In Brief

GOLF

Dufner overcomes late bogeys, leads Johnson by one stroke

Jason Dufner matched playing partner Zach Johnson's birdie putt on the 17th hole Saturday, then overcame a wayward final tee shot to save par and keep the lead at the Colonial in Fort Worth, Texas.

Slowed by two late bogeys, Dufner shot a 4-under-par 66 in the third round for a 15-under 195 total. That put him one stroke ahead of Johnson, who shot 65 to set up what basically could be a match-play final group today for the winner's plaid jacket. Tom Gillis was a distant third at 203 after a 69.

Dufner, the winner last week in the Byron Nelson Championship about 30 miles from Fort Worth, is trying to win for the third time in five weeks. The last player to win in consecutive weeks on the PGA Tour was Tiger Woods in 2009. Nobody won more than two tournaments last year.

Before winning at New Orleans on April 29, Dufner, 35, was winless in his previous 163 PGA Tour starts.

Johnson wore a plaid-collared shirt for the third round. The last of his seven tour victories came two years ago when he slipped on a plaid jacket at Colonial.

Also: Roger Chapman shot 7-under 64 to take a five-stroke lead after three rounds of the Senior PGA Championship in Benton Harbor, Mich. He is at 14-under 199.

Chapman's 54-hole score tied the tournament record set by Sam Snead in 1973, though Snead was 17 under when he set the mark.

John Cook began the round tied with Chapman for the lead, but couldn't keep pace with the Englishman and settled for a 69 to drop into second at 204.

Luke Donald moved to the brink of a second successive BMW PGA Championship title and reclaiming the top ranking by shooting a 3-under 69 to take a two-stroke lead after the third round at Virginia Water, England. He is at 11-under 205.

Donald overcame tough, windy conditions and was one of three players to break 70 on a day of high scoring that led course designer Ernie Els to criticize European Tour officials for the state of the greens. Donald needs to finish in the top eight to retake No. 1 from Rory McIlroy, who missed the cut for the second tournament in a row.

James Morrison started the day with a four-shot lead but made two 8s - one triple bogey and one quadruple bogey - on his way to an 81 to fall eight shots behind.

MISCELLANEOUS

Keselowski, Penske capture Nationwide race, eye sweep

Brad Keselowski won the NASCAR Nationwide Series event at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, N.C., leading the final 67 laps to give Penske Racing a winning start on auto racing's biggest weekend.

Keselowski raced to his first Nationwide victory of the year. He'll try to double up today in Sprint Cup's longest race of the season, the Coca-Cola 600. In between comes the Indianapolis 500, a race that owner Roger Penske's cars have won 15 times, and where Penske driver Ryan Briscoe will start from the pole.

Sprint Cup drivers took the top four spots. Denny Hamlin was second, followed by Kyle Busch and Kevin Harvick. Nationwide points leader Ricky Stenhouse Jr. had driveshaft problems and took 26th. Danica Patrick started third and finished 13th.

Also: UNLV senior Amanda Bingson set a meet record toss of 233 feet, 1 inch in the hammer throw at the NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Preliminary Championships in Austin, Texas. The Silverado High School product also set a Mountain West Conference record and qualified for the national meet from June 6 to 9 in Des Moines, Iowa.

Senior Brett Zorich also qualified for the national meet, running a personal-best 2 minutes, 5.39 seconds in the 800 meters.

Landon Donovan returned to the U.S. national soccer team after an eight-month absence and scored his first international hat trick in five years, leading the Americans over Scotland 5-1 in an exhibition game at Jacksonville, Fla. Donovan also set an American record with his 125th international start.

Carl Froch stopped Lucian Bute in the fifth round in his hometown of Nottingham, England, to win the IBF super middleweight title. Bute (30-1) had held the title since 2007 before getting knocked out by Froch (29-2, 20 KOs).

Harvard won the 147th Harvard-Yale Regatta in New London, Conn., completing the four-mile downstream race on the Thames River in 19 minutes, 41.3 seconds. Yale finished in 19:51.2. Harvard is 93-54 in the nation's oldest intercollegiate sporting event, winning 12 of the past 13 matchups.

In-state rivals Maryland and Loyola advanced to Monday's NCAA men's lacrosse title game in Foxborough, Mass. The unseeded Terrapins (12-5), last year's national runners-up, defeated Duke 16-10, and the No. 1-seeded Greyhounds (17-1) beat Notre Dame, 7-5.