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ERIE, Pa. -- Julia Potter won the U.S. Womens Mid-Amateur for the second time in four years Thursday, beating Shannon Johnson 2 and 1 at The Kahkwa Club.Potter, a 28-year-old reinstated amateur from Indianapolis, also won the 2013 event for players 25 and older and finished second in 2014.When you get to the sixth day of championship play -- the eighth day, counting practice rounds -- you are starting to get tired, Potter said. Thats when you fall back on that short game. I was lucky enough to be able to do that.The only female left-handed champion in USGA history, Potter is the fifth multiple champion in the event, joining Sarah LeBrun Ingram (1991, 1993, 1994), Ellen Port (1995, 1996, 2000, 2011), Meghan Stasi (2006, 2007, 2010, 2012) and Carol Semple Thompson (1990, 1997).Potter played at the University of Missouri and is the director of marketing for the Indiana Golf Office. The 33-year-old Johnson, from Norton, Massachusetts, played at New Mexico and Indiana and works as a sales representative for Ping golf equipment.Johnson won four consecutive holes -- all with pars -- to square it with three holes to play on the Donald Ross-designed course. On the par-3 15th, Potter made a double-bogey after hitting into a bunker and Johnson two-putted for par.I said to myself, Now is the time, Johnson said. I love the back nine, and I knew coming in I could definitely win some holes. I felt pretty good momentum at that point.Potter won the par-4 16th with a 10-foot birdie putt. The match ended on the par-4 17th when Johnson missed a 3-foot par putt and Potter made a 2?-footer for par.I tried to be confident over every putt, Johnson said. Donald Ross got me in the end.Potter and Johnson were co-medalists in stroke-play qualifying and the first two top seeds to meet in the final in the history of the event. Potter also won as the medalist in 2013.I really feel like I have run the gauntlet, Potter said. Ive had two matches go into extra holes. Against Audrey [Akins], I thought for sure I was done on 17. Its nice because next year when Im in match play, these are the instances that I can pull from and say, Hey, you are not out, you are not down. I think a lot of people in that crowd would have thought that Shannon had the momentum going into 16, and the next thing you know I win 16 and 17 and the championship.Potter is 18-2 in match play in four appearances in the events. Her boyfriend, Kiel Bobb, has taken over caddie duties from Potters father, Phil.Kiel is that calm in the storm for me, Potter said. Even when I missed putts on 13, 14, 15, he said, You put a great stroke on it. It just didnt happen. Dont get down on yourself. When you have someone like that out there supporting you and believing in you, you start believing that you can really do it, too.Johnson and Potter are fully exempt into the 2017 U.S. Womens Amateur at San Diego Country Club. Potter received a 10-year U.S. Womens Mid-Amateur exemption, and Johnson got a three-year exemption.Bert Blyleven Jersey . Reigning world champion Eve Muirhead of Scotland opened with a 12-2 rout of Winnipegs Jennifer Jones in a battle of teams bound for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. Keone Kela Jersey . -- The proud fathers huddled near the Dallas Stars dressing room, smiling, laughing and telling stories while wearing replica green sweaters of their sons team. https://www.cheappiratesjerseys.us/682e-phil-garner-jersey-pirates.html . A knee to the thigh might have stung him the most, but his sixth straight double-double made up for the brief burst of pain. 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Allowing for the loss of two overs for an innings break, only 102 of a possible 270 overs have been possible on the first three days of the Durban Test between South Africa and New Zealand.Overnight rain in Durban meant no play was possible on Sunday, the scheduled third day, despite uninterrupted sunshine. In Port-of-Spain, rain ended play 22 overs into day one, and no play has been possible thereafter, even though days two, three and four have been mostly sunny. Both venues have struggled to deal with staging a Test match at an unusual time of year for them.It is the middle of the wet season in the West Indies, but it is becoming increasingly common for cricket to be played in this period here. Traditionally West Indies have played their home Tests in the first five months of the year, but they are increasingly being squeezed out of having a proper home season. 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They have played one series that started in April - in 2006 - and one, now, in August. Both times New Zealand have been their opponents, suggesting a scheduling compromise between two southern-hemisphere teams reluctant to travel overseas during their traditional home seasons.Where West Indies would have known fully well they were in for rain when they scheduled the India series in July-August, South Africa may have been caught off guard by the weather. On average, August is the driest month in Durban, and July isnt far behind, but the city withstood severe flooding in late July, and the wet weather has continued into August.The ground certainly hasnt shown itself to be fully prepared for the possibility of rain. Only the pitch and the rest of the square went under covers when it rained in Kingsmead, and the outfield was exposed to the elements. It did not help that the outfield had only just undergone an extensive re-laying process, and was perhaps not in the best shape in terms of drainage.Members of the Queens Park Oval ground staff, meanwhile, reckoned its outfield has been among the quickest-draining in the Caribbean, ever since it was re-laid in the lead-up to the 2007 World Cup. When asked how it was still unfit for play despite all the sunshine it hhad basked in, they said the humidity and lack of breeze could have slowed down the evaporation, but mostly they blamed the scheduling: it had rained almost every day in the week leading up to the Test.ddddddddddddStill, knowing that the ground was due to host a Test in the wettest month of the year, the authorities could have been better prepared. There was no Super Sopper at the ground, and until day three, by which time the damage had already been done, the run-up areas had been left mostly uncovered. 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