Baseball

World Baseball Classic Result on Friday from the World Baseball Classic: Puerto Rico 4 United States 3

(Puerto Rico advances to semi-finals, United States eliminated)

Figure skating

World Championship

Results on Friday from the World Figure Skating Championships:

Men

Final Standings

1. Patrick Chan (CAN) 267.78

2. Denis Ten (KAZ) 266.48

3. Javier Fernandez (ESP) 249.06

4. Yuzuru Hanyu (JPN) 244.99

5. Kevin Reynolds (CAN) 239.98

6. Daisuke Takahashi (JPN) 239.03

Free Skate

1. Denis Ten (KAZ) 174.92

2. Patrick Chan (CAN) 169.41

3. Yuzuru Hanyu (JPN) 169.05

4. Javier Fernandez (ESP) 168.30

5. Takahito Mura (JPN) 160.72

6. Max Aaron (USA) 160.16

Pairs

Final standings

1. Tatiana Volosozhar/Maxim Trankov (RUS) 225.71

2. Aliona Savchenko/Robin Szolkowy (GER) 205.56

3. Meagan Duhamel/Eric Radford (CAN) 204.56

4. Kirsten Moore-Towers/Dylan Moscovitch (CAN) 199.50

5. Pang Qing/Tong Jian (CHN) 194.64

6. Yuko Kavaguti/Alexander Smirnov (RUS) 191.59

Free skate

1. Tatiana Volosozhar/Maxim Trankov (RUS) 149.87

2. Aliona Savchenko/Robin Szolkowy (GER) 132.09

3. Meagan Duhamel/Eric Radford (CAN) 130.95

4. Pang Qing/Tong Jian (CHN) 130.69

5. Kirsten Moore-Towers/Dylan Moscovitch (CAN) 130.25

6. Vera Bazarova/Yuri Larionov (RUS) 122.81

Basketball

Results from the NBA games on Friday (home team in CAPS)

TORONTO 92 Charlotte 78

WASHINGTON 96 New Orleans 87

LA Lakers 99 INDIANA 93

ATLANTA 107 Phoenix 94

HOUSTON 108 Minnesota 100

OKLAHOMA CITY 117 Orlando 104 Miami 107 MILWAUKEE 94

DALLAS 96 Cleveland 86

DENVER 87 Memphis 80

Chicago 113 GOLDEN STATE 95

Golf

LPGA Tour's Founders Cup

PHOENIX, Arizona: Leading scores on Friday after the second round of the $1.5 million LPGA Founders Cup (par 72, USA unless noted):

129 - Jee Young Lee (KOR) 65-64

130 - Ai Miyazato (JPN) 63-67

133 - Stacy Lewis 68-65

135 - Danielle Kang 68-67, Amy Yang (KOR) 68-67, Lindsey Wright (AUS) 68-67, Gerina Piller 66-69, Candie Kung (TPE) 66-69

136 - Daniela Iacobelli 71-65, Cristie Kerr 71-65, Anna Nordqvist (SWE) 70-66, Sandra Gal (GER) 67-69, I.K. Kim (KOR) 69-67

137 - Jessica Korda 70-67, Sydnee Michaels 70-67, Lizette Salas 68-69, Cindy Lacrosse 69-68, Thidapa Suwannapura (THA) 69-68, Hee-Won Han (KOR) 69-68, Jimin Kang (KOR) 68-69, Jiyai Shin (KOR) 67-70, Katherine Hull-Kirk (AUS) 67-70

138 - Pernilla Lindberg (SWE) 72-66, Heather Young 72-66, Jennie Lee 71-67, Nicole Castrale 71-67, Moriya Jutanugarn (THA) 70-68, Mina Harigae 70-68, Giulia Sergas (ITA) 69-69, Juli Inkster 68-70, Eun-Hee Ji (KOR) 68-70, Angela Stanford 68-70, Brittany Lang 66-72, Veronica Felibert (VEN) 69-69

Tampa Bay Championship

PALM HARBOR, Florida: Leading scores on Friday after the second round of the $5.5 million US PGA Tampa Bay Championship (USA unless noted, par 71):

135 - Shawn Stefani 65-70

136 - Adam Scott (AUS) 70-66, KJ Choi (KOR) 69-67

137 - Brian Harman 67-70, Harris English 68-69, Jason Dufner 71-66, Peter Tomasulo 69-68

138 - Tag Ridings 68-70, Sergio Garcia (ESP) 71-67

139 - George Coetzee (RSA) 71-68, Ben Kohles 72-67, Greg Chalmers (AUS) 71-68

140 - Mark Leishman (AUS) 70-70, Justin Leonard 71-69, Scott Brown 70-70, Matt Kuchar 72-68, Jerry Kelly 70-70, James Driscoll 74-66, Jordan Spieth 72-68, Erik Compton 75-65, Brian Davis (ENG) 71-69

Ice hockey

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

PHILADELPHIA 2 New Jersey 1 (SO) CALGARY 6 Nashville 3

Detroit 3 EDMONTON 2 (OT)

Ski jumping

World Cup

PARIS: World Cup results at Trondheim on Friday:

1. Kamil Stoch (POL) 280.4 (131.0 + 140.0 m), 2. Richard Freitag (GER) 278.7 (132.0 + 136.0), 3. Daiki Ito (JPN) 272.1 (130.0 + 135.5), 4. Michael Neumayer (GER) 271.4 (133.5 + 136.0), 5. Robert Kranjec (SLO) 269.8 (133.5 + 132.0)

Selected

13. Anders Bardal (NOR) 254.4 (128.5 + 128.5), 16. Gregor Schlierenzauer (AUT) 250.8 (128.0 + 129.0)

World Cup standings (after 25 of 28 rounds):

1. Gregor Schlierenzauer (AUT) 1396 pts, 2. Anders Bardal (NOR) 932, 3. Kamil Stoch (POL) 847, 4. Severin Freund (GER) 845, 5. Anders Jacobsen (NOR) 824

Selected: 12. Simon Ammann (SUI) 553

Soccer

French league

Results on Friday:

Marseille 0 Ajaccio 0

German league

Results on Friday:

VfL Wolfsburg 1 (Olic 51) Fortuna Dusseldorf 1 (Bolly 37)

Spanish league

Result on Friday:

Deportivo La Coruna 3 (Riki 9, Silvio 64, Salomao 78) Celta Vigo 1 (Park Chu-young 80)

Portuguese league

Result on Friday:

Gil Vicente 1 (Veira 61) Sporting Braga 3 (Viana 45+2, 82, Luis 83)

Tennis

Indian Wells ATP Masters and WTA

Results on Friday (x denotes seeded player):

Men's quarterfinals

Novak Djokovic (SRB x1) bt Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA x8) 6-3, 6-1; Juan Martin Del Potro (ARG x7) bt Andy Murray (GBR x3) 6-7 (5/7), 6-3, 6-1

Women's semifinals

Caroline Wozniacki (DEN x8) bt Angelique Kerber (GER x4) 2-6, 6-4, 7-5; Maria Sharapova (RUS x2) bt Maria Kirilenko (RUS x13) 6-4, 6-3

(China Daily 03/17/2013 page7)