Streelman, Leonard, Coetzee tied for lead

Kevin Streelman figured a good round Saturday would at least get him in the mix at the Tampa Bay Championship in Palm Harbor, Fla.

It wound up giving him a share of the lead.

Adam Scott and K.J. Choi led a surprising retreat at Innisbrook, allowing for a wild game of musical chairs at the top of the leaderboard with nothing remotely close to being settled going into the final round. Sixteen players were separated by three shots.

Streelman finished his 6-under 65 nearly three hours before the last group walked off the 18th green. Justin Leonard ran off four birdies in a five-hole stretch around the turn and had the lead to himself before a bogey from the bunker on the 15th. He had a 67. George Coetzee bounced back from his lone bogey with a birdie on the rowdy 17th hole that gave him a 68. Those three were tied at 6-under 207.

Ai Miyazato regained control in the LPGA Founders Cup in Phoenix, ending with a bigger cushion than she expected after Stacy Lewis was penalized two strokes after the round. Miyazato shot her second 5-under 67 after opening with a tournament-record 64. At 19-under 197, she had a fourstroke lead over Jee Young Lee and Lewis, was penal- ized when it was ruled that caddie Travis Wilson tested the sand before she played out of a bunker on the 16th. That turned a 66 into a 68 and doubled her deficit.

MISCELLANEOUS

Djokovic’s streak ends

Juan Martin del Potro defeated top-ranked Novak Djokovic 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 in the semifinals of the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, Calif., handing the Serb his first loss in 21 matches dating to last October. A 133-mph ace by Del Potro closed out the nearly 3-hour match in 96-degree heat. He will play Rafael Nadal for the title on Sunday.

Timothy Bradley (300) overcame a 12th-round knockdown to win a narrow unanimous decision over Ruslan Provodnikov (22-2), defending his WBO welterweight belt in Carson, Calif.

Will Take Charge captured the $600,000 Rebel Stakes by a head over Oxbow at Oaklawn in Hot Springs, Ark., putting both on track for the Kentucky Derby.

Americans Mikaela Shiffrin (women’s slalom) and Ted Ligety (men’s giant slalom) took World Cup victories in Lenzerheide, Switzerland.

The New England Patriots released receiver Brandon Lloyd, an ex-Bear and former Illinois star.