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Baseball

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

BALTIMORE 7 LA Dodgers 5

NY Yankees 5 TORONTO 3 (11 innings)

BOSTON 4 Kansas City 3

CINCINNATI 3 Miami 2 (13 innings)

LA ANGELS 10 Detroit 0

Minnesota 2 CHICAGO WHITE SOX 1 (10 innings)

Washington 7 NY METS 6

BALTIMORE 6 LA Dodgers 1

St. Louis 5 PHILADELPHIA 0

PITTSBURGH 3 Atlanta 1

MILWAUKEE 5 Chicago Cubs 1

Cleveland 19 HOUSTON 6

TAMPA BAY 1 Oakland 0

TEXAS 5 Seattle 0

COLORADO 4 Arizona 3

SAN FRANCISCO 2 San Diego 0

Basketball

Results on Saturday from the first round of the NBA playoffs (all series best-of-seven):

Eastern Conference

at New York

New York 85 Boston 78

(New York leads series 1-0)

at New York

Brooklyn 106 Chicago 89

(Brooklyn leads series 1-0)

Western Conference

at Denver

Denver 97 Golden State 95

(Denver leads series 1-0)

at Los Angeles

LA Clippers 112 Memphis 91

(LA Clippers leads series 1-0)

Golf

LPGA Lotte Championship

Leading final-round scores on Saturday in the USLPGA Tour's Lotte Championship (x-won playoff; a-denotes amateur; USA unless noted):

269 - x-Suzann Pettersen (NOR) 65-69-68-67, Lizette Salas 69-71-67-62

273 - Ariya Jutanugarn (THA) 64-75-68-66

275 - I.K. Kim (KOR) 70-70-70-65, Park In-Bee (KOR) 70-71-67-67

277 - Choi Na-yeon (KOR) 70-74-67-66, Jessica Korda 72-70-66-69, Ai Miyazato (JPN) 67-68-70-72

278 - Feng Shanshan (CHN) 70-70-73-65, a-Lydia Ko (NZL) 71-71-70-66, Caroline Hedwall (SWE) 69-72-70-67, Stacy Lewis 67-71-69-71, Kim Hyo-joo (KOR) 66-71-69-72, Seo Hee-kyung (KOR) 65-72-66-75

279 - Karine Icher (FRA) 70-71-72-66, Kang Hae-Ji (KOR) 68-71-74-66

280 - Paula Creamer 71-72-71-66, Karrie Webb (AUS) 69-74-70-67, Vicky Hurst 69-72-72-67, Beatriz Recari (ESP) 67-70-72-71

281 - Azahara Munoz (ESP) 72-73-70-66, Jodi Ewart Shadoff (ENG) 72-68-68-73

RBC Heritage

Leading third-round scores on Saturday in the $5.8 million US PGA Tour Heritage tournament (USA unless noted, par-71)

202 - Charley Hoffman 66-70-66

204 - Webb Simpson 68-71-65

205 - Kevin Streelman 66-70-69

206 - Brendon de Jonge (ZIM) 70-69-67, Graeme McDowell (NIR) 71-67-68

207 - Jerry Kelly 69-72-66, Ryo Ishikawa (JPN) 68-72-67, Camilo Villegas (COL) 68-71-68, Justin Hicks 69-70-68, Tim Clark (RSA) 68-71-68, Billy Horschel 71-68-68, Bill Haas 68-69-70, Steve LeBrun 68-68-71

208 - Jim Furyk 70-72-66, Richard H. Lee 68-71-69, Jordan Spieth 70-69-69, Pat Perez 68-70-70, Stuart Appleby (AUS) 70-68-70, Luke Donald (ENG) 69-68-71

209 - Chris Stroud 70-70-69, Marc Leishman (AUS) 67-71-71, Johnson Wagner 67-71-71

Ice hockey

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

Pittsburgh 3 BOSTON 2

NEW JERSEY 6 Florida 2

NY Islanders 5 WINNIPEG 4 (SO)

Washington 5 MONTREAL 1

Toronto 4 OTTAWA 1

Philadelphia 5 CAROLINA 3

Phoenix 3 CHICAGO 2 (SO)

VANCOUVER 2 Detroit 1 (SO)

Soccer

Dutch league

Saturday's results:

FC Groningen 2 ADO Den Haag 1

Heracles 4 RKC Waalwijk 0

Willem II 2 Roda JC 1

AZ Alkmaar 1 PSV Eindhoven 3

English Premier League

Saturday's results:

Fulham 0 Arsenal 1 (Mertesacker 43)

Norwich 2 (R. Bennett 50, E. Bennett 52) Reading 1 (McCleary 72)

QPR 0 Stoke 2 (Crouch 42, Walters 77-pen)

Sunderland 1 (Sessegnon 45) Everton 0

Swansea 0 Southampton 0

West Brom 1 (Jones 64) Newcastle 1 (Gouffran 8)

