Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/09/14
By: Tony Liao and Evelyn Kao

Taipei, Sept. 14 (CNA) Taiwan’s Wei-Yin Chen picked up his ninth win of the season for the Baltimore Orioles with an impressive start against the Kansas City Royals at Camden Yards on Sunday.

The Orioles left-hander Chen went seven innings in the 8-2 victory, giving up two runs on six hits and retiring 15 of the last 17 batters he faced.

Chen struck out two and didn’t issue a free pass in the game and his only difficult inning was the second.

After retiring the first two hitters, Chen yielded consecutive doubles to Salvador Perez and Alex Rios and a single to Alcides Escobar that produced the Royals’ only two runs of the game.     [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/09/14
By: Lee Chin-wei and Y.F. Low

Taipei, Sept. 14 (CNA) The Taipei Marathon, previously known as the Taipei Fubon Marathon, is now open for online registration, with the number of runners limited to 27,000, the organizers announced Monday.

If more than 27,000 people register, participation will be decided by drawing lots, according to the Taipei City Department of Sports.

It is the first time that the drawing of lots has been introduced as means of selecting runners for the annual marathon.

Another change this year is that the event has been renamed the Taipei Marathon as it no longer has a naming rights sponsor, which used to be Fubon Financial Holdings Co.(富邦金控)     [FULL  STORY]

Want China Times
Date: 2015-09-14
By: CNA

Taiwan clinched a recurve women’s team gold medal at an Archery World Cup event in

The Taiwan team take the field in Medellin. (Photo courtesy of worldarchery.org)

Medellin, Colombia on Saturday with a dramatic victory over a somewhat diminished but still powerful South Korean team.

Seeded second after qualifying, the Taiwanese team of Tan Ya-ting, Le Chien-ying and Hsiung Mei-chien won close encounters over India and Mexico in earlier rounds to reach the final against the perennial powerhouse in the sport.

Taiwan would not face the top Korean archers because the country’s official national archery team was in Rio de Janeiro to prepare for an Olympic test event, but two of the members on the Korean team in the Medellin final were still good enough to finish first and second in the women’s individual event.

Taiwan lost the first set 57-55 (with each set consisting of six arrows with a maximum score of 10 per shot) but rebounded to take the next two sets, 55-53 and 56-53, to take a 4-2 lead heading into the decisive set of the first-to-five-points match.     [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/09/13
By: Luke Sabatier

Taipei, Sept. 13 (CNA) Taiwan’s Teresa Lu (盧曉晴) survived an adventurous final five

NAGASAKI, JAPAN – SEPTEMBER 13: Teresa Lu of Taiwan lifts the winner’s trophy during a ceremony following the 48th LPGA Championship Konica Minolta Cup 2015 at the Passage Kinkai Island Golf Club on September 13, 2015 in Nagasaki, Japan. (Photo by Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images)

holes to capture the Japan LPGA Championship Konica Minolta Cup in Nagasaki on Sunday and secure the third major title of her career on the Japan women’s golf tour.

Lu fired a 1-under 71 — one of only four under-par rounds carded by the 61-player field on Sunday — to give her a four-round score of 7-under 281 for a two-shot victory over Miki Sakai and Momoko Ueda of Japan.

“The last day is always difficult, and today the course was playing tough, and it put a lot of pressure on the players,” she said. “I knew that if I could make pars, I would have a shot (at winning).”

And that she did, making 12 pars in her first 13 holes along with a birdie on the par-5 ninth. But her round started to get interesting at the par-4 14th.     [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/09/13
By: Lee Chin-wei, Luke Sabatier and Evelyn Kao

Taipei, Sept. 13 (CNA) Taiwan clinched a recurve women’s team gold medal at an Archery World Cup event in Medellin, Colombia on Saturday with a dramatic victory over a somewhat diminished but still powerful South Korean team.

Seeded second after qualifying, the Taiwanese team consisting of Tan Ya-ting (譚雅婷), Le Chien-ying (雷千瑩) and Hsiung Mei-chien (熊梅茜) won close encounters over India and Mexico in earlier rounds to reach the final against the perennial powerhouse in the sport.

