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Kerr, Stanford advance to Sybase semis
Hoey, Elson share Madeira Islands Open lead
Cleverly defends WBO title against Kuziemski

Posted: 21 May 2011 05:17 PM PDT

Published: Sunday May 22, 2011 MYT 8:17:00 AM

GLADSTONE, New Jersey (AP) - Angela Stanford birdied four of the final five holes to beat Paula Creamer 2-up Saturday and set up an all-America semifinal with Cristie Kerr in the Sybase Match Play Championship.

Top-seeded Na Yeon Choi of South Korea will face No. 3 Suzann Pettersen of Norway in the other semifinal Sunday morning at Hamilton Farm Golf Club.

The champion of the $1.5 million tournament will be decided Sunday afternoon.

Kerr, the No. 3 seed who hasn't played more than 16 holes in any match, had a 3-and-2 win over Ai Miyazato of Japan in the opening quarterfinal on a rare sunny day in New Jersey this week.

Choi beat No. 42 Sophie Gustafson of Sweden 2-up, and Pettersen holed an 8-foot birdie putt on her good-luck final hole to edge world No. 1 Yani Tseng of Taiwan.

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Hoey, Elson share Madeira Islands Open lead

Posted: 21 May 2011 05:15 PM PDT

Published: Sunday May 22, 2011 MYT 8:15:00 AM

PORTO SANTO, Madeira Islands (AP) - Northern Ireland's Michael Hoey shot a 5-under 67 on Saturday for a share of the third-round lead with England's Jamie Elson in the Madeira Islands Open.

Elson had a 68 to match Hoey at 9-under 207 at Porto Santo Golf, the Seve Ballesteros-designed course that features 500-foot seaside cliffs.

England's Chris Gane (70), Scotland's Alastair Forsyth (69) and France's Francois Delamontagne (71) were two strokes back in the event sanctioned by the European Tour and the developmental European Challenge Tour.

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Cleverly defends WBO title against Kuziemski

Posted: 21 May 2011 05:13 PM PDT

Published: Sunday May 22, 2011 MYT 8:14:00 AM

LONDON (AP) - Nathan Cleverly easily defended his WBO light heavyweight title on Saturday when his fight against Aleksy Kuziemski was stopped in the fourth round because of a bleeding cut to the Pole's face.

Cleverly had already bloodied Kuziemski's nose when a cut opened up above the challenger's left eye from what seemed to be a right hand. When referee Mark Nelson took a look at it, he immediately waved the fight off without consulting the ringside doctor.

Cleverly had been set to face previous titleholder Juergen Braehmer at the O2 Arena in London but the German pulled out and was stripped of his title, while the Englishman was upgraded to champion and eventually paired with Kuziemski.

Cleverly improved to 21-0, with 10 knockouts.

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