111.  Meanwhile, Maryland-based Chessie Racing finished in eighth place, six seconds behind seventh-place Toshiba and a little less than two hours after BrunelSunergy.

112.  Mike Comrie also scored for the Oilers, who moved into a three-way tie for eighth place with Phoenix and Vancouver in the Western Conference.

113.  Mize and Andrade both fired even par third round and finished tied in eighth place with Japanese players Kiyoshi Murota, Shigeki Maruyama and Teruo Nakamura.

114.  Minnesota is in eighth place in the Western Conference, three games ahead of idle Houston.

115.  Montreal, winner of four consecutive games, is two points in front of idle Washington for eighth place in the East.

116.  New York was in ninth place, or tied for eighth place at that particular juncture of the season with a week and a half left.

117.  New York trails the Thrashers by three points for eighth place in the Eastern Conference, the playoff cutoff.

118.  Norway fell to eighth place, from third in the earlier report.

119.  Only two points separate San Jose, Winnipeg, Edmonton and Los Angeles in the battle for eighth place in the conference.

120.  Parma is fourth in the league, with only an outside shot at a Champions League berth for next season, while Milan is mired in eighth place.