Basketball

Results from the NBA games on Friday (home team in CAPS):

NY Knicks 99 TORONTO 94

Oklahoma City 97 ORLANDO 89

INDIANA 102 Milwaukee 78

Portland 104 ATLANTA 93

MIAMI 103 Detroit 89

NEW ORLEANS 90 Memphis 83

HOUSTON 116 Cleveland 78

DALLAS 104 Boston 94

SAN ANTONIO 104 Utah 97 (OT)

Minnesota 117 PHOENIX 86

Washington 103 LA LAKERS 100

Golf

Arnold Palmer Invitational

Leading second-round scores on Friday from the $6.2 million US PGA Arnold Palmer Invitational (USA unless noted, par-72):

135 - Bill Haas 69-66, Justin Rose (ENG) 65-70

136 - John Huh 67-69

138 - Ken Duke 70-68, JJ Henry 71-67, Jimmy Walker 69-69

139 - Mark Wilson 71-68, Vijay Singh (FIJ) 71-68, Tiger Woods 69-70

140 - Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano (ESP) 69-71, Luke Guthrie 73-67, Brad Fritsch (CAN) 68-72, Bob Estes 71-69, John Rollins 68-72, Rickie Fowler 73-67, Sang-Moon Bae (KOR) 71-69

141 - Hunter Mahan 71-70, Sergio Garcia 72-69, Matt Jones (AUS) 71-70, Ian Poulter (ENG) 72-69

142 - Thorbjorn Olesen (DEN) 69-73, Charlie Howell 73-69, Retief Goosen (RSA) 73-69, Ben Curtis 72-70, Ben Kohles 69-73, Boo Weekley 72-70, Henrik Stenson (SWE) 71-71

LPGA Kia Classic

Leading second-round scores on Friday in the LPGA Kia Classic (USA unless noted):

136 - Beatriz Recari (ESP) 69-67

137 - Paula Creamer 69-68, Karrie Webb (AUS) 67-70

138 - I.K. Kim (KOR) 71-67, Cristie Kerr 70-68, Inbee Park (KOR) 69-69, Haeji Kang (KOR) 69-69, Jane Park 66-72

139 - Lizette Salas 69-70, Caroline Hedwall (SWE) 67-72

140 - Jeong Jang (KOR) 72-68, So Yeon Ryu (KOR) 70-70, Stacy Lewis 70-70, Mo Martin 69-71

141 - Jee Young Lee (KOR) 72-69, Stacy Prammanasudh 71-70, Jenny Shin (KOR) 70-71, Amanda Blumenherst 69-72, Chella Choi (KOR) 71-70

142 - Azahara Munoz (ESP) 72-70, Suzann Pettersen (NOR) 71-71, Jacqui Concolino 70-72, Sandra Gal (GER) 70-72, Giulia Sergas (ITA) 68-74

Ice hockey

Results from the NHL games on Friday (home team in CAPS):

Pittsburgh 4 NY ISLANDERS 2

COLUMBUS 5 Calgary 1

Washington 6 WINNIPEG 1

Detroit 5 ANAHEIM 1

Soccer

Asian Cup qualifying

Friday's results:

Group B

At Beirut

Lebanon 5 (Hassan Chaito 6, 22, Mohamad Haidar 31, Hassan Maatouk 73, Abbas Ali Atwi 90+1) Thailand 2 (Teerasil Dangda 49, Thitipan Puangchan 86)

Group C

At Changsha

China 1 (Yu Dabao 90+3) Iraq 0

Group D

At Shah Alam

Malaysia 2 (Azamuddin Akil 26, Khyril Muhymeen 80) Yemen 1 (Aiman Saleh 12)

At Manama

Bahrain 1 (Faouzi Aaish 20) Qatar 0

Group E

At Hong Kong

Hong Kong 1 (Chan Wai-ho 87) Vietnam 0

At Abu Dhabi

UAE 2 (Ahmed Khalil 58, Ali Mabkhout 61) Uzbekistan 1 (S. Gadoev 16)

World Cup 2014 CONCACAF qualifying

Friday's results

at San Pedro Sula

Honduras 2 (Costly 77, Bengtson 80) Mexico 2 (Hernandez 28, 54)

at Kingston

Jamaica 1 (Elliott 22) Panama 1 (Henriquez 65th)

at Denver, Colorado

United States 1 (Dempsey 16) Costa Rica 0

World Cup South .America qualifying

Friday's results

At Barranquilla, Colombia

Colombia 5 (Torres 20, Valdes 49, Gutierrez 62, Falcao 87, Armero 90+3) Bolivia 0

At Montevideo

Uruguay 1 (Suarez 82) Paraguay 1 (Benitez 86)

At Buenos Aires

Argentina 3 (Higuain 29, 59, Messi 45-pen) Venezuela 0

At Lima

Peru 1 (Farfan 87) Chile 0

World Cup European qualifying

Friday's results:

Group A

At Zagreb

Croatia 2 (Mandzukic 23, Olic 37) Serbia 0

At Skopje

Macedonia 0 Belgium 2 (De Bruyne 26, Hazard 62-pen)

At Glasgow, Scotland

Scotland 1 (Hanley 45+2) Wales 2 (Ramsey 73-pen, Robson-Kanu 74)

Group B

At Sofia

Bulgaria 6 (Tonev 6, 38, 58, Popov 47, Gargorov 55, Ivanov 78) Malta 0

At Olomouc, Czech Republic

Czech Republic 0 Denmark 3 (Cornelius 57, Kjaer 67, Zimling 82)

