CRICKET
English County Championships
Division One (Day III of IV): EDGBASTON: Worcestershire 379 (G. Hick 158, B. Smith 67, . Tahir 4/47) & 185 (. Tahir 4/43) Warwickshire 405 (. Carter 95, D. Brown 82, J. Troughton 67, A. Bichel 5/126, M. Mason 4/80) & 161/1 (. Knight 83, M. Wagh 63 ..). Warwickshire won by 9 wkts. OLD TRAFFORD: Middlesex 382 (S Koenig 171, D. Nash 81 ..) 117/2 (. Shah 66 ..) Lancashire 417 (M. Loye 98, M. Chilton 93, Sutcliffe 59). THE OVAL: Surrey 479 (M. Ramprakash 157, J. Batty 129, A. Brown 79) Kent 239 (R. Key 86, Azhar Mah-mood 4/56) & 254/4 (R. Key 134 .., M. Carberry 61). HOVE: Northamptonshire 570 (G. Brophy 181, D. Sales 171, U. Afzaal 69, B. Phillips 58, R. Martin-Jenkins 5/96) Sussex 406 (C. Adams 200, R. Montgomerie 82, B. Phillips 4/103) & 31-0. Division Two: DERBY: Glamorgan 474 (M. Wallace 87, M. Elliott 77, M. Powell 56) & 188/6 (D. Hemp 69 ..) Derbyshire 392 (S. Stubbings 96, Hassan Adnan 95, C. Bassano 64). TRENT BRIDGE: Durham 300 (J. Lewis 77, G. Muchall 60, S. MacGill 6/81) 315 (G. Pratt 71, P. Collingwood 68, P. Franks 5/41) Nottinghamshire 325 (D. Hussey 166 .., M. Davies 6/78) & 86/2. TAUNTON: Essex 400/9 dec (J. Middlebrook 115, W. Jefferson 95, G. Napier 79, A. Caddick 6/80) & 413 (A. Flower 172, J. Foster 104 .., . McLean 5/87) Somerset 339 (J. Cox 86, R. Johnson 58, A. Caddick 54) &23/0.
FOOTBALL
european Friendlies
FREIBURG: Germany 7 (Michael Ballack 15, 17, 59, 86, Jens Nowotny 33, Torsten Frings 42, Fredi Bobic 90+2) Malta 0 DUBLIN: Ireland 1 (Matt Holland 85) Romania 0 TALLINN: Estonia 0 Scotland 1 (James McFadden 76) OSLO: Norway 0 Wales 0 TBILISI: Georgia 0 Israel 1 (Walid Badir 33).
European Under-21 championship
OBERHAUSEN: Group A: Serbia & Montenegro 3 (Danko Lazovic 38, Goran Lovre 47, Branislav Ivanovic 86) Croatia 2 (Eduardo Alves da Silva 50, Niko Kranjcar 68) BOCHUM: Italy 1 (Alberto Gilardino 58) Belarus 2 (Roman Kirenkin 6, Alexander Gleb 44).
GOLF
MEMPHIS CLASSIC
Round I: 66 Vaughn Taylor (US) 67 Paul Stankowski (US), David Toms (US) 68 Stewart Cink (US), Hirofumi Miyase (Jpn), Zhang Lian-Wei (Chn) 69 Brent Geiberger, Patrick Sheehan 70 Stephen Allan (Aus), Richard Barcelo (US), Michael Bradley(US), Greg Chalmers (Aus), Daniel Chopra (Swe), Ben Crane (US), Todd Fischer (US), J.P. Hayes (US), J.J. Henry (US), Charles Howell (US), Tripp Isenhour (US), Tom Lehman (US) 71 Michael Allen (US), John Daly (US), Robert Damron (US), Brian Gay (US), Blaine McCallister (US), David Peoples (US), Loren Roberts (US), Vance Veazey (US) 72 Brenden Pappas (RSA), Deane Pappas (RSA), Tjaart Van Der Walt (RSA) 74 Jose Coceres (Arg), Trevor Dodds (Nam), Mathias Gronberg (Swe), Mark Hensby (Aus), John Senden (Aus) 75 Fredrik Jacobson (Swe), Richard S. Johnson (Swe), Andre Stolz (Aus), Esteban Toledo (Mex) 76 David Frost (RSA) 77 Geoff Ogilvy (Aus) 78 Arjun Atwal (Ind), Craig Parry (Aus) 79 Keiichiro Fukabori (Jpn), Grant Waite (Nzl)
CORNING LPGA CLASSIC
Round I: 65 Liselotte Neumann (Swe), Annika Sorenstam (Swe) 66 Audra Burks (US), Natalie Gulbis (US), Nancy Harvey (Can), Lee Ann Walker-Cooper (US) 67 Michelle Estill, Hilary Lunke (US), Catriona Matthew (GBR), Sherri Steinhauer 68 Jean Bartholomew (US), Moira Dunn (US), Vicki Goetze-Ackerman (US), Jeong Jang (Kor), Carin Koch (Swe), Kelli Kuehne (US), Suzanne Strudwick (GBR) 69 Shi Hyun Ahn (Kor), Mi Hyun Kim (Kor).
WENTWORTH PGA MEET
Round I: 64 Ernie Els (RSA) 65 Stephen Dodd (GBR), Miguel Angel Jimenez (Esp), Christopher Hanell (Swe) 66 Vijay Singh (Fij), Scott Drummond 67 Richard Green (Aus), Nicolas Colsaerts (Bel), Ignacio Garrido (Esp), David Gilford (GBR), Angel Cabrera (Arg), Justin Rose (GBR), Anders Hansen (Den), Andrew Coltart (GBR) 68 Anthony Wall (GBR), Paul Casey(GBR), Joakim Haeggman (Swe), Maarten Lafeber (Ned), Retief Goosen (RSA), Darren Clarke (GBR), Ian Poulter (GBR), John Bickerton (GBR), Darren Fichardt (RSA), Simon Kahn (GBR).
CHESS
World Women’s championship
Round 3: Koneru Humpy (Ind) bt Tatiana Kosintseva (Rus) in tie-breaker Nana Dzagnidze (Geo) bt Maia Lomineishvili (Geo) 2-0 Maia Chiburdanidze (Geo) bt Jana Jackova (Cze) 1.5-0.5 Ketino Kachiani-g. (Ger) bt Natasa Bojkovic 1.5-0.5 Ekaterina Kovalevskaya (Rus) bt Kateryna Lahno (Ukr) in tie-breaker Viktorija Cmilyte (Ltu) bt Pia Cramling (Swe) in tie-breaker Antoaneta Stefanova (Bul) bt Natalia Zhukova (Ukr) in tie-breaker Xu Yuhua (Chn) bt Elisabeth Paehtz (Ger) 1.5-0.5.
VOLLEYBALL
Olympic Qualifiers
TOKYO: Australia bt South Korea 3-1 (25-21, 25-15, 21-25, 25-19) France bt Iran 3-0 (33-31, 25-19, 25-21) China bt Algeria 3-0 (25-15, 25-16, 25-15).
For the book
World 1,500m champion Hicham El Guerrouj has pulled out of the Hengelo international meet. The 29-year-old Moroccan will attempt to win his first Olympic gold medal in Athens.
