Overtime

Polo

Skeeterville takes victory in Gold Cup

In Aiken, Julio Arellano scored six goals and Skeeterville came on strong after intermission to beat Chukkerage, 14-11, on the second day of play in the U.S. Polo Association's Gold Cup.

The match was tied 6-6 at the break, but Skeeterville pulled away in the fourth chukker with four unanswered goals, two by Lucas Monteverde and one each by Arellano and Skeeter Johnson.

Today's match between Bendabout and New Bridge features two of the highest-rated players in the sport.

New Bridge's Adolfo Cambiaso is considered the top player in the game, and Bendabout has Miguel Novillo Astrada. Both are rated as 10-goal players.

The match begins at 5 p.m. at New Bridge Polo and Country Club near Aiken.

The finals in the six-team, round robin event will be Oct. 2.

Women's Soccer

USC Aiken drops its Peach Belt opener

In Aiken, Georgia College & State University defeated USC Aiken, 3-1, in the Peach Belt Conference opener for both teams.

The visitors (4-2, 1-0) led 1-0 at halftime then added two second-half goals to go up 3-0.

The Lady Pacers (3-2, 0-1) scored with 25 seconds remaining the game on Lauren Myers' first goal of the season.

Goalkeeper Jacquelynn Hart had 11 saves for USC Aiken, which plays host to Division I Charleston Southern at 5 p.m. on Wednesday.

Auto Racing

Crawford outduels Setzer, Musgrave

In Loudon, N.H., Rick Crawford fought off series points leaders Dennis Setzer and Ted Musgrave to win NASCAR's Craftsman Truck Series event at New Hampshire International Speedway.

The win in the Sylvania 200 was the fourth for Crawford and his first since April 2004 at Martinsville.

To get it, the driver from Mobile, Ala., had to outrun Setzer and Musgrave, the two strongest drivers in the series, over the final 30 laps.

"What a great race among the veterans out there," Crawford said. "I needed to run my line and make sure Musgrave and Setzer battled it out. They did and I won."

The runner-up performance was a good turnaround for Setzer, who had built a lead of 227 points after winning at Indianapolis Raceway Park on Aug. 5.

He saw his margin shrink to 49 points over Musgrave heading into Saturday's event on the 1.058-mile New Hampshire oval. But Saturday's result put Setzer back up by 59 points with six races remaining.

Tennis

Russia, France tied in Fed Cup final

In Paris, Amelie Mauresmo salvaged the opening day of the Fed Cup final for France with a 6-4, 6-2 victory over Russia's Anastasia Myskina, who made one error after another in a match that left the series tied 1-1.

Elena Dementieva had given defending champion Russia a 1-0 lead at Roland Garros by beating Mary Pierce 7-6 (1), 2-6, 6-1 in a reprise of their contentious match at the U.S. Open.

France, which lost to Russia in last year's final without Pierce and Mauresmo, is trying to win the title a third time.

Mauresmo will play Dementieva in today's reverse singles in the best-of-five final at the home of the French Open.

Pierce, who played Saturday with her right thigh bandaged, might be dropped for the second match against Myskina.

"There is a plan B in place in case we need it," said France captain Georges Goven, who can use Tatiana Golovin or Nathalie Dechy to replace Pierce, who made the final in two grand slams this year.

Mauresmo, who is unbeaten in Fed Cup singles since July 2002, has lost her last two matches to Dementieva.

- In Beijing, top-seeded Rafael Nadal beat fellow Spaniard Juan Carlos Ferrero 6-4, 6-4 and will play for the China Open title against Guillermo Coria.

Coria, seeded second, defeated fourth-seeded Thomas Johansson of Sweden 4-6, 7-5, 6-2 in the other semifinal.