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C8 MONDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2006 THE DESERT SUN GOLF SPORTS ROUNDUP FROM C1 SPORTS ROUNDUP GOLF ROUNDUP Els rallies to overcome Immelman in South Africa 'Sleepy' Miller finishes second at World Cup 1 4 4 fl hauled down 16 rebounds. On Saturday, COD faced off against Ventura College, who are ranked fourth in the state, and lost 75-65. Garcia was the Roadrunners' high scorer with 19 points and Retief Goosen (70) earned a share of fifth place, and Lee West-wood (70) was tied for eighth. LEXUS CUP: At Singapore, South Korea's Seon Hwa Lee held off ADT Championship winner Julieta Granada 2 and 1 in rainy conditions to give Asia a 12'i -lVk victory over Annika Sorenstam's International team in the Lexus Cup. Ahead 7-5 after winning four of the six best-ball matches Saturday, Asia took 5'k of 12 points in singles play on Tanah Merah's Garden Course.

Last year, the International team won the inaugural event 16-8. The 20-year-old Lee, the ShopRite LPGA Classic winner in June, took a 2-up lead with a birdie on 16, hitting a 90-yard shot within inches, then matched Granada's par on 17 to end the event. Granada conceded after Lee hit her 30-foot birdie putt close. 1 MM 1 i OV. 4 -'I THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PORT ELIZABETH, South Africa Ernie Els shot a 7-under 65 on Sunday to beat Trevor Immelman by three strokes at the South African Open.

Els had eight birdies and a bogey to finish the final round at 24-under 264. It was the South African's first victory of 2006. Immelman (71) started the day with a three-stroke lead, but had bogeys on the sixth and eighth holes. The South African rebounded with three birdies on the last nine holes, but Els had five. "My game plan was to draw level with him through nine and see what happens, but as it turned out I was two ahead through nine," Els said.

Patrik Sjoland, who led at the tournament's halfway mark, shot a 67 to finish third at 268, and Darren Fichardt (68) was fourth at 272. LEADER BOARD PGA TOUR Sunday's final-round Target World Challenge scores, at Sherwood Country Club, Thousand Oaks, Calif. Purse: $5.75 million. Yardage: 7,064 yards; Par: 72. Tiger Woods, $1.35 million 68-68-70-66272 Geoff Ogilvy, 840,000 68-70-67-71276 Chris DiMarco, 570,000 70-68-68-71277 Henrik Stenson, 420,000 66-71-73-69279 C.

Montgomerie, 285,000 69-73-72-66280 Paul Casey, 285,00 69-70-70-71280 M. Campbell, 240,000 74-69-68-71282 Harrington, 230,000 75-67-70-71283 David Toms, 220,000 73-69-68-75285 Davis Love IH, 205,000 77-70-70-69286 Fred Couples, 205,000 69-74-72-71286 Luke Donald, 190,000 76-74-72-71293 David Howell, 185,000 71-75-72-77295 Adam Scott, 177,500 75-80-69-72296 J. Maria Olazabal, 177,500 70-70-78-78296 John Daly, 170,000 69-71-77-80297 LPGA TOUR Sunday's LPGA Tour-Lexus Cup results, at Tanah Merah Country Club (Garden Course), Singapore. Purse: $960,000. Yardage: Par: 72.

ASIA 12h, INTERNATIONAL 11 12. Singles International 6h, Asia 5 Annika Sorenstam, International, def. Grace Park, Asia, 4 and 3. Paula Creamer, International, def. Candie Asia, 1-up Meena Lee, Asia, halved with Angela Stanford, International.

Jee Young Lee, Asia, def. Morgan Pressel, International, 5 and 4. Stacy Prammanasudh, International, def. Shi Hyun Ahn, Asia, 4 and 3. Tiger Woods chips up on the 16th hole during the final round of the Target World Challenge on Sunday In Thousand Oaks.

Woods shot 6-under 66 on Sunday to win by four strokes. Woods ends year with ninth victory a. Ml THii ASSOClATliD l-RiiSS stroke play, winning his final six PGA Tour events of the year, and closing out 2006 with a victory that doesn't count in the record books, but means plenty to Woods. He finished at 1 6-under 272, and again donated his prize money $1.35 million to the Tiger Woods Foundation, with the money distributed between the Tiger Woods Learning Center and his Start Something program for kids. Starting the day one shot behind Ogilvy, Woods made up ground quickly.

He holed a 10-foot birdie putt on the par-5 second hole and chipped in for birdie from 20 feet on the par-3 third. Ogilvy got unlucky with a clump of mud on his ball at No. 2 that led to bogey, and he was never able to recover. "I knew starting the day I would have to shoot 5 or 6 under to win," Ogilvy said after his 71. "Maybe that's why you never play well when he's there, because you try too hard to shoot a score.

