Score board

Basketball

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

LA CLIPPERS 103 Sacramento 102

INDIANA 106 Philadelphia 98

WASHINGTON 98 NY Knicks 89

Boston 94 ATLANTA 87

MIAMI 101 Orlando 99

HOUSTON 112 Minnesota 101

Charlotte 96 MILWAUKEE 72

SAN ANTONIO 126 Cleveland 96

DENVER 102 Dallas 100

Portland 113 GOLDEN STATE 101

Cricket

First Ashes Test

Scoreboard at the close on the fourth day of the first Test between Australia and England at the Gabba on Sunday:

Australia 1st innings 295 (B. Haddin 94, M. Johnson 64; S. Broad 6-81)

England 1st innings 136 (M. Carberry 40; M. Johnson 4-61)

Australia 2nd innings 401 for 7 declared (D. Warner 124, M. Clarke 113; C. Tremlett 3-69)

England 2nd innings (overnight 24 for 2):

Alastair Cook c Haddin b Lyon 65

Michael Carberry b Harris 0

Jonathan Trott c Lyon b Johnson 9

Kevin Pietersen c sub (Sabburg) b Johnson 26

Ian Bell c Haddin b Siddle 32

Joe Root not out 26

Matt Prior c Warner b Lyon 4

Stuart Broad c Haddin b Johnson 4

Graeme Swann c Smith b Johnson 0

Chris Tremlett c Bailey b Harris 7

James Anderson c and b Johnson 2

Extras (lb2, w1, nb1) 4

Total (all out; 81.1 overs) 179

Fall: 1-1 (Carberry), 2-10 (Trott), 3-72 (Pietersen), 4-130 (Bell), 5-142 (Cook), 6-146 (Prior), 7- 151 (Broad), 8-151 (Swann), 9-172 (Tremlett), 10-179 (Anderson)

Bowling: Harris 19-4-49-2, Johnson 21.1-7-42-5 (1w), Siddle 15-3-25-1 (1nb), Lyon 20-6-46-2, Smith 4-0-15-0, Watson 2-2-0-0

Australia won by 381 runs

Golf

World Cup

Final-round scores on Sunday at the World Cup of Golf at Royal Melbourne:

INDIVIDUAL

274 - Jason Day (AUS) 68-70-66-70 276 - Thomas Bjorn (DEN) 66-68-71-71 277 - Adam Scott (AUS) - 75-68-68-66 278 - Matt Kuchar (USA) 71-68-68-71 281 - Ryo Ishikawa (JPN) 71-71-70-69, Kiradech Aphibarnrat (THA) 71-70-70-70 282 - Hideto Tanihara (JPN) 72-67-71-72 283 - David Hearn (CAN) 70-71-71-71, Stuart Manley (WAL) 67-72-72-72, Kevin Streelman (USA) 66-69-74-74, Francesco Molinari (ITA) 75-67-66-75 284 - Brendan de Jonge (ZIM) 74-72-70-68, Maximillian Kieffter (GER) 73-71-70-70, Bernd Weisberger (AUT) 71-72-69-72 285 - Roope Kakko (FIN) 72-72-69-72, Gregory Bourdy (FRA) 72-69-72-72, K.J. Choi (KOR) 67-74-71-73, Ricardo Santos (POR) 69-69-73-74, Graeme McDowell (NIR) 72-71-67-75

TEAM

551 - Australia (Day/Scott) 561 - United States (Kuchar/Streelman) 563 - Japan (Ishikawa/Tanihara), Denmark (Bjorn/Olesen) 570 - Canada (Hearn/Fritsch) 572 - South Africa (Coetzee/Grace) 573 - Germany (Siem/Kieffer), France (Bourdy/Dubuisson)

LPGA Titleholders

NAPLES, United States - Leading third-round scores on Saturday in the LPGA Titleholders (USA unless noted, par-72):

205 - Natalie Gulbis 70-70-65, Gerina Piller 71-67-67, Pornanong Phatlum (THA) 70-68-67

207 - Stacy Lewis 71-73-63, Feng Shanshan (CHN) 66-74-67, Lexi Thompson 66-74-67, Sandra Gal (GER) 64-69-74

208 - Michelle Wie 72-70-66

209 - Azahara Munoz (ESP) 72-68-69, Park In-bee (KOR) 68-72-69, Cristie Kerr 69-69-71, Yoo Sun-young (KOR) 68-68-73

210 - Amy Yang (KOR) 73-68-69, Ryu So-yeon (KOR) 70-71-69, Jennifer Johnson 71-69-70

211 - Mika Miyazato (JPN) 70-73-68, Meena Lee (KOR) 69-72-70, Sandra Changkija 67-74-70, Park Hee-young (KOR) 69-70-72

212 - Angela Stanford 74-69-69, Karrie Webb (AUS) 70-73-69, Chella Choi (KOR) 71-70-71, Ayako Uehara (JPN) 69-72-71

213 - Morgan Pressel 71-68-74

Ice Hockey

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

BOSTON 3 Carolina 2 (OT)

Minnesota 3 WINNIPEG 2 (SO)

