Westwood Leads by Two After a 66 in South Africa

England’s Lee Westwood shot a six-under-par 66 Saturday to overtake leader Nick Price and grab a two-stroke lead at 13-under 203 after the third round of the Million Dollar Challenge at Sun City, South Africa.

Justin Leonard moved into second place with a 68 for a 205. Price had a 72 that included three bogeys and a double bogey.

Tiger Woods, the main attraction at the 7,597-yard Gary Player Country Club course, was in contention at 207 after a 67 that included half a dozen missed putts.

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Australia’s Stuart Appleby shot an even-par 72 in stiff winds and carried a one-stroke lead into the final round of the Australian Open at Adelaide. Appleby, the first-round leader, is a shot ahead of England’s Nick Faldo and Australia’s Greg Chalmers.

Australia’s Paul Gow, the second-round leader, bogeyed six of the first seven holes, had a 44 on the front nine and finished with an 85.

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The team of Rachel Hetherington and Rocco Mediate shot a nine-under 62 in best-ball play to take a two-stroke lead heading into the final round of modified alternate-stroke play in the JCPenney Classic at Palm Harbor, Fla.

Hetherington and Mediate are 23 under through 54 holes, two strokes ahead of Chris Johnson and Steve Lowery, who shot a 65.

Winter Sports

Tatyana Malinina, 25, of Uzbekistan, won the women’s singles title at the NHK Trophy international figure skating competition at Sapporo, Japan.

World champions Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze of Russia won the pairs, and Marina Anissina and Gwendal Peizerat of France won the ice dancing.

Germany’s Martin Schmitt benefited from double Olympic champion Kazuyoshi Funaki’s blunder in the second round of a ski jumping World Cup competition at Chamonix, France, to earn his third win in as many events this season.

Funaki opened with a 106 1/2-meter jump, a record for the 95-meter hill, but the Japanese skier reached a mere 88 meters on his second effort. Schmitt jumped 101 1/2 and 94 meters.

For the second day in a row, fog forced the cancellation of the men’s World Cup downhill at Whistler, Canada. Organizers hope to hold the race today and move the originally scheduled super-G to later in the season.

China’s Li Jiajun came from behind on the last lap to set a world record and win the 500-meter final in a short-track speedskating World Cup race at Beijing. Li’s time of 41.81 seconds surpassed the old mark of 41.938 seconds, set by Italian Nicola Franceschina in March.

Miscellany

In American Basketball League games: Sheri Sam scored 18 points and Jennifer Azzi had 16 as the San Jose Lasers defeated the Portland Power, 72-70, at San Jose; Cass Bauer scored 16 points, including four during a decisive third-quarter run, as the Philadelphia Rage beat the turnover-plagued Colorado Xplosion, 84-63, at Denver; and Michelle Marciniak had 22 points in 27 minutes as the Nashville Noise held off the visiting Chicago Condors, 80-78.

World Boxing Assn. welterweight champion James Page retained his title, rallying from a pair of knockdowns to score a unanimous 12-round decision over Jose Luis Lopez at Atlantic City, N.J.

D.C. United became the first U.S. team to win soccer’s InterAmerican Cup, as Eddie Pope and Tony Sanneh scored in a 2-0 second-leg victory over Brazilian club Vasco da Gama at Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

Megan Quann, 14, broke the U.S. record in the 200-meter breaststroke on the third and final night of the U.S. Swimming Open at College Station, Texas. Quann had a time of 2 minutes 25.52 seconds, breaking Kristine Quance’s 1993 mark of 2:25.84.

Jurisprudence

Randy A. Ferrara, 44, the football coach at Madison High in San Diego, was arrested on three counts of attempted child molestation after allegedly leaving notes offering to pay for sex around an elementary school in suburban El Cajon.

El Cajon police said Ferarra was arrested Friday after a 13-year-old boy identified his car as belonging to the man who approached him about sex.

San Diego school officials said Ferrara will be transferred to a job that does not include contact with students. Once he is criminally charged, which is expected to happen this week, Ferrara will be placed on unpaid leave, officials said.