Taiwan would not face the top Korean archers because the official Korean national archery team was in Rio de Janeiro to prepare for an Olympic test event, but two of the members on the Korean team in the Medellin final were still good enough to finish first and second in the women’s individual event.     [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/09/12
By: Lee Ching-wei and Lilian Wu

Taipei, Sept. 12 (CNA) Four Taiwanese golfers were among 77 players who made the cut

Candie Kung/CNA file photo

at the US$3.25 million Evian Championship in France on Friday, but they failed to make moves up the leaderboard on Saturday.

Lee Min (李旻), Candie Kung (龔怡萍), and Hsu Wei-ling (徐薇淩), who play regularly on the U.S. LPGA Tour, and Cheng Ssu-chia (程思嘉), a regular on the European Ladies Tour, all made the cut after the second round, with Lee and Kung tied for 23rd at even par.

On Saturday, Kung shot an even-par 71 to remain at even par for the tournament, but with many players in the top half of the leaderboard shooting subpar rounds, she fell back in the standings and was temporarily tied for 29th with several players still on the course.

The often inconsistent Lee had a wild ride in the third round with an eagle, four birdies, five bogeys and a double bogey to card a 1-over-par 72, pushing her out of the top 30.

Cheng, who started the day tied for 57th at 4 over par, started disastrously with a double bogey on the par-4 first hole.     [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/09/12
By: Lilan Wu

Taipei, Sept. 12 (CNA) Taiwanese golfer Teresa Lu (盧曉晴) was heading into the final day

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of one of three majors on the LPGA of Japan Tour with a share of the lead after shooting a steady 2-under 70 in Saturday’s third round.

Lu, currently ranked second on the LPGA of Japan’s money list, was at 6-under 210, tied with Momoko Ueda at the 140 million yen (NT$37.8 million) Japan LPGA Championship Konica Minolta Cup in Nagasaki.

They held a two-shot lead over their nearest pursuers, Bo-Mee Lee of South Korea and Miki Sakai of Japan.

The 27-year-old Taiwanese hoped to continue her luck after a bogey-free 67 on Friday, but could only manage four birdies and two bogeys on the day.

Ueda’s name at the top of the leaderboard was the day’s surprise. She shot a stunning 8-under 64 Saturday that including an eagle on the par-5 ninth and four consecutive birdies to finish the round.     [FULL  STORY]

Taipei Times
Date: Sep 13, 2015
By: Paul Huang  /  Contributing reporter

The Chinatrust Brothers avenged an embarrassing loss to the EDA Rhinos on Friday night,

Uni-President Lions pitcher Chen Yun-wen reacts during their game against the Lamigo Monkeys at the Tainan Municipal Baseball Stadium last night. Photo: Huang Chih-yuan, Taipei Times

edging their foes in a 5-4 thriller at the Taichung Intercontinental Baseball Stadium last night to even the weekend series at one win apiece.

Chen Hung-wen came out of the bullpen with two outs and the tying run on base in the top of the eighth for the Brothers — after the Rhinos had scored three straight to make it 5-4 — and struck out the next batter he faced to end the Rhinos’ scoring threat.

He followed that up with a brilliant one-two-three ninth to preserve the win for the league leaders.

“It was a big win for us, especially with a hot team like [the Rhinos]; [Chen] really bailed us out in the end,” Brothers manager Wu Fu-lien said after the game.

His troops needed a big outing from Chen and got just that from the ace closer to avenge Friday night’s 17-1 loss.     [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/09/12
By: Lin Hung-han and Elaine Hou

Taipei, Sept. 12 (CNA) Chen Shih-chieh (陳士杰) of Taiwan won gold in the men’s over

(CNA file photo)

105-kilogram weight class at the Asian Weightlifting Championships in Phuket, Thailand on Friday.

The 25-year-old Chen lifted 193 kg in the snatch and 245 kg in the clean and jerk to win gold in the weight category with a combined lift of 438 kg, 24 kg more than runner-up Bahador Molaei of Iran.

Chen also won a gold medal for his lift in the clean and jerk and took silver for his snatch lift, in which he finished tied with Ivan Efremov of Uzbekistan but finished second because of his heavier body weight.

Taiwan’s only other medalist in the championships, held from Sept. 3 to 12, was Yao Chi-ling, who took silver in the snatch, clean and jerk, and combined lift in the women’s under-75 kg weight class, behind Wang Zhouyu of China.     [FULL  STORY]