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SPORTS Saturday; august 25, 2001 Furyk keeps lead, Tiger wild HUGE Selection By The Associated Press PRQ GOLF ROUNDUP green and made bogey. After driving left into the rough on the 625-yard 16th, then chopping it across the fairway into the right rough, with trees partially blocking an approach over water, he pitched out to the fairway. His fourth shot hit the flag, and then he three-putted for a double-bogey. A 15-foot birdie putt on the final hole gave him a 67, his sixth straight round that score or better at Firestone, and right in the hunt. Stuart Appleby had a 64, putting him at 134 and giving him a tee time with Woods today.

U.S. AMATEUR: The U.S. Amateur Championship wont have its first repeat winner since Tiger Woods. And Woods' status as the youngest champion survived a challenge, too. Defending champ Jeff Quinney was stunned by former college teammate Brian Nosier, who won the final three holes for a 1-up victory in the quarterfinals at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta.

Seventeen-year-old Daniel Summer- hays fell short in his bid to become the youngest winner in the tournament's 101-year history. The Farmington, Utah, teen-ager was eliminated 4 and 3 by Robert Hamilton of Carmichael, Calif. LPGA BETSY KING CLASSIC: Moira Dunn shot a Bunder-par 66 and held a one-stroke lead over Wendy Doolan after two rounds of the LPGA's Betsy King Classic at Kutztown, Pa. Dunn, seeking her first tour win, had seven birdies Friday and was at der 136 through two rounds on the course at Berkleigh Country Club. She began the day three strokes behind first-round leader Heather Daly-Donofrio.

CANADA SENIOR OPEN: Jim Thorpe followed his course-record opening round with a scrambling 2-un-der-par 69 and took a two-stroke lead in the Canada Senior Open at Mis-sissauga, Ontario. Thorpe, coming off a record-tying 63, had four birdies and two bogeys to finish 36 holes on the historic Missis-saugua Golf and Country Club course at 132. SCOTTISH PGA: Gary Evans of England held a lead over Peter Fowler of Australia after the second round of the Scottish PGA in Gleneagles. The thrills belonged toUger Woods in the second round of the NEC Invitational The lead belonged to Jim Furyk. While Woods hit everything from flagsticks to tree roots, and even one shot left-handed, Furyk quietly went about his business at Firestone Country Club on Friday and posted a 4-under-par 66 to build a two-stroke lead in the World Golf Championship event "Two shots is nothing," said Furyk, who was at 9-under 131.

"Two shots can change on one hole. I'm going to continue to attack the golf course and play the same way I have the first two days." Two shots is an even slimmer margin considering Woods and Phil Mickelson, the top two players in the world rankings and past champions at Firestone, are right behind. Mickelson, coming off another heartbreaking finish in a major, had a bogey-free 66 and will play in the final twosome with Furyk on Saturday. The real threat could be Woods. He has won the past two NEC Invitationals, including a record-setting 259 last year for an 11-stroke victory.

And it appeared he might make it another runaway Friday with birdies on five of the first 10 holes for a two-stroke lead. That's when the show be-" gan. It started with a drive left into the rough, next to a tree on some roots that were exposed. Woods went at it hard with a 9-iron and dropped the club at impact. From the rough, he played his next shot over the 1MB MR WORLD UNIVERSITY GAMES Smolinski takes silver in China LESS THlfJ MiiWI3E2Wmm ran msEcmo scored 20 points and Roger Mason Jr.

and Lynn Greer each added 14 to lead the U.S. men's basketball team to a 113-90 victory over Turkey. Olympic relay champion Kim Black anchored the U.S. women's 800 freestyle relay team to a gold medal in 8:10.68. Igor Chervynskiy of the Ukraine set a meet record with a time of 7:59.52 in the 800 freestyle.

American Brendan Neligan was third in 8.02.18. Australia's Burl Reid and Japan's Kohei Kawamoto tied for gold in the 50 butterfly in 24.31. Italy's David Rummolo won the 200 breaststroke. Wamg Rui of China won the women's 10-meter platform diving with 362.010 points. Germany's Petra Dallman won the 100 freestyle in 55.73.

American Jennifer Crisman was third. Italian fencer Valentina Vezzali continued her two-year unbeaten streak, winning the women's individual foil. She beat China's Meng Jie 8-7 in the final. China won the women's team title with 110.425 points. Times Staff and Wire Reports BEIJING Lake Central product Todd Smolinski finished second in the 100-meter backstroke Friday at the World University Games.

Smolinski finished in 55.94 seconds to take the silver medal behind American teammate Peter Marshall, who set a Games record by winning in 54.74 seconds. "With Peter setting the record in the semis, I felt like the pressure was off me," said Smolinski, who now swims for the University of Minnesota. "I was pleased with my swim, and extremely happy to have won a medal for my country. Marshall's time was the fifth-fastest by an American and the ninth-fastest in the world, and would have earned the American a bronze in the Sydney Olympics last year. "Gold was the goal," Marshall said.

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