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MARANA, Ariz. -- Graeme McDowell rarely felt as hopeless in match play as he did Wednesday at Dove Mountain. Overpowered and outplayed for much of the first round, he was 3 down with three holes to play as he watched the majestic flight of Gary Woodlands tee shot cover the flag on the 16th hole. McDowell figured it was a matter of time before he climbed into a courtesy car to be driven back to the clubhouse. "The Cadillacs were circling," he said. They must have looked like buzzards. In an opening round of comebacks in the Match Play Championship, none was more stunning than McDowell surviving to see another day of this most unpredictable event. Woodlands shot took a hard bounce and landed between two corporate suites. Bogey. With a wedge in hand, Woodland pulled it on the wrong side of the 17th green, and McDowell capitalized by making a 12-foot birdie. Woodland blasted out of the left bunker, over the 18th green and into the right bunker to lose a third straight hole. McDowell completed his improbable rally with a 6-foot birdie on the 19th hole to win. "Im sure hes extremely disappointed right now -- and Im extremely elated," McDowell said. "Im surprised to be sitting here, having won. Yeah, I hit a couple of quality shots down the last couple of holes, but he had mistakes, as well. Its a brutal format." It certainly was brutal for the 32 players headed for the airport. Such is the nature of this World Golf Championship, as cut-throat as it comes. "It feels like a Sunday afternoon on Wednesday," McDowell said, realizing that Thursday wont be much different. McDowell was among eight players who trailed with six holes remaining and somehow survived. Brandt Snedeker had to make two tough par saves just to stay alive on the 18th and 19th holes of his match against David Lynn of England. He won with an 8-foot birdie on the next hole. It was the only time all day he had the lead. Jason Dufner was 3 down with five holes remaining when Scott Stallings made too many mistakes, Dufner made one clutch birdie, and the PGA champion advanced in 19 holes with a simple par. Six matches went the distance. Five matches went overtime. The last one was Ernie Els, vexed by this format so many times that some years he didnt bother showing up. He was 2 down with three to play and outlasted Stephen Gallacher in 19 holes. "I feel for him," Els said, perhaps because he has been there himself. After a wild day, there was a small degree of normalcy on Dove Mountain. Only three of the top 10 seeds were eliminated -- Zach Johnson (3), Dustin Johnson (6) and Steve Stricker (9), who wasnt even sure he would play until his brother had liver transplant surgery last weekend. The better seed -- its really just a number -- won 23 of the 32 matches. "Seeds dont matter. Who you play doesnt matter," said Jordan Spieth, sounding wiser than his 20 years after a tough 2-up victory over Pablo Larrazabal of Spain. Henrik Stenson, awarded the top seed because Tiger Woods and Masters champion Adam Scott chose not to play, trailed Kiradech Aphibarnrat of Thailand with five holes to play. The big Thai struggled with his putter, however, missing a 4-footer for par on the 14th to lose the hole, and an 8-footer for birdie on the 15th that would have given him the lead. Stenson made a 20-foot birdie putt on the 16th, and won the match when Aphibarnrat failed to match his birdie on the 17th by missing from 5 feet. "Im still in shock," Stenson said. "It was a tough match." Second-seeded Justin Rose held off Scott Piercy, and No. 4 seed Rory McIlroy had little trouble against Boo Weekley to advance to the round of 32 on Thursday. Zach Johnson, the No. 3 seed, went out in the opening round for the fourth straight year, this time to Richard Sterne of South Africa, 5 and 4. Dustin Johnson now has lost in the first round five times in six appearances. He never led in a 4-and-3 loss to Peter Hanson. The longest day belonged to Sergio Garcia, who missed a 6-foot putt on the 18th hole for the win over Marc Leishman of Australia. They went 22 holes before Garcia made a 6-foot birdie putt to advance. In other matches: -- Patrick Reed defeated Graham DeLaet of Weyburn, Sask., 1-up -- Harris English made his Match Play Championship debut with a 5-and-3 win over Lee Westwood. -- Billy Horschel made six birdies in 13 holes to beat Jamie Donaldson of Wales, 6 and 5, in the shortest match of the day. -- Rickie Fowler, coming off three straight missed cuts, caught Ian Poulter on a bad day and sent the Ryder Cup star packing with a 2-and-1 victory. "It feels like a big win after those missed cuts," Fowler said. "It was nice to be the underdog. I had nothing to lose." -- Bubba Watson was giving holes away early before winning three straight holes on the back nine in a 2-and-1 win over Mikko Ilonen of Finland. Still, no match epitomized the wild nature of this format than McDowells win over Woodland. They live down the street from each other at Lake Nona. They practiced together last week. They flew out to Arizona together. And they had to play each other in the first round on a course where Woodland figured to have a big advantage with his length. McDowell played a practice round with Brooks Koepka, the first alternate, to get used to being outdriven by some 50 yards. His worst fears were realized, especially standing on the 16th tee. He saw his agent on the phone, hopeful he could find him a good flight back to Florida. "I thought it was over," McDowell said. "Youre not coming back from 3 down against a guy thats playing as well as him. Yeah, Im still going to try to hit my shots. 