Amateur Match: Match Play down to eight players
BIGFORK - Medalist Chris McConnell of Billings won two matches Friday at the annual Montana State Men's Amateur Match Play tournament at Eagle Bend Golf Club. McConnell will face Logan Ward of Missoula this morning in the quarterfinals, while Josh Hedge of Billings meets Ron Ramsey of Bigfork; William Foust of Ronan plays Chris Haas of Bozeman; and Shawn Tucker of Whitefish squares off against Kelbi Lee of Billings.The semifinals are set for this afternoon, with the 36-hole...

Amateur Match: Youth prevails in Manoa Cup
Shibuya, Asao advance to 36-hole final of men's state amateur match play By Ann Miller, ADVERTISER STAFF WRITER Four guys who never saw the '60s were in the semifinals of the 92nd Manoa Cup yesterday. Randy Shibuya, 25, and Norman-Ganin Asao, 20, prevailed and play this morning for the men's state amateur match play championship.Shibuya outlasted 6-down-but-not-out Kendall Fukumoto, 2 and 1. Asao's surge on the climb up Oahu Country...

Amateur Match: Key tournaments crowd busy week
Two of the most important golf tournaments of the local calendar will be played this week.One is the City Women's Amateur, a 54-hole stroke play event that opens today with the championship flight at Balboa. Play continues tomorrow at Torrey Pines North and concludes Thursday at Torrey Pines South.The other is the Trans-Mississippi Championship, at age 86, the nation's oldest amateur match-play tournament. After 18-holes of qualifying tomorrow and Wednesday at La...

Amateur Match: Win has Youngs flying high
KATY - For a fellow who barely squeezed into the Texas Mid-Amateur Match Play Championship as the 30th-seeded player in a field of 32, things fell together pretty nicely for Pat Youngs. The League City resident completed a rush to the championship Sunday morning when he defeated Richard LaPierre 4 and 3 in the finals at Meadowbrook Farms Golf Club.Youngs, who has been runner-up in the Houston city amateur championship three times, was 1 under par through 15 holes as he took control of...

Taylorville native Matt Dorchinez wins Atlanta Amateur Match Play Championship
ALPHARETTA, Ga. - Former Taylorville native Matt Dorchinecz survived an up-and-down match to defeat Don Marsh of Alpharetta, 2 and 1 capturing the 82nd Annual Atlanta Amateur Match Play Championship at Rivermont Golf and Country Club. Dorchinecz, who emerged from a four-hole, all-square deadlock to go 2 up after winning the 15th and 16th holes, clinched the title with a six-foot par putt on 17.Dorchinecz's road to the final included a pair of 1 up victories over defending...

Amateur Match: Influence of training and match intensity on injuries in rugby league.
The aim of this study was to examine the influence of perceived intensity, duration and load of matches and training on the incidence of injury in rugby league players. The incidence of injury

Amateur Match: After the ball: for star athletes, nothing matters but the game. When life catches up with them, the real match begins
Before she gained 100 pounds of unwanted weight, before she jumped from job to job, before she wondered if, at age 29, her life was over, Elaina Oden ...

Amateur Match: My season: a Bonds vs. Sosa grudge match, real mud-slinging from Selig and Fehr and other wild wishes for the year - and not so wild - Baseball Season
Another season is upon us. I'll root for players. I'll root for teams. And, because I'm a contrarian at heart, I'll root for perverse storylines that ...

Amateur Match: Boxing day
'THREE! (... two, three)--Go!--Switch! Six! (... four, five, six)--Go!--Switch!--Switch! Twelve! (... ten, eleven, twelve)--Go!--Switch! ..." I am watching my son, Daniel, age nine, working

Amateur Match: Flash knockdown: a Michigan pool builder moonlights as an amateur boxer and takes home the Golden Gloves state title
When Erik Butz steps into a boxing ring, he isn't looking for a fancy finish or the TKO. He's one of those boxers who likes to wear down his opponents ...