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ROGERS, Ark. -- Stacy Lewis made a 7-foot birdie putt on the final hole Sunday in the NW Arkansas Championship to finally win an official event in her adopted state. The top-ranked Lewis, the Texan who played at the nearby University of Arkansas, earned an unofficial win in the rain-shortened 2007 tournament as an amateur. On Sunday, she closed with a 6-under 65 for a one-stroke victory. Lewis birdied three of her final holes for her third LPGA Tour victory of the year and 11th overall. She finished at 12-under 201 at Pinnacle Country Club. Lydia Ko, Cristie Kerr and Angela Stanford tied for second. Ko finished with a 65, and Kerr and Stanford shot 67. Second-round leader Michelle Wie shot a 73 to tie for eighth at 8 under. Kerr had a chance to match Lewis at 12 under with a 30-foot birdie putt on the 18th. However, her putt came up short. Then, after So Yeon Ryu failed to make an eagle on the final hole, Lewis win was secured. Ryu ended up fifth at 10 under after a 69. Lewis won the Shoprite Classic this month as well as the North Texas Shootout in May. The two-time major winner has long said, though, how much pressure she felt to win in Arkansas -- where she was a four-time All-American in college and is greeted throughout rounds by calls of "Woo Pig Sooie." She was tied for the lead entering the final round last year before finishing in a tie for fourth, but her final birdie spree finally secured her sought-after win Sunday. Wie began the final round with a two-shot lead after back-to-back 5-under 66s, but she missed short birdie putts on the first two holes and struggled to a 1-over front nine -- capped by a three-putt bogey on the ninth. The whirlwind media tour following last weeks win at the U.S. Womens Open appeared to finally catch up after that with Wie, who followed with bogeys on Nos. 10 and 11 to effectively end her contention. She finished with 35 putts after needing 28 the first round and 29 in the second. With Wie coming back to the field, several players climbed up the leaderboard and into contention on the back nine -- with Lewis, Ko, Kerr and Stanford part of a four-way tie atop the leaderboard at one point. Lewis began the tournament 2 over after her first four holes Friday, but she closed by shooting 14 under over her final 68 holes. She took advantage of the opening with Wies stumble and vaulted into the solo lead at 11 under with a birdie on the par-4 16th. Ko and Kerr answered with birdies to climb back to part of a three-way tie at 11 under, but Lewis had the last answer -- a 7-foot left-to-right birdie putt on No. 18 that resulted in a huge ovation from the pro-Arkansas gallery and a fist pump and sigh of relief from Lewis. Lewis putted 25 times Sunday, a day after needing only 24 putts in the second round. Chella Choi briefly was tied for the lead early in the round after a hole-in-one on the 166-yard par-3 sixth hole. She finished with a 69 to tie for sixth at 9 under. 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With one penalty, Fourcade finished in 24 minutes, 58.2 seconds, just nine-tenths of a second ahead of Timofey Lapshin, who shot clean in the cold.Thumbs down to the fact Sidney Crosby will not play for the Pittsburgh Penguins in Tuesday nights game against the Winnipeg Jets, which happens to be Sidney Crosby Bobblehead Night. Im not sure if its thumbs down to Crosby or thumbs down to the NHL, but either way, it is not right that Crosby will sit out on Tuesday, suspended by the NHL, as it were. The reasoning goes that if Crosby could start and finish Wednesdays game against Chicago, he should suit up for Team Toews or Team Foligno in Sundays All-Star Game and, by not doing so, he disrespects the NHL and Team Pittsburgh, which needs him in the lineup against the Jets. On the other hand, there is room to accuse the league of disrespecting Crosby and of carrying its annoyance with All-Star no-shows too far by applying an ill-conceived rule. How important is it for Crosby to play in Columbus today? Obviously, contrary to NHL thinking, its not as important as it is for him to play in Pittsburgh on Tuesday. Both he and the league should realize that, and its too bad they wouldnt or couldnt do something about it. -- Some might say thumbs down to the World Cup of Hockey because its not the Olympics. I will say thumbs up to the World Cup of Hockey, if it winds up replacing the Olympics. Confused? Lets start with the widely-held view, among fans and players alike, that the place for thee worlds biggest international hockey event is the Olympic Games.dddddddddddd It is hoped that NHL participation in the Olympic hockey tournament will continue in South Korea in 2018. If it does, and if this is determined between now and the start of the 2016 World Cup, the event in Toronto will be viewed accordingly. Itll be interesting, potentially exciting, quite gimmicky with the inclusion of two teams that wont be representing single nations, and it will obviously be well attended. But it wont be the Olympics. Conversely, if the NHL and the NHLPA decide to skip the next Olympics, and maybe others to follow, the World Cup becomes the best and only place to watch the top players in an international setting and a World Cup win will amount to international hockey supremacy. In saying that, it is necessary to react to the possibility, slim, though it may be, of a World Cup win by a team of European or young North American all-stars. That would satisfy no one apart from the members of the championship team if the 2018 Olympics were off the NHL calendar. It would be more acceptable, once the surprise wore off, if the bigger and more important event were to follow at the Olympics two years later. Thus, I reserve final judgment on the full worth of the World Cup until a decision is reached on future NHL Olympic involvement. ' ' '