European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 30, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday april 30 2007 stars and stripes 33 Labonte slips by Stewart at wire the associated press Talladega Ala Bobby Labonte pushed teammate Tony Stewart to the Lead then won with a dramatic pass in the last 200 Yards saturday in the Lascar Busch series race at Talladega us per Speedway Labonte a Sextel cup Driver came away with his 10th Busch Victory and first since 1998 beat ing Stewart a two time cup Cham Pion to the finish line by less than a car length in a race that came Down to a Greenhi Lechecker finish because of a late caution Casey Mears and Kevin har Vick were out front when debris from the battered car of Kasey Kahne brought out a caution Flag on Lap 115 three laps from the scheduled finish of Aarons 312 Lascar wave the Green Flag again for the overtime finish at the Start of Lap 119 and Labonte who restarted seventh moved in behind Stewart in fifth and the two Harvic owned Chevrolet worked in tandem shooting to the front both zoomed past Mears by the end of the first Green Flag Lap and Labonte just kept pushing Stew Art giving the two Lead cars a big margin Over Mears Labonte sided his time on the final Lap Noil an Birmingham news Butch Dillap Bobby Labonte 77 passes Tony Stewart 33 for the Lead As their cars approach the finish line in saturdays Lascar Busch series Aarons 312 at Talladega super Speedway in Talladega Ala Labonte won by inches around the 266niile Oval until he came off turn four at that Point he slipped up the banking and moved alongside Stewar with the cars nearly touching As they neared the Fin ish line Labonte nosed ahead his engine which was overheat ing badly on the final two laps after he banged into the rear of Harvick car blew As he crossed the finish line with steam wafting from under his Hood i just had a run on Tony la Bonte said i just stayed glued to his rear bumper this is Cool the motor just blew up it was pegged at 240 degrees the last two laps Stewart locked in controversy All week after skipping the pos Trace press conference following the cup race in Phoenix Cost ing him a Fine and then accusing Lascar on his radio show of calling unnecessary cautions was All smiles after losing to his longtime Joe Gibbs racing teammate on saturday thais an awesome finish Stewart said if it we rent for him we we rent going to get there anyway he pushed me for two Sohd laps to get there i have to admit i didst see him coming i was laughing when i looked Over there and saw him going by thais the most excited Ive Ever been by a second place finish Mears who wound up third was obviously disappointed after holding the Lead from Lap 97 we wanted to win that one bad and probably leading it want the Best place to be there at the end Mear said Rookie David Ragan finished fourth followed by Rookie Kyle Krisiloff Harvick and Rookie Juan Pablo Montoya who led Sev eral times in the race Dale Earnhardt or who appeared to have the strongest car in the Field at times wound up 29th after breaking his transmission on a restart on Lap 95 the race was marred by sever Al crashes including an eight car Melee on Lap 110 that brought out a 16minute red Flag to allow a track cleanup and a spectacular crash by Kyle Busch on Lap 27 Busch escaped injury when he was tapped from behind by Stew Art bounced off Mears hit the out Side Wall then skidded on his roof into the infield grass and bar re rolled before stopping on All four wheels no injuries were re ported Lascar trucks at Kansas City Kan Erik Darnell picked up his first career Lascar truck Victory saturday at Kansas Speed Way dominating the race and snapping Mike skinners three race winning Streak a Victory in the Oreilly Auto parts 250 would have been a be Rie record fourth in a Row for Skinner instead he settled for fifth Darnell who started 10th led 92 of 167 laps on the 15mile Tri angular Oval and beat Rick Craw Ford by 1044 seconds Jack Sprague was third Fol Lowed by Johnny Benson skin Ner Hornaday Bodine Aaron Fike Terry Cook and Matt Crafton Nadal wins at Barcelona Streak at 72 the associated press Barcelona Spain Rafael Nadal won his third straight open seat Godo championship sunday defeating guff Lermo Canas 63 64 for his 72nd consecutive match Victory on Clay Nadal Hast dropped a set since to ranked Roger Federer won the first set of their French open final last year Ufko wins first Sta title Budapest Hungary gise la Dulko of Argentina won her first Sta tour Titi sunday rally ing to beat Sora a Cirstea 67 62 62 in the final of the Gaz de France Budapest grand prix Dulko won four games in a Row to Start the second set her serve was broken in the opening game of the third set but she rebounded by winning four straight games to