21.  In the past year, HP has risen from ninth place worldwide in PC shipments to sixth.

22.  Instead, it is the Kings in ninth place in an eight team race.

23.  Like the Kings, Carolina is in ninth place, one spot from the playoffs.

24.  None have finished better than ninth place since.

25.  Only two points separate Anaheim from the ninth place St. Louis Blues, who play the struggling Los Angeles Kings tonight.

26.  Rose J. Payyapilli, a senior at Midwood High School in Brooklyn, took ninth place for a four-year examination of blood platelets resistant to arterial sclerosis.

27.  So, stuck in a tie for ninth place in the Eastern Conference, the Rangers are abandoning the free-skating, open-ice game.

28.  That may not help them now, as Inter is in ninth place and in danger of missing out on Europe altogether.

29.  The Beavers are in ninth place and they have one of the worst defenses in the league.

30.  The CBS series finished its first season in ninth place, a healthy spot for any network newcomer, let alone a sitcom set in a POW camp.