Brian Davis shares Colonial lead with Bryce Molder

Brian Davis and Bryce Molder shared a one-shot lead entering the final round of the Colonial at Fort Worth, each hoping it will end with a first U.S. PGA Tour title.

Davis had his second consecutive bogey-free 65 Saturday, and Molder, the second-round leader, shot 67 to put them both at 16-under 194.

The closest Davis has come to winning was last month at Hilton Head Island, S.C., when he got into a playoff with Jim Furyk and then called a two-stroke penalty on himself on the extra hole. The 35-year-old Englishman had missed the cut in his last three tournaments.

Molder has four top-10 finishes this season and he has one professional victory since leaving Georgia Tech in 2001 — on the Nationwide Tour in 2006.

There are 17 players at 11 under or better going into the final round.

Zach Johnson (64) was a stroke behind the leaders. Ben Crane (64) joined first-round leaders Jeff Overton (66) and Jason Bohn (68) in a tie for fourth at 14 under.

Jay Don Blake shot a two-under 70 to take a share of the 54-hole lead with Tom Lehman at the Senior PGA Championship at Parker, Colo., the senior tour’s oldest and most prestigious event.

Lehman fired a 71 through swirling winds that add to the adversity facing golfers at the 3-year-old Colorado Golf Club course co-designed by Ben Crenshaw, a 7,450-foot monster that cuts through meadows, wooded hillsides and streams.

Fred Couples, who led entering the weekend, faltered with a score of 75 but was still just two shots off the pace, along with Mark O’Meara (67) and Mike Goodes (70).

BOXING

Vitali Klitschko retains title

Vitali Klitschko of Ukraine retained his WBC heavyweight championship belt with a 10th-round knockout of Albert Sosnowski of Poland at Gelsenkirchen, Germany.

Klitschko improved his record to 42-2 (38 KOs) after the referee called the 12-round bout following a left-right combination to Sosnowski’s head at the 2-minute 30-second mark of the 10th round.

The Warsaw native, looking to become the first Polish heavyweight world champion, was gradually worn down by the taller and heavier Klitschko and dropped to 45-2-2 (27 KOs).

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Kyle Busch wins at Charlotte

Kyle Busch overcame early troubles to win the Nationwide Series race at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, N.C., his second straight victory in NASCAR’s second-tier series.

Busch, the defending series champion, battled back for his fifth win of the season. He has won four of the last eight events.

Brad Keselowski finished second, followed by Joey Logano, Justin Allgaier, Ryan Newman and Kevin Harvick.

Heavy favorite Tuscan Evening took the lead at the top of the stretch and held off a charge from Forever Together for her first Grade I victory in the $250,000 Gamely Stakes for fillies and mares at Hollywood Park.

University of Kentucky spokesman DeWayne Peevy said former basketball star Eric Bledsoe passed an extensive review process by the NCAA before joining the Wildcats. The statement came after a report in the New York Times that said the NCAA is looking into questions about Bledsoe’s academic history and recruitment.

Garrett Wittels used a headfirst slide to keep his hitting streak alive. It helped extend Florida International’s season as well.

Wittels pushed his hitting streak to 53 games, five away from Robin Ventura’s NCAA Division I record, with an infield single Saturday in the eighth inning of FIU’s game against Florida Atlantic in the Sun Belt Conference tournament at Murfreesboro, Tenn.

FIU wound up getting four runs in the eighth, winning the game, 11-9, and clinching a spot in Sunday’s title game with a guaranteed spot in the NCAA tournament at stake.