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By NESHA STARCEVIC
AP Sports Writer
Associated Press Sports
updated 1:49 p.m. ET March 18, 2012
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) -Schalke came from behind to win 4-1 at Kaiserslautern in the Bundesliga on Sunday and stay in the chase for a place in next season's Champions League.
Kaiserslautern is winless in 16 matches and stayed bottom of the league, three points behind Hertha Berlin and six points from safety.
Hannover, like Schalke a quarterfinalist in the Europa League this season, beat Cologne 4-1 in Sunday's other match after Mame Diouf came off the bench to score twice.
Schalke remained fourth, one point behind Borussia Moenchengladbach. Hannover climbed one place past Stuttgart to seventh.
Rodnei scored early for Kaiserslautern, but Lewis Holtby, Klaas-Jan Huntelaar, Raul Gonzalez and Jefferson Farfan replied to secure Schalke's victory.
Kaiserslautern made a good start when Christian Tiffert's free kick to the far post allowed defender Rodnei to score with a powerful header in the third minute.
But the home side began to look outclassed soon after and Schalke dominated.
Huntelaar found the net in the 32nd minute, only for his effort to be ruled out for offside. He followed up by providing the pass for Holtby to score, the midfielder drilling a shot from 20 meters (yards) into the roof of the net in the 39th.
Farfan's free kick had Kaiserslautern goalkeeper Tobias Sippel stretching to his right to palm the ball away late in the first half.
Huntelaar finally scored in the 45th, his 20th goal in the Bundesliga this season, and Farfan laid the ball on for Raul Gonzalez to bury a left-foot shot in the top left corner from the edge of the box in the 51st.
Farfan sealed the win in the 81st after leading a quick Schalke counterattack. He fed Holtby, who ran through before cutting the ball back for Farfan to supply an easy finish.
In Hannover, Cologne goalkeeper Michael Rensing blocked an effort from Jan Schlaudraff, but Lars Stindl pounced on the rebound to score in the 19th.
Kevin Pezzoni, wearing a protective face mask for an earlier nose injury, headed in an equalizer for the visitors after a corner in the 43rd.
Cologne should have gone ahead in the 58th, when Mikael Ishak hit the post and Milivoje Novakovic pounced on the rebound, but could send his effort wide.
At the other end, Henrique Sereno brought down Konstantin Rausch and Schlaudraff converted from the spot to put Hannover ahead in the 61st.
Diouf and Didier Ya Konan, another substitute, left Cologne's defense in tatters in the 67th for Hannover's third goal. Ya Konan beat the offside trap, dummied a defender and then passed to Diouf, who shook off Pedro Geromel and slotted home.
Diouf completed the win with a header in the 83rd.
Cologne, which played without suspended striker Lukas Podolski, remained 13th in the standings.
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Dazzling Lewis Hamilton claimed pole position for the Australian Grand Prix Saturday ahead of his McLaren team-mate Jenson Button, with defending world champion Sebastian Vettel back in sixth.
Britain's Hamilton, 27, the 2008 drivers' king, clocked a fastest time of one minute and 24.922 seconds around Melbourne's Albert Park track, beating Button by just one-tenth of a second.
In a thrilling finish to qualifying, Frenchman Romain Grosjean took third place for Lotus on his first appearance in Melbourne, pushing seven-time champion Michael Schumacher of Mercedes down to fourth.
That meant the Red Bull pairing of home hero Mark Webber and Germany's Vettel qualified fifth and sixth for the 58-lap race.
But while Red Bull were disappointed, it was a near-disastrous day for Ferrari who failed to place a driver in the top 10 starting positions.
Two-time champion Fernando Alonso spun out at turn one in the second session and left his car beached in the gravel trap, while his team-mate Felipe Massa could not improve on 16th place.
It was also a bad session for returning 2007 champion Kimi Raikkonen, who failed to progress from the first part of qualifying in his Lotus and will start from 18th.
Schumacher's Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg was seventh ahead of Pastor Maldonado of Williams, Nico Hulkenberg of Force India and Australian Daniel Ricciardo, who marked his Melbourne debut by placing 10th for Toro Rosso.
For Hamilton, his speed brought the 20th pole of his career on a day when he was supported by his close friend and former fiancee Nicole Scherzinger.
Hamilton said: "It's a great start to the season for me and the team, but we know that it is only Saturday and tomorrow is the day that counts.
"I must say the team has done a great job. It has been a great effort by the team after a couple of tough years.
"It was a great lap for me and I tried to improve it by braking later at turn one the next time, but unfortunately it didn't work and luckily for me my first lap was good enough."
Button also paid warm tribute to the McLaren team. "They have done a fantastic job over the winter and this is the proof of that," he said. "We have done a good job to get the best out of ourselves this weekend.
"We will enjoy this moment, but we want to go out and have a great race. That's what matters for us."
Grosjean was delighted with third-place finish. "I always had this kind of a dream and today it is not a dream. We are here. It is a great feeling and it is a wonderful feeling for the team."
On a dry and cool evening as the sun fell over Albert Park, the opening qualifying mini-session delivered a predictable outcome with the elimination of the HRT and Marussia drivers.
Because HRT's Pedro de la Rosa and Narain Karthikeyan both failed to qualify within 107 per cent of the pole time, they will not be allowed to take part in Sunday's race.
The surprise came with the elimination of Raikkonen along with Russian Vitaly Petrov, who finished third in this event in 2011 for the then Renault team, now renamed Lotus.
The second session, Q2, saw Alonso fly off the track and then stamp furiously in a clearly fit of frustration and anger as he confronted the race marshals helping him from his car.
He was eliminated, in 12th place, along with 11th-placed Jean-Eric Vergne of Toro Rosso, Kamui Kobayashi of Sauber, Bruno Senna of Williams, Paul Di Resta of Force India, Massa and Mexico's Sergio Perez in the second Sauber.
Hamilton, champion in 2008, has vowed to bounce back from a disappointing series last year when he was distracted by personal problems and finished fifth in the standings.
And Vettel is launching his bid to become only the third driver to win three Formula One championships in a row, after the legendary Juan Manuel Fangio and Michael Schumacher.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/hamilton-fastest-final-f1-practice-051032509--spt.html
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