TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2014 SPORTS Lahore Lions off to India Seoul edge Pohang again; World No1 Djokovic with a message of love blunt Steelers’ title push to skip Davis Cup tie LAHORE: Pakistan’s domestic Twenty20 champions the Lahore Lions received their SEOUL: Brazilian forward Everton Santos struck four minutes from NEW DELHI: World number one Novak Djokovic will not play for Serbia in the Davis Cup World Group playoff tie against India in Bangalore this weekend, team coach Indian visas yesterday, ending doubts over their participation in the Champions time as FC Seoul inflicted more misery on title chasing Pohang Bogdan Obradovic said yesterday. “I spoke to Djokovic last night and he said he will League as captain Mohammad Hafeez vowed to spread love across the border. Steelers with a 1-0 win in their K League Classic encounter on not be coming to India,” Obradovic was quoted as saying by Fielding a virtual Pakistan ‘A’ side, the Lions are set to depart today and will enter the Sunday. Seoul’s narrow victory came less than two weeks after four-team qualifying round in Raipur starting from September 13. the Press Trust of India in the southern Indian city where they edged Pohang on penalties in their AFC Champions League Apart from ex-Pakistan skipper Hafeez, the Lions boast the tie opens on Friday. Djokovic, who claimed his sev- quarter-final last month, which finished 0-0 after two legs. Just as national players Umar Akmal, Ahmed Shehzad, Wahab enth Grand Slam title in July when he won the latest clash between the teams looked set for another draw, Riaz, Nasir Jamshed and fringe international Aizaz Wimbledon, was stunned by Japan’s Kei Everton Santos, who joined the club in July, found some space Cheema. They face the Mumbai Indians in their open- Nishikori in the US Open semi-final on ing encounter before taking on Sri Lanka’s Southern and flicked a right foot shot into the corner of the net to grab all Saturday. Serbia won the Davis Cup in 2010. But Express and New Zealand’s Northern Districts. The top three points. That win left Seoul, who face Western Sydney they were relegated to the play-offs for the first two teams from the qualifying rounds will join eight Wanderers in the last four of the ACL, in sixth place and allowed time since 2007 when, playing without Djokovic, teams in the main rounds, starting from September Jeonbuk Motors to open up a three point gap on Pohang at the they lost to Roger Federer’s Switzerland in the World 17. Hafeez said his players would act as ambassadors top after they beat Sangju Sangmu on Saturday. First half goals by Group first round in February. Djokovic’s loss is a fur- of Pakistan. “We are going there with a message of Lee Ju-yong and Lee Seung-gi gave Jeonbuk a first victory in three ther blow to the Serbs who are already depleted by love and I know how much they love Pakistan and the after their title push was dented by back-to-back defeats by injuries to Janko Tipsarevic and Viktor Troicki. He is cricketers from our country,” Hafeez told reporters. Jeonnam Dragons and Seoul. Seongnam moved away from the likely to be replaced for the tie by Ilija “Our aim is not only play good cricket in the field relegation places with a 2-0 home success over Incheon United, Bozoljac. The 61st-ranked Dusan Lajovic, aged but also do good acts off the field. —AFP their first league win since July. — Reuters 24, will be the main singles player. —AFP Hawks owner under Royals spoil Jeter’s day with 2-0 win fire over ‘racially insensitive’ remarks MLB CAPSULES ATLANTA: The owner of the Atlanta Hawks announced NEW YORK: Yordano Ventura and the Kansas City gle in the first put Cleveland ahead. Carlos Santana 12) was tagged for seven runs and nine hits in 1 2-3 on Sunday he would sell his controlling interest in the Royals turned Derek Jeter Day into another disappoint- added a run-scoring groundout in the eighth. Scott innings. National Basketball Association franchise because of ing defeat for the New York Yankees’ captain in the Carroll (5-10) held the Indians to two runs in eight-plus racially insensitive remarks he made, in an echo of a scan- dwindling days of his career. Ventura pitched three-hit innings, but received no help from his offense. Chicago CARDINALS 9, BREWERS 1 dal involving the former owner of the Los Angeles ball into the seventh inning, and the AL Central leaders scored two runs in the series and has lost 14 of 18. Adam Wainwright pitched a seven-hitter for St. Clippers NBA team. Hawks owner Bruce Levenson said fans have a right