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Canadian divers Jennifer Abel and Emile Heymans both advanced out of the Olymipc three-metre springboard semi-final on Saturday; for Heymans, however, qualification was a little too close for comfort. Canadas most-decorated diver and the first Canadian summer Olympian to capture medals at four consecutive Olympic Games, Heymans suffered a diving disaster on her second dive of the competition to crash into last place. Performing a forward 3.5 somersault in the tuck position, Heymans went into her hurdle a little too close to the end of the board. Her toes hung in space as she prepared to launch herself into the air, and she seemed to panic. The four-time Olympic medallist exited her somersault too early and severely under-rotated her dive, splashing through the surface of the water. The 30-year-old received scores of just 5.5 out of 10 for her efforts and plummeted into 18th place in the standings. Three dives from the end of the competition, Heymans was in real danger of failing to advance. Only the top-12 divers from the semi-final round qualify for the medal round, where scores are reset and divers start from zero. Heymans, however, quickly began to claw her way back up through the ranks. Drawing upon decades of diving experience, she executed her most challenging dive -- the reverse 2.5 somersault -- to near-perfection and marks of 8.5, 8.5 and 8.0. Her total score of 75.00 was the third-highest of the round and her highest of the competition.  With the result, Heymans climbed into 13th overall; closer, but no dice. Not yet. The Laval, Que., veteran went on to put up straight-eights through the fourth and fifth rounds of the competition, and finished with a total of 331.35 points. The score was good enough to send Heymans into Saturdays medal event -- her eighth-straight Olympic final -- in eighth place. Abel also advanced on Saturday, qualifying for her first individual final as the fourth seed in the competition. The 20-year-old racked up consistent scores of 7.5 and 8.0 through her first four dives before picking up straight 8.5s for her last and best dive, the forward 2.5 somersault with one twist. Abel and Heymans will face extremely tough competition in their quest for a second Olympic medal of the Games. The divers picked up bronze together in last Sundays synchro springboard competition. In the individual final, however, there could be just one podium place up for grabs. The Chinese are dominant in womens individual springboard diving, having picked up gold in every Olympic competition since the 1984 Games. At the past three Olympic competitions, Chinas second diver has finished on the podium as well. Chinas Wu Minxia and He Zi have continued that trend at recent competition. At the most recent World Championships in 2011, Wu picked up gold, while He took silver. They repeated the result at the 2012 World Cup in February.l He did have a tough go of things on Saturday, uncharacteristically missing two of her dives to scores as low as 7.0 and 6.5. on her second dive. She held to easily qualify in third place, however, and will likely not settle for such average results in Sundays final. Wu finished first by 4.85 points over Italian Tania Cagnotto to advance as well. cheap jerseys .   This is the most-watched US Open match ever on TSN. Overall, 2.3 million Canadians tuned in to watch some or all of Mondays 4th round match on TSN.  Full coverage of the U.S. Open continues on TSN and TSN2 through to the Finals this coming weekend. cheap jerseys us . 4 and make a ruling shortly after. Such timing potentially could be disruptive for the Saints, who could lose starting defensive end Will Smith and linebacker Jonathan Vilma while trying to claw back into playoff contention.LOS ANGELES -- Everth Cabrera saw his chance -- and took it with an audacious steal of home. That tied the game and forced a miscue that won it for the San Diego Padres. Will Venable came around when closer Kenley Jansen threw the ball past catcher A.J. Ellis, leading the San Diego Padres to a 7-6 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Saturday night. "I had my eyes on the play the whole time. It was just a crazy play," Venable said. "He kept going, so I just went along with him and we ended up stealing one from them." Alex Hinshaw (1-1) recorded two outs to get the victory, ending the Padres 10-game losing streak at Dodger Stadium. All-Star Huston Street worked a perfect ninth for his 14th save in 14 attempts. Jansen (4-3) ended up with his fourth blown save opportunity in 20 chances. Yonder Alonso and Venable sparked the winning rally with consecutive singles, putting runners on the corners with none out. Jansen then struck out Cameron Maybin at the end of a grueling 11-pitch at-bat and retired pinch-hitter Mark Kotsay on a popup after Venable stole second. Alexi Amarista worked the count to 2-2, and Cabrera saw an opening while Jansen kicked the dirt in front of the rubber a couple of times with his back turned away from third. He dashed for home and a stunned Jansen threw the ball all the way to the screen, allowing the go-ahead run to score. Plate umpire Greg Gibson immediately called Cabrera out, but changed the call once he noticed Ellis didnt have the ball. "It all happened in a flash," Padres manager Bud Black said. "But thats Cabby. Hes that type of player. Hes aggressive and fun to watch." Ellis had been the one making the alert play to win the game just months before. On April 15, he started an around-the-horn triple play against the Padres in the ninth inning after Jesus Guzman backed away from a high and tight pitch and the ball hit his bat and landed in front of the plate. The baserunners stayed put, thinking it was a foul ball -- as did pitcher Javy Guerra. But plate umpire Dale Scott did not make any gesture that the ball was foul, and Ellis seized the moment. The Dodgers ended up winning that game 5-4 on Dee Gordons single in the bottom half. But on this occasion, Ellis took full responsibility for what happened to the Dodgers and refused to put the blame on Jansen.dddddddddddd "We just got that big second strike on their guy and the crowd got fired up and really loud," Ellis said. "I had my head down and just made a mistake. I need to be more heads-up and pay more attention. You can never let your guard down. Ive got to be more responsible there. So that was on me. We were one strike away from winning that game, and youve got to be ready for anything." Andre Ethier had four RBIs for the Dodgers in his second game off the disabled list, belting a tiebreaking two-run homer and a pair of RBI singles. Aaron Harang allowed four runs, three earned, and four hits over seven innings against his former team. The Padres tied it at 4 in the sixth when Chase Headley hit his ninth home run. But the NL West leaders responded in the bottom half against rookie reliever Brad Brach. Matt Kemp reached on a two-out infield single for his fifth hit in eight at-bats since coming off the DL, and Ethier sent his 11th homer to right-centre. Ronald Belisario relieved Harang and yielded a two-out RBI single to Carlos Quentin in the eighth. Padres starter Edinson Volquez threw 111 pitches over five innings, giving up four runs, eight hits and four walks while striking out six. Ethier, who leads the Dodgers with 59 RBIs, tied it at 1 in the first with a bloop RBI single. Ethier singled home Bobby Abreu with the bases loaded in the third before Volquez forced in another run with a walk to Juan Rivera. The right-hander, who leads the majors with 67 walks, minimized the damage by retiring his next three batters. Quentin hit a leadoff homer to centre field in the fourth, his eighth this season, but the Dodgers got that run back in the fifth on Adam Kennedys RBI double. Kennedy started at third base in place of Juan Uribe, who is in a 1-for-33 slump and has only five home runs in 401 at-bats with the Dodgers -- after hitting a career-high 24 in 2010 with San Francisco. NOTES: This was the first time this season that Headley and Quentin, the Padres 3-4 hitters, homered in the same game. ... Guerra was placed on the bereavement list and returned to his native Mexico, where his father had a heart attack Friday night. RHP Josh Wall, who has yet to appear in a big league game, was promoted from Triple-A Albuquerque to fill the roster spot. ' ' '