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ATHENS, Greece -- Cristian Ledesma scored twice from the penalty spot to lead Panathinaikos to a 3-1 victory over Asteras in the Greek league on Sunday. Wilbert Montgomery Womens Jersey .Marcus Berg opened the scoring only 22 seconds in and Ledesma made it 2-0 in the 39th minute.Asteras was left with 10 players in the 55th when Luis Farina was dismissed for spitting at an opponent. Despite that, the visitors pulled one back around 10 minutes later with Nikos Ioannides converting a penalty. Ledesma closed the scoring in the 88th.Panathinaikos tops the standings. It is a point ahead of Olympiakos, which beat AEK 3-0, and Panionios, which won 2-1 at Iraklis on Saturday. Asteras is the only team with no points after four rounds.Also Sunday, Veria vs. PAOK and Platanias vs. Panetolikos ended in scoreless draws. JJ Arcega-Whiteside Eagles Jersey . Ferrer, trying to win his fourth title on Mexican soil, will next play South Africas Kevin Anderson, who eliminated American Sam Querrey,7-6 (2), 6-4. Also Wednesday, Gilles Simon (6) of France beat Donald Young of the United States 6-4, 6-3, Ukraines Alexandr Dolgopolov downed Frenchman Jeremy Chardy 6-3, 6-4 and Croatias Ivo Karlovic defeated Dudi Sela of Israel 7-6 (4), 6-2. Brian Westbrook Eagles Jersey .Y. -- Jayna Hefford scored the winning goal Friday as Canada survived a scare with a 4-3 win over Sweden at the Four Nations womens hockey tournament. https://www.eaglessportsgoods.com/ . A statement from the worlds top-ranked player says all checks "were satisfactory and showed positive evolution" regarding the injury, which contributed to his loss to Stanislas Wawrinka in the final in Melbourne. SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly is getting frustrated at explaining why his defense is struggling so mightily.The Irish defense has missed far too many tackles in losses at Texas and at home against Michigan State, giving up more than 239 yards rushing and 500 yards total offense in each and a combined 86 points in those two games. The Spartans averaged 6.4 yards a play in a 36-28 victory Saturday night.Kelly, who after the loss to Texas said critics of his defensive staff needed to tap the brakes and relax, took a more urgent tone Saturday night after another disappointing defensive performance.Those are the guys we have. We cant trade them. Theyre not getting cut. We recruited them, so I dont want to hear anybody ... I told our staff, `Those are our guys, so weve got to get them better. Weve got to put them in better position to make plays, Kelly said.The Irish (1-2) had a chance to get the ball back twice in the final two minutes but gave up big plays on third down. The Irish rank 102nd in the nation in total defense, giving up 439.3 yards a game, 99th in rush defense and 103rd in pass efficiency defense. The Irish, who fell out of the AP poll , still dont have a sack this season.Kelly said Sunday he and his staff have to do a better jjob of teaching and communicating and find ways to develop players more efficiently. Nick Foles Youth Jersey. He said he has confidence in defensive coordinator Brian VanGorder and his scheme. He said someone on his staff with access to his Twitter account had inadvertently liked a Tweet that said it was time for him to shake up his staff because Clearly its not working (hash)FireVangorder.Kelly became agitated after the game when asked if DeShone Kizer, who passed for a career-high 344 yards against the Spartans and has accounted for 13 of Notre Dames 15 touchdowns this season and ran the option on another, was going to have to overcome Notre Dames defensive deficiencies, saying it was a typical question after a team gives up a lot of points.Look at college football. Defenses give up points all over. What we have to do is clean up some things and were going to continue to work on it, he said. But, no, DeShone Kizer is not going to be asked to carry us. The entire football team, and my coaching staff in particular, is in a position where they have to coach better. Ive got to coach better.---AP college football website: collegefootball.ap.org ' ' '