to be angry about an internal email he beat the Yankees 2-0 Sunday on a pair of unearned Louis, and Peter Boujos had a key two-run triple. The wrote two years ago about the need to boost arena runs for their second shutout in the three-game series. RANGERS 1, MARINERS 0 Cardinals took three of four in the series at Miller Park attendance and how black and white fans differed in Kansas City scored due to errors by pitcher Shane Derek Holland pitched seven impressive innings in to open a five-game lead on Milwaukee. The Brewers what they preferred to see at Hawks’ games. Greene (4-3) in the second inning and right fielder his second start off the disabled list as Texas beat have lost 11 of 12. St Louis grabbed a 4-0 lead with four “In trying to address those issues, I wrote an e-mail Carlos Beltran in the third. The Royals, who won 1-0 Seattle to end an eight-game losing streak. The runs in the fourth against rookie Jimmy Nelson (2-7). It two years ago that was inappropriate and offensive,” Friday night on an unearned run following an error by Rangers gave interim manager Tim Bogar his first victo- was more than enough support for Wainwright (17-9), Levenson said in a statement released by the team. “If third baseman Chase Headley, went 4-3 against the ry in his third game since Ron Washington resigned. who is tied for the major league lead in victories. The you’re angry about what I wrote, you should be. I’m angry Yankees this year to take the season series for the first Seattle, which had won five in a row, finished a 5-2 road right-hander struck out three. at myself, too. It was inflammatory nonsense. We all may time since 1999. Ventura (12-9) won his third straight trip. Shawn Tolleson worked the eighth, and Neftali have subtle biases and preconceptions when it comes to start, leaving after a leadoff walk in the seventh. With Feliz completed the seven-hitter for his eighth save. NATIONALS 3, PHILLIES 2 race, but my role as a leader is to challenge them, not to closer Greg Holland sidelined by a strained right tri- Feliz pitched out of trouble after a walk and Kyle Adam LaRoche homered twice as Washington avoid- validate or accommodate those who might hold them,” ceps, Aaron Crow, Kelvin Herrera and Wade Davis com- Seager’s single put runners on first and third with one ed a series sweep. Scott Hairston hit a go-ahead sacri- he added. bined for one-hit relief. Pitching on his 29th birthday, out. James Jones popped out and pinch-hitter Justin fice fly off Philadelphia ace Cole Hamels (8-7) in the His e-mail to team general manager Danny Ferry, Davis got his second save of the series - and his big Smoak flied out. Texas scored on Adrian Beltre’s sixth- sixth inning. Hairston started in place of Bryce Harper which addressed ways to boost the number of season league career. Jeter, who is retiring at the end of the inning sacrifice fly against starter James Paxton (5-2). because of his stellar numbers against the left-hander, ticket holders, delved into racial makeup of fans at the season, went 1 for 3 with a first-inning single and a Leonys Martin had three hits, including a triple, and who combined with three relievers for a no-hitter Hawks arena and suggested that southern white men third-inning walk. Before the game, he was honored scored the only run. Holland (1-0) allowed six hits and against Atlanta in his previous start. Gio Gonzalez (8-9) might not be comfortable in an arena with a high per- during a 45-minute ceremony on the field that includ- no walks while striking out five. He missed the first five allowed two runs in six-plus innings for the Nationals, centage of African American fans. Levenson’s announce- ed NBA great Michael Jordan and baseball ironman Cal months of the season following offseason knee surgery. who had lost five straight against the Phillies. ment came just over four months after NBA Ripken Jr. Washington pushed its NL East lead over Atlanta back Commissioner Adam Silver, in an unprecedented move, banned then Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling ROCKIES 6, PADRES 0 to seven games. Drew Storen pitched a perfect ninth from the league and fined him $2.5 million for making ANGELS 14, TWINS 4 Nolan Arenado homered and Franklin Morales for his second save. racist remarks. Sterling had been heard, in taped private Mike Trout hit his 32nd homer and CJ Wilson recov- pitched six spotless innings for his first win in two comments, imploring a female friend not to associate ered from a slow start as Los Angeles completed a sea- months as Colorado defeated San Diego.