establish a 41 Lead austrian criticizes ban Vienna Austri an ski federations Legal expert has criticized the decision to ban six austrian athletes from the olympics for life following the doping scandal during the Turin Winter games the Cross country skiers and by athletes received the lifetime bans for involvement in an organized blood doping harshest sanctions Given to ath letes by the Ioc Karl Heinz Klee said the ath letes never committed a doping offence and that even if it was proven the world anti doping Agency code Calls Only for a two year ban for firs time offend ers if a doping offence by one of the now convicted athletes could actually be proven the Austri an ski federation has so far no documents to that effect a two year ban would be the High est possible punishment Klee said on the federations web site the Ioc said it found the ath letes guilty of possessing prohibited substances and taking part in a doping conspiracy based on mate rials seized by italian police Dur ing a raid on the athletes living quarters Klee argues the bans were imposed by a panel that never saw or heard testimony from the ath letes the Ioc invited athletes and team officials to hearings ear Lier this month in Lausanne Swit Zerland but no one came those invited were allowed to Send writ ten statements instead of appear ing in person Canadas Weber suspended my Ischi Russia Cana Das Shea Weber was suspended sunday for three matches in the hockey world championships for hitting German Forward Yann in Seidenberg in the head a Day earlier Weber a Nashville predators defens Eman was ejected into game after Elbow ing Seidenberg in the Chin Weber received a five minute major and a game misconduct he will miss the rest of Canadas preliminary round matches against Norway and Slovakia plus its first qualifying round game kenyans win marathons Rogers Rop won the Hamburg Marathon on sunday edging Wil Fred Kigen by just one second As kenyan runners filled the top six places Rop who won the Boston and new York marathons in 2002 surged past Kigen in the final meters after briefly losing the Lead to finish in 2 hours 7 min utes 32 seconds and better his personal Best by 2 seconds also on sunday Luke Kibet led a to three sweep for Kenya in the Vienna City Marathon Kibet finished in 2 hours 10 minutes 7 seconds 20 seconds ahead of James Mwangi and Abel Xirui Roundup englishman leads Nelson by one shot Ochoa rallies the associated press Irving Texas Luke Donald barely retained the Lead of the Byron Nelson Champion ship after a bogey at no 17 Donald made a Par saving putt on the closing Hole saturday to finish his Lith straight underpay round in the Nelson a 3under 67 that put him at 10under 200 with a on stroke Lead Over Scott ver Plank going into the final round Donald finally leading the Nel son after All his subpar rounds in the event had consecutive bogeys Early to fall behind by two strokes the englishman recovered with five birdies Over a Ighile stretch that were enough to put him Back ahead Donald ranked no 11 in the world has finished under Par in 17 of his 21 career rounds in the Nelson Over the last six tournaments Verplank shot 66 Michael Allen a 48yearold Journeyman who got into Thienel son by surviving a playoff in a qualifying event on monday was alone at 8 under after a bogey free 64 Ian Poulter 65 was 6 under Phil Mickelson 66 and Vijay Singh the Only players in the Field ranked in the worlds top 10 were in a group at 5 under with Ken Duke Ryuji Imada 67 and Fredrik Jacobson Lyga at Morelia Mexico Lorena Ochoa shot a 9under 64 to tie Julieta Granada and Silvia Cavalleri for the third round Lead in the Corona Morelia Champion ship the mexican stars first tournament As the no 1 player in the world a Day after falling five strokes behind with a 74 the 25yearold Ochoa had eight birdies and an Eagle against one bogey before thousands of fans who cheered her every move on the Hilly tres Marias course about 175 Miles from her native Guadalajara the 64 matched the Lyga tour record on the Jack Nick Lau designed course where Ochoa won last year Granada had a 67 and Cavalleri shot a 69 Granada a Young paraguayan who finished second to Ochoa last october at tres Marias birdied the final three holes Cavalleri the italian who started the Day tied for the Lead had six birdies against two bogeys to stay at the front of the pack european pea at Madrid Spain Carlos Rodiles shot a Sec Ond straight 6under 66 sunday to take a two shot Lead into the final round of the weather delayed Spanish open the spaniard had seven birdies and a bogey to total 14under 202 at the Centre Nacio Nal de Golf course Simon Dyson of England 66 was at 203 with Charl Schwartzel of South Africa 68 at 204 Jyoti Randhawa 66 of India and Stuart Little of England Fol Lowed at 206