Peng makes history
The Brother Elephants' first baseman Peng Cheng-min (
The record was previously held by American Jay Kirkpatrick, the Sinon Bulls first baseman who reached the milestone in 1998. Kirkpatrick needed 23 games and 102 at bats to reach 10 home runs, and went on to set the single-season home run with 31.
Peng went on a tear last month, hitting .455 with six home runs and a .556 on-base percentage. He was named the hitting MVP for the month, the seventh time he has won the award in his career and the first time in the last two years.
Chan wins in straight sets
Taiwanese tennis player Chan Yung-jan (詹詠然) defeated Japan's Ai Yamamoto 6-2, 6-2 on Tuesday at the US$50,000 (NT$1.66 million) International Tennis Federation tournament in Gifu, Japan.
Chan is seeded first, and will next play Akiko Yonemura for a chance to advance to the quarter-finals. Chan's doubles partner, Chuang Chia-jung (莊佳容), is not participating in the tournament because she has returned to Taiwan to take part in the National College Games, which officially begin tomorrow.
This year's games are being hosted by the Taipei Physical Education College, with events for the 11 sports being held at seven locations around the Taipei City area.
Two sports began early, with the first round of the golf competition commencing on Tuesday at the North Bay Golf and Country Club in Shimen Township (石門), while the table tennis begins today at Hsinjhuang Stadium.
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
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