Cink takes charge at Travelers Championship

Stewart Cink moved to the top of the Travelers Championship leaderboard Friday at Cromwell, Conn., making two long eagle putts in a six-under-par 64 that left him a stroke ahead of defending champion Hunter Mahan and two others.

Cink, who is at 10-under 130, is seeking his first victory of the season after six top-10 finishes.

Cink, who began the day at four under, bogeyed the first two holes. He got one back with a birdie at the third before making a 26-foot putt for eagle on the par-five sixth. He bettered that shot by curling in a 49-foot right-to-left eagle putt on the 13th.

Mahan shot a 63, the best round of the day, to join Ken Duke and Lucas Glover at nine under. Duke and Glover shot 66s.

Morgan Pressel shot a seven-under 65 to take a one-stroke lead over Suzann Pettersen midway through the Wegmans LPGA at Rochester, N.Y. She is at 10-under 134. Pettersen chipped in for birdie on No. 9 -- her last hole -- to match Pressel’s 65 and get to nine under.

Tom Kite matched the course record with a nine-under 63 to take the first-round lead in the Bank of America Championship at Nashawtuc Country Club in Concord, Mass. Kite, who matched Allen Doyle’s tournament record set in 2003, played the front nine in six-under 30.

UCLA star Tiffany Joh moved to within a match of her second U.S. Women’s Amateur Public Links Championship in three years, winning twice at Erin, Wis., to advance to the 36-hole final. She beat Lee Lopez of Whittier, 2 and 1, in the quarterfinals, then edged Tiffany Lua of Rowland Heights, 4 and 3, in the semifinals. . . . Austin Roberts of Carmichael and Nick Delio of Valencia each won two matches to advance to today’s 36-hole final for the California Amateur Championship at Lakeside Golf Club in Toluca Lake.

TENNIS

Federer, Djokovic are in same half of draw

Top-ranked Roger Federer could face third-ranked Novak Djokovic in the semifinals en route to a bid for a sixth consecutive Wimbledon title.

Djokovic, the Australian Open champion, was drawn into Federer’s half of the bracket for the grand slam tournament that begins Monday.

Second-ranked Rafael Nadal, who lost to Federer in the last two finals, is in the other half of the draw.

Top-seeded David Ferrer defeated Juan Martin Del Potro, 7-6 (4), 6-1, to set up a final against Marc Gicquel in the Ordina Open at Den Bosch, Netherlands. Gicquel beat seventh-seeded Guillermo Canas, 3-6, 6-0, 6-4.

In the women’s draw, French Open finalist Dinara Safina upset top-seeded Elena Dementieva, 6-3, 6-2, and will play for the title against qualifier Tamarine Tanasugarn, who defeated Alona Bondarenko, 6-2, 6-4.

Fourth-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska upset second-seeded Marion Bartoli, 7-5, 6-3, to reach the final of the Eastbourne International in England. She will play eighth-seeded Nadia Petrova, who beat Samantha Stosur, 6-3, 6-3.

MOTOR RACING

Benson wins trucks race at Milwaukee

After weathering a brief delay for lightning, Johnny Benson sped away to win the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race at the Milwaukee Mile in West Allis, Wis.

After a delay of just over 25 minutes and a few laps under caution, the race resumed with 46 laps to go and Benson in the lead, followed by Matt Crafton and Landon Cassill. But neither could challenge Benson’s Toyota the rest of the way.

COLLEGE BASEBALL

Ninth-inning slam lifts North Carolina

Tim Federowicz’s grand slam in the top of the ninth inning sent North Carolina to a 7-3 victory over Louisiana State in a College World Series elimination game disrupted twice by rain in two days at Omaha. The Tar Heels (53-13) moved to the Bracket 1 final today against Fresno State (44-29).

MISCELLANY

Dumais takes big lead at U.S. diving trials

Troy Dumais put on a dominating display in the semifinals of the three-meter springboard at the U.S. Olympic diving trials at Indianapolis. He scored perfect 10s on three of his six dives to build a commanding lead with 1,038.30 points. Chris Colwill was second at 961.00.

Jamie Bestwick won the BMX Vert event in the AST Dew Tour’s season-opening Panasonic Open at Baltimore. He sealed the victory with an alley-oop in his first run, which earned him a 96.00 score. Chad Kagy of Gilroy, Calif., was second at 93.17.

John Anderson has been hired as coach of the Atlanta Thrashers. He takes over from General Manager Don Waddell, who served as interim coach after firing Bob Hartley early last season.

The Phoenix Suns hired Alvin Gentry, Bill Cartwright, Dan Majerle and Igor Kokoskov as assistant coaches to Terry Porter.

A news conference for the June 28 World Boxing Council lightweight title bout at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas between champion David Diaz and Manny Pacquiao will be held Monday at 2 p.m. at Marisol Mexican Restaurant on the Santa Monica Pier. It is open to the public.