Lorena Ochoa successfully defended her Navistar LPGA Classic title, overcoming early troubles to shoot a 2-under 70 on Sunday for a four-stroke victory over Michelle Wie and Brittany Lang.
Ochoa finished at 18-under 270 on The Senator course at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail's Capitol Hill complex in Prattville, Ala., to snap an 11-start winless streak dating to the Corona Championship in late April. The top-ranked Mexican star has three victories this year and 27 overall on the LPGA Tour.
Ochoa lost her three-stroke lead with a bogey and double bogey in the first five holes. She erased any drama with a birdie on No. 17.
Wie overcame a gimpy left ankle to close with a 66, and Lang had a 70.
Fourteen-year-old Alexis Thompson shot her second straight 74 to tie for 27th at 6 under.
Senior Players Championship: At Timonium, Md., Jay Haas charged past Tom Watson to win by a stroke, birdieing the 18th hole to match the course record at Baltimore Country Club with a 6-under 64 in the final Champions Tour major of the season.
Watson, 60, was trying to become the oldest major winner on the 50-and-over tour. But after making only one bogey in the first three rounds, he had three in the final round en route to a 70.
Turning Stone Resort Championship: At Verona, N.Y., Matt Kuchar and Vaughn Taylor were tied after two holes in a sudden-death playoff when play was suspended because of darkness.
They birdied the first extra hole and parred the second. They will resume play at 8:30 a.m. today.
Taylor, the second-round leader, began the day three shots off the lead and shot a 6-under 66 to match Kuchar (69) at 17-under 271.
Alfred Dunhill Links Championship: At St. Andrews, Scotland, England's Luke Donald shot an 8-under 64 to take a one-stroke lead over Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy and England's Simon Dyson after the third round of the weather-delayed event.
Soboda Classic: Jerod Turner won the inaugural event at San Jacinto, Calif., for his first Nationwide Tour title, birdieing the final hole for a 2-under 69 and a two-stroke victory over Derek Lamely.
U.S. Women's Mid-Amateur: At Ocala, Fla., Mina Hardin shot a 3-under 69 to share medalist honors at Golden Hills Golf and Turf Club. Hardin, 49, a reinstated amateur from Fort Worth, Texas, was the first Mexican player on the LPGA Tour. She matched Laura Ladden of Coatesville, Pa.; Jennifer Lucas of Knoxville, Tenn.; and 2006 and 2007 winner Meghan Stasi of Oakland Park, Fla., at 2-over 146.
The top 64 qualified for match play in the tournament for players 25 and older.
U.S. Mid-Amateur Championship: At Kiawah Island, S.C., Walker Cup player Nathan Smith, 31, of Pittsburgh and Mike McCoy, 46, of West Des Moines, Iowa, shared medalist honors at The Kiawah Island Club, finishing two rounds of stroke-play qualifying at 3-under 140. The top 64 qualified for match play in the event for players 25 and older.
Fever one win from title
Ebony Hoffman's two big plays put the Indiana Fever one win from its first WNBA title.
She hit the jumper that gave her team a one-point lead with 57 seconds left, then blocked Tangela Smith's shot with a second remaining to help Indiana defeat Phoenix 86-85 in Game 3 of the finals Sunday at Indianapolis.
The Fever leads the series 2-1 and can clinch the title with a win at home Wednesday.
Hoffman led Indiana with 18 points.
NBA: At Mankato, Minn., Kevin Love had 17 points and Minnesota made 50 of 56 free throws to beat Milwaukee 117-103 on Sunday, making a winner out of coach Kurt Rambis in his exhibition debut.
Davydenko wins in Malaysia
Top-seeded Nikolay Davydenko of Russia defeated second-seeded Fernando Verdasco of Spain 6-4, 7-5 to win the Malaysia Open on Sunday at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Davydenko extended his record to 6-1 over Verdasco and gave him a third title this season.
Verdasco is set to join Davydenko in the field for the China Open in Beijing starting today.
Lookin at Lucky wins
Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert is looking loaded for the Nov. 6-7 Breeders' Cup races at Santa Anita. Two of his charges showed promise in Grade I races at Santa Anita in Arcadia, Calif., on Sunday.
Lookin at Lucky (4-0) won the $300,000 Norfolk Stakes for 2-year-old colts by 13/4 lengths, and Always a Princess was second in the $300,000 Oak Leaf Stakes for 2-year-old fillies, won by Blind Luck.
Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe: Three-year-old Sea the Stars made history by winning at Longchamp, France, becoming the first horse to win three of Europe's top races -- the Arc, the 2,000 Guineas and the Epsom Derby.
