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BOARDMAN — Kenston defeated Ursuline/Mooney 7-6 in a shootout to win the championship of the Canfield Thanksgiving Hockey Tournament.

Kenston won all four of its games while Ursuline/Mooney went 2-2.

In the championship game, Ursuline/Mooney got goals from Corey Timmings, Louie Morraco, Alex Figuly, Dean Macklin, Phil Tate and Josh Charleton.

In third place was Notre Dame Cathedral Latin (3-1) and Nordonia (2-2) was fourth.

Canfield placed fifth in the seven-team event.

Canfield defeated Orange 7-3 as Scott Sittig scored twice and Tyler Buchenic, Joe Geiser, Steve Stanislaw, Evan Smith and Ben Kline had goals.

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Choi wins Skins Game

INDIAN WELLS, Calif. — K.J. Choi holed an 11-foot birdie putt worth $270,000 on the 18th hole Sunday to win the 26th Skins Game with $415,000.

Stephen Ames missed a nine-footer that would have tied the hole and forced the foursome including Phil Mickelson and Rocco Mediate into a playoff.

Instead, Choi’s putt gave him $340,000 for Sunday’s nine holes and made him the fifth international player to win the title.

Stephen Ames, looking for a third consecutive title in the event, won $250,000 on the first hole of the day with a birdie to finish second. Mickelson was third with $195,000, while Mediate earned his $140,000 with a birdie on the 16th hole.

It is just the seventh time that all four players in the event have won money.

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Arsenal stuns Blues

MANCHESTER, England — Chelsea lost ground in the Premier soccer League title race Sunday after being upset 2-1 by Arsenal, enabling defending champion Manchester United to close the gap to five points with a 1-0 victory over Manchester City.

Liverpool, tied with Chelsea atop the standings with 33 points, can take the outright lead when it plays West Ham on Monday.

Robin van Persie scored twice in four second-half minutes after Arsenal defender Johan Djourou scored own-goal, as Chelsea manager Luiz Felipe Scolari lost his second home match of the season — which his two predecessors never experienced.

Arsenal was struggling to compete with bigger, more physical opponents when Van Persie lashed a 59th-minute equalizer into the top corner from what appeared to be a clear offside position.

World Cup of Golf

SHENZHEN, China — Henrik Stenson of Sweden knew the contending teams in the World Cup of Golf had their “hot rounds” during the tournament. He hoped the Swedes would have their moment on Sunday.

They did.

Robert Karlsson and Stenson birdied the first hole — and added eight more without dropping a shot — to lift Sweden to its second World Cup title, shooting a 9-under 63 in alternate-shot play to beat Spain’s Miguel Angel Jimenez and Pablo Larrazabal by three strokes.

Karlsson and Stenson, four strokes behind the Spaniards after the third round, finished at 27-under 261 on Mission Hills’ Olazabal Course.

Germany opened with a 62 on Thursday, Spain carded 63 on Friday and Australia added its own 63 on Saturday.

Lexus Cup

SINGAPORE — Annika Sorenstam celebrated two big victories in her second-to-last event before retiring.

For starters Sunday in the Lexus Cup, the International team captain waited out a lightning delay to finish off Asian counterpart Se Ri Pak 3 and 2 in the opening singles match, the longtime stars’ first match-play showdown.

A couple of hours later, American Christina Kim gave Sorenstam an even bigger victory, finishing with a birdie on the par-5 18th against Namika Omata for the winning half-point in the three-day event at Singapore Island Country Club.

“It’s one thing to be inside the ropes in control, but when you’re cheering for everyone you want to help them however you can,” said Sorenstam, set to end her Hall of Fame career next week in the Ladies European Tour’s Dubai Ladies Masters.

Australian Masters

MELBOURNE, Australia — Rod Pampling won the Australian Masters on Sunday, beating Australian countryman Marcus Fraser with a par on the third playoff hole.

Both players parred the first two playoff holes, with Pampling holing a testy 5-footer on the first extra hole. On the second, Fraser made a 20-footer for par after hitting his approach into a bunker.

“That was a great battle,” Pampling said. “It’s a great relief. It’s been a lot of hard work on the tour.”

Pampling closed with a 5-under 67 to match Fraser (65) at 12-under 276 on the Huntingdale Golf Club course. Australia’s Robert Allenby shot a 73 to finish third, three strokes back in the event sanctioned by the Australasian and European tours.

Pampling had a chance to win in regulation, but his 25-foot putt for birdie ended up inches short.

Vindicator staff/wire reports