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SPORTSWednesday 8 March 2017

                                                                                      Japan, Israel, Netherlands

                                                                                      win in World Baseball Classic 

Netherlands’s Randolph Oduber hits a two-run home against                             TOKYO (AP) - Nobuhiro          the seventh inning, includ-      the frame.
South Korea’s pitcher Won Jonghyun during the 6th inning of                           Matsuda hit a three-run        ing a solo shot by Alfredo       Corey Baker went 4 2/3
their first round game of the World Baseball Classic at Gocheok                       homer as Japan scored          Despaigne, and added             scoreless innings, scatter-
Sky Dome in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, March 7, 2017.                               five runs in the fifth inning  two more runs in the eighth.     ing three hits and striking
                                                                                      on its way to an 11-6 win      Ayumu Ishikawa gave up           out three. The 27-year-old
                                                                    Associated Press  over Cuba in the World         one run on two hits in 58        right-hander is in the St.
                                                                                      Baseball Classic on Tues-      pitches over four innings for    Louis Cardinals’ organiza-
                                                                                      day.                           the win.                         tion and reached Triple-A
                                                                                      With two-time champion         In Seoul, Ryan Lavarnway         last season.
                                                                                      Japan leading 3-1 in the       hit a two-run homer in the       In the other game in Seoul,
                                                                                      fifth inning, Matsuda made     third inning and Nate Frei-      Jurickson Profar and Ran-
                                                                                      it 6-1 with a homer into the   man added a three-run            dolph Obuder both hit
                                                                                      left-field stands at Tokyo     shot in the ninth to help Is-    two-run homers to give
                                                                                      Dome. Yoshitomo Tsutsugo       rael beat Taiwan 15-7 and        the  Netherlands  a 5-0 win
                                                                                      added a two-run shot two       improve to 2-0.                  over South Korea.
                                                                                      innings later to widen the     Israel’s batters chased Tai-     Former Major League start-
                                                                                      lead.                          wan starter Chun-Lin Kuo         er Rick van den Hurk, who
                                                                                      Cuba scored three runs in      from the game before he          spent the past two seasons
                                                                                                                     could secure his third out,      pitching in Japan, allowed
                                                                                                                     opening the top of the first     three hits and walked two
                                                                                                                     with four straight hits and      over four shutout innings for
                                                                                                                     tagging Kuo for four runs in     the win.q

                                                                                                                     Bennett beats sprint favorites

                                                                                                                     in stage 3 of Paris-Nice 

                                                                                                                     CHALON-SUR-SAONE,                had a good feeling in my
                                                                                                                     France (AP) — Ireland’s          legs and I was looking for
                                                                                                                     Sam Bennett overpowered          an opportunity. With the
                                                                                                                     a world-class field of sprint-   support of the team, I was
                                                                                                                     ers Tuesday to take the          able to do it,” the 26-year-
                                                                                                                     third stage of the Paris-Nice    old Bennett said after the
                                                                                                                     cycling race.                    most significant victory in
                                                                                                                     The Bora-Hansgroghe rider        his career to date. “To be
                                                                                                                     surged at the right time to      honest, I fought for my posi-
                                                                                                                     upstage Norway’s Alexan-         tion to be in the front and
                                                                                                                     der Kristoff and German          I didn’t really notice what
                                                                                                                     riders John Degenkolb and        the other sprinters were do-
                                                                                                                     Marcel Kittel. Australia’s Mi-   ing.” Demare, who won the
                                                                                                                     chael Matthews was fifth         opening stage, keeps the
                                                                                                                     in the mainly flat 190-ki-       overall lead, six seconds
                                                                                                                     lometer (118-mile) stage         ahead of fellow country-
                                                                                                                     from Chablis to Chalon-sur-      man Julian Alaphilippe.
                                                                                                                     Saone, across eastern Bur-       Kristoff, 13 seconds behind,
                                                                                                                     gundy.                           took the third spot ahead
                                                                                                                     France’s Arnaud Demare           of Belgium’s Philippe Gil-
                                                                                                                     had to settle for sixth but he   bert, 17 seconds behind.
                                                                                                                     retained his overall leader’s    “Today was much calmer
                                                                                                                     yellow jersey before a deci-     than the previous days and
                                                                                                                     sive time trial in Mont Brouil-  I had a chance to enjoy
                                                                                                                     ly on Wednesday.                 holding the yellow jersey
                                                                                                                     “I was full of confidence, I     on the road,” Demare said.
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