11.   Both have scored victories this season, along with Paul Tracy of Newman-Haas Racing, Jacques Villeneuve of Team Green and Robby Gordon of Walker Racing.

12.   But it also was critical because Gagne was making his eighth start in search of his first victory this season.

13.   But the Hawks got focused, tighten their defense and rolled to their largest margin of victory this season.

14.   But the team with the most victories this season did not receive an invitation, and that means a legal challenge could throw a glitch into the bowl program.

15.   But Trachsel collected only six other victories last season for the Devil Rays and the Toronto Blue Jays.

16.   Compagnoni was one of the first stars to master the new parabolic skis, which helps explain her often-huge margins of victory last season.

17.   Even with a marginally better record, the Canadiens had lost to the Islanders twice, accounting for fully one-third of the Islander victories this season.

18.   First up are the troublesome Mariners, who knocked New York out of the playoffs with a wild-card series victory last season.

19.   Fourth was Frederic Moncassin, a Frenchman with Gan, who has been seeking his first victory this season and who was eighth into Bordeaux on Saturday.

20.   Harada is a two-time world champion and had topped the World Cup standings with four victories this season.