07/26/2008 - West Hartford, CT (Golf Betting) - Karen Chung won a record-long match at the U.S. Girls' Junior on Saturday, beating Kristina Wong 1-up in 26 holes to reach the final of this USGA championship.
Chung claimed the 26th hole with a par to knock off Wong and set up a meeting with Alexis Thompson in the 36-hole match play final on Sunday. Wong had squared the scheduled 18-hole match with a par at the 18th hole.
Thompson knocked off 2006 champion Jenny Shin to earn her berth in the final, which was pushed back an extra day to Sunday because of bad weather earlier in the week.
The 26-hole match between Chung and Wong broke the previous record for longest match in the championship's 60-year history, a 25-hole battle between Andrea Marchand and Hilary Rack in the first round in 1980.
Wong was on top through most of the front nine. Chung grabbed her first advantage with a birdie at the 10th hole. Chung stretched her lead to 2-up on the next hole, which is where it stood before Wong claimed back-to-back holes to end regulation.
The duo matched scores on the next seven holes -- once with bogeys, the other six times with pars -- before Chung finally ended the marathon with a par on Hartford Country Club's eighth hole.
Chung had advanced to the semifinals with a 1-up victory over Courtney Gunter in the quarterfinals, which were also played Saturday. Wong ousted stroke-play medalist Linda McClosky, 2 & 1, in the quarters.
On the way to becoming the other finalist, Thompson reached the semifinals with a 3 & 1 victory over Stephanie Kim in the quarters. She moved 1-up on Shin with a par at the second hole of their match and never lost the lead.
Shin was able to trim a 3-down deficit late in the match to 2-down when she made par at the 16th hole, but Thompson clinched the win when the players halved the 17th with pars.
The 36-hole match play final will begin Sunday morning at 8:00 a.m. (et).
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Mayweather picked to beat De La Hoya
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA -- Golden Boy Oscar De La Hoya and his rival Floyd Mayweather Jr. arrived at the MGM Grand here Wednesday amid the pomp and pandemonium befitting two of the biggest stars in the sport who are about to duke it out for the WBC super welterweight crown this Saturday (Sunday in Manila).
As of Wednesday, MySportsbook.com closed its book with Mayweather a favorite to defeat De La Hoya at -170 (a $100 bet wins $70), while De La Hoya is a +140 underdog (a $100 bet wins $140).
Mayweather arrived at about 11:30 a.m. on a big truck with his face and a big "World's Best Pound-for-Pound" sign scribbled across the vehicle. He was accompanied by his entourage made up of rappers and his training team.
A crowd of close to 3,000 eager fans packed the MGM Grand lobby, with their cameras in tow, all trying to vie for position to get a good angle at Mayweather, who is acknowledged as the world's best fighter pound-for-pound.
Eric Gomez, Golden Boy Promotions vice-president, described the fan turnout as "amazing" and swore he had never seen anything quite like this event.
"The crowd was fantastic. Everybody was just too eager to see the two fighters," said ALA manager Michael Aldeguer, who was among those who waited at the lobby together with his ward Rey "Boom Boom" Bautista and AJ Banal.
De La Hoya made his own grand entrance at the hotel lobby at around 12:30 p.m. accompanied by GBP chief executive officer Richard Schaefer and trainer Freddie Roach.
The same group of fans who trooped to see Mayweather also lingered around to get a close look at De La Hoya, who has been secretly working out at a Las Vegas gym for days after arriving from his main training camp in Puerto Rico.
The golden boy then took part in a closed-door afternoon workout with Bautista and Banal. The two, along with Aldeguer and wife Christine, as well as an HBO crew were the only ones allowed inside the gym.
De La Hoya and Mayweather take part in today's final press conference before the official weigh-in this Friday.
Ring Magazine, the acknowledged bible of boxing, reported in its June 2007 issue that 12 out of 20 boxing experts it interviewed have favored Mayweather to defeat De la Hoya, with only 8 favoring the latter.
But Filipino ring icon Manny Pacquiao said in a recent interview with The Freeman's Emmanuel Villaruel that De La Hoya will win by unanimous decision over Mayweather.
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