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.
ADVANTAGE ATLETICO: Well off the pace in La Liga, the Copa del Rey represents Atletico Madrid’s best chance of silverware this season Atletico Madrid on Thursday hammered Copa del Rey holders Barcelona 4-0 in the first leg of their semi-final. After an Eric Garcia own-goal sent Diego Simeone’s side ahead early on, Antoine Griezmann, Ademola Lookman and Julian Alvarez struck to give Atletico a landslide lead by halftime. Barca defender Garcia was sent off in the final stages, with Atletico maintaining their significant advantage on the record 32-time winners, which they take into the second leg at the Camp Nou on March 3. Both sides missed good chances in the second half, with Barca’s Pau Cubarsi having a goal disallowed before Garcia was sent off
‘EVERYONE SAW’: The visitors were left fuming after Jules Kounde was fouled by Claudio Echeverri in the buildup to the winning goal and it went unpunished Spanish champions Barcelona on Monday fell to a damaging 2-1 defeat at Girona to leave them trailing Real Madrid by two points at the top of La Liga. Los Blancos beat Real Sociedad on Saturday to overtake the Catalans and Hansi Flick’s side could not defeat Girona in an gripping derby clash to reclaim the lead. Teenage star Lamine Yamal missed a penalty for Barcelona, who took the lead through defender Pau Cubarsi just before the hour mark. However, goals from Thomas Lemar and Fran Beltran helped Girona, 12th, mount an impressive comeback. “In the end Girona deserved it, they had a lot of
Stade Rennais, four days after firing coach Habib Beye, stunned Paris Saint-Germain 3-1 on Friday, snapping the defending champions’ seven-match winning run in French Ligue 1. Second-placed RC Lens could leapfrog the champions and retake top spot last night after press time if they beat Paris FC in the capital. PSG started brightly, with Ousmane Dembele and Desire Doue carving openings to no avail. Rennes fired Beye on Monday and promoted his assistant Sebastien Tambouret, and the same players who had lost four games on the bounce seemed transformed. Jordanian forward Mousa al-Tamari bagged the opener, unleashing a fierce strike
Dasun Shanaka hammered the fastest half-century by a Sri Lankan in T20Is as the cohosts thrashed Oman by 105 runs at the World Cup yesterday in Pallekele, Sri Lanka, for their second win in Group B. The 2014 champions piled up 225-5, the highest total of the tournament, before restricting an outclassed Oman to 120-9. The 43-year-old Mohammad Nadeem waged a lone battle for Oman, compiling an unbeaten 53 to become the oldest player to score a 50 in T20 World Cups. Having promoted himself up the order and under pressure to deliver, Sri Lanka skipper Shanaka smashed a 19-ball half-century. It has been
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