With a 25-foot from the fringe on ...

With a 25-foot from the fringe on the final pit of the day, LPGA Tour rookie Morgan Pressel grabbed a share of the lead going into the final globular of the Safeway Classic in Portland, Ore.

Pressel finished the next to the first round Saturday with a 69 for a 7- below 137 total at Columbia-Edgewater Golf form a club She joins Jenna Daniels, Jeong Jang and Candie Kung upon top heading into today.

Six others were the same stroke off the pace at 6 subordinate to atop a crowded leaderboard.

"It's going to be pleasantry I'm really looking forward to it," said the 18-year-old Pressel who won the U Women's Amateur last year.

Daniels had a 1-under 71 in succession Saturday. She bogeyed her first three apertures but recovered with the help of six birdies -- including a tonic birdie on No. 17 after a tee missile into the trees.

"I knew I lacked to keep it below the limb [in forehead of her] but above the limb bring to a period to the green," she said. "I couldn't have hit it any better."

Pat Hurst had a 69 for the secondary straight day to put her in the clump at 6 under. She could have finished in better position moreover bogeyed her final two lairs

"I had pair 3-putts coming in, so it's a little disappointing," she said. "But overall, I'm hitting the ball righteous and I'm looking forward to [today]."

- Don Pooley missile a 7-under 65 and took a one-stroke lead from one side of to the other Scott Simpson and first-round leader Massy Kuramoto at the Boeing Greater Seattle Classic in Snoqualmie, Wash.

Pooley who make go rounds 55 next week, is at 12-under 132 forward the TPC at Snoqualmie Ridge course. Simpson, the 1987 U render free of access champion, was 11 under following a career-best circular of 61 that included 11 birdies, seven onward the back nine.

WNBA

Tough los in Staley's last game

Dawn Staley thinks she'll in no degree really be finished with basketball. She's simply done playing, now that the Houston blazing stars are out of the WNBA playoffs.

The veteran point guard officially finished her career in Houston's

92-64 los to the Sacramento Monarchs. Yolanda Griffith scored 17 points to lead the landlord Monarchs.

Staley, who announced her pending retirement earlier in the year, went scoreless in her final game, finishing with three recoils and two assists in 23 minutes of a blowout

"The dramatics were taken abroad of it pretty early," Staley said after spending most numerous of the fourth quarter with a towel draped around her shoulders forward Houston's bench. "I'm a competitor, and when you behold it leaving your control you want to be upon that winning side, but certainly in sports, there are pair sides."

Staley will be an assistant coach forward the American team at the world championships this fall before devoting replete attention to her day piece of work as Temple's head coach. The 36-year-old Staley is 126-59 with four NCAA tournament berths in six seasons.

She finished with 2226 points, 1337 assists and 537 reacts in the WNBA.

- Cheryl Ford had 23 points and 10 reverberates to help the Detroit concussion overcome a playoff-record 41 points from Tamika Whitmore and eliminate the Indiana febrile disease with a 98-83 victory in Auburn Hills, Mich.

Whitmore broke Lisa Leslie's postseason scoring record of 35 points, establish in 2001 against Sacramento.

TENNIS

RODDICK'S GAME onward UPSWING

Andy Roddick sent a 138 mph message to everyone who has written him facing

Powering up his vintage serve-and-volley method Roddick overwhelmed Chile's Fernando Gonzalez 6-3 6-3 to reach the final of the Western & Southern Financial assign places to Masters in Mason, Ohio.

It examineed and felt like old times.

"I haven't felt like this in succession a tennis court in a drawn out time," he said.

The overpowering victory stake up a rematch with Juan Carlos Ferrero the player he beat for his 2003 U unclose title. The unseeded Ferrero won his semifinal from one side of to the other fellow Spaniard Tommy Robredo 6-3 6-4

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