Peterson, Svoboda share Web.com Tour lead
DAVIDSON, N. C. — John Peterson and Andrew Svoboda shared the thirdround lead Saturday in the Chiquita Classic, the second tournament in the four-event Web.com Tour Finals series. The bulk of the field is made up of players in the top 75 on the Web.com Tour money list and Nos. 126-200 in the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup standings. The top 25 on the Web.com money list are assured PGA Tour cards, while the other players are fighting for 25 additional cards through earnings in the four- event series. Svoboda already has wrapped up a PGA Tour card by finishing 25th on the Web. com money list. Peterson was 30th on the Web. com money list.
SAINTE-JULIE, Quebec — Bernhard Langer shot a 5-under 67 on Saturday to open a three- stroke lead in the Champions Tour’s Montreal Championship. Langer had five birdies in a bogey- free second round to reach 6 under on La Vallee du Richelieu’s Rouville Course. The two-time Masters champion has two victories this year and 18 overall on the 50-and-over tour. Kenny Perry, the Senior Players Championship and U.S. Senior Open winner in consecutive tour starts this summer, was 3 under along with Willie Wood, Chien Soon Lu, Bill Glasson and Anders Forsbrand. Perry had a 71, Wood and Lu shot 68, and Glasson and Forsbrand shot 69.
BASEBALL NEW YORK — Boston Red Sox center fielder Jacoby Ellsbury is now wearing a protective boot on his injured right foot, and there is no timetable for his return to the lineup. “I don’t think we’re looking at anything day to day,” Red Sox manager John Farrell said Saturday at Yankee Stadium. Farrell said an MRI on Saturday morning showed inflammation and swelling. Ellsbury left the team’s series in New York and returned to Boston for further examination. Farrell didn’t speculate on when Ellsbury could play again, saying he would wait until there is “more conclusive evidence.” Ellsbury is going to Colorado to get a second opinion from foot specialist Dr. Thomas Clanton at The Steadman Clinic. Ellsbury tops the majors with 52 stolen bases in 56 tries. He is hitting .299 and has scored
a team-high 89 runs.
SAILING
SAN FRANCISCO — Emirates Team New Zealand skimmed above the waves of San Francisco Bay faster and better than defending champion Oracle Team USA on Saturday to win the first two races of the 34th America’s Cup. With low-key skipper Dean Barker at the wheel of the high- performance, 72-foot catamaran, the Kiwis lost and then regained the lead to win the opening race by 36 seconds. Team New Zealand, showing better speed and crew work, led the whole way in the second race to win by 52 seconds on a hot, gorgeous day on San Francisco Bay. The Kiwis need seven more wins to claim the oldest trophy in international sports for the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron, which held the Auld Mug from 1995 to 2003.
Oracle Team USA, owned by software billionaire Larry Ellison, must win 11 races to retain the Cup. An international jury docked Oracle two points in the biggest cheating scandal in the 162year history of the America’s Cup.