She put together consecutive birdies on the par-4 14th and par-5 15th and eventually finished 6 shots behind Katherine Hull (68).
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John Daly put himself within 4 strokes of leaders Liang Wenchong of China and Richard Sterne of South Africa, who shot 6-under 64s, in the first round of the $2.5 million Hong Kong Open. The event at the Hong Kong Golf Club is sanctioned by the PGA's European and Asian Tours.
Basketball
Pat Summitt, Dean Smith and Lou Carnesecca, Hall of Fame coaches, received the inaugural Joe Lapchick Character Awards at New York's Madison Square Garden.
The awards honor those in college sports who have conducted themselves in a way Lapchick did throughout his playing career as one of the sport's first big men, and then as a coach in two stints at St. John's around one with the New York Knicks.
Coach Bill Laimbeer has been re-signed to a two-year contract by the WNBA champion Detroit Shock. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Noteworthy
A predawn blaze raced through a barn at a former racetrack in western Kentucky, killing 27 horses.
It was the second deadly fire in less than a year at Riverside Downs outside Henderson, Ky., near the Indiana border. Investigators did not cite a cause.
The Columbus Crew's Guillermo Barros Schelotto, a midfield wizard who was a longtime star in his native Argentina, won the MLS most valuable player award. The 35-year-old Schelotto had 19 assists and seven goals for Columbus as the Crew bounced back from a 9-11-10 record the previous year to finish with an MLS-best 17-7-6 mark.
Argentina's David Nalbandian will face Spain's David Ferrer today in the opening match of the Davis Cup final in Mar del Plata, Argentina.
Juan Martin del Potro, Argentina's top-ranked player at No. 9, was drawn to play Feliciano Lopez in the second singles match of the best-of-five series. In tomorrow's doubles, Jose Acasuso and Agustin Calleri of Argentina will play Lopez and Fernando Verdasco.
Elsewhere: Anaheim Ducks defenseman Francois Beauchemin underwent surgery to repair a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee. He is expected to be sidelined about six months. . . . St. Louis Blues defenseman Erik Johnson, out for the season after suffering a knee injury during a preseason team golf outing in September, had surgery to repair a damaged ligament. . . . Former heavyweight champion Riddick Bowe, 41, will fight for the first time in three years on the undercard of the International Boxing Federation title fight between Wladimir Klitschko and Hasim Rahman on Dec. 13 in Frankfurt, Germany. No opponent has been selected. . . . Jonathan Dwyer ran for 128 yards - all in the first half - and Georgia Tech shredded Miami's defense for 472 yards on the ground, ruining the No. 23 Hurricanes' return to the rankings with a 41-23 rout in an Atlantic Coast Conference game in Atlanta.