Golf is very hard when you're trying to shoot a low score." Chris DiMarco closed with a 71 to finish another shot behind in third. Next up for Woods is a skiing holiday with his family. The next question is when he returns. Woods, who skipped the final five PGA Tour events including the Tour Championship has not said whether he will start his 2007 season at the winners-only Mercedes-Benz Championship in Hawaii on Jan. 4, or wait until the Buick Invitational three weeks later.

Whenever he returns, expectations will be as high as ever. PUittr-Pebtik' Lic(8401W rv If I I I I THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ALTA BADIA, Italy Kalle Palan-der worked up to 10 hours daily for 40 days during the summer to rehab his surgically repaired left knee. Bode Miller still nearly beat him in his sleep. Palander won a giant slalom Sunday for his 13th World Cup victory and first since tearing knee ligaments in March at the World Cup finals. Miller, who keeps waking up at night and is irritable the next day, was right behind the Finn after a charge in the second run.

Palander also led after the first run and covered the steep and narrow Gran Risa course in a combined time of 2 minutes, 28.82 seconds. Miller moved up from seventh place to finish 0.51 seconds behind. Didier Defago of Switzerland was third, 0.59 back, his first top-three finish in the event. Miller again complained about a new U.S. team rule that he says has affected his sleeping pattern.

The rule requires that he stay in the team hotel, as opposed to his personal motor home. "It's completely counterproductive for me," Miller said. "I need that rest to maintain that level of training and condition." Men's basketball COD AT ROY GILMORE VENTURA CLASSIC TOURNAMENT: The Roadrunners lost to West Los Angeles 68-62 on Friday. Nathan Walchuk led the way with 1 1 points, while Josh Garcia finished with nine points and Chargers Continued from CI snapper David Binn recovered a blocked punt, Tomlinson burst through a huge hole and outraced cornerback Patrick Surtain and linebacker Derrick Johnson down the left sideline for his second TD of the night. "It was perfect blocking," Tomlinson said.

"The way you draw it up on the chalkboard is the way it went down." Proving he can light up a stadium like no other player, Tomlin-son's touchdown was greeted by a burst of fireworks above Qual-comm Stadium and spotlights inside the big concrete bowl. And to think, Chiefs defensive end Tamba Hali called the Chargers "a finesse team" eight weeks ago after Kansas City beat San Diego 30-27 at Arrowhead Stadium. The Chargers haven't lost since. Tomlinson has 1,626 yards to Brawl Continued from CI want the guy dunking again," Knicks coach Isiah Thomas said. "I thought he grabbed him, and I can understand that the officials would call that a flagrant one or a flagrant two, because he did grab him.

After that, that should have been the end of it. He (J.R. Smith) should have shot two free throws. And I don't particularly know how it escalated from there, into what it turned out to be, because it was a game that they had won, quite convincingly." "There is nothing that can be said that justifies that kind of conduct," Ramsay said. "That was just a thoughtless display." Collins was called for a flagrant foul on the play, and he and Smith began to argue.

Anthony and Knicks guard Nate Robinson quickly joined in as they tried to defend their teammates. Both players appeared to throw punches. Thomas said he told Anthony after the brawl that he shouldn't have still been in the game. "So what?" Ramsay says. "That had nothing to do with it." Bad blood has existed between By Doug Ferguson THE ASSOCIATED PRESS THOUSAND OAKS Tiger Woods has two trophies he can use as bookends for a year like no other.

It started 322 days ago down the coast at Torrey Pines when he won his first tournament of the year in a playoff at the Buick Invitational. It ended Sunday at the Target World Challenge with a 6-under 66 that allowed Woods to blow past U.S. Open champion Geoff Ogilvy and win his tournament for the third time in eight years. In between came a massive loss with the May 3 death of his father5 a missed cut for the first time in a major, then six months of golf that Woods considers his best ever. The benchmark always has been 2000, when his nine PGA Tour victories included three consecutive majors.

He won 53 percent of his PGA Tour events this year eight of 15 including the final two majors. "I think if you compare the two years, I think this year would have to be better because of, obviously, things I've been dealing with off the golf course," Woods said. "In 2000, I didn't have to deal with that. Hey, life is full of mysteries and you've got to deal with things as they come. Who's to know that if Dad didn't struggle and end up passing that I wouldn't have played that well in the summer." The question for the 16-man field he beat: How much better will he get? Since missing the cut at the U.S.

Open, Woods hasn't finished worse than second in is it time to refinance? Lock in low fixed rates? What's best for you 5, 7, or 10 year Fixed? Can you purchase a home for zero down? Young Kim, Asia, def. Carin Koch, International, 3 and 2. Hee-Won Han, Asia, def. Nikki Campbell, International, 3 and 2. Sherri Steinhauer, International, def.

