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• SPINDLERUV MLYN, Czech Republic -- World champion Marlies Schild led an Austrian 1-2 finish Saturday to win her sixth World Cup slalom of the season and clinch the discipline title. Schild had the fastest time in both runs to clock one minute 43.85 seconds on the Black course. Kathrin Zettel finished 0.93 second behind and Tina Maze of Slovenia was 1.16 back in third. Schild holds an insurmountable 111-point lead over second-place Tanja Poutiainen of Finland in the slalom standings with only one more race remaining in the discipline. "Its great to win (the discipline)," said Schild, who won the slalom title for the third time." I didnt expect to win it before the finals. The last races will be really cool." The Austrian has won six of eight slaloms this season and has 29 World Cup wins in her career. Marie-Michele Gagnon of Lac-Etchemin, Que., and Erin Mielzynski of Guelph, Ont., did not finish the first run. Saturdays was the final race before the March 16-20 World Cup finals in Lenzerheide, Switzerland. Three-time overall defending champion Lindsey Vonn of the United States was tied for 16th, but still narrowed the gap to overall World Cup leader Maria Riesch from 38 to 23 points after the German went out in the second run. Vonn has been struggling in slalom this season, only finishing events in Levi, Finland, and Aspen, Colo., previously. She was in 12th place after the first run and had the 20th fastest time in the second. "I didnt ski well in my second run," Vonn said. "I know it was little bit too turny for me on the top. I just never really got into a good rhythm." Riesch was 15th after the first run, where she lost her rhythm shortly after the start and also had problems on the lower part of the course. She then skied out just seconds into the second leg. "This was a really, really bad and disappointing weekend for me," Riesch said. "Ill try to forget about that as soon as I can." With four more races -- a downhill, super-G, slalom and giant slalom -- to come, the battle between Riesch and Vonn over the overall title remains wide open. "This is a new challenge I never really faced before, to be down in the World Cup," Vonn said. "(The gap was) 200 points only few days ago and now Im right back and were pretty much equal right now before the finals. It couldnt have been written better." On Friday, Vonn finished third in the giant slalom in Spindleruv Mlyn for her first career podium in the discipline to narrow Rieschs lead from 96 to 38 points. Riesch almost skied off in the second round and placed 29th, "Its going to be really exciting finals, its going to push me to a new level of skiing I never seen before myself," Vonn said. "This is going to be on the same level as the Olympics as far as the pressure goes." Despite her disappointment, Riesch still sounded optimistic before the finals. "Im still in the lead overall and we have four races to go," she said. 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Emeghara put Siena ahead six minutes in with a header, Alessandro Rosina doubled the lead in the 23rd and Emeghara scored again in the 61st after accelerating past defender Giuseppe Biava. <a href="http://www.nflcheapwholesalejerseyschina.com/">cheap nfl jerseys from china</a>. -- John Cook won the Outback Steakhouse Pro-Am on Sunday for his second Champions Tour victory of the year, rebounding from a double bogey on the final hole of regulation with a birdie on the first hole of a playoff against Jay Don Blake.LENZERHEIDE, Switzerland -- Tina Maze rebounded from her heartbreaking World Cup slalom title defeat to Mikaela Shiffrin by ending her historic season with a giant slalom victory on Sunday. Maze performed her trademark celebration cartwheel in the finish area after first-run leader Tessa Worley of France fell 0.35 seconds behind her winning two-run time of 2 minutes, 16.67 seconds. Lara Gut of Switzerland was third, 1.38 back. The Slovenian racers 11th World Cup victory this season extended her record overall points total to 2,414. Austrian great Hermann Maier set a mark of 2,000 in the 1999-2000 season. "Im impressed, too," Maze said, when asked about her impressive year in a finish-area interview. "It was an amazing season for me. I started with a win and I finished with a win." On crossing the finish line to set the fastest time, Maze twirled her right ski-pole above her head in excitement. It seemed an understandable release of emotion after two big disappointments here at World Cup finals week. On Saturday, Mazes first-run slalom lead couldnt withstand American teenagers Shiffrin astonishing second run to victory in their winner-take-all race for the discipline title. Maze sobbed with her head resting on her arm as Shiffrin displayed the crystal trophy. When the downhill was cancelled on Wednesday, Maze was denied the chance to overhaul the injured Lindsey Vonn in the standings. At that stage, Maze was still aiming to sweep the seasons World Cup titles. There was disappointment Sunday for the 2011 overall World Cup champion, Maria Hoefl-Riesch of Germany.dddddddddddd She appeared injured after skiing out in the first run and quickly left the venue. Hoefl-Riesch was travelling to her home base in Kitzbuehel, Austria, for a diagnosis, German team spokesman Ralph Eder said in a text message to The Associated Press. On a tricky snow surface for the GS race, Julia Mancuso of the United States was eighth, 2.47 behind Maze, and Shiffrin placed 11th, trailing by 3.58. "Im definitely tired," the 18-year-old Shiffrin told The AP. "I put a lot on the line in the second run (on Saturday). It was emotionally exhausting." Mancuso was the best-placed American in the overall standings, in fourth place with 867 points. Shiffrin was fifth, 45 points behind her teammate. Vonn, the four-time overall champion from 2008-10 and in 2012, ended eighth despite taking a midseason break and not racing after Feb. 5, when she ruptured right knee ligaments crashing in the world championships super-G race won by Maze. Aged 29, Mazes improvement was remarkable despite having finished second overall to Vonn one year ago, though without winning a race. Then, Vonns 1,980 points was a womens record and Maze got 1,402. Maze reeled off 11 wins this time, across all five events, and improved her points total by more than 1,000. Her 24th top-3 finish in a World Cup race Sunday extended another record she took from Maier, who stood on the podium 22 times in his dominating 2000 season. Maze also took three medals at the worlds in Schladming, Austria, super-G gold and silvers in giant slalom and super-combined. ' ' '

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