LOS ANGELES 4 Florida 0

Montreal 4 Toronto 3

NY Rangers 2 NEW JERSEY 0

Carolina 3 WINNIPEG 2

Boston 4 PHOENIX 2

Calgary 8 EDMONTON 1

Washington 3 SAN JOSE 2 (SO)

Soccer

Argentine championship

Results of Final matches on Saturday:

Velez Sarsfield 1 Estudiantes 1

Argentinos Juniors 0 Newell's Old Boys 0

Racing Club 2 Atletico Belgrano 0

Rosario Central 2 All Boys 0

Dutch championship

Result on Saturday:

FC Groningen 3 Vitesse Arnhem 1

SC Heerenveen 2 NEC Nijmegen 2

PSV Eindhoven 3 Roda JC 1

English Premier League

Results on Saturday:

Cardiff 3 (Mutch 9, 88, Campbell 25) Liverpool 6 (Suarez 16, 60, 90, Skrtel 41, 54, Sturridge 75)

Chelsea 6 (Eto'o 5, Schurrle 7, Hazard 17-pen, Oscar 42, 66, Salah 71) Arsenal 0

Everton 3 (Baines 20-pen, Lukaku 53, Barkley 58) Swansea 2 (Bony 33, Williams 90)

Hull 2 (Rosenior 32, Long 38) West Brom 0

Manchester City 5 (Toure 26-pen, 54-pen, 65, Fernandinho 84, Demichelis 88) Fulham 0

Newcastle 1 (Cisse 90) Crystal Palace 0

Norwich 2 (Snodgrass 20, Tettey 32) Sunderland 0

West Ham 0 Manchester United 2 (Rooney 8, 33)

W D L Gf Ga Pts

Chelsea 21 6 4 62 23 69

Liverpool 20 5 5 82 38 65

Man City 20 3 5 76 27 63

Arsenal 19 5 6 53 34 62

Everton 15 9 5 43 30 54

Tottenham 16 5 9 37 38 53

Man Utd 15 6 9 48 34 51

Newcastle 14 4 12 38 40 46

Southampton 12 9 9 43 37 45

Aston Villa 9 7 13 32 38 34

Stoke 8 10 12 32 44 34

Hull 9 6 15 32 37 33

Norwich 8 8 15 26 48 32

West Ham 8 7 15 32 40 31

Swansea 7 8 15 40 46 29

West Brom 5 13 12 33 45 28

Crystal Palace 8 4 18 19 39 28

Sunderland 6 7 15 26 44 25

Cardiff 6 7 18 26 58 25

Fulham 7 3 21 30 70 24

English Championship

Results on Saturday:

Barnsley 0 Bournemouth 1

Birmingham 1 Reading 2

Blackburn 1 Leicester 1

Blackpool 1 Huddersfield 0

Brighton 0 Ipswich 2

Charlton 0 Burnley 3

Derby 5 Nottingham Forest 0

Doncaster 1 Sheffield Wednesday 0

Leeds 2 Millwall 1

Middlesbrough 1 QPR 3

Wigan 2 Watford 1

Yeovil 2 Bolton 2

French Lige 1

Results on Saturday:

Marseille 0 Rennes 1 (Doucoure 76)

Bastia 2 (Raspentino 9, Bruno 42) Reims 0

Bordeaux 1 (Jussie 63-pen) Nice 1 (Bosetti 67)

Nantes 2 (Gakpe 3, Djidji 21) Montpellier 1 (Djidji 34-og)

Toulouse 1 (Ben Yedder 56) Evian 1 (Nsikulu 89)

Valenciennes 2 (Waris 51, 72-pen) Ajaccio 3 (Andre 62, Baradji 87, 90)

W D L Gf Ga Pts

PSG 22 7 1 70 18 73

Monaco 18 8 3 49 24 62

Lille 15 8 6 33 18 53

Saint-Etienne 14 6 9 38 26 48

Lyon 12 9 8 44 35 45

Marseille 12 8 10 39 32 44

Reims 11 10 9 38 39 43

Toulouse 11 10 9 38 41 43

Bordeaux 11 9 10 37 35 42

Bastia 11 7 12 34 43 40

Nice 11 5 14 27 34 38

Lorient 10 6 14 36 41 36

Nantes 10 6 14 27 33 36

Guingamp 9 8 12 28 30 35

Montpellier 6 16 8 35 36 34

Rennes 8 10 12 35 37 34

Evian 7 10 13 29 45 31

Valenciennes 7 7 16 32 49 28

Sochaux 6 7 16 25 50 25

Ajaccio 3 9 18 28 55 18

NB - Nantes' 2-0 win against Bastia on the opening day of the season was overturned and awarded as a win to Bastia after Nantes fielded the suspended Abdoulaye Toure in the game.

