Harding Rolls, USA Loses at Thomas Cup

#1 posting 4.29.2oo6

MINNESOTA ACTION
St. Paul City
Central beat Highland Park 5-2. It was Central's second win off Highland this year. The first time it was a 4-3 contest. Highland is 1-6 their last 7 games.
#1 Harding continued to roll with a 7-0 shut out of Como Park. It is Harding's 7th shut out of the year and 4th in a row. Como earlier in the year took a game off Harding. It was the first time all year Como had been shut out.
Non Conference
St. Paul Arlington beat Burnsville 5-2. Arlington is 3-0 against non conference opponents this year. Burnsville is 1-4 against St. Paul City teams.

ILLINOIS ACTION
Mallory Thompson, DeKalb was a volleyballer, but started to play badminton as a junior. Here is the DeKalb Daily Chronicle about her progression in badminton http://www.daily-chronicle.com/articles/2006/04/29/sports/asports02.txt
DeKalb finished 4th in the Upstate Eight tournament held recently. Again here is the DeKalb Daily Chronicle with more http://www.daily-chronicle.com/articles/2006/04/29/sports/asports03.txt

THOMAS/UBER CUP ACTION
From Japan
New Zealand
The NZ women shut out South Africa 5-0. Next is host Japan. Indonesia beat the men 5-0. Here is more about the NZ teams from Newstalk
http://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/newsdetail1.asp?storyID=94713
Not everyone likes the scoring format change. Here is the complaints made by the Chinese as reported in the Malay Mail http://www.mmail.com.my/Current_News/MM/Saturday/Sport/20060429110302/Article/index_html
More about the IBF 21 point system, this time from the New Straits Times http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/nst/Saturday/Sport/20060429080048/Article/index_html

The United States does have a mens team at the tournament, but you may have to read the fine print to find it. Here is the Ohmy News from Korea with a Thomas/Uber Cup report http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?menu=f10600&no=288835&rel_no=1
Here is more on the American side, but the story is from the Malaysian Star. The main part of the article is about Mohd Hafiz Hashim's play. http://thestar.com.my/sports/story.asp?file=/2006/4/29/sports/14106580&sec=sports

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