Jennifer Rosales, Asia, 4 and 3. Sakura Yokomine, Asia, def. Laura Davies, International, 4 and 3. Natalie Gulbis, International, def. Joo Mi Kim, Asia, 5 and 4.

Seon Hwa Lee, Asia, def. Julieta Granada, International, 2 and 1. Brittany Lincicome, International, def. Se Ri Pak, Asia, 4 and 2. EUROPEAN TOUR Sunday's final-round South African Open Leading scores, at Mumewood Golf Club, Port Elizabeth, South Africa.

Purse: $1.33 million. Yardage: Par: 72. Ernie Els, South Africa 67-66-66-65264 T. Immelman, South Africa 67-66-63-71267 Patrik Sjoland, Sweden 68-64-69-67268 D. Fichardt, South Africa 72-67-65-68272 L.

Oosthuizen, South Africa 71-65-70-67273 R. Goosen, South Africa 69-66-68-70273 Andrew Raitt, England 67-68-68-70273 Gary Lockerbie, England 73-66-70-65274 Lee Westwood, England 68-68-68-70274 Robert Rock, England 70-68-69-68275 Gregory Bourdy, France 71-68-68-68275 Lee S. James, England 71-69-67-68275 C. Schwartzel, South Africa 71-69-65-70275 Jaco van Zyl, South Africa 71-65-72-68276 Richard Finch, England 71-71-70-66 276 Ross Fisher, England 70-69-66-72277 Justin Walters, England 73-67-71-67278 Pelle Edberg, Sweden 69-68-73-68278 Lee Slattery, England 71-70-69-68278 B. Vaughan, South Africa 70-68-71-69278 Angel Cabrera, Argentina 75-65-69-69278 R.

Sterne, South Africa 73-69-66-70278 James Kamte, South Africa 69-68-69-72278 subject to change without notification. CADRE Broker 0138061 2 7 seven rebounds. Walchuk, ended the day with 1 5 points. COD (4-8) will host the Desert Holiday Classic on Dec. 28.

They open against Skagait Valley (Washington). High school football CANYON 27, DE LA SALLE 13: At Carson, Ben Longshore ran for two touchdowns and passed for a third to lead Canyon of Canyon Country to a 27-13 upset of De La Salle of Concord on Saturday night in the California Inter-scholastic Federation's Division I championship game. Longshore completed 12-of-24 passes with three interceptions for 164 yards. J.J. DiLuigi added 138 yards and a touchdown on 2 1 carj ries as the Cowboys (12-2) gave the Spartans (13-1) their first loss of the year.

DiLuigi, a senior who will attend Brigham Young, finished the season with 2,159 yards and 34 touchdowns. Soccer CLUB WORLD CUP: At Yokohama, Japan, substitute Adriano scored late in the second half and South American champion Inter-nacional of Brazil upset Spanish powerhouse Barcelona 1-0 to win the Club World Cup. Johnson's 1,516. Johnson had 84 yards on 19 carries. It turns out L.T.

isn't quite perfect. He lined up in the shotgun formation on third-and-4 from the Kansas City 7 early in the fourth quarter. He slipped and was thrown for a 5-yard loss, bringing on Nate Kaeding for a 30-yard field goal. One play before Tomlinson's 85-yard run, Mike Scifres' punt was blocked by Kansas City's Bernard Pollard, but a Chief touched the ball beyond the line of scrimmage. San Diego long snapper David Binn recovered.

Tomlinson also scored on a 15-yard run in the first quarter. That drive was kept alive when Tomlinson's backup, Michael Turner, gained 25 yards on a fake punt. Lawrence Tynes provided all of Kansas City's points with field goals of 45, 52 and 24 yards. His 24-yarder, in the fourth quarter, was set up when Greg Wesley picked off Philip Rivers' poorly thrown pass. What it would cost A look at what a fine would cost (per game) for each of the players Involved in Saturday's brawl.

Players are fined l90th of their annual salary for each game suspended. Nate Robinson, Knicks $13,172 Mardy Collins, Knicks $9,999 Jared Jeffries, Knicks $57,944 Carmelo Anthony, Nuggets $52,156 J.R. Smith, Nuggets $15,417 Marcus Camby, Nuggets $97,778 Andre Miller, Nuggets $97,037 Eduardo Najera, Nuggets $50,794 Channing Frye, Knicks $25,833 David Lee, Knicks $10,289 Thomas and Nuggets coach George Karl over the firing of Larry Brown, Thomas' predecessor as coach of the Knicks. Karl and Brown played for Dean Smith at the University of North Carolina in different eras and are close friends. It is unclear how many players will be suspended or how long the suspensions will last.

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