German Bundesliga

Results on Saturday:

Schalke 04 3 (Goretzka 17, Huntelaar 66, Szalai 90+3) Eintracht Braunschweig 1 (Kessel 81)

VfB Stuttgart 1 (Maxim 69) Hamburg 0

Hanover 96 0 Dortmund 3 (Hummels 43, Lewandowski 52, Reus 90+1)

Wolfsburg 1 (Olic 81) FC Augsburg 1 (Werner 43)

Mainz 05 0 Bayern Munich 2 (Schweinsteiger 82, Goetze 86)

Borussia Moenchengladbach 3 (Arango 28, Ramos 32-og, Raffael 40) Hertha Berlin 0

W D L Gf Ga Pts

Bayern Munich 24 2 0 76 12 74

Bor. Dortmund 16 3 7 59 29 51

Schalke 04 15 5 6 51 37 50

Bayer Leverkusen 14 2 9 41 29 44

Bor. M'gladbach 12 6 8 46 32 42

Vfl Wolfsburg 12 5 9 43 40 41

Mainz 05 12 5 9 37 40 41

Augsburg 11 6 9 39 37 39

Hertha Berlin 10 6 10 35 34 36

Hoffenheim 7 8 10 54 56 29

Hanover 96 8 5 13 34 46 29

Werder Bremen 7 8 11 30 50 29

Eintr. Frankfurt 6 8 11 28 44 26

Freiburg 6 7 13 29 47 25

VfB Stuttgart 6 6 14 40 52 24

Hamburg 6 5 15 41 55 23

Nuremberg 4 11 10 28 44 23

Eintr. Braunschweig 4 6 16 21 48 18

Italian Serie A

Result on Saturday:

Torino 3 (Immobile 25, 60, 67) Livorno 1 (Siligardi 89)

Chievo 0 Roma 2 (Gervinho 17, Destro 42)

Scottish Premiership

Results on Saturday:

Aberdeen 2 (Rooney 17, Jack 72) Kilmarnock 1 (Boyd 11)

Celtic 3 (Johansen 44, Griffiths 61, Stokes 90) St Mirren 0

Inverness CT 1 (McKay 62) Partick 0

Motherwell 2 (McFadden 48, Sutton 60) Ross County 1 (Songo'o 82)

St Johnstone 2 (MacLean 18, McGivern 55-og) Hibernian 0

Spanish La Liga

Results on Saturday:

Granada 1 (Brahimi 63) Elche 0

Espanyol 0 Levante 0

Valladolid 1 (Ze Castro 8-og) Rayo Vallecano 1 (Bueno 45)

Athletic Bilbao 1 (Susaeta 39) Getafe 0

Tennis

ATP/WTA Miami

Results on Saturday:

Men's 2nd rd

Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI x3) bt Daniel Gimeno-Traver (ESP) 6-0, 3-6, 6-3; Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) bt Marin Cilic (CRO x25) 6-2, 7-6 (5); Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (ESP) bt Gael Monfils (FRA x23) 6-2, 7-5; Tomas Berdych (CZE x7) bt Stephane Robert (FRA) 7-6 (5), 6-1; Roberto Bautista Agut (ESP) bt Jerzy Janowicz (POL) 6-4, 6-1; Alexandr Dolgopolov (UKR) bt Jarkko Nieminen (FIN) 6-4, 6-2; Joao Sousa (POR) bt Gilles Simon (FRA) 7-6 (5), 3-6, 6-3; Nicolas Almagro (ESP) bt Sam Querrey (USA) 6-4, 6-4; Aljaz Bedene (SLO) bt Vasek Pospisil (CAN) 6-7 (5), 7-5, 6-3; Benjamin Becker (GER) bt Ryan Harrison (USA) 7-5, 3-6, 7-6 (2); John Isner (USA x10) bt Donald Young (USA) 6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-4; Fabio Fognini (ITA x14) bt Lukas Lacko (SVK) 6-4, 6-4; Milos Raonic (CAN x12) bt Jack Sock (USA) 6-4, 7-6 (1); Denis Istomin (UZB) bt Dmitry Tursunov (RUS) 6-7 (8), 6-0, 6-3; Dusan Lajovic (SRB) bt Lu Yen-Hsun (TPE) 6-1, 6-7 (3), 6-3; Rafael Nadal (ESP x1) bt Lleyton Hewitt (AUS) 6-1, 6-3.

Women's 3rd rd

Ekaterina Makarova (RUS x23) bt Sara Errani (ITA x9) 6-3, 2-6, 6-4; Angelique Kerber (GER x5) bt Tsvetana Pironkova (BUL) 6-0, 6-2; Kirsten Flipkens (BEL x19) bt Sabine Lisicki (GER x14) - walkover, flu; Ana Ivanovic (SRB x12) bt Flavia Pennetta (ITA x20) 6-4, 6-3; Petra Kvitova (CZE x8) bt Donna Vekic (CRO) 6-3, 6-4; Serena Williams (USA x1) bt Caroline Garcia (FRA) 6-4, 4-6, 6-4; Maria Sharapova (RUS x4) bt Lucie Safarova (CZE) 6-4, 6-7 (5), 6-2; Coco Vandeweghe (USA) bt Samantha Stosur (AUS x16) 5-7, 7-5, 7-5.

China Daily

(China Daily 03/24/2014 page23)