• Stewart wins at New Hampshire • Jason Bohn wins B.C. Open in record fashion • Rookie wins Canadian Women’s Open Stewart wins at New Hampshire LOUDON, N.H. — Tony Stewart won for the third time in four races, passing
• Stewart wins at New Hampshire
• Jason Bohn wins B.C. Open in record fashion
• Rookie wins Canadian Women’s Open
Stewart wins at New Hampshire
LOUDON, N.H. — Tony Stewart won for the third time in four races, passing at will inside and outside in a dominant performance Sunday at New Hampshire International Speed-way.
The win in the New England 300 was his third this season, second on this track and 22nd of Stewart’s career. He also won in Sonoma, Calif., and Daytona Beach, Fla., and has posted finishes of second and fifth in his last five starts.
Stewart began a run of dominance after passing Ryan Newman on the 51st lap. Kurt Busch, trying to become the only driver to win three times on the track after sweeping the races last year, got by with 60 laps to go. But Stewart reclaimed the lead after they banged twice five laps later.
The most defining moment of the race came when Stewart moved from fourth to second on lap 68 by passing Rusty Wallace on the outside and cutting inside rookie Kyle Busch just a few hundred feet later.
Race leader Scott Wimmer nearly became Stewart’s third conquest of the lap. Wimmer barely kept the lead at the line, then Stewart went by less than a half-lap later.
His Joe Gibbs Racing Chevrolet led 232 of 300 laps and beat the Ford of Kurt Busch by 0.851 seconds on The Magic Mile. It was the eighth top-10 finish in the last 11 races for Stewart, third in the NASCAR Nextel Cup standings.
Jason Bohn wins B.C. Open in record fashion
ENDICOTT, N.Y. — Jason Bohn won his first PGA Tour event, closing with a second straight 6-under 66 for a one-stroke victory and a tournament record total at the B.C. Open on Sunday.
After driving into the right trees at No. 18, Bohn salvaged par with a 7-foot putt to finish with a 24-under 264. The 32-year-old Bohn won $540,000 in becoming the 13th player to make this tournament his first triumph.
Bohn, in only his second year on tour, had six birdies in a bogey-free round and edged J.P. Hayes (66), John Rollins (66), Ryan Palmer (67) and Australian rookie Brendan Jones (68). Jones, who held a one-shot lead entering the day, rallied with four straight birdies on the back nine but his erratic play early cost him a shot at the title.
Rookie wins Canadian Women’s Open
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia — Meena Lee became the LPGA Tour’s record-tying fourth straight first-time winner Sunday, closing with a 3-under 69 for a one-stroke victory over playing partner Katherine Hull in the Canadian Women’s Open.
The 23-year-old South Korean came close to winning twice earlier this season before breaking through on the picturesque Glen Arbour course.
Lee tied for second in the LPGA Corning Classic in late May and also finished second two weeks ago in the HSBC Women’s World Match Play Championship. She closed with a double bogey to finish two strokes behind Jimin Kang in Corning, and lost 1-up to Marisa Baena in the match-play final in New Jersey.
Lee finished at 9-under 279 and earned $195,000 to jump from 13th to seventh on the money list with $643,933. The top player on the money list in the field, she opened with rounds of 73, 68 and 69.
Janice Moodie, the leader after each of the first three rounds, needed a birdie on the par-5 18th to force a playoff, but three-putted for a double bogey.
Hull, a 23-year-old Australian who starred at Pepperdine, also closed with a 69 for the best finish of her short career.
