In brief

GOLF

Torrid front nine gives Wie three-shot lead in LPGA event

Michelle Wie shot 7-under-par 64 Saturday -- playing her first nine holes in a blazing 7-under 28 -- to take the lead through two rounds of the Northwest Arkansas Championship in Rogers, Ark.

Wie, trying for her second straight victory, had the lowest nine-hole score on the LPGA Tour this year. She had a 10-under 132 total, three strokes ahead of Juli Inkster (66), Yani Tseng (68) and Na Yeon Choi (68).

Wie started her round on No. 10 and birdied five of her first seven holes. She then made an uphill putt of about 35 feet on No. 18 for an eagle on the 515-yard par 5.

She made a tap-in birdie on No. 2 to move to 8 under on the day through 11 holes, but she slowed a bit after that and will have to contend with several players today as she tries to follow up on her win late last month at the Canadian Women's Open.

Also: Fred Funk shot 5-under 67 to take the lead at the rain-soaked Posco E&C Songdo Championship in Incheon, South Korea, the Champions Tour's first event in Asia. Funk sank a 12-foot putt on the par-5 18th hole for his fifth birdie of the day and stands at 8-under 136.

Tom Pernice Jr., Russ Cochran and John Cook were two shots behind in a three-way split for second at 138.

PGA Championship winner Martin Kaymer shot 4-under 66 to take a one-shot lead after the third round of the KLM Open in Hilversum, Netherlands.

The German stood at 10-under 200. Paraguay's Fabrizio Zanotti shot 65 for the lowest score of the round and was tied for second with Sweden's Christian Nilsson (68) at 201.

COLLEGES

Penn State women's volleyball has win streak snapped at 109

It had been nearly three years and 109 matches since the Penn State women's volleyball team had lost a match.

Now the second-longest winning streak in Division I team sports is over after the Nittany Lions fell to Stanford 28-26, 25-12, 25-18 at a tournament in Gainesville, Fla.

During its historic run, Penn State won three straight national championships and lost just 19 sets. The Nittany Lions (7-1) won a record-breaking 111 straight sets from the final set of the 2007 national championship match against Stanford to the third set of the 2008 national semifinal against Nebraska.

Only the Miami men's tennis program had a longer win streak, claiming 137 straight matches from 1957 to 1964.

Also: The UNLV volleyball team was dealt a pair of three-game sweeps, losing to Pepperdine and Cal State Fullerton to close out the UNLV Invitational at Cox Pavilion.

UNLV fell to Pepperdine 25-19, 25-18, 25-14, with the Waves riding a kill margin of 49-26. Sara Nehf paced the Rebels (3-5) with eight kills.

Nehf also led the Rebels against Fullerton with 12 kills, but the Titans posted a 25-20, 25-16, 25-17 victory.

MISCELLANEOUS

Former champ Judah to face Matthysse in November bout

Former welterweight champion Zab Judah will return to the ring Nov. 6 when he faces Lucas Matthysse at the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J.

Judah (39-6, 27 knockouts) will be a significant step up in class for Matthysse (27-0, 25 KOs). The 27-year-old's best win came against Vivian Harris in February.

Judah has won three straight fights, including an impressive second-round knockout of Ubaldo Hernandez and an even more emphatic third-round knockout of Jose Armando Santa Cruz in July.

Also: Steve Molitor (33-1) retained his IBF super bantamweight title with a majority decision against English challenger Jason Booth (35-6) in Sunderland, England.

Molitor, who beat Booth's brother Nicky in 2002, was favored by two judges 116-113 and 116-112, while the third called it even.

Manchester United conceded two stoppage-time goals to draw 3-3 at Everton, and Chelsea maintained a perfect start to its title defense by beating West Ham 3-1 in the English Premier League.

United led 3-1 in Liverpool in the 90th minute, even without Wayne Rooney, who was given a day off against his former team amid newspaper reports about his private life. But Tim Cahill sparked Everton's comeback with a headed goal, and Mikel Arteta had time to score an equalizer.

In London, Chelsea won its fourth straight with little resistance at West Ham, which is still without a point after four matches.

Ferrari's Fernando Alonso took the pole at the Italian Grand Prix in Monza, Italy, as the two-time world champion turned a lap of 1 minute, 21.962 seconds for the Formula One race.

Lewis Hamilton, the points leader, will start fifth.