The President Lions avenged Friday night's 2-1 loss to the visiting First Securities Agan by scoring 11 runs to beat the former Taiwan Major League (TML) team in an 11-5 victory. The Lion lineup, led by game-MVP first baseman Wang Chuan-jia's (
Lion starter Joe Davenport took a 7-0 no-hitter into the sixth inning, but gave up five runs before leaving the game after the sixth inning. Relievers Chen Yang-kai (
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The Sinon Bulls turned last night's contest into a home-run derby, as they continued their winning way at home against the visiting Naluwan Gida in a 14-2 blowout. Gida's one-run lead in the top of the first was the only lead that they would see all night, because the Bulls put up two runs on the board in the bottom of the same inning and never looked back.
The heart of the Bull lineup really took Gida starter Yang Chi-jia (楊騏嘉) to school, as it knocked out three home runs through the first four innings against the right-hander.
Things did not improve for the Gida relievers either, as Feng Rho-hui (
Third baseman Chang Tai-shan (
Meanwhile, the fourth Soochow University International Ultramarathon began yesterday on its campus in suburban Taipei with the mercury at a chilly 13 degrees centigrade.
This ultramarathon is a race to see who can run the farthest in 24 and 12 hours.
The race attracted 31 runners from all over the world, including Edit Berces from Hungary, the women's world record holder with a distance of 250.108km; Chen Chun-yen, Taiwan's ultramarathon record holder; and the 67-year-old eldest runner, John Lane from England.
Taipei Mayor Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九), Chi Cheng -- an outstanding female athlete who was once hailed as the world's fastest woman -- and Soochow University President Liu Yuan-chun also took part in a one-hour celebrity race.
The endurance competition is divided into races of 24 hours, 12 hours and the one-hour celebrity run.
The races will finish at 10am today.
Revelations of positive doping tests for nearly two dozen Chinese swimmers that went unpunished sparked an intense flurry of accusations and legal threats between the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and the head of the US drug-fighting organization, who has long been one of WADA’s fiercest critics. WADA on Saturday said it was turning to legal counsel to address a statement released by US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) CEO Travis Tygart, who said WADA and anti-doping authorities in China swept positive tests “under the carpet by failing to fairly and evenly follow the global rules that apply to everyone else in the world.” The
Taiwanese judoka Yang Yung-wei on Saturday won silver in the men’s under-60kg category at the Asian Judo Championships in Hong Kong. Nicknamed the “judo heartthrob” in Taiwan, the Olympic silver-medalist missed out on his first Asian Championships gold when he lost to Japanese judoka Taiki Nakamura in the finals. Yang defeated three opponents on Saturday to reach the final after receiving a bye through the round of 32. He first topped Laotian Soukphaxay Sithisane in the round of 16 with two seoi nage (over-the-shoulder throws), then ousted Indian Vijay Kumar Yadav in the quarter-finals with his signature ude hishigi sankaku gatame (triangular armlock). He
RALLY: It was only the second time the Taiwanese has partnered with Kudermetova, and the match seemed tight until they won seven points in a row to take the last set 10-2 Taiwan’s Chan Hao-ching and Russia’s Veronika Kudermetova on Sunday won the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix women’s doubles final in Stuttgart, Germany. The pair defeated Norway’s Ulrikke Eikeri and Estonia’s Ingrid Neel 4-6, 6-3, 10-2 in a tightly contested match at the WTA 500 tournament. Chan and Kudermetova fell 4-6 in the first set after having their serve broken three times, although they played increasingly well. They fought back in the second set and managed to break their opponents’ serve in the eighth game to triumph 6-3. In the tiebreaker, Chan and Kudermetova took a 3-0 lead before their opponents clawed back two points, but
Taiwanese gymnast Lee Chih-kai failed to secure an Olympic berth in the pommel horse following a second-place finish at the last qualifier in Doha on Friday, a performance that Lee and his coach called “unconvincing.” The Tokyo Olympics silver medalist finished runner-up in the final after scoring 6.6 for degree of difficulty and 8.800 for execution for a combined score of 15.400. That was just 0.100 short of Jordan’s Ahmad Abu Al Soud, who had qualified for the event in Paris before the Apparatus World Cup series in Qatar’s capital. After missing the final rounds in the first two of four qualifier