Group C

At Astana

Kazakhstan 0 Germany 3 (Schweinsteiger 20, Goetze 22, Mueller 74)

At Vienna

Austria 6 (Hosiner 8, 20, Ivanschitz 28, Junuzovic 77, Alaba 78, Garics 82) Faroe Islands 0

At Solna, Sweden

Sweden 0 Republic of Ireland 0

Group D

At Andorra La Vella

Andorra 0 Turkey 2 (Inan 30, B. Yilmaz 45+2)

At Amsterdam

Netherlands 3 (van der Vaart 47, van Persie 72, Schaken 84) Estonia 0

At Budapest

Hungary 2 (Vanczak 16, Dzsudzsak 71-pen) Romania 2 (Mutu 68-pen, Chipciu 90+3)

Group E

At Ljubljana

Slovenia 1 (Novakovic 34) Iceland 2 (Sigurdsson 55, 78)

At Oslo

Norway 0 Albania 1 (Salihi 67)

Group F

At Ramat Gan, Israel

Israel 3 (Hemed 24, Ben Basat 40, Gershon 70) Portugal 3 (Bruno Alves 2, Postiga 72, Coentrao 90+3)

At Luxembourg

Luxembourg 0 Azerbaijan 0

At Belfast

Northern Ireland v Russia - postponed

Group G

At Vaduz

Liechtenstein 1 (Polverino 17) Latvia 1 (Cauna 30)

At Zilina, Slovakia

Slovakia 1 (Jakubko 40) Lithuania 1 (Sernas 19)

At Zenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina

Bosnia-Herzegovina 3 (Dzeko 30, 54, Ibisevic 36) Greece 1 (Gekas 90+3)

Group H

At Chisinau

Moldova 0 Montenegro 1 (Vucinic 78)

At Warsaw

Poland 1 (Piszczek 18) Ukraine 3 (Yarmolenko 2, Gusev 7, Zozulya 45)

At Serravalle, San Marino

San Marino 0 England 8 (Della Valle 12-og, Oxlade-Chamberlain 28, Defoe 35, 77, Young 39, Lampard 42, Rooney 54, Sturridge 70)

Group I

At Gijon, Spain

Spain 1 (Ramos 49) Finland 1 (Pukki 79)

Group I

At Paris

France 3 (Giroud 45+1, Valbuena 47, Ribery 61) Georgia 1 (Kobakhidze 71)

Tennis

WTA and ATP Masters Miami

Results on Friday from the fourth day of the $8.5 million WTA and ATP Masters Miami hardcourt tournament (x denotes seeding):

Men's 2nd rd

Xavier Malisse (BEL) bt Jeremy Chardy (FRA x22) 6-3, 6-2; Kei Nishikori (JPN x13) bt Victor Hanescu (ROM) 6-3, 6-3; David Ferrer (ESP x3) bt Dmitry Tursunov (RUS) - walkover; Tommy Haas (GER x15) bt Igor Sijsling (NED) 6-0, 5-7, 6-3; Jurgen Melzer (AUT) bt Marcel Granollers (ESP x31) 6-3, 6-4; Grega Zemlja (SLO) bt Florian Mayer (GER x23) 6-3, 7-6 (3); Fabio Fognini (ITA x32) bt Michael Llodra (FRA) 6-4, 6-1; Janko Tipsarevic (SRB x7) bt Dudi Sela (ISR) 6-2, 6-4; Albert Ramos (ESP) bt Juan Monaco (ARG x12) 6-2, 4-6, 6-3; James Blake (USA) bt Julien Benneteau (FRA x24) 6-2, 6-3; Alexandr Dolgopolov (UKR x19) bt Nikolay Davydenko (RUS) 6-2, 6-3; Tobias Kamke (GER) bt Juan Martin del Potro (ARG x5) 7-6 (5), 6-1; Novak Djokovic (SRB x1) bt Lukas Rosol (CZE) 6-1, 6-0; Somdev Devarman (IND) bt Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) 4-6, 6-4, 7-5

Women's 2nd rd

Elena Vesnina (RUS x29) bt Donna Vekic (CRO) 6-4, 6-2; Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS) bt Ekaterina Makarova (RUS x18) 6-4, 6-4; Roberta Vinci (ITA x15) bt Christina McHale (USA) 6-7 (2), 6-1, 6-3; Lauren Davis (USA) bt Madison Keys (USA) 6-1, 5-7, 7-6 (7); Carla Suarez Navarro (ESP x20) bt Jamie Hampton (USA) 5-7, 7-5, 7-6 (3); Angelique Kerber (GER x6) bt Francesca Schiavone (ITA) 6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-2; Klara Zakopalova (CZE x21) bt Anabel Medina Garrigues (ESP) 6-3, 7-6 (3); Sorana Cirstea (ROM x28) bt Silvia Soler-Espinosa (ESP) 2-6, 7-5, 6-2; Nadia Petrova (RUS x11) bt Zheng Jie (CHN) 6-3, 6-1; Simona Halep (ROM) bt Tamira Paszek (AUT x26) 6-1, 6-7 (4), 7-5; Maria Kirilenko (RUS x14) bt Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA) 6-1, 6-4; Sara Errani (ITA x8) bt Daniela Hantuchova (SVK) 6-3, 6-1; Jelena Jankovic (SRB x22) bt Victoria Duval (USA) 6-3, 7-5.

(China Daily 03/24/2013 page7)