THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. — Anthony Kim matched the best score of the week with a 5-under-par 67, taking a one-shot lead when Jim Furyk found the water and made a double bogey on the 18th hole at the Chevron World Challenge on Saturday.
Kim was worried about rust coming off a five-week break, but his putter worked just fine in making six birdies. He was at 8-under 208.
Furyk (70) made back-to-back birdies to regain the lead, but from a tough stance in the rough, his approach came up well short and into the pond in front of the 18th green.
Vijay Singh chipped in for eagle on the par-3 13th and added two birdies late for a 67 that put him in the group at 6-under 210 with Steve Stricker (68) and Camilo Villegas (69).
• Lee Westwood shot a 4-under 68 to take a two-stroke lead after the third round of the South African Open Championship in Paarl.
Penn State wins volleyball title
OMAHA — Megan Hodge had 16 kills and Penn State capped its perfect season with a second straight NCAA volleyball crown, sweeping Stanford 25-20, 26-24, 25-23.
Penn State (38-0) won its NCAA-record 64th straight match since a September 2007 loss to Stanford (31-4).
Rhoads to coach Cyclones
DES MOINES, Iowa — Iowa State hired Paul Rhoads as its football coach, giving the Auburn defensive coordinator and former Cyclones assistant a five-year deal worth $5.75 million.
Rhoads spent last season with the Tigers after serving as Pittsburgh’s defensive coordinator from 2000 to 2007. He was an assistant with the Cyclones under Dan McCarney from 1995 to 1999.
Former Cyclones coach Gene Chizik was introduced as Auburn’s head coach Monday.
Demong triumphs
RAMSAU, Austria — American Bill Demong won a Nordic combined event for his first World Cup title of the season and fourth overall.
The 28-year-old from Vermontville, N.Y., was second with a 92.5-meter jump and finished the 10-kilometer freestyle cross country ski race in 25 minutes, 59.4 seconds to beat Germany’s Bjorn Kircheisen by 28.3 seconds.
Footnotes.
A late crash by Apolo Anton Ohno allowed Travis Jayner to win the 500-meter final at the U.S Short Track Speedskating Championship in Chesterfield, Mo. Kimberly Derrick captured a smoothly run women’s final.
• Ola Vigen Hattestad won his third World Cup cross country sprint race in Duesseldorf, Germany, in three starts this season and took the overall lead in the standings. In the women’s sprint, Petra Majdic of Slovenia got her third win of the season.
• Simon Ammann of Switzerland won a ski jump in his home country, his fourth victory in six World Cup events this season.
• Lars Berger led a 1-2 Norwegian finish in the men’s 10-kilometer sprint biathlon event in Hochfilzen, Austria, while Svetlana Sleptsova of Russia won the women’s 7.5K race for her first win of the season.
