Posted on Fri, Oct. 02, 2009

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HOCKEY

Alex Ovechkin had two goals and an assist, and Jose Theodore stopped 19 shots to lead the Washington Capitals to a 4-1 victory over the Boston Bruins on Thursday night in the season-opener. Brooks Laich added two goals and an assist, Nicklas Backstrom had three assists, and Alexander Semin had two for Washington, which had not won in Boston in regulation in 14 tries since 2000.... Montreal defenseman Josh Gorges scored with only 12.8 seconds left on the overtime clock, and Carey Price made 43 saves in the Canadiens' 4-3 victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs.

GOLF

Lonnie Nielson shot a 5-under 65 to take a one-stroke lead over Tom Watson and Jay Haas in the Senior Players Championship in Timonium, Md., the last of the Champions Tour's five majors tournaments.

* Scotland's Janice Moodie shot a bogey-free 8-under 64 to take a one-stroke lead over 14-year-old Alexis Thompson in the Navistar LPGA Classic, with Michelle Wie and top-ranked Lorena Ochoa two strokes back at Prattville, Ala.

Moodie, a two-time winner on the LPGA Tour, played her final nine holes — the front nine on The Senator course at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail's Capitol Hill complex, in 6-under 30. She birdied her final four holes and six of her last seven.

* Rookie Leif Olson and Tim Petrovic shot 6-under 66s in rainy and cold conditions to share the first-round lead in the Turning Stone Resort Championship in Verona, N.Y., the first event of the five-tournament Fall Series.

* Denmark's Thomas Bjorn shot an 8-under 64 at Kingsbarns to take a two-stroke lead in the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship in St. Andrews, Scotland.

BASKETBALL

Tamika Catchings fell one rebound shy of the first triple-double in WNBA Finals history and the Indiana Fever beat the Phoenix Mercury 93-84 in Phoenix on to square the best-of-five series 1-1.

Catchings had 19 points, 11 assists and nine rebounds to help the Fever steal homecourt advantage in the series with the next two games in Indianapolis, beginning with Game 3 on Sunday.

The WNBA defensive player of the year for the third time, Catchings also harassed league MVP Diana Taurasi into a 7-for-22 shooting night. Taurasi finished with 20 points.

The cold-shooting Mercury were without supersub Penny Taylor most of the second half. The Aussie, who scored all 14 of her points in the first half, left with a cut lip with 3:33 to play in the third quarter.

* Celtics forward Bill Walker is expected to miss 6 to 8 weeks after surgery on his right knee. Walker, who was drafted out of Kansas State, also had surgery on the knee last year.

Celtics coach Doc Rivers said Thursday that the former Kansas State standout has a torn meniscus and that he will have an operation today.

Walker averaged three points in 29 games last year with the Celtics. He also averaged 18.9 points and 5.3 rebounds in the development league.

* The Washington Wizards say Gilbert Arenas has missed scrimmages at training camp because of a finger injury — not because of any problems with his surgically repaired left knee. Arenas sat out a scrimmage for the second consecutive day Thursday, although he did participate in drills.

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