Texans Jersey. Hamels struck out nine in eight strong innings and Ryan Howard homered to lift the Philadelphia Phillies to a 2-0 win over the Dodgers on Wednesday night. Jets Greene Jersey. Louis Leblanc scored two goals on Thursday as Canada hammered Slovakia 9-1 in its final round robin game. That gave the Canadians a perfect 3-0 record at the tournament and advanced them to Saturdays gold medal game against Russia.Top-ranked Amelie Mauresmo will not finish the tennis season as the No. 1 player in the world. Martina Hingis 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 win over Nadia Petrova at the WTA Championships on Wednesday meant Justine Henin-Hardenne could not finish last in the Yellow Group, meaning the race for No. 1 was reduced to a two-woman battle. Henin-Hardenne sits atop the group with a single win, while Hingis and Petrova share a win and a loss, and Mauresmo sits on the bottom with a defeat. Mauresmo needed to defend her title, have No. 3 Henin-Hardenne finish last in the group, and see No. 2 Maria Sharapova fail to advance past the semifinals to retain the top ranking by a single point. Sharapova will finish No. 1 if she wins the championships and Henin-Hardenne loses in the semifinals or earlier. The Belgian will clinch her second year-end No. 1 if she reaches the final. Sharapova is poised to advance to the semifinals after beating Kim Clijsters 6-4, 6-4 to stay top of the Red Group. In the other Red Group match, Svetlana Kuznetsova handed Elena Dementieva her second defeat with a 7-5, 6-3 win in an all-Russian match. Sharapova has two wins to Kuznetsovas one, Clijsters has a single loss, and Dementieva two defeats. Kuznetsova can guarantee her and Sharapova a place in the semifinals should she beat Clijsters on Thursday. I think the quality of my tennis today was quite high, Sharapova said of her 10th straight win. I know that Ive played a lot of matches and I feel good about my game. U.S. Open champion Sharapova kept Clijsters deep behind her baseline and on the run throughout,, hitting crosscourt winners off both wings. Green Bay Packers Jersey Throwback Sharapova held her break in the fifth game to take the first set. After the 19-year-old Russian saved three break points in the fourth game of the second set, she took away the momentum from Clijsters, and broke the frustrated Belgium in the next game, which was mired in challenges that went against Clijsters. Sharapova broke Clijsters again in the seventh, but failed to hold for the first time in the match as Clijsters closed to 5-4. Sharapova saved a double-break point in the 10th before her fifth ace clinched the win. (My serve) is a big key, Sharapova said. And I felt like I was moving really well and no matter how big and deep her shots were I still felt like I was in position for them. And that just comes from playing a lot of matches. Kuznetsova took advantage of Dementievas erratic serve to take the first set with three breaks. Kuznetsova broke Dementieva with a forehand winner for 2-0 in the second, and took control after holding serve by saving four break points. Two-time winner Hingis stormed to a 4-1 lead against the fifth-ranked Petrova with a running forehand crosscourt pass, and eventually won the first set 6-4. Petrova, who beat top-ranked Mauresmo on Tuesday, broke Hingis in the sixth and eighth games on route to taking the second set. But 41 unforced errors cost the Russian, as in the deciding set Hingis broke in the sixth game and sealed the win with a forehand pass on her second match point. I wanted to come out here and at least win one after yesterdays loss, so Im very happy, Hingis said. ' ' '