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Ernie Els won a playoff in the Sony Open for the second straight year Sunday in Honolulu, beating Harrison Frazar with a 30-foot birdie putt on the third extra hole.

The Big Easy made it tough on himself, losing a two-shot lead with five holes to play. Frazar, winless in 161 starts on the PGA Tour, twice had putts to win - an eagle putt on the 18th in regulation, and a 25-foot birdie putt at No. 18 on the first playoff hole. He came through with a 15-foot par putt on No. 10 to send the playoff to the third extra hole. Els and Frazar shot 18-under 262.

Els, who has shot in the 60s every round he has played at Waialae Country Club, closed with a 5-under 65 and earned $864,000 for his 13th PGA Tour victory.

Els is the first repeat winner in the Sony Open since Corey Pavin in 1987. A year ago, Els holed a 55-foot putt on the second extra hole to beat Aaron Baddeley.

Hockey

SUNDAY IN THE NHL: Former Miami University star Randy Robitaille scored two power-play goals off assists from Ilya Kovalchuk to lift the Atlanta Thrashers past the Carolina Hurricanes 5-2.

• Capitals 4, Penguins 3: Peter Bondra had a power-play goal and an assist to lead Washington over Pittsburgh. Robert Lang scored his 23rd goal and had three assists for Washington.

• Kings 2, Blackhawks 1: Alexander Frolov scored with 8:26 left, and Los Angeles snapped a 14-game winless streak.

• Oilers 4, Blue Jackets 4: Rick Nash scored his NHL-leading 28th goal and added an assist to help Columbus tie Edmonton.

COYOTES: Former Cincinnati Cyclones defenseman David Tanabe will be sidelined up to four months with a torn knee ligament.

PANTHERS: Florida exercised an option in coach and general manager Rick Dudley's contract for next season, ending speculation about the Cincinnati Hockey Hall of Famer's future and quelling rumors that Mike Keenan would return.

FLYERS: Defenseman Eric Desjardins needs surgery on his broken right forearm, and is expected to be sidelined up to eight weeks.

ECHL CYCLONES WIN: Cincinnati broke a three-game losing skid with a 2-1 victory over the Storm at Toledo. Dustin Kingston scored his first goal as a Cyclone and assisted on Terry Marchant's game-winner in his first game against his former teammates. Randy Petruk stopped 39 of 40 shots for his 13th win of the season.

Bowling

PBA TOUR: In one of the highest scoring finals in recent history, Pete Weber defeated Tommy Delutz Jr. 265-256 in the Medford (Ore.) Open. After both were perfect through eight frames, Delutz failed to convert a 4-9 split in the 9th frame, leaving the 9 pin. Weber failed to mark in the 9th frame as well, leaving the 6 pin in a 4-6-7 split, and giving Delutz a 236-235 lead going into the 10th frame. Weber struck three times in the final frame. Delutz left the 10 pin standing after his second shot in the 10th, giving Weber his 30th career title.

Swimming

WORLD CUP: Yu Yang, 18, of China set a short-course world record in the 200-meter butterfly, and American Ed Moses won his third race at Berlin. Yu was timed in 2 minutes, 4.04 seconds, 0.12 seconds. Susan O'Neil on Jan. 18, 2000. Moses won the 100 breaststroke in 58.23 seconds, well off the record of 57.47. Moses, who won the 50 breaststroke and set a world record of 2:02.92 in the 200, was named the two-day meet's outstanding swimmer and earned $25,000.

Soccer

USA, DENMARK TIE: Landon Donovan's penalty kick with 14 minutes left gave Team USA a 1-1 tie against Denmark in an exhibition.