West Ham 2 (Jarvis 21, Nolan 80) Wigan 0

French League Cup

Saturday's final results:

Saint Etienne 1 (Brandao 18) Rennes 0

German Bundesliga

Saturday's results:

Bayer Leverkusen 5 (Kiessling 16, 65, Schuerrle 31, 69, Reinartz 79) Hoffenheim 0

Hanover 96 1 (Hoffmann 84) Bayern Munich 6 (Stindl 16-og, Ribery 22, Gomez 40, 62, Pizarro 71, 86)

Hamburg 2 (Van der Vaart 14, 20) Fortuna Dusseldorf 1 (Schahin 34)

Eintracht Frankfurt 1 (Russ 41) Schalke 04 0

Borussia Dortmund 2 (Reus 1, Lewandowski 87) Mainz 05 0

Werder Bremen 0 VfL Wolfsburg 3 (Arnold 13, Olic 27, Ribas 66-pen)

Italian Serie A

Saturday's results:

Genoa 1 (Floro Flores 6) Atalanta 1 (Del Grosso 8)

Udinese 1 (Di Natale 19) Lazio 0

Portuguese league

Saturday's results:

Pacos de Ferreira 2 (Hurtado 75, Andre 79) Rio Ave 1 (Tarantini 58)

Moreirense 0 FC Porto 3 (J. Martinez 34, 55, Fernando 53)

Scottish Premier League

Saturday's results:

Kilmarnock 0 Hearts 1 (Sutton 4)

St Mirren 1 (Thompson 52) Dundee 2 (McAlister 40, Finnigan 81)

Spanish La Liga

Saturday's results:

Granada 1 (El-Arabi 73) Valladolid 1 (Ebert 59)

Real Madrid 3 (Ozil 45, 90+1, Benzema 57) Real Betis 1 (Molina 73-pen)

Barcelona 1 (Fabregas 84) Levante 0

Valencia 5 (Parejo 25, Soldado 28, 30-pen, Canales 31, Banega 56) Malaga 1 (Julio Baptista 45+1)

Tennis

Fed Cup

Saturday's results:

World Group semifinals

At Palermo

Italy 2 Czech Republic 0

Sara Errani (ITA) bt Lucie Safarova (CZE) 6-4 6-2

Roberta Vinci (ITA) bt Petra Kvitova (CZE) 6-4 6-1

At Moscow

Russia 0 Slovakia 2

Dominika Cibulkova (SVK) bt Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS) 5-7, 6-1, 6-4

Daniela Hantuchova (SVK) bt Maria Kirilenko (RUS) 6-2, 6-4

World Group playoffs

At Stuttgart

Germany 1 Serbia 1

Ana Ivanovic (SRB) bt Mona Barthel (GER) 6-5 (5), 2-6, 6-2; Angelique Kerber (GER) bt Bojana Jovanovski (SRB) 7-5, 6-2

At Chiasso-Seseglio

Switzerland vs Australia

No play Saturday - rain

At Barcelona

Spain 2 Japan 0

Carla Suarez Navarro (ESP) bt Misaki Doi (JPN) 6-3, 6-4; Silvia Soler-Espinosa (ESP) bt Ayumi Morita (JPN) 6-2, 6-3

At Delray Beach

USA 1 Sweden 1

Sofia Arvidsson (SWE) bt Sloane Stephens (USA) 6-4, 4-6, 6-1; Serena Williams (USA) bt Johanna Larsson (SWE) 6-2, 6-2

World Group II playoffs

At Koksijde

Belgium 1 Poland 1

Agnieszka Radwanska (POL) bt Alison van Uytvanck (BEL) 6-4, 6-2; Kirsten Flipkens (BEL) bt Urszula Radwanska (POL) 6-4, 6-3

At Besancon

France 1 Kazakhstan 1

Saturday

Marion Bartoli (FRA) bt Galina Voskoboeva (KAZ) 6-0, 6-3; Yaroslava Shvedova (KAZ) bt Alize Cornet (FRA) 2-6, 6-3, 6-2

At Buenos Aires

Argentina 1 Great Britain 1

Paula Ormaechea (ARG) bt Johanna Konta (GBR) 6-3, 6-2; Laura Robson (GBR) bt Florencia Molinero (ARG) 6-1, 6-1

At Kiev

Ukraine 1 Canada 1

Elina Svitolina (UKR) bt Eugenie Bouchard (CAN) 6-7 (6), 6-3, 6-2; Sharon Fichman (CAN) bt Lesia Tsurenko (UKR) 7-6 (5), 2-6, 6-3

Monte Carlo Masters

Saturday's results:

Semifinals

Rafael Nadal (ESP x3) bt Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA x6) 6-3, 7-6 (3); Novak Djokovic (SRB x1) bt Fabio Fognini (ITA) 6-2, 6-1.

(China Daily 04/22/2013 page23)