WINNIPEG - Timothy Madigan carded a 3-under 68 on Saturday to claim a three-stroke lead entering the final round of The Players Cup. Madigan, who is seeking his first career win on the PGA Tour Canada, finished 54 holes at Pine Ridge Golf Club at 9-under-par 204. Josh Persons shot an even-par 71 to move into second place at 7-under 206, while Ricky McDonald is alone in third at minus-6. Second-round leader Erik Barnes tripped to a 4-over 75 on Thursday to fall into a share of fourth with Jay Myers (67) at 5-under 208. Barnes entered the day with a 2-stroke lead, but bogeyed the second to fall to 8-under and cut his advantage to just one. McDonald then birdied the first and fourth to claim a share of the lead before Barnes dropped another shot at the fourth to leave McDonald alone atop the leaderboard. Madigan, meanwhile, birdied the fourth and seventh to meet McDonald at 8- under. McDonald and Madigan then bogeyed the fifth and ninth, respectively, to each fall to minus-7 and into a tie for the lead with Persons and Barnes. Persons had countered a double-bogey at the second with birdies at the fourth and sixth to reach 7-under. McDonald would then bogey the seventh, 10th, 11th and 12th to fall well off the pace before a hole-in-one at the 14th brought him back into contention, while Barnes bogeyed the ninth and 10th to also lose his share of the lead. Persons was next to fall out of the top spot with back-to-back bogeys at the 11th and 12th. That left Madigan alone in the lead and he took advantage with birdies at the 15th and 17th to move to 9-under and claim a 3-stroke lead. Persons closed his round with birdies at the 16th and 18th to pull within two of Madigan entering the final round. NOTES: Madigan has two top-five finishes this season, including a runner-up to Persons at the Bayview Place Island Savings Open in June ... McDonald is seeking his first career win on tour. He also has a runner-up this season, finishing in second place at the Syncrude Boreal Open. . "Im proud, obviously. Its been a long day, but now Im a Crystal Palace player, Im very happy," Bannan said. "The seasons been started now for a couple of weeks and Ive not featured at Villa. . It looked like being another miserable day for Moyes when Ashley Westwood put Villa in front from a 13th-minute free kick. But Rooney headed United level seven minutes later, and the striker netted his 16th of the season for the struggling champions from the penalty spot before halftime.
http://www.cheapastrosjerseysauthentic. ... ski-jersey. The Raptors (15-15) posted six road victories last month and have won seven of their last nine games overall. Toronto visits the Washington Wizards on Friday night. .Martin Caceres marked his return from injury by scoring in the 3-1 win at Napoli and he believes Juventus sent out a warning to the rest of the league with that result.We go out on the pitch every game looking to give our all, Caceres said. .And although FIFAs investigators are preparing to release the findings of a World Cup corruption probe, Hassan Al Thawadi dismissed any chance of Qatar losing the showpiece event.Winnipeg, MB (SportsNetwork.com) - Mark Scheifele had two goals and an assist to lead the Winnipeg Jets in a 5-1 thumping of the Buffalo Sabres on Tuesday. Evander Kane and Michael Frolik each posted a goal and an assist while Chris Thorburn also scored for the Jets, who snapped a two-game losing streak. Ondrej Pavelec stopped 27 shots in the win. I thought we did a pretty good job of helping the D out and I thought the D played off each other pretty well and moved the puck pretty efficiently, said Winnipeg head coach Paul Maurice. But again, we were able to spend the right amount of time in the offensive zone, which takes that pressure off the D and they did a good job when we got in trouble finding sticks and when we couldnt do that our goalie made the right saves. Nikita Zadorov scored the only goal of the game for the Sabres, who were riding a four-game winning streak coming into the game. Michal Neuvirth allowed all five goals on 36 shots in the loss. Maybe not physically but mentally, we just made a couple of crucial mistakes at bad times, said Buffalo head coach Ted Nolan. I liked our first period and then all of a ssudden a couple of big mistakes and then we are playing catch up the rest of the game.dddddddddddd The only goal of the first period went to Buffalo with 43.1 seconds left as Zadorovs wrister from the left circle fooled Pavelec for a power-play goal. Winnipeg, though, tied the game near the midway mark of the second period on Scheifeles heavy wrister from the right circle just as a power play expired. Skating shorthanded, Winnipeg took a 2-1 lead at 11:35 of the second on a 2- on-1 break that saw Jim Slater skate down the right wing and send it to the slot where Frolik wristed it home for his seventh of the season. Three minutes later, the Jets made it a 3-1 contest on another 2-on-1 break as Mathieu Perreault fed Scheifele for his sixth of the season. Just 1:11 into the third period, the Jets scored a marker on the power play as Kane chipped it in from the right side. Thorburn scored with 7:21 remaining to account for the final score. Game Notes Buffalo returns home to face Colorado on Saturday ... Winnipeg hosts Boston on Friday ... Both teams finished the game 1-for-4 on the power play. ' ' '