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Mayo made seven three-pointers and scored 25 points, Ersan Ilyasova added 20, and the Milwaukee Bucks placed seven players in double figures in a 130-110 rout of the Philadelphia 76ers, who lost their 11th straight game on Monday night.CALGARY -- The Detroit Red Wings shrugged off a sloppy second period with a strong third to edge the Calgary Flames 4-3 on Friday. Tomas Tatar scored a fluky goal 85 seconds into the final frame to give the Red Wings (8-4-2) a lead they wouldnt relinquish, while Justin Abdelkader added an insurance marker that turned out to be the game winner. "I thought we finished the second strong and had a real good third period," said Detroit coach Mike Babcock, who coached his 800th career NHL game. "We controlled the third, I thought hands down for me. Theres no question you want to just keep going after them and I thought we did that tonight." Early in the third period, Detroit forward Joakim Andersson chased down the puck in the Flames zone and attempted a centring pass from the corner, but the puck glanced off Tatars skate before deflecting into the net off of Calgary goalie Joey MacDonalds leg. "It was a lucky bounce," Andersson said. "Sometimes you need those lucky bounces to win games. It was nice to get it. Weve been talking about that all year, shooting more and getting the pucks more to the net." Calgary coach Bob Hartley said Tatars goal was definitely a tough break for the Flames (5-6-2) to handle. "Obviously, its like you take a good punch on the nose, but, at the same time, you have to regroup," Hartley said. "In a game, anything can happen and you have to be ready for it." Abdelkader then scored at 16:36 of the third when he sent a wrist shot into the top corner past MacDonald. Curtis Glencross rounded out the scoring for the Flames when his pass from behind the net hit Detroit defenceman Niklas Kronwall and bounced past Howard with 9.8 seconds left on the clock. Pavel Datsyuk and Henrik Zetterberg each had a goal and an assist in the first period to put the Red Wings up 2-0 before the Flames answered back with goals by Chris Butler and rookie Sean Monahan in the second. "I think after they scored their second goal, we really turned things around and got playing again," Babcock said. Kronwall and Todd Bertuzzi each had two assists for the Red Wings, who were coming off a 2-1 win over the Vancouver Canucks on Wednesday. "In the second period, a couple mistakes and the puck wound up in the back of our net," said Howard, who made 22 saves to improve his record to 5-4-2. "I think we got back to playing the style of hockey we playeed in Vancouver the whole game in the third period here.dddddddddddd Thats how were going to be successful." The Red Wings will continue their four-game road swing through Western Canada on Saturday when they visit the Edmonton Oilers. "Weve got to get re-energized and get ready to go," Babcock said. Jiri Hudler had two assists for the Flames, who finished their three-game homestand with a 1-2 record. MacDonald finished with 18 saves. "I felt that we didnt skate like the way we could," Hartley said. "The way that the Wings play, they kind of slow down the play, and I felt that we got caught. Especially with scoring two goals, they kind of put us back on our heels a little bit. I just felt that we didnt have our usual jump." Calgary now heads out on a four-game road trip starting on Sunday in Chicago before travelling on to face Minnesota, St. Louis and Colorado. Despite being outshot 12-5 in the first period, the Red Wings had a 2-0 lead thanks to goals by Datsyuk and Zetterberg. Datsyuk opened the scoring at 10:57. MacDonald made a glove save to stop a point shot by Detroit defenceman Jakub Kindl, but the puck dropped right into the slot to Datsyuk who easily deposited it into a wide-open net. Late in the first, Bertuzzi spotted Zetterberg wide open at the side of the net and made a nice behind-the-back pass to get him the puck. Zetterberg then easily roofed a shot into the net over the outstretched right pad of MacDonald. Early in the second period, Howard made a glove save to deny a breakaway attempt by Mike Cammalleri before sticking out his right pad to thwart a scoring chance by Glencross. Calgarys persistence paid off as Butler fired a point shot that deflected off Anderssons stick and past Howard. The Flames continued to pour on the pressure and tied the score at 2-2 at 12:47 of the second when Monahan took a pass from Cammalleri and roofed a shot into the top corner over Howards outstretched glove hand. Notes: Retired goalie Miikka Kiprusoff had started the last 17 games Calgary played against Detroit dating back to Dec. 12, 2008 when it was Curtis McElhinney in between the pipes for the Flames. a MacDonald, who played 47 games over parts of three seasons for Detroit, had played the Red Wings only once before in his career. It was when he was with the New York Islanders on March 27, 2009 when he made 42 saves for the first of his two career NHL shutouts. ' ' '