Ottawa 4 DETROIT 2

MONTREAL 3 Pittsburgh 2

PHILADELPHIA 5 NY Islanders 2

TORONTO 2 Washington 1 (SO)

NY Rangers 2 NASHVILLE 0

Anaheim 4 PHOENIX 2

ST. LOUIS 6 Dallas 1

Chicago 2 VANCOUVER 1

Colorado 1 LOS ANGELES 0 (OT)

SAN JOSE 2 New Jersey 1

Rugby League

World Cup semifinals

Results from Wembley Stadium on Saturday:

New Zealand 20 England 18

Australia 64 Fiji 0

Rugby Union

International games

At Paris: South Africa 19 France 10

At Edinburgh, Scotland: Australia 21 Scotland 15

At Rome: Argentina 19 Italy 14

At Tbilisi, Georgia: Georgia 16 Samoa 15

At Madrid: Japan 40 Spain 7

At Lisbon: Canada 52 Portugal 8

At Bucharest: Fiji 26 Romania 7

At London: United States 28 Russia 7

Soccer

English Premier League

Results on Saturday:

Arsenal 2 (Giroud 22, 86-pen) Southampton 0

Everton 3 (Mirallas 8, Lukaku 72, 82) Liverpool 3 (Coutinho 5, Suarez 19, Sturridge 89)

Fulham 1 (Parker 64) Swansea 2 (Hughes 56-og, Shelvey 80)

Hull 0 Crystal Palace 1 (Bannan 81)

Newcastle 2 (Remy 2, Gouffran 38) Norwich 1 (Fer 80)

Stoke 2 (Adam 30, Nzonzi 81) Sunderland 0

West Ham 0 Chelsea 3 (Lampard 21-pen, 82, Oscar 34)

English Championship

Results on Saturday:

Birmingham 1 Blackpool 1

Blackburn 0 Reading 0

Bournemouth 0 Derby 1

Ipswich 1 Leicester 2

Leeds 2 Middlesbrough 1

Millwall 1 Barnsley 0

Nottingham Forest 1 Burnley 1

QPR 1 Charlton 0

Sheffield Wednesday 1 Huddersfield 2

Watford 0 Bolton 1

Wigan 0 Brighton 1

Played Friday

Doncaster 2 Yeovil 1

French League

Results on Saturday:

Reims 0 Paris Saint Germain 3 (Lucas 24, Menez 60, Ibrahimovic 90)

Evian 0 Lorient 4 (Aboubakar 6, 13, S. Diallo 82, Jouffre 87-pen)

Lyon 1 (B. Gomis 16) Valenciennes 1 (Bahebeck 66)

Montpellier 1 (Cabella 69) Guingamp 1 (T. Giresse 77-pen)

Rennes 1 (Kana-Biyik 63) Bordeaux 1 (Diabat 64)

Sochaux 1 (Mayuka 74) Bastia 1 (Boudebouz 31)

Friday

Ajaccio 1 (Perozo 31) Marseille 3 (Payet 27, Gignac 39, Thauvin 58)

German Bundesliga

Results on Saturday:

Nuremberg 1 (Ginczek 72) Wolfsburg 1 (Arnold 39)

Augsburg 2 (Halil Altintop 17, 23) Hoffenheim 0

Eintracht Braunschweig 0 Freiburg 1 (Fernandes 52)

Eintracht Frankfurt 3 (Flum 56, Joselu 61, 68) Schalke 04 3 (Flum 14-og, Matip 18, Hoewedes 86)

Hertha Berlin 0 Bayer Leverkusen 1 (Kiessling 29)

Borussia Dortmund 0 Bayern Munich 3 (Goetze 66, Robben 85, Mueller 87)

Italian Serie A

Results on Saturday:

Verona 0 Chievo 1 (Lazarevic 90+2)

Milan 1 (Kaka 4) Genoa 1 (Gilardino 8-pen)

Napoli 0 Parma 1 (Cassano 81)

Scottish Premiership

Results on Saturday:

Celtic 3 (Commons 36, 90, Boerrigter 90) Aberdeen 1 (McGinn 45)

Dundee Utd 4 (Mackay-Steven 2, 77, Robertson 70, Graham 85) Partick 1 (Muirhead 57-pen)

Hearts 2 (Paterson 28, Stevenson 89) Ross County 2 (Carey 23, De Leeuw 50)

Inverness CT 1 (McKay 4) St Johnstone 0

Kilmarnock 0 Motherwell 2 (Sutton 55, Anier 88)

St Mirren 0 Hibernian 0

Spanish League

Results on Saturday:

Barcelona 4 (Iniesta 20-pen, Fabregas 41-pen, Sanchez 72, Pedro 89) Granada 0

Real Sociedad 4 (Vela 6, 61, 78, 81) Celta Vigo 3 (Rafinha 23, 57, Alex Lopez 28)

Almeria 0 Real Madrid 5 (Ronaldo 3, Benzema 61, Bale 71, Isco 75, Morata 80)

Atletico Madrid 7 (Raul Garcia 25, 52, Lopo 36-og, Villa 49, 78, Diego Costa 69, Adrian Lopez 90+2) Getafe 0

China Daily

(China Daily 11/25/2013 page23)