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PITTSFORD, N.Y. -- Calm under the intense pressure of a playoff at a major, Inbee Park added another title to her impressive LPGA Tour resume. Park successfully defended her title in the LPGA Championship, beating Brittany Lincicome with a par on the first hole of a playoff Sunday to end the United States major streak at three. "I didnt feel that nervous at all today," said Park, also a playoff winner last year. "But once I got to the tee on the playoff hole, I just felt the nerves right away. It was like a replay of last year and experience definitely helped me out. I think I was able to stay calm." The victory came on a bittersweet day when the LPGA Tour bade farewell to the Rochester area after 38 years. Next year, the tour will team with the PGA of America to run the Womens PGA Championship. The 2015 event will be played at Westchester Country Club near New York City. Park, Nancy Lopez and Patty Sheehan are only players to win twice in a row in Rochester. "Just very happy to be part of history," Park said. Lincicome was poised to win her second major and keep that American streak alive, but her nerves got the best of her after she led all day. "Not being in this position for a while, I think it all caught up with me," Lincicome said. "Being second at a major is always a good thing. I feel like I played really, really well this week. If I keep playing the way I did, my times coming soon. It was nice to be in contention again." On the playoff hole on Monroe Golf Clubs par-4 18th, Park hit her second shot into the rough behind the hole. Lincicome hit her approach to the left fringe, nearly identical to her position on the final hole of regulation when she made a bogey to fall into the playoff. Lincicome chipped 6 feet past the hole and failed to convert for bogey. Park, the winner last year at Locust Hill on the third extra hole with Catriona Matthew, chipped to 3 feet and calmly sank her par putt for her fifth major title and fourth in the last two seasons. "Inbee is so darn good. It was so close," Lincicome said. "I need to learn how to control the nerves a little bit more." Park finished with a 2-under 70 to match Lincicome at 11-under 276. Lincicome had a 71. Americans had won the first three majors of the LPGA Tour season for the first time since 1999. Lexi Thompson began the run at Kraft Nabisco, Michelle Wie won the U.S. Womens Open and Mo Martin the Womens British Open. The 26-year-old Park, from South Korea, was coming off a playoff loss to Mirim Lee last week in Michigan. Park also won this season in Canada and has 11 LPGA Tour victories. Park is projected to jump from third to second in the world, passing 17-year-old Lydia Ko of New Zealand. Ko, trying to become the youngest major winner in LPGA history, shot a 70 to finish third at 8 under. Spains Azahara Munoz (70) and Swedens Anna Nordqvist (71) tied for fourth at 6 under. Lincicome squandered the lead on the final hole of regulation. She hit her second shot to the left fringe and was in a good spot, but a long delay for a ruling on a shot by Suzann Pettersen only heightened the tension, and it showed. With top-ranked Stacy Lewis among the gallery clapping, Lincicome left her first putt 8 feet short and failed to make par, forcing the playoff. "I was really nervous coming down the stretch. I was shaking like a leaf," Lincicome said. "Its hard to do anything when youre shaking." Pettersen, a two-time major winner, started the day a shot behind as she chased her first win this year. But her day went badly at the start and she shot 4-over 76. She tied for sixth at 5 under with Lewis, Julieta Granada, Shanshan Feng and Lee. Parks clutch birdie putt at No. 17 put her in position to challenge and her par save at 18 was crucial. Her approach on the closing hole landed in the rough to the right of the green and she botched her shot out. Her 12-foot putt left no margin for error and the crowd roared when it rolled in. Lincicome had held the 54-hole lead at a major only once before, at the 2006 U.S. Womens Open, but she faltered with a closing 78 and finished seventh. This time, she shook off the nerves until the end as the chance to win her second major ended in disappointment. Lincicome won the 2009 Kraft Nabisco. The tour made the switch this year to Monroe after 37 years at nearby Locust Hill. The Donald Ross-designed course is about 300 yards longer at 6,717 yards and does not have a single water hazard, but it does feature 106 bunkers, more than double the number at Locust Hill, and the wider fairways favoured long hitters. Jerrell Freeman Colts Jersey . 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The incident happened during Barcelonas 3-2 win at Villarreal on April 27th when Alves, who is black, picked up the banana thrown by 26-year-old David Campayo Lleo, bit off a piece and then discarded it. Cheap Mike Adams Jersey . The 25-year-old Spaniard, who joined United from Chelsea in January, scored twice, including directly from a free kick, to take his tally to three goals in his last two games. "I think he has made us better," United manager David Moyes said.QUEBEC - The Montreal Canadiens saved their best for last after a lacklustre pre-season, downing the Tampa Bay Lightning 5-1 on Saturday in their final exhibition game. The game was played before a sellout crowd in Quebec City as part of an annual ritual where the Habs play a pre-season contest in the provincial capital. The Canadiens lopsided victory came on the tail end of an exhibition schedule in which they won only one of their seven previous games and were drubbed 4-0 by Tampa earlier in the week. Brian Gionta and Scott Gomez each scored and led the Habs on numerous rushes, while Mathieu Darche, Erik Cole and Michael Cammalleri had the other Montreal goals. Gionta, calling it 60 solid minutes of play, said Saturdays effort was far greater than the one put up by the team two nights earlier. The Canadiens outshot their Tampa Bay 32-19, while the Lightnings lone goal came from Vincent Lecavalier. The damage for Tampa Bay could conceivably extend into the regular season. Forward Ryan Malone was thrown out of the game for a bodycheck to the head of Chris Campoli while the Habs defenceman was exiting his zone. Malone now risks being the latest NHLer to face discipline as the league cracks down on head shots. Campoli was forced to leave the game amid fears he suffered a concussion. It was only his second game since signing with the Canadiens. Montreal defenceman Hal Gill said the hit was a clear head shot -- one seen far too often in the league and the kind that has been getting considerable attention lately. Malone defended himself. He said he was approaching Campoli to finish a body check and that the defenceman unexpectedly leaned forward. He said it wasnt his intenttion to hit his head, adding it was the first time he had been involved in such an incident.dddddddddddd The Habs now head to Collingwood, Ont., in preparation for the regular-season opener against the Toronto Maple Leafs on Thursday. Saturday was the first time this fall that the Canadiens fielded a team resembling their regular lineup and the contrast from recent games was unmistakable. Not only was the final score a reversal from the previous Montreal-Tampa contest, but so was the overall flow of the game. The Canadiens power play opened the scoring with a short-handed goal at 9:59 of the opening period when Gionta intercepted a Steven Stamkos pass and waltzed in alone to deke Lightning goalie Mathieu Garon between his legs. It was during that period that Malone nearly came to blows with the Habs P.K. Subban. Gill stepped in to defend his younger teammate and pinned Malone to the ice. The Lightning forward drew the extra penalty. The Habs outshot Tampa 15-9 in the second. Gomez scored a bizarre power-play goal at 2:19 into the period when -- with two Lightning players in front of him -- he bounced a dribbler over Garons pads. Lecavalier narrowed the gap just over a minute later, when he used his considerable reach to shovel in a centring pass from Teddy Purcell past goalie Carey Price. Darche restored the Canadiens two-goal lead at 5:39 of the period with a tip-in off a shot from defenceman Jaroslav Spacek. Cole stole the puck off Lightning defenceman Brett Clark and scored on a top-shelf wrist shot to widen the gap less than three minutes later. It was a quieter third period, save for the controversy involving Malone and Cammalleri rounding out the scoring